The new Microsoftslop copilot key always sends the following key-sequence when pressed:

copilot key down: left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up
copilot key up: <null>

This means there’s no real key-up event when you release the key --> it can’t be used (properly) as a modifier like ctrl or alt.

The workaround is to send a pretend key-up event after a time delay, but then you mustn’t be too slow / fast when pressing a shortcut.

tldr: AI took a perfectly working modifier key from you.

— edit —
Some keyboards apparently do the “right” thing and don’t send the whole sequence at once, you can remap those properly with keyd, see: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/1025#issuecomment-2971556563 / https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd/issues/825

copilot key down: left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down
copilot key up: f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up

this will still break left-shift + remapped copilot and left-meta + remapped copilot, but RCtrl remaps should work as expected

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      341·
      2 days ago

      It’s always this. “This brand new £1500 laptop I don’t share with anyone, coddle like a newborn and barely use for anything other than running Office is so much better than the £350 ten year old laptop I was sharing with my entire family and was used for playing video games, downloading warez and pirated media, and running Office.”

      • hayvan@feddit.nlEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        To be fair, if I had to choose between Windows and MacOS I’d go with the latter since I do most of my job inside a terminal. A good terminal emulator, a Unix-like environment and Firefox covers most of my needs and somehow iTerm2 is a better emulator than anything I used on Linux.

        Still, I’d rather avoid walled gardens and proprietary OSes.

      • BorgDrone@feddit.nlEnglish
        912·
        2 days ago

        More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.

        Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            To be fair that was also over a grand new. Not M1 Pro/Max territory but comparable to M1 Air new which outperforms it handily. But is also newer so it’s a moot point.

            They’re all great laptops, just at quite different price points.

    • attero@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      154·
      2 days ago

      You can get a 2020 M1 / 2022 M2 Macbook air for ~400€, that will mop the floor with all new hardware in that price range released even today (completely fanless/noiseless btw.). It also has decent linux support via asahi and Apple will still probably provide 5+ years of macOS updates anyway.

      The simple trick to owning nice hardware is to never give vendors your money directly, let others burden the depreciation.