my computer doesnt go to sleep.
It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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Depends the OS.
Windows its Space
On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces
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The power button. I've disabled usb-wake because my wireless mouse keeps waking up my computer
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I'm a mad man I click different shit every time.
Escape is kinda hardcoded as a safe button in my headspace and spacebar is just fun to press.
I hit the "wake on lan" icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn't work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!
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Esc like 3-5 times (to also prompt the login input) or mouse wiggle
I plop my furry balls menacingly on the keyboard and inevitably hit at least half the keys
i rapidly press as many keys as i can within a 1 second time frame
or i just slam the enter key a few times
I just stare at it loathfully until it wakes up out of shame.
(Or maybe it's my enraged vibrations transferring to the mouse through the table and causing it to move, same difference.)
Left arrow up arrow right arrow. over and over and over again until the computer comes up
I press my whole hand into the keyboard hitting like 20 keys probably
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Caps lock because it doesn't do anything like enter or other keys might do and if I see the light blink then I know that the computer/keyboard is not frozen.
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I push the power button on the tower.
I have a BLE keyboard and a BLE trackball, so they lose connection when PC is sleeping. To wake it up I press the power button
Space. On my mechanical keyboard it makes a nice thunk. You really know you've pressed it.
My desktop pc doesn't wake up from keyboard inputs, so the power button. On my laptop I just open the lid.
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Backspace
My PC dual functions as a server so it never sleeps
Mouse click gang
I smash the arrow keys like I’m playing a synthesizer.
Ctrl to wake the screen, system set to never sleep. Stupid Plex running on Windows addiction.
Mash low in the corner.
Probably a combo of Ctrl-shift-alt-super-z-x-space
I know, much barbarian.
Haven't seen anyone else comment this, I mash all arrow keys
Originally I got into this habit thinking that arrow keys would do nothing, and in most interfaces they don't, but I have learned the hard way they certainly do stuff when watching YouTube.
However it's too late and too embedded in my brain to wake my PC by mashing arrow keys so that is my life