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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by reaperducer on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:51PM (#21798507)
Some occupations require caps lock. Broadcast journalism, anything where data will be exchanged with legacy systems, etc...

For some reason people on HN think if something isn't useful for their specific workflow, then nobody should have it or use it.

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Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead by hailwren on Sunday December 15, 2019 @04:01PM (#21798951)
In these cases, having a caps lock key somewhere on the keyboard probably makes sense. But sort of by its definition, you aren’t using caps lock anywhere near as much as return yet it takes the same amount of space. Swapping caps lock and left control seems reasonable at a minimum
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