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teddyh · 6 months ago
Clickbait headline rescue: Apple changed the keycap symbol for the “Mute” key from just a speaker to a speaker with a strike/line through it.
rvnx · 6 months ago
The current icon made sense, "no sound, less sound, more sound".

I wonder why the strike line is going from bottom-right to top-left though.

teddyh · 6 months ago
It’s the standard design: <https://emojipedia.org/muted-speaker#designs>
raverbashing · 6 months ago
It matches what it shows when you press that key, so I guess it makes sense

(And of course that orientation matches the usual traffic signs, like No Parking)

alexwasserman · 6 months ago
Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense.

If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.

PedroBatista · 6 months ago
Oh wow! Apple keeps innovating and MacRumors keeps clickbaiting.
NikxDa · 6 months ago
> The keyboard change is typical of Apple's meticulous attention to detail, even if it took more than a quarter-century to implement.

I thought this paragraph was absolutely hilarious. Especially if they had such meticulous attention to detail, it wouldn't have taken decades. The article is a joke.

bluenose69 · 6 months ago
In my world, that row has an 'esc' key (which I type every few seconds, as a longtime vi/etc user) and a fingerprint key. The keys in between are a mystery zone.

If apple move the 'control' key to the 'caps lock', well that would be sweet. The first thing I do on any computer is to remap those keys.

I'm betraying my age here. I long for an old-fashioned unix-style keyboard.

joeyagreco · 6 months ago
I've remapped these like so:

Define keymaps you want to change: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928...

Apply keymaps: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928...

That's it!

anotherhue · 6 months ago
There's a system option to map Caps Lock to Escape that I found very convenient.
coreyh14444 · 6 months ago
Glances down at my Framework 13 keyboard. They copied Apple and did the same (bad) thing.
zvmaz · 6 months ago
I won't click on the link because of the clickbait title. Thanks, but no.
pseudosaid · 6 months ago
and still the keyboard mars and etches the screen when closed and carried
lofaszvanitt · 6 months ago
Macrumors... always April 1st