This is quite annoying.
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My sister has this weird Toshiba laptop...
usually
Usually. For when it doesn't (like when I couldn't find it):
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So, you disable it with a metaphysical switch.
Ommmmmmmmmm nomi nomi nomi
"Trackpad is now disabled. Please meditate again to re-enable".;P
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GIS blocked on school wifi because raisins and I don't feel like network-hopping
Laptop makers are going through a spell where they think F-keys are for nerds or something.
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PS/2 doesn't have any kind of handshaking or anything, so the PC has no way of knowing whether it's plugged in and giving no input or unplugged.
My HP had a switch, but it was a dedicated button (I think?). In any event there was a small LED on the edge of the trackpad itself that indicated whether it was on or off.
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Hey, I love it for the two hours it takes to get setup in a new world and then immediately get bored and quit and delete the world just like the last forty-seven times I've booted it up.
Sounds like you hit the point where it's time to look at mods.
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@mrguyorama said:
Hey, I love it for the two hours it takes to get setup in a new world and then immediately get bored and quit and delete the world just like the last forty-seven times I've booted it up.
Sounds like you hit the point where it's time to look at mods.
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ComputerCraft is pretty cool. If you don't mind LUA.
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mods
ComputerCraft
My goto is the tekkit classic modpack. It increases the fun to roughly 6 hours, or however long it takes to create a condenser from EE2. The whole no longer being developed thing also sucks
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My goto is the tekkit classic modpack. It increases the fun to roughly 6 hours, or however long it takes to create a condenser from EE2. The whole no longer being developed thing also sucks
Well that's 1.2.5. That's ancient. I'm using FTB Direwolf20 on one server and a custom Technic modpack on the other...
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I don't want to change away from EE2 because I am a slave to energy collectors. Also I CBA to actually setup my own desired list of mods
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I don't want to change away from EE2 because I am a slave to energy collectors. Also I CBA to actually setup my own desired list of mods
Those things are so insanely broken lol.
I generally need at least the following:
IC^2
Thermal Expansion
Project Red
Computercraft
[Insert one or more of: Thaumcraft, Ars Magika]Then I just start finding mods from packs that look nice
Oh yeah, EnderIO is really cool too.
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I don't want to change away from EE2 because I am a slave to energy collectors.
You are missing a ton of features on 1.2. Having said that, maybe IndustrialCraft or the ThermalDynamics and related mods will meet your needs.
Twilight Forest will give you a questline.
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Oh yes this too.
I will admit, I haven't gotten far into it at all because I recently restarted my world and I'm still setting up tooling and getting ready to rebuild a couple of villages and maybe make an iron foundry or something.
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I might look at other packs now that I have a real computer instead of a
laptoptoaster with a kraft single for a processor
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Oh belgium I completely forgot TConstruct. TConstruct is insanely awesome. Period.
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@admins I flagged for offtopic before @blakey gets mad about us offtopicing his topic...
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Generally if you're requesting a split, you do a custom flag.
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Meh.
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I bought this one back in 2011:
Really liked it a lot.Ooh, I have either the same model or a very similar one, it's been great, runs Ubuntu and/or Windows 7 like a boss. Upgrading once I get my second paycheque thoughâI keep trying to interact with the screen like it's a touchscreen (and it's time for a HW upgrade anyway...)
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Hey, I love it for the two hours it takes to get setup in a new world and then immediately get bored and quit and delete the world just like the last forty-seven times I've booted it up.
Build an underwater fort with monumental turrets and a helicopter landing pad...
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TConstruct is insanely awesome.
Yes. I like Iguana's tinker mods, too, but not everyone does. Also, treecapitator, but I turn off "link chop time to tree height" because ain't nobody got time for that, especially if it's a Natura redwood tree.
To maintain some semblance of relevance, I agree that playing Minecraft on a trackpad is annoying, but I used to use my hardware button to disable the trackpad.
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So it's Acer's fault, for putting on a stupid key that disables the track pad I can't imagine anybody actually asked for.
I believe you should probably edit the first post then. Can't have people thinking the Windows 10 upgrade actually broke something.
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Ok.
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So after Windows 10 did it automatic update last night, my laptop's touchpad no longer works. The driver's still installed, the hardware's all "working correctly", but there's no pointer on the screen to move. It's like Windows no longer realizes that its a mouse? Or something?
Fortunately, this laptop has a touchscreen so it's not too difficult to use, but. Still. Annoying headache and something that, if it had happened to my parents or someone less technical, they'd have absolutely no idea how to fix it. In fact, I'm not sure if a driver reinstall will fix it, considering the driver is installed and working now...
(ignoring the not-really-related comment, and not reading thread before replying!)
This did happen on one of my Yogas. Googling suggested uninstalling, download new drivers from Lenovo and installing those. Problem fixed.
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Can't have people thinking the Windows 10 upgrade actually broke something.
People posting wrong information on the Internet? WHY THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS!
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Yeah, I CBA to do it myself on Windows 8.1. Waiting for the enterprise rollout of 10.
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If only there were a Discourse feature that would allow us to mark solved problems! And a category for requests for help where the aforementioned feature was enabled!
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If only there were a Discourse feature that would allow us to mark solved problems! And a category for requests for help where the aforementioned feature was enabled!
If only Ben Lubar would have a boot slammed way up his ass!
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I don't think that's a feature in Dwarf Fortress or Go so he probably doesn't know how to handle it. Might crash his AI.
Filed Under: Sorry, Ben...
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If only Ben Lubar would have a boot slammed way up his ass!
Isn't it about booze o'clock yet so you can mellow out?
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So it's Acer's fault, for putting on a stupid key that disables the track pad I can't imagine anybody actually asked for.
You may want to turn off the trackpad if you plug in an external mouse.But as previously said by 37 people already, Fn+T is a stupid key combination.
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Laptop makers are going through a spell where they think F-keys are for nerds or something.
In their defense, my main use for function keys is in IDEs.
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You may want to turn off the trackpad if you plug in an external mouse.
No; I click "disable trackpad when an external mouse is present" in the settings.
So, the reason for this button to exist is people don't know how to use their computers, even the computer program-y people who post here. You're a moron, thus, hardware switch. Got it.
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So, the reason for this button to exist is people don't know how to use their computers
Indeed, most people are morons who don't know how to use their computers.Â
Why, just the other day I heard about this guy who turned off his trackpad and couldn't turn it back on, and was blaming Windows for his fuck up. Hilarious!
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I've used it before when I had a reason to lay my hand across the trackpad but didn't want to move the mouse, for example laying sideways and watching netflix while propping up the laptop
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Sometimes I want the trackpad disabled regardless of the status of the external mouse. I always keep the dongle for my laptop mouse in the laptop so I don't loose the damn thing. So I've always got the mouse plugged in...
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turn on the "disable trackpad while typing" option.
I've used that. The re-enable delay irritates me even more than the spurious trackpaddery used to.
Next laptop I buy will be a Lenovo with a clitoris.
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FTFY
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Do you ever push   instead of backspace by mistake? That seems like a terrible placement.
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If you press down the power button, the whole screen does a zooming in animation for about a second before it actually shuts down, so you can pretty much always react in time, unless you go into a coma right after trying to press backspace.
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Do you ever push instead of backspace by mistake? That seems like a terrible placement.
I had a PC like that once; it sucked. I disabled the "instantly power off my PC with zero confirmation" probably the second time I missed backspace...
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so you can pretty much always react in time, unless you go into a coma right after trying to press backspace.
It sounds like it is really disruptive, depending on how sensitive the power button is in relation to the other keys. What do you do to cancel? Press another key?
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You stop pushing the power button.
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If you press down the power button, the whole screen does a zooming in animation for about a second before it actually shuts down, so you can pretty much always react in time, unless you go into a coma right after trying to press backspace.
This, also it takes approximately 0.0 seconds between power on and ready to use. so if you do accidentally shut down it's not that bad.
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Well, it does have to reload all your tabs.
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hush! i'm taking your side in this!
stop helping!
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Macbook Pro has the power button above Delete. Needs pressing for 1-2secs before doing anything, so no accidental issues.
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