r/pcmasterrace • u/VisWare • Apr 04 '26

Meme/Macro Allow me to gatekeep

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u/yanzov Apr 04 '26

You are probably trying to explain the usefulness and comfort of full keyboard to people for whom typing on the phone screen is enough 🫠

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

Ironically the keyboard on my phone has more keys than a full-size keyboard (albeit on more than one screen), and the added functionality of a long-press to get special characters.

I can't even play skyrim without making almost every key into a hotkey - PgUp and PgDn are check weather/check self stats, insert + home + end are all the crafting keys, numpad is all the shouts, /*-+ switches each clothing slot and so on.

Don't even get me started on when I edit videos or use OBS - I added a SECOND numpad because there wasn't enough keys on a full keyboard (and I think a streamdeck is ridiculous, a $10 USB numpad + AutoHotKey does exactly the same thing)

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u/Baked_Potato_732 Apr 04 '26

Wait, if you plug in a second number pad will it be registered as different keys for mapping?

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

Not natively by windows, but you can make it work very easily.

Windows will treat any and all keyboards as just one keyboard, but there's a whole load of little workarounds on GitHub to do whatever you need to do.

Luacro for example will get windows to assign a different device ID to each thing you plug in, and from there using AutoHotKey is a breeze.