Post AqB0fHmAXtyhmvtJ0S by eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo
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(DIR) Post #AqAOsBECPCj0zEiuFU by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T07:57:16Z
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I idly looked up how to disable an internal laptop keyboard on windows 10, and the solution people have come up with is very silly:you go into device manager, find the keyboard, and switch it to a driver that doesn't work.
(DIR) Post #AqAOw5UBhFJ4Ku45lg by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T07:57:55Z
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like you set a PS/2 keyboard use a Toshiba Japanese USB Keyboard driver.Windows will detect it doesn't work, then turn it off.
(DIR) Post #AqAP0ooB8AOQ3kfh6e by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T07:58:41Z
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couldn't you just uninstall the original device? No, windows will just reinstall it next time you reboot. (unless you modify windows to not do that. Just turn off PLUG & PLAY in order to keep one device driver from being loaded
(DIR) Post #AqAP8WJtkoBt2GBGGu by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T07:59:22Z
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the other solution someone figured out is to rename the driver on the disk and then uninstall your keyboard driver. it won't automatically reinstall it if it can't find the driver!
(DIR) Post #AqAP8XZt4qZgw8fXpg by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T07:59:27Z
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this is silly.
(DIR) Post #AqAPfhKjpK60kXOTfE by ddr@pony.social
2025-01-17T08:06:17Z
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@foone This is very silly.
(DIR) Post #AqAR0RuaSYvaxHcXlQ by JamesTDG@mastodon.world
2025-01-17T08:21:12Z
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@foone honestly, windows is hilariously stupid nowadays. We used to be able to easily control our hardware when we needed to fix something.
(DIR) Post #AqARPI0WQ8iTTeF1ou by outfrost@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T08:25:45Z
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@foone does the "disable" / "do not use this device" setting do anything in that case?
(DIR) Post #AqARS00JoSNOVfREpM by fencepost@infosec.exchange
2025-01-17T08:26:01Z
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@foone can't you simply disable the device?
(DIR) Post #AqAYkVYjvghTGgJMzQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T09:48:01Z
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@fencepost nope! disabling it is disabled.
(DIR) Post #AqB0fHmAXtyhmvtJ0S by eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo
2025-01-17T15:00:40Z
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@foone Is there any chance you know how to accomplish this in Linux? I looked into it once (had a laptop with a busted keyboard that would spam key-presses without being touched), but couldn't figure out how to disable it
(DIR) Post #AqB7pjciYzi8jNOr0S by tina@mastodon.babb.no
2025-01-17T16:20:59Z
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@foone Sounds like a modern "Some times one just have to be PRAGMATIC" solution.Yep.
(DIR) Post #AqBCVTNbkNWEKaURU0 by fencepost@infosec.exchange
2025-01-17T17:13:30Z
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@foone 🤦♂️well isn't that special.
(DIR) Post #AqBXAkLrY6O1vNdFA0 by keen456@infosec.exchange
2025-01-17T21:05:02Z
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@foone Thank you for sharing this cursed knowledge!
(DIR) Post #AqBhm74N2wUUdfuGsy by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T23:03:52Z
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@eigen sorry, no, I don't know off the top of my head.