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		icoder on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped... I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.

gpm on Sept 22, 2021 [–]

I've also discovered that capslock is a useful way of detecting (linux) kernel panics. If everything freezes, and capslock stops toggling that light, your kernel is dead.

smichel17 on Sept 22, 2021 | [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

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