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The LinkedIn Hotkey Nobody Requested
Microsoft Post #5658 · source on Telegram

The LinkedIn Hotkey Nobody Requested

Description

The meme has large black text on a white background saying, "i wish windows had a universal hotkey to open linkedin on my default browser" followed by "ctrl+shift+alt+-win+L:". Beneath the text is a cinematic game image of an angelic character with glowing wings pointing forward, making the key combo look like an overpowered special move. The joke targets Windows and Microsoft-style shortcut design: a bizarrely complex global key chord exists for opening LinkedIn, a destination most users would not treat as emergency productivity.

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Microsoft OperatingSystems UX UI Tooling Games

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Windows MicrosoftProducts KeyboardShortcuts UXIrony InconsistentUIs ProductivityTools ProductivityLoss WorkflowDisruption LockInEffect SocialMediaPlatforms GamingReference PopCultureReference

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Nothing says productivity like hiding LinkedIn behind a modifier stack that looks one key away from rebooting the shell.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Nothing says productivity like hiding LinkedIn behind a modifier stack that looks one key away from rebooting the shell.

  2. @Diotost 2y

    It really works

  3. @abel1502 2y

    There's also ctrl+shift+alt+win+W for Word, which seems more useful

  4. @blacksunempire 2y

    trl+Shift+Alt+Win — Office UWP app from MS Store Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+W — Word Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+P — PowerPoint Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+X — Excel Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+O — Outlook Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T — Teams Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+D — OneDrive Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+N — OneNote Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L — LinkedIn Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Y — Yammer

    1. @deerspangle 2y

      Wow, Yammer.. does anyone at all use that?

      1. @RiedleroD 2y

        the company I had an internship in last summer had it the last post was a few months old and about how one of their internal pieces of software was being migrated to an objectively worse one

    2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

      What about: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Space very usefull

    3. @rostopiradv 2y

      Swapping PowerPoint with Pornhub would be much better

  5. @blacksunempire 2y

    useless shit btw

  6. @Algoinde 2y

    Don't forget about Win+Ctrl+Shift+B

    1. @kiraventom 2y

      that is useful one

  7. @Bitals 2y

    They were aded for a MS keyboard with dedicated buttons for these actions.

  8. @Diotost 2y

    Ring finger on ctrl, middle finger on windows key and shift, index finger on alt. Press letters with right hand.

    1. @kiraventom 2y

      Or thumb on Win, index on alt, ring on shift, pinky on ctrl

  9. @RiedleroD 2y

    clean your keyboard

  10. @pixelsex 2y

    posting from a nuclear ground zero

  11. @pixelsex 2y

    finally an explanation for the radioactive fallout caused by my farts

  12. @MrStaudinger 2y

    Dude

  13. @RiedleroD 2y

    …no. no, not at all

  14. @V0W4N 2y

    people with 4 key rollover:

  15. @deerspangle 2y

    https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1731

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