You can. Sort of. On newer laptops, it registers as F23, which can be remapped, and on older laptops it registers as the key shortcut Win+Shift+F23, which can only be hijacked.
Even with this, though, the addition of this stupid copilot key, especially by taking away a Ctrl key, is absolutely wanker and I despise it.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I just disabled it completely since I really only use left ctrl.
My acer “nitrosense” key got hijacked to launch other things as well. Just about any custom slop on laptops can be reworked when you realize that they really don’t spend much money on the software side of those fancy buttons.
What is cool though, is that I got a super cheap laptop that was heavily subsidized by MS in the early AI push. The NPU the laptop came with had its drivers deleted and the bloat spyware acer nitrosense shit turned off shortly after. (Reworking the fan and LED controls wasn’t too hard, but it took a while.) They absolutely lost money on me, so that is nice.
The lesson here is that cheap laptops are designed to incur long term costs, or in the case of the Acer laptop I got, it was probably designed to self-destruct via its original power profiles. Magically, once I killed the beacons back to acers CMS and “warranty tracking” endpoints, the fans magically started working correctly. (The bearer tokens were hard-coded, so I spent a day or so injecting random telemetry data with nasty notes “from noth korea” about the executives mothers from every model of laptop the json templates had.)