Personally I press Ctrl
Mouse wiggles
That’s just uncivilised.
It’s optimal
The “any” key, of course.
ctrl is the only correct choice obviously. it’s the only key that does nothing by itself and it’s positioned at a corner so it’s hard to mistype
Whatever method gets the job done is fine but this is the most correct answer.
I move the mouse.
Team mouse wiggle!
My computer always drops the first character or two when waking, making me screw up my password. So I wiggle the mouse and by the time my hand is back on the keyboard I can type my password with confidence.
Usually space
I mash space bar! At work I mash Ctrl alt delete
I just stare at it loathfully until it wakes up out of shame.
(Or maybe it’s my enraged vibrations transferring to the mouse through the table and causing it to move, same difference.)
my computer doesnt go to sleep.
It must stay awake, at all times, awaiting my input.
As nature intended
That’s the way. Turning computers off isn’t good for them anyway.
yep, thermal cycling from on and off is worse on the hardware than just leaving it on and idle.
There are some ancient hard drives that still spin purely because they have not had a chance to stop in the last decade. I have serviced some of them.
It was terrifying.
Been using spacebar but what I would like to do is set up a midi drum pad as an input device so I can wake my computer up by smacking it with a stick.
The power button.
Numlock. Let’s me know if the hardware is locked up, powered off, or just slow to wake.
Depends the OS.
Windows its Space
On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces
In the first second I was taken aback by such a silly decision from the designers’ part, but then I realised it was actually a cool idea; you don’t have to wake up your computer. You just start typing immediately. How cool is that?
… Also, why the heck do you need to start with shift then? : )
Because years ago I made my PC password with Capslock on since a warning would show.
So genius 13 year old me said, “hey even if someone knew my password, they’d never know how it was inputted.”
So my actual wake key is capslock.
Only my PC uses this old password method now, everything else is passphrase+uniquekey
Like google+lemmyworld
I pick up the mouse, hold it to my mouth and say, "Computer…?”
I’m so surprised people have specific buttons? Is there a reason? I just mash my whole hand at the keyboard
Idk habbit I guess. IT just feels wrong pressing anything else.
ESC
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far. Always Escape!