What is SpaceFN and why you should give it a try
The SpaceFN concept - setting up your space key as a layer switch when held - is probably one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby. Let me explain how it works. My SpaceFN article on kbd.news made some rounds recently - quite surprisingly given the age of this concept. This piece you're reading is a condensed version of the full post. If you're left with unanswered questions, you'll most likely find the info you're looking for in the original write-up. On my imaginary top list of the most useful keyboard features, tweaks and hacks, SpaceFN would deserve a podium finish for sure. But what makes it so special? In short: SpaceFN is easy to implement, easy to learn, costs nothing, can be used with any keyboard, and can improve your productivity instantly. I will list its benefits below, but can state right at this point that the SpaceFN concept, setting up your space key as a layer switch when held, is clearly one of the most useful tweaks in the keyboard hobby....
Apr 30, 2024
In the polls section of Massdrop, there was a poll for "Xbox One". Massdrop employees joined this poll early on and explained that since Wallmart can't get more than a few dollars of discount when they order consoles (and they order hundreds of thousands), it's impossible for Massdrop to get any kind of discount on game consoles.
After this statement, the poll went rather off the rails, with users submitting "Potato" (among other things) as an option to the poll on the Xbox.
(This submission of Potato is an instance of the internet slang form of 'potato', meaning "An object of poor quality." The opinion that gaming consoles are of poor quality or are "inferior" is a frequent joke made by PC gaming enthusiasts, and there are a lot of PC gaming enthusiasts on Massdrop. By submitting "potato", they where sharing their disparaging opinion about the Xbox.)
The submission for "Potato" in the Xbox poll began to gain votes. Eventually, Massdrop employees came out and said that in the spirit of good fun, they would actually have some kind of "potato" related drop if "potato" won the poll. With this news, potato went on to win the poll handily.
Since "potato" won the poll, Massdrop employees decided that this would be the way they honored that promise. So that's the full story of how this drop happened.