@climagic the OS traps them but they execute nothing but also don't get passed onto the focused input

@climagic SysRq and ScrollLock

@climagic and if dead keys are a thing, what's up with alive keys?

@climagic Hitting CTRL-Z in Emacs when you want to undo something 😱

@climagic Keys on a full-metal keyboard during winter

@climagic Or are they the same as dead keys? 🤔

@climagic
As you wrote: c - o - l - d

@climagic It's more like "hot" people. There are no "cold" people, just people who are "hot" and people who aren't.

@climagic That's when you long press your machine's power button...