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My personal pet peeve is what every Squarespace-powered site on the internet (many millions!) does to the esc key.

Example: https://www.folioeast.com/

I never realized how often I use the esc key until I started getting routed to Squarespace logins all over the place.

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Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.

I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control.

Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.

I do the same thing. It's right on the corner. And alt frequently activates a menu.

I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.

I've also discovered that capslock is a useful way of detecting (linux) kernel panics. If everything freezes, and capslock stops toggling that light, your kernel is dead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

I use Control as well, and it was an adaptation to prevent typing spaces or letters into the password field that I would have to delete before typing in my password. Perhaps you had a similar experience.

Careful, you might let a few shots off in Quake like that. Trigger discipline and all.

To wake up my computers I play "shave and a haircut, two bits" with my shift keys, alternating between them.

I use control. It's neutral to password entry on Windows and Linux lock screens, and either neutral or an escape key from a VM back to the main desktop.

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