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They’re soft now. It might indicate your usb driver is wedged, not if your CPU is responding to interrupts at all.

This is a problem for NTP developers - finding real serial ports on modern hardware




The keyboard lights have always been soft. There are certainly more layers now between a keyboard and an os though.


The softness is precisely what made them a useful check, though. Tapping num lock has two important properties: Nothing should ever be blocking that process, and it's harmless to do and should never really affect what's happening.




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