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You could run an offline fsck to make sure it’s not being caused by disk corruption or something. An offline malware scan at the same time wouldn’t hurt, however unlikely. (That is, boot from external media so you know the drive’s not in use.)

The file command might be able to identify it if it’s of a known format, but if, as you say, it’s all zeros that won’t be particularly fruitful (it’ll just say “data” if a test on my own computer is anything to go by).

Or you could lsof | grep theweirdfilename to see if any active processes are using it, not that this would show up if it was malware (which is unlikely, especially if you did that scan earlier).

If, as you say, it’s all zeros, you could just bzip2 it (or similar) if you don’t want to delete it for whatever reason. That way if something complains you could uncompress it again.

That said, if it doesn’t show up as useful and isn’t fixed by any of the above it’d probably be OK to delete it.

This is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard of. I’m not buying any keyboard or laptop that has this key.

Which is exactly what people said about the Windows key.

Now it’s all but impossible to buy a keyboard that doesn’t have it. Worse, most of us use it without thinking.

Sure you can call it Super if you like, and even have a Tux key-cap on it, but there used to be a literal gap between the Alt keys and their Ctrl brethren in the lateral directions away from the space bar, and those days are long gone.

There’ll be the niche users who stick with old keyboards without this new key, just like there are the die-hards who have stuck resolutely to the old IBM keyboards and the like from pre-1995, but if you want a new keyboard?

Gonna have to shell out a small fortune for a custom build or make do with that dumb new key.

(Shoutout to the Context Menu key which went as unmentioned in the above as it goes unused in day to day use, despite having been included with its Super cousin since day one.)

Perl: You’re an old nerd who remembers before Python was a thing, or else a nerd who really likes funky syntax and symbols everywhere and PHP just wasn’t right for you.

Raku: You’re an old nerd who remembers before Python took over from your former beloved Perl and instead of opting for simpler, cleaner syntax, you decided that being able to go the other way entirely was absolutely for you, or else you’re a nerd who likes really, really funky syntax and Python, PHP and even Perl seem too much like kids toys.

Ada: You’re an old nerd who was taught it at some college or other or else you’re an engineer writing mission critical systems and this is the language everything is written in and no-one will switch to anything else.

BASIC: You’re an old nerd (you might be sensing a theme here) who taught themselves programming at some point in the '70s, '80s or '90s and you’ll get around to learning another language some day, but right now this interpreter you found online that runs in a console window suits you just fine.

Shell scripting: You’re a nerd who really ought to rewrite some of those unwieldy beasts in something else at some point but you’ve learned it this way and don’t have time for anything else right now. Time for another hack.

Powershell: You’re a nerd who’s found something that “really makes sense, you know?”

COBOL: See Ada but exchange “mission critical” for “banking”.

Prolog: You are a nerd who plays Towers of Hanoi in their head for fun.

Haskell: You are a nerd whose flying saucer is a glass dome followed by a function that describes the rest of it, which may or may not be the same function that described the glass dome in the first place.

Lisp: You are a nerd for whom parentheses make you feel warm and fuzzy, if not other feelings that cannot be spoken of in polite company. If you like Emacs, you like Emacs.

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