Watched my coworker move her cursor to the right edge of her right-hand monitor to get it to over to the left side of her left-hand monitor. When I offered to show her how to adjust her display settings, she said she was used to it and didn’t want to change it. I don’t think I can walk by her desk while she’s working ever again.
What have you got?
I can understand this sort of thing among the elderly but I’ve met ablebodied engineers who don’t understand how to computer. The awesome thing is that they don’t take advice, they just Dunning Kruger their way through.
Can she also move between them the normal way too? Because screen wrap for the cursor is a thing.
No screen wrap, just in need of a quick display settings adjustment.
moving mouse targets. Like let’s say you have two pinned items on the start menu, Firefox and steam. You click Firefox and it starts to open. You go to click steam, but Firefox finishes opening and the icon gets bigger. Steam’s icon then moves to the right, so you click where it was but instead just hit Firefox again. It’s stupid.
Note how Firefox has solved this with tabs. Open a bunch of browser tabs. Enough so they shrink a little. Then rapidly close some, starting from the left. Notice how they don’t change size until you’re done closing tabs.
Mouse tunnels. Like you click the “File” menu, and then mouse over “New” and a long sub menu opens. Longer than the original File menu. If you mouse directly from the top of File to the bottom of New, your cursor will briefly be outside either menu. This often will cause the entire menu to close. Mouse tunnel. Have to keep the cursor in the tunnel. Annoying.
Had an old job that insisted this was fine and refused to let me or anyone change the interface to fix it (on a website)
Focus stealing. Like you’re typing, and some other application pops up and takes focus. The absolute worst is when it pops up and puts focus on a dialogue box, and you just happened to hit “enter”. Instead of adding a new line to your document, you just accepted something. Awful.
- People get lost in navigation menus (web or otherwise) and relaunching the browser or app.
- People who use Caps Lock for one letter(psychos).
- People who know refuse to use virtual desktops/workspaces/tags when they have more than 5 windows open.
- People who refuse to learn common keybind shortcuts like open, cut, paste, close window, open tab and print. This one triggers me when I use a shortcut to help someone and they say I’m in the wrong menu…
To be fair, I’ll use the more convenient shortcuts (cut/copy/paste, select all, save) that are genuinely easier to do with one hand. But Alt+F4? It either requires two hands or else your hand needs to qualify for Cirque de Soleil to hit it properly. Some of the “standard” keybinds are often more trouble than moving the pointer.
cmd+Q on macOS is great.
People who use Caps Lock for one letter
Speed Typing King Sean Wrona on Not Using Shift Key
Sean Wrona who currently holds a bunch of speed typing records uses it to type all capital letters. Instead of hitting Shift+letter he finds it is more efficient to hit CapsLock+letter+CapsLock in quick succession.
Wow, I would have never thought of that
Must not use a mac. On mac keyboards there’s a small delay on the caps lock key where if you’re intentionally hitting it it will turn on, but if you unintentionally bump it hitting A or something it typically wont. I’m quick enough that sometimes I’ll it won’t engage.
To have a title such as Speed Typing King sound like a psycho /s
A tangent, so that explains one of the colemak mods having the caps lock as a layer key and shift as the caps lock, but it’ll revert to lower case after a letter.
Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use the simple shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L to open LinkedIn!
People who watch videos with the cursor hovering over the progress bar/playback controls so they never disappear.
It drives me crazy
Icons where there should be labels.
There’s 12 random shapes in the interface. Clicking 1 of them might delete or block this contact, or it might allow you to send an attachment. How can you find out? You can’t, cause there are no mouse-over labels either, and if you had the option to enable them, it would be hidden behind one of the 12 shapes that may cause more unknown trouble. So you can’t feel safe to experiment either.
When you want to click the fullscreen button, and the seekbar jumps to the end of the video, so you click the start of the seekbar, and now the volume control opens, so you click the video but the volume slider stays open, so you move the volume slider up and down, but now the video already reached the end so now it switches to the next video, and you have to wait for that page to load before you can go back to the previous video which will have to load and buffer all over again(and play an ad if you are on someone elses device)
JUST MAKE THE UI ELEMENTS HITBOXES MATCH THEIR LOOKS AND NOT OVERLAP. A SEEKBAR CAN BE AT THE TOP I DON’T GIVE A CRAP JUST DON’T DO THAT AARRGGGHH
When I get five levels deep in a cascade of UI errors I terminate the mission and mark it as failed.
When people who press caps lock to capitalize a single letter, like at the start of a sentence.
Yeah, people doing that is my fault.
My bad.
I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.
Whenever I need to all caps a word, I have this habit of pressing and holding the shift key with my pinkie finger and pressing the letter keys 1 letter at a time.
There is at least one exception in my opinion where this is acceptable: when writing special characters with diacritics etc. (for example é, à), caps-lock can help capitalizing these letters since they often already require shift to be pressed. I’m aware that there are other ways (i.E. type the diacritic first, then the letter), but the caps-lock way seems easier to me.
People who type “Google” into the bar at the top of the browser, then type the site name into the search box.
My co-worker does this, and it never fails to astonish me
Default search engine: Google
Text in address bar:
site:google.com google
People who touch your screen when pointing something out.
People who open and close their laptop lids by holding the sides and not the top.
People who drag their laptop across the table to move it instead of lifting it.
What’s wrong with opening the lid from the side?
People who lift their laptop by their screen
Oooo this one hurts me.
Other than MacBook Airs. They don’t give a fuck
When a page or UI loads half a second before you click so you end up clicking on something else
Ughh I fucking hate when this happens.
I get that you can’t load everything at once, but put some placeholder stuff there so the link I’m about to click doesn’t shift halfway down the page a millisecond before I click.Happens to me excruciatingly frequently on the youtube homepage.
The mobile YouTube apps are the worst for this. Especially because the “back” button is really an “escape” button, so trying to just swipe back to where you were is impossible
I remember hearing a lot about “responsive design” right around the time it started becoming impossible to click things. Never wanted to learn more about it, but i think that’s the culprit.
I loved the internet when all html was made in notepad. It was just so pleasant.
When I know for a fact I clicked something for it to function and it just doesn’t, requiring multiple clicks.
I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.
The primary reason to this day as to why I have two monitors, isn’t just because to separate things from one monitor to the other. It is because Windows task manager never is strong enough to take primary focus by being on top of programs or other things that take up the entire screen. It just sits in the background and I don’t have access to it. Even when keystrokes don’t work. I could feasibly use one monitor, granted if it’s big enough, if it weren’t for that.
This is program specific, but fucking AIMP, I love it as my audio player of choice. But it acts weird. Sometimes it’ll prefer to stick to the top of my screen, sometimes it won’t show, prompting me to find it and other random annoying things about it. And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There’s other ways I can tell what you’re playing, I don’t need that.
And my final but above-all peeve is when the focus is taken away from my cursor. Like when things just take the function of my cursor when I’m doing something else, when I’m not expecting it to. Like when I install things, I know something will pop up to distract me, I expect that in cases of installing drivers or a prompt window telling me something is done. I just hate it when random non-virus related events take over my cursor when I’m doing something. I wish there comes a day, when you have the option to have a click-free way to prioritize what windows or programs you want to focus on, than something else hogging the attention.
I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.
That’s a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.
Like seriously, I’d wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a “/” into some important excel file name.
Someone who asks for help with their laptop, then opens it to reveal what appears to be several years worth of snacks smashed into the keyboard and on the screen. No, Doug, I don’t want to drive.
Back when I’d fix people’s Windows machines the first thing I usually did was run a standalone VNC server and put that shit on Ethernet. I don’t want to touch your nasty Cheetos keys.
People who don’t understand windows or the minimize, maximize, and close buttons. So they constantly close the window and then relaunch the program to get back to the main screen or switch tasks.
i die inside a little everytime i see my mom doin this
And on macOS people not understanding that just because all the windows of an application are closed it doesn’t mean it’s not running.
I actually love this design because there’s no need for a window to be there while playing music for example.
any normal music player works/can work that way on windows and linux
With Word, people using section breaks when most of the time they should have used the simpler page break.
Section breaks are supposed to be used if you want to have a change in the document layout in the middle of the document. This change could be with the margins, the orientation, the contents of the header or footer, the numbering (eg switch from roman numerals to arabic numerals), etc.
But if you just want the line to move to the next page, use a page break. Section breaks increase the chance of unintended layout and page numbering inconsistencies.
Microsoft should rename section break to “layout break” maybe.
Also, related topic, I really hate it when people just input a bunch of line breaks to get the cursor to the next page, instead of a page break.
Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:
- Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
- Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
- The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
- The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
- Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store
Happy I don’t need to swap
.docxfiles anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.I use office on macOS. Points 1 and 2 work for me only if the document is saved locally and not on OneDrive.
When a document of fixed length and short paragraphs, like a resume or letter, has a paragraph split at the bottom and continued on the next page
People breaking lines manually by pressing Enter and indenting the paragraph by inserting spaces at the beginning of the line.
