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?
As a web developer it’s when people want me to code ridiculous things because they don’t know how to use files, their OS or their web browser.
Recently someone complained to me that they’d like a dropdown to be sorted a very specific way (rather than alphabetical) because it’s “too hard” to scroll through the undesired options. They don’t realize that by doing that you would no longer be able to correctly tab into the field then type the first few letters of the desired option.
Or another user who reported that emailing documents wasn’t working because he could no longer email them to himself through the website. He could’ve simply downloaded the document using another link (right next to the email sending link) but refused to do so because he doesn’t know how to handle the file after downloading.
tab
Your unreasonable expectations have a name, and it is tab.
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 type wit one to three fingers at a software development company.
We had a guy at the place I worked a few jobs ago who did nothing but slowly single-finger peck out regexes all day. His job title was “SEO Guru”.
For real?
I do this. I’m not sorry.
Why am I the unemployed one?
IT deploying the shit hole GlobalProtect instead of a “real” macOS
.mobileconfigthat can run as an actual service and be on 24/7. Also IT not black holing IPv6 on the VPN (since they don’t want to support it) causing all the traffic to leak outside the tunnel.…at a software development company.
People who watch videos with the cursor hovering over the progress bar/playback controls so they never disappear.
It drives me crazy
When people who press caps lock to capitalize a single letter, like at the start of a sentence.
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.
Yeah, people doing that is my fault.
My bad.
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.
People who lift their laptop by their screen
Oooo this one hurts me.
Other than MacBook Airs. They don’t give a fuck
What’s wrong with opening the lid from the side?
When a page or UI loads half a second before you click so you end up clicking on something else
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.
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
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.
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
i die inside a little everytime i see my mom doin this
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.
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
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.
People breaking lines manually by pressing Enter and indenting the paragraph by inserting spaces at the beginning of the line.
People who take a photo of their monitor instead of a screenshot.
I’m guilty of this for texting or other phone-specific communications.
Sure, I could take a screenshot on the computer, email it to myself, download it to my phone, then add it to a text… Or, I have a camera right there. There has to be a good reason to not take the easy route.
Just use KDE connect to send files between your Phone and PC. Much simpler, and for a photo that would take literal seconds.
If your messager can’t be used on a computer I feel sorry for you. Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram all have windows or browser clients
Why would a for-profit company spend three millions to develop the desktop application, then a million per month to maintain it, in order to lose your personal data therefore making less money?
People who take a screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.
Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.
Screenshots are so much faster than a link though on a phone. I do crop mine before sending, but I send a lot of Screenshots in my group chats.
- 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…
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
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.
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 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.
Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use the simple shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L to open LinkedIn!
There’s a (really good) song on youtube called “clean the fan”. It says it all. Stuff is just designed so poorly
I really hate it when people save everything on Desktop
If I don’t get to put stuff on my Desktop, why do I have a Desktop at all?? I really dislike this part about Gnome. Or any other OS that treats a Desktop like Slideshow Window. When working through a bunch of files I find it easier to have them on the desktop and move them from one stack to the other. It allows me to keep the stack order. Often when revisiting more complex workflows at work, that becomes super handy.
Just hide desktop icons
Full agree. My personal desktop is clean. My company-issued is littered with shortcuts I can’t get rid of because they don’t give general users that permission. I hate it so much.
Thousands of unread emails in an inbox.
Using a downloads folder as your entire filesystem.
Anything that has a popup telling me about a new feature that 1) has existed for a long time and 2) I already knew about (basically office 365)
Features and button I can’t remove (basically office 365 and copilot)
When something changes its name to become less descriptive. (Basically microsoft office to office 365 to windows 365 to 365 to 3)
Basically office 365
Bonus: How do onedrive? With local file system? Where is my even? Fuck
Oh also those assholes who “hAvE aN aPp IdEa”. Less so when it’s a shittier version of something that already exists and you can ruin their dreams of become the next zuck or gates. (But also, if it was actually a good idea, why wouldn’t I just steal it?)
When people learn you can program and they think you can program everything. (See previous comment)
People who call it “coding” instead of “programming”. I am writing a program as in what you read to know what is occuring at an event? Like a play? Something with scenes and acts. There is progression from beginning to end. What I am doing is creating a routine for an actor. I’m not writing hieroglyphics, and if you are too stupid to realize that, you shouldn’t get to name the fucking thing.
People who ask for help and are upset when you tell them you fixed the problem before, taught them how to do it themselves, and procede to tell them they are wasting your time, don’t listen, or are an imbicile.
Using other people’s keyboards. At all.
When IT treats you like the rest of the unwashed masses. When IT gets in your way or confiscates something. When people think you are literal IT (Why the fuck would I be able to reset your workday password?)
I’m going to stop before the vein in my forehead explodes. Again. But I’ll probably add more later.
You’re tripping on the “coding” thing. Two different things, coding is all encompassing to scripting AND programming, whereas programming would consist of programming languages only. I’d rather someone call it “coding” instead of “programming” if they don’t know. Not like the average non-IT person walking by should be expected to know you’re using e.g. C++, not bash.
It’s an opinion
There’s no firm delineation between scripting or programming. In many cases it boils down to “scripting is when you program in a language I deem lesser” which is just rude.
Coding is just the old timey word for encoding. I.E. basically doing what an assembler would do automatically these days. Any programming language in common use involves much more than that and deserves to be called programming.
