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 really hate it when people save everything on Desktop
Just hide desktop icons
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.
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.
People who type “Google” into the bar at the top of the browser, then type the site name into the search box.
Default search engine: Google
Text in address bar:
site:google.com googleMy co-worker does this, and it never fails to astonish me
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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?
People who type wit one to three fingers at a software development company.
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.
Why am I the unemployed one?
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”.
I do this. I’m not sorry.
For real?
People who watch videos with the cursor hovering over the progress bar/playback controls so they never disappear.
It drives me crazy
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.
When people who press caps lock to capitalize a single letter, like at the start of a sentence.
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.
Yeah, people doing that is my fault.
My bad.
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.
I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.
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.
I have a coworker that has two monitors on a free-moving desk stand and he has monitors as far apart as possible. The monitors are pretty small (24") and there is over two monitor widths between them. He has to whip his head around like he is trying trying to dodge a fly all day to do his work.
He complains about back and neck pain all the time.
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.
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.
People breaking lines manually by pressing Enter and indenting the paragraph by inserting spaces at the beginning of the line.
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.
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.
