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My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.
Watching people open the browser (whoch open to google by default), typing google on the search field and hit search, selecting the first result (which of course is google) and the making their search when it open
I have to leave this thread.
Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the “Edit” menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.
I had to walk away.
I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.
She told me this way she knew it was working.
To be fair, I always Ctrl+C multiple once to make sure it copied, even though one would be enough. Humans are pretty irrational
That’s not irrational on some OSes coughWindowscough. There was a time where the hotkey copy would randomly not work with no rhyme or reason.
Yeah, I am the same.
I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.
I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.
It can get worse.
You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.
I had a boss who didn’t use even the context menu never mind keyboard shortcuts. He went for the application Edit menu to copy/paste. Gave me headaches.
Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
People use the mouse to switch windows?
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I’m clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it’s quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it’s basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that’s only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.
Where else would your other hand be but the keyboard?
Petting the cat (genuine reason to use the context menu)
What kind of sick fuck taps the screen with their finger repeatedly??
Animals I tell ya
They instinctively tap on your screen even when you tell them you don’t own a touch screen.
lol I tap on my own screen when I forget which computer I’m using.
“differently than you” is a funny way to say “triple clicking a hyperlink every fucking time oh my god you only have to click it once, mom”.
By “differently” you mean “utterly wrong every time”, right?
Watching people stumble around refusing to use ALT-Tab will be the thing that causes me to lose hair one day
Watching someone earning triple your salary struggle to share their screen or start a presentation fullscreen
😑
Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.
Blame the short term focus on profit and the system we exist in. There simply is no reason for it to be stable. It’s not a life or death matter, neither for people nor for companies, hence, it will not be prioritised. The world would have to be very different for these “basic” things to be prioritised.
Printer companies keep them bad on purpose so you’ll buy new printers hoping they fixed it (or at the high end pay for their maintenance contract).
No, it is just really difficult to go from digital yo analog.
In analoge, it doesn’t matter if something is misaligned by a milimeter. The tollerance is pretty big.
But digital is always exact. It doesn’t have the leeway to go off the exact path.
So if something is misaligned even slightly, the mismatch grows exponentially. And that is when the conversion from digital to analog breaks down.
Meaning, printers will always suffer until we can make analog as exact as digital, which is a very big ask we are currently unable to reach.
I once asked a co-worker to scroll to the bottom of a list so I could see the last entries.
I watched in abject horror as he clicked the little down arrow on the scroll bar repeatedly.
I honestly wanted to wrench the mouse from his grasp and feed it to him.
There is a reason I always say, “backslash, the one without the question mark”.
Yup. You can’t say “the one leaning to the left” because, and trust me on this, there’s a number of ways a person can screw that up.
“that’s right! The square hole!”
Years ago I came in hot to a new team acting like I knew everything and the lead refused to teach me. Totally my fault for being a horse’s arse. However, I taught myself and got really, really good at it. The team lead had been doing it for four years. When I saw how he was doing it, I had to cringe. My way was way better. But if I tried to show him my way, it would have been like I was acting like I knew more than them. Had I come in more humbly, my contribution would have probably been better received. It didn’t work out with that team.
I don’t act like I know better than others so much now, if I catch myself. Sometimes their way works for them. And I’m not young. There are probably younger people than me who are faster. Maybe they use AI. I refuse to.
You’re never gonna be the best. Try to be the kindest.
however they get it done is fine it’s just when it takes 10x the time to open something they use every day. bitch how do you live like this
The middle mouse button pastes the selected text, “home” goes to the start of the line, “end” goes to the end. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
Yeah I unbound the middle mouse thing when I switched, it was annoying
My personal hell will be this but they’re also a loud chewer that licks their fingers and gets wet Cheeto dust all over everything.
Watching people struggle with the idea that there are multiple approaches to the same thing is also a great challenge.
Just add this option to the config file
Opens nano
😤
I was a consultant for 40 years. I was that guy that logged in remotely and took control of your PC. People absolutely lose it. It does not matter if you tell them or try to explain to them. On countless occasions I would be on the phone with the person saying I am logging into your computer right now. They would start screaming that somebody is hacking into the machine. It would take a couple minutes to calm them down. Same thing if I said I’ll be logging in in five minutes. I would inevitably get a call from the person that I just told five minutes ago I was logging in saying somebody’s hacking their computer. I am so glad I am retired now.
