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[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (4 children)

When they dont use keyboard shortcuts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Select text -> Edit menu -> Copy, click elsewhere -> Edit menu -> Paste ๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] maniclucky 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

Not knowing Ctrl+shift+esc opens the task manager is one thing, but copy and paste should be taught in school.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I was going to say why is that even there, but it reminded me of a very useful macOS tip:

You can access all the menu bar items that donโ€™t have hot keys without leaving the keyboard.

Command+shift+question mark opens the help menu search bar and you can type in ANY menu bar item by name and press enter to do it. It will also show any keyboard shortcuts.

Ctrl+F2 selects the menu bar so you can use arrow keys, but thatโ€™s slower.

As an avid vim/terminal user, macOS accessibility shortcuts are friggen amazing.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I had a friend once come over and was trying to do something on my computer, and it wasn't working. I tell him exactly what to do, and it doesn't work. I watch him do exactly what needs to be done, and it still doesn't work.

I take control, doing the exact same thing we tried 3 times already... and it works.

I'm convinced electronics just hate some people and refuse to work for them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I completely agree. I work in IT, a lot of times I can see that people have taken the exact actions I would, just with no success, until I do it. I always say that it's like the boss walking in a room and suddenly everyone stops misbehaving.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

โ€œProximity Fixโ€

[โ€“] valkyre09 28 points 2 months ago

Itโ€™s because the computers secretly know weโ€™re 1 level of bullshit away from erasing their memories

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Calling someone to help with something is usually the best way to make it start working miraclously

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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (8 children)

watching my boss shut down the front desk computer at EOD:

"you know, instead of clicking the X on 5 windows, you can hit ctrl+shift+Q once and save all that wasted time clicking. AND it saves me time tomorrow by opening all the windows at once, instead of only the last one you closed"

"oh, thanks! you know all the time-savers"

next day:

back to clicking every X

[โ€“] Wizard_Pope 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does ctrl+shift+Q close all the windows?

[โ€“] Kyle_The_G 48 points 2 months ago (8 children)

well now I want a megathread of all the best shortcuts.

[โ€“] shneancy 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

control shift T reopens your last closed browser tab/window, it can be spammed

middle clicking a link opens it in a new tab (works even on steam! great for comparing games or continual browsing without resetting your scrolling progress during sales)

[โ€“] bruhduh 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ctrl+click does the same thing middle clicking does, it's for those who have cheap mouses with wheel not working after a month of usage

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[โ€“] KillerTofu 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Windows arrow keys snaps windows and moves them

Windows L locks your computer

Windows V brings up the clipboard history

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[โ€“] chiliedogg 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Edit: Cut

Edit: Paste (back in same spot so you don't use the original)

Start Menu: Microsoft PowerPoint

File:New Slide Show

New Slide

Edit: Paste

File: Save: Presentation943.ppt

File:Print

Printer: Microsoft Print to PDF

Save: Presentation943.pdf

Start Menu: Microsoft Edge

Bing Search:Google.com

Google.com search:Yahoo Mail

New email

To:chiliedogg

Subject: link

Message Text:

C:\Users\Windows\Jimmy\Desktop\Presentation943.pdf

[โ€“] ikidd 21 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] GelatinGeorge 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] chiliedogg 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I am a little proud of the little details

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Over the years I've become accustomed to a highly customised, privacy centric, keyboard-driven workflow that makes heavy use of tiling and modality.

I'm also "the technical one" in my family and friend group...

So when people sit me down in front of their bloated, ad-powered, AI "enhanced," stock laptops, and ask me to, essentially spend an hour learning about an obscure Windows problem space, then debugging and implementing the fix, I don't blame them for not realising the pain they cause me.

[โ€“] ikidd 12 points 2 months ago

About 10 years ago, I told everyone I helped that I either installed Linux or they were on their own. And I was never going to physically hold an iPhone unless it was to free them up to go find a hammer.

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[โ€“] AgentGrimstone 40 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.

[โ€“] deus 20 points 2 months ago

Your words do not hurt me, I'm already used to being a diappointment.

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[โ€“] 2ugly2live 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Go on a older person's phone. Whenever I have to do anything on my mom's phone, it gives me a headache. Everything is too bright and big and unorganized and has so man notifications! And her phone is much newer than mine and it's still hard for me.

[โ€“] 4lan 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My mom refuses to turn off notifications from apps so there are constantly 30-40 notifications. Making it completely unusable.

I just don't get it, you can control how your phone works but people act like they can't do a thing

[โ€“] affiliate 17 points 2 months ago

"no don't change anything, you'll break it! i like it how it is"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I try not to judge people....unless I see them right-clicking to copy and paste. Ew.

[โ€“] 9point6 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, who wouldn't use the toolbar icons?!

[โ€“] Nfamwap 27 points 2 months ago

I.......

Fuck you, man!

[โ€“] Buddahriffic 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

If your hand is already on the mouse, it can be quicker to just right click and click copy. Especially if the next action also uses the mouse.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

When I'm in the passenger seat, I push on the imaginary brake. When I'm watching someone on a computer, I'm pushing shortcuts on the imaginary keyboard.

[โ€“] LouNeko 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But on the flip side. If you tell somebody something they don't know like:

'You can open links in new tabs by klicking on them with the mouse wheel.'

Or

'You can reopen closed tabs by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T'

They look at you like you've just shown them the meaning of life. Bonus points if you see them using it later.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Every single time anybody has had to take remote control of a work computer while I watch feels like a violation and/or some sort of supernatural haunting.

Looking over someone's shoulder while they clearly engage the interface wrong I have a much easier time doing. It's the disembodied element that gets me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (14 children)

there is a reason i use i3wm on linux.

You cannot use my computer, it is impossible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Part of the reason I installed Arch (BTW) is to see the looks of confusion and concern on my family's faces as I'm computationizing

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Watching somebody scroll to the bottom of a very long list by clicking the arrow button under the scrollbar is my idea of hell.

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[โ€“] affiliate 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

i am okay with this during the few instances where they do things in a better way than i would have. like utilizing some extremely rare/custom keybinds for certain tasks in IDEs. those experiences are eye opening and humbling.

most of the other times though, yeah it's pretty rough

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Watching my mom do anything on the computer is a true exercise of patience. She found something neat on the internet? Open LibreOffice Writer, copy-paste the article title. Funny picture? Copy-paste it to that same doc. Youtube video? Copy-paste the video title to the doc.

She complained more than once that she couldn't find those things some time later. I told her not to rely on titles, especially on Youtube, and to save the whole address instead. Of course, she ignored me and still saves titles and pictures in a .doc

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inputs login, grabs the mouse, clicks on the password field, inputs password, grabs the mouse again and clicks OK

[โ€“] 4lan 15 points 2 months ago

With the way sites work these days there's always some pop-up asking you to rate your experience or some crap. Especially Microsoft admin sites.

I start typing and then that pops up and then I click it away and the freaking focus is taking off of the text field.... Now I got to click back in there and type again

If anyone here works at Microsoft please please stop with the fucking pop-ups inside of your own administrator sites. I do not want to rate your site, I do not want to learn about all the little changes you made for no good reason. I want to get my fucking work done

[โ€“] Mr_Dr_Oink 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having spent many years in tech support and also being my family tech support, this post pains me.greatly.

I get to see other people ways of using the computer daily.

[โ€“] TrueStoryBob 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh my goodness... my job requires me to work with a team on some fairly industry specialized software (steaming and broadcast television); the way my coworkers have their shit set up is so weird. It's like we are all speaking the same language, but with wildly different dialects.

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[โ€“] Magister 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

yep, not using scroll wheel but clicking on the up/down arrow in the side bar, or, especially in Windows, when the remote IT guy go through start menu and type "control panel" and go here and here and here and you are wondering how this guy knows so few?!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Having done remote support in the past, there is often a delay and especially with scrolling it is difficult to control, so I always ended up doing the side bar thing as well.

Control panel is also a quirky one, because it is sorted alphabetically from left to right and then from top to bottom in the display language. So the control panel items are very often in a different place because Microsoft.

I did learn most of the control panel shortcuts because of that though, which still comes in handy sometimes. I even had a printed out cheat sheet for it.

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