I don’t use computers, ever, so I never have this problem. My family has been without internet for years and my mother/sister and my father both agree things is better this way.
Watching people struggle with the idea that there are multiple approaches to the same thing is also a great challenge.
I think there are right and wrong ways to do everything. Predicting the market. Lifting weights. Reproduction. But not art! There’s no wrong way too do art!
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.
Why tho? Seems no worse than riding in a car with somebody else driving - and in that situation your life is at stake.
That’s almost as bad. I don’t like being in my own car if someone else drives. “Shift mothefucker” I’d say in my head while sitting uncomfortably
When I’m riding in a car with someone they don’t constantly make a wrong turn even though you’re pointing right at the right one. They also have an understanding of the language and the location of the controls. If I tell someone to turn up the radio they very rarely rip the rear view window off the car instead.
with a car the other person has a licence for it, which comes with the assumption of at least some basic skills operating the device.
Users with computers? Some people really shouldn’t even approach one.
“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”.
If you try to “help” by taking control, you’ll soon find that all the similar tasks are delegated to you and no learning takes place at all. So your only option is to just watch them fail and bear suffering.
I have the opposite problem. I don’t care how other people set up their workflow, but I get criticized for not using the defaults while performing better. 🙄
I have the problem that I give off a vibe as an onlooker. I’m not trying to be judgmental but I guess I ooze it.
Edit: Your case makes me chuckle. I used to love watching IT struggle because I got rid of default desktop and quick launch icons. Finally we have all learned to search.
I suppose I should clarify that I’m not in IT, I live stream sports
Obviously they’re wrong.
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).
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.
I taught my wife about clicking the first item and shift-clicking the last item you want selected. She knew about holding CTRL to select/deselect multiple items but not that shortcut. That’s when I realized I don’t even remember learning most things about operating a computer.
I only recently found out about the middle mouse button thing when accidentally clicking on the new tab button with a folder location on my clipboard.
Yeah I unbound the middle mouse thing when I switched, it was annoying
Until you have to switch between Mac and Windows.
I wish everything used vim motions tbh.
When they accidentally open a case file window you never wish you saw
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.
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“that’s right! The square hole!”
My girlfriend does NOT use her mouse wheel to scroll web pages. It’s melting my brain.
Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.
Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.
Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.
The one I absolutely loathe (maybe because I run into it more often) is them stealing when I press Ctrl+f to focus their page’s search textbox.
Page Up/Page Down gang
I’ve got a friend who scrolls webpages by middle-clicking and moving the cursor down.
Drives me insane every time I see her do it.
Is she a Firefox user too, then? I feel handicapped in Chromium browsers when middle-clicking does fuck all. If it’s more than three wheel spins away, I too engage “auto-scroll”, as it’s called. Of course you can also scroll fast if your mouse wheel unlocks and spins freely but with the middle click auto-scroll, you can also go slow and indefinitely, which can be handy for longer reads or for presentation / screen share purposes.
Pretty sure it’s a Windows feature, because I’ve done it by accident in Chromium browsers, but only on Windows.
But yeah she’s a Firefox user.
Me neither, I grab the scrollbar and speed up/slow down as i’m scrolling through the page. Scroll wheel is 1 speed.
I also disable smooth scrolling. When I do use the wheel, I hate it when I can see text move to a position and I have to wait for the animation to finish. Nah, I want it to move there instantly, not slowly but smoothly.
Me neither
I use vim keybindings
