Asklemmy

There's a (really good) song on youtube called "clean the fan". It says it all. Stuff is just designed so poorly

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.

People who take a photo of their monitor instead of a screenshot.

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 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.

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.

When people who press caps lock to capitalize a single letter, like at the start of a sentence.

When a page or UI loads half a second before you click so you end up clicking on something else

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 watch videos with the cursor hovering over the progress bar/playback controls so they never disappear.

• 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 type with one to three fingers at a software development company.

People who type "Google" into the bar at the top of the browser, then type the site name into the search box.