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I work in IT and I have coworkers that use caps lock to capitalize single letters, like the beginning of a sentence. It hurts a bit every time I see it.
I do that too sometimes.
I work in IT and I have coworkers that call the emergency support line on Saturday at 7 in the morning because "this bullshit system won't let me log in", then I remote in and it says in big letters right at the center of the login screen CAPSLOCK ENABLED.
I won't complain though, that way I make an extra 50€ (1h minimum billing time with weekend bonus) in under a minute.
I think this kind of thing is inevitable due to change blindness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
You don't get hit with the change blindness because A: you're looking at the situation with fresh eyes instead of sleep deprived pre-coffee eyes that just want to get through the login screen to get some work done
And B, because you know how to interpret every bit of visual information on the screen and thus think of it as important. I mean, think of all the times you looked at someone else's computer and their desktop background was their kid or their dog. That's a huge change in visual terms, but it's a tiny change in terms of importance, so you dismiss it and get used to it immediately. You file it as unimportant and ignore it. Your filing of stuff is correct because you actually understand it. But an average user will file every single thing they don't understand as important, and also many things they do understand but don't care about.
Disk mount error. Resolution not recommended. Are you experiencing interruptions? Find out why! Buy boner pills now! It looks like you're trying to write a word document, would you like help? It's a sunny day, 22 degrees C. USERS APPDATA ROAMING. Janice from accounting wants to show you her baby pictures. Back up your files to OneDrive now. You're overdue for an antivirus scan. This flash drive may be corrupted, would you like to repair it? The program crashed, reporting the problem to Microsoft. Solitaire. A Nigerian prince needs your money. Please verify your phone number.
These messages all have varying levels of importance, but they all demand the user's attention in a way most people can't tell apart. The user is a bald monkey relying on stimulus-sorting firmware that's hundreds of thousands of years out of date. So the occipital lobe just files every one of those messages under the same label: noise.
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Once, I had a friend who's spacebar failed. I told her to copy-padre the space and go to Goodwill and buy a new keyboard.
On desktop, how many people search for an emoji, then just copy paste the character into their text?
Instead of switching to the alt keyboard, not that one, the other, no the emoji not the international one, dammit.
Or bringing up the keyboard menu, then scrolling around, looking for the right one, searching, no, scroll, scroll scroll, etc.
I'm about to blow your mind.
Windows key + . brings up an emoji menu. I only discovered this by accident about a month ago.
On my KDE desktop its a simple Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Space.
Not even kidding
You just gotta slam your hand in just the right place.
I'm still trying to find out how people make that flipped d. /s
On Windows, win+r 'charmap' in case anyone ever needs it. On other OS/Window managers, I'm not sure off-hand about the shortcuts.
Yes, but you need to be wary of pasting the formatting.
So when you do this, instead of pasting with Control+V you will want to paste without formatting using the Control+Shift+V command.
So remember - if you want that capital 'H' without issues, use your Shift key when pasting what you copy from Wikipedia.
You can copy the H and paste it into the address bar and copy again to clear the formatting.
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I just paste it in notepad to remove formatting.
And I'm not even joking, sometimes the special ALT 0227 doesnt work and my å is only on Wikipedia...
Dammnnn I use right click page without formatting so much, I hate it when software removes the option from the right click menu... looking at you Teams. This will change my life!
sounds a bit complex.
i prefer to paste into notepad, and then copy it from there
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This was how many errors never made it to a newspaper page. Writer fucked up? You go in the trash and you find an H and you stick it over top. Or you ransom-note a whole word that way.
Ain’t nobody got time for printers. There was partying to be done and deadlines.
How do you think Mexican people spell year in Spanish if it's not by going to Wikipedia and getting that letter that comes after m and before n in the Mexican alphabet? Eh? Eh? Anios!
Anos?
Cuantos anos tienes?
Solamente tengo un ano! Y con ese ano me cago. LOL.
Big difference between ano and anio.
Yo tener mucho demasiados buenos anos en frente para pasarme vida en fábrica cigaros.
Peggy Hill no es cumpablo.
Oh my god! I'm going to jail!
I used to do this, but then I changed to Hat. It's increased my productivity significantly and saves me multiple hours each week.
do you mind sharing your secret for the capital i? you just used three of them in one post and i have no idea how you accomplished such a feat
It's the same thing, but you go to the Wikipedia article for Æthelred I of Wessex and copy his Roman numeral.
Use an l
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