Friend told me it was quicker to get screenshots from a game using F12 with steam, and copying it. After I told him he could press Alt+print screen, and directly paste in steam chat.

Right click? Luxury! I’ve seen people go up to File>Edit far too many times.

At my old job, the CEO was showing me something and accidentally closed the tab. He started to go to his history, and I said Ctrl-Shift-T. He was very impressed at least lol.

In the lower levels of purgatory, maybe. As you make your way up the mountain, you progress to navigating the systems yourself, but everything is rearranged and the locations of each menu and item change at random intervals. Also, the dimensions are all wonky, your task bars take up half the screen and can't be resized or minimized, and every button takes several seconds to respond after being clicked. Oh, and when placing objects in a field they auto-lock to grid, but it's always in the wrong spot. And every website is dynamic.

Listening to my boss and older co-workers who all get paid way more than me struggle to sign a PDF and blame everything on Firefox was a radicalizing moment for me

This meant sitting with users and watching them use the software.

How did you manage not to strangle anyone, nor jump out of the window?

Did you ever get any power users who raged at the lack of command line switches or something like that?

Care to share some tips? I feel I'm getting there, trying to navigate old ERP interfaces, new web interfaces, and AI interfaces, and a mix of boomers, millennials, Gen Z as user base.

Someone out there has written a browser plugin where, if you search for Google, it just gives back a page that says “No. Just type in the search query in that bar up top.”

Oh man, I used to work as essentially help desk for old people where they were subscribers to unlimited remote support and we would screen share. I once watched someone, whose browser homepage was hijacked by Yahoo, type Google into Yahoo, click the first result (to Google), then they typed Gmail into the Google search, clicked the link, and finally got to Gmail to login.

Still not as bad as the lady who insisted on hacking Farmville using scripts and Firefox extensions that would have to call us every few weeks to fix everything due to an update. We essentially had to update Firefox and extensions and scripts and reload it all very often. She got passed around a lot.

Then there was the guy who we helped low key pirate media, he was fun. Super nice guy.

Was it an older person? I remember when a big selling point of chrome was you could search Google from the address bar rather than going to Google.com. On a related note, have you seen my walker?

Technically, less typing! Well fix your default search is what I tell em and I charge 37500 dollars! That's a lie but I wouldn't lie to the internet

This became a running joke with an old boss. He told me when I started that he was a human EMP for electronics. He wasn't lying. Just the most baffling problems constantly. Then he'd joke that I needed to touch it and sure enough, it'd work for me. I once watched him enter his password 3 times. It didn't work. I did it. It worked. I watched his damn fingers.

I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.

It feels like a tale as old as time. I'm one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because "acting funny" is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!

Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don't trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.

They need to offer more prayers to the Machine Spirit

Ah, yes. Long time ago I had a friend for whom USB sticks would only mount read-only. I'd take out the stick, put it back in, and it would mount writable.

As a teacher, I love control-shift-T.

“No Mr, I wasn’t playing Geometry Dash!”

On windows, ctrl+shift+esc brings up the task manager and not the menu most people click the task manager in.

On Windows, Alt+Esc puts the focused window at the very back of the window stack

Strg + Win + Alt + Shift + L in Windows opens Linkedin.

I installed "Yantra launcher" on my phone, now no one manage to use my phone

My keybinds are made for my own mind and my mind alone.

AntiX with IceWM 🤣

And some custom hardware as well. It's so jarring using other peoples computers that don't have mouse button #14

common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system… and people still struggle to use the mouse.

Not to larp on the younger generations, but interacting with computers through touch screens is likely a major culprit here. Why would you know how to navigate file structures, or even open a terminal, when they were given an iPad when they were 5 years old?

control+c/v doesn't work in a terminal

cackles maniacally in macOS

I know the struggle. I work with people in their 20s and people in their 60s, with various language barriers between us. The IT department should pay me because I save them 5 calls a day. Why can't they ever see what I'm telling them to click? And why do they just click on anything when they don't see it?

Watching my teen son try to use basic computer interfaces is maddening, but he can navigate a touch screen like it's his bitch.

Maybe it's the lack of feedback, have you tried installing some snackbar that will popup when she presses ctrl+c?

bats mouse away in a power move

I miss the red nipple, BRING BACK THE NIPPLE!!!!

Watching someone constantly take their hand off the keyboard to use the mouse when there's a trackpad right there is my hell.

I'm bad for that watching my boy play slay the spire.

I can force myself to keep quiet until around act 2. Then the "advice" starts leaking out.

My boomer dad.

https://lemmy.world/post/43888601

Me use nano too. It true! Nano easy to find easy to use.

Me everytime I see a tutorial use vim (I got used to either nano or a GUI)

I had a manager a long time ago that only knew arrow keys, insert mode, esc, delete char. And save. I can't remember which save command he used but it wasn't ":wq!"