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[–] 36 points 4 months ago

They should have used it to kill whoever sent the email with everybody in the "To" header in the first place. BCC exists for a reason

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Depending on what you just sent to All, it's perfectly reasonable.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The reply all button should be buried 3 menus deep

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I get why you hate it, especially when people put everyone in the To:, but you know what's worse? Trying to have a conversation across multiple groups of people, and one person in the thread using Reply so it cuts everyone else out. There's a reason Reply All is a default. Email is a tool that 90% use poorly.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    In my line of work, the reply button should be hidden. It's so annoying when you have to forward a bunch of emails because some dingus decides all the people purposefully cc'd in don't need to be kept in the loop.

    And at the rate we all send each other emails, this is an annoyance.

    Also now I have like 3 different threads all with the same subject, yay! Email definitely works for this and isn't a pain at all! (Would be nice if an email client handled this better, but I'm stuck with Outlook for work)

    Please, if there's an email chain, by the second reply-all, you had better hit reply all, or reply with a different subject.

    Or basically, it'd be nice if people used reply and reply all appropriately for the situation in general haha

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I miss netiquette.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    The mouse is on the left side of the keyboard. Do left handed people use computers like that?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Early in my career I was a sysadmin for a multiuser system, and I often had to go to people's desks to troubleshoot problems they were having. That meant using whatever pointing device and keyboard they had. There were a crazy number of variations, including left handed setups of different types. It was actually an interesting part of the job. But yes, some left handed folks do that, as did some people who had issues with their right hand/arm.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I did when I was younger. Had better fine motor skills with my "primary" hand. Eventually as I started playing more PC games and using computers at school more I got tired of always having to move the mouse around and having to reconfigure keybinds for every game (where it was even possible to do so). So I adapted to right handed mouse somewhere around 14 years old.

    Beyond that, in my time in IT support, I think I encountered only three people who did left handed mice.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, some do. It's infuriating to use if you're right handed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That’s probably because the artist is likely to be right handed and so oriented everything to the right hand side of the comic. If they’d oriented everything the right hand side of the characters, that would mean placing everything on the left of the comic, which might’ve felt wrong to the artist.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Or it reads better than the mouse being on the correct side. If you're going to wildly speculate about others, assuming incompetence is a really shitty thing to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    putting the mouse on the other side would have hidden it from view, obstructed by the monitor. future boy in control of the pc would be a little less apparent. and it looks better having the time machine left vs flipping the entire image. it's a picture, but i think most people would still scan it left-to-right and the time machine should be 'seen' first.

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