Computer related pet peeves

I have a coworker that has two monitors on a free-moving desk stand and he has monitors as far apart as possible. The monitors are pretty small (24") and there is over two monitor widths between them. He has to whip his head around like he is trying trying to dodge a fly all day to do his work.

 

He complains about back and neck pain all the time.

When you want to click the fullscreen button, and the seekbar jumps to the end of the video, so you click the start of the seekbar, and now the volume control opens, so you click the video but the volume slider stays open, so you move the volume slider up and down, but now the video already reached the end so now it switches to the next video, and you have to wait for that page to load before you can go back to the previous video which will have to load and buffer all over again(and play an ad if you are on someone elses device)

JUST MAKE THE UI ELEMENTS HITBOXES MATCH THEIR LOOKS AND NOT OVERLAP. A SEEKBAR CAN BE AT THE TOP I DON'T GIVE A CRAP JUST DON'T DO THAT AARRGGGHH

Icons where there should be labels.

There's 12 random shapes in the interface. Clicking 1 of them might delete or block this contact, or it might allow you to send an attachment. How can you find out? You can't, cause there are no mouse-over labels either, and if you had the option to enable them, it would be hidden behind one of the 12 shapes that may cause more unknown trouble. So you can't feel safe to experiment either.

moving mouse targets. Like let's say you have two pinned items on the start menu, Firefox and steam. You click Firefox and it starts to open. You go to click steam, but Firefox finishes opening and the icon gets bigger. Steam's icon then moves to the right, so you click where it was but instead just hit Firefox again. It's stupid.

Note how Firefox has solved this with tabs. Open a bunch of browser tabs. Enough so they shrink a little. Then rapidly close some, starting from the left. Notice how they don't change size until you're done closing tabs.

Mouse tunnels. Like you click the "File" menu, and then mouse over "New" and a long sub menu opens. Longer than the original File menu. If you mouse directly from the top of File to the bottom of New, your cursor will briefly be outside either menu. This often will cause the entire menu to close. Mouse tunnel. Have to keep the cursor in the tunnel. Annoying.

Had an old job that insisted this was fine and refused to let me or anyone change the interface to fix it (on a website)

Focus stealing. Like you're typing, and some other application pops up and takes focus. The absolute worst is when it pops up and puts focus on a dialogue box, and you just happened to hit "enter". Instead of adding a new line to your document, you just accepted something. Awful.

When I know for a fact I clicked something for it to function and it just doesn't, requiring multiple clicks.

I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.

The primary reason to this day as to why I have two monitors, isn't just because to separate things from one monitor to the other. It is because Windows task manager never is strong enough to take primary focus by being on top of programs or other things that take up the entire screen. It just sits in the background and I don't have access to it. Even when keystrokes don't work. I could feasibly use one monitor, granted if it's big enough, if it weren't for that.

This is program specific, but fucking AIMP, I love it as my audio player of choice. But it acts weird. Sometimes it'll prefer to stick to the top of my screen, sometimes it won't show, prompting me to find it and other random annoying things about it. And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There's other ways I can tell what you're playing, I don't need that.

And my final but above-all peeve is when the focus is taken away from my cursor. Like when things just take the function of my cursor when I'm doing something else, when I'm not expecting it to. Like when I install things, I know something will pop up to distract me, I expect that in cases of installing drivers or a prompt window telling me something is done. I just hate it when random non-virus related events take over my cursor when I'm doing something. I wish there comes a day, when you have the option to have a click-free way to prioritize what windows or programs you want to focus on, than something else hogging the attention.

• having hundreds, even thousands of unread emails in their inbox and constantly complain they did not see the email I sent them. Fucking unsubscribe from all the newsletters you don’t read and disable that Jira ticket update spam you don’t need to respond to. Suddenly it’s all manageable because you don’t actually get many important emails!
• in general (not just computer related) not learning how to use the tools available to you to solve problems you obviously have

Thousands of unread emails in an inbox.

Using a downloads folder as your entire filesystem.

Anything that has a popup telling me about a new feature that 1) has existed for a long time and 2) I already knew about (basically office 365)

Features and button I can't remove (basically office 365 and copilot)

When something changes its name to become less descriptive. (Basically microsoft office to office 365 to windows 365 to 365 to 3)

Basically office 365

Bonus: How do onedrive? With local file system? Where is my even? Fuck

Oh also those assholes who "hAvE aN aPp IdEa". Less so when it's a shittier version of something that already exists and you can ruin their dreams of become the next zuck or gates. (But also, if it was actually a good idea, why wouldn't I just steal it?)

When people learn you can program and they think you can program everything. (See previous comment)

People who call it "coding" instead of "programming". I am writing a program as in what you read to know what is occuring at an event? Like a play? Something with scenes and acts. There is progression from beginning to end. What I am doing is creating a routine for an actor. I'm not writing hieroglyphics, and if you are too stupid to realize that, you shouldn't get to name the fucking thing.

People who ask for help and are upset when you tell them you fixed the problem before, taught them how to do it themselves, and procede to tell them they are wasting your time, don't listen, or are an imbicile.

Using other people's keyboards. At all.

When IT treats you like the rest of the unwashed masses. When IT gets in your way or confiscates something. When people think you are literal IT (Why the fuck would I be able to reset your workday password?)

I'm going to stop before the vein in my forehead explodes. Again. But I'll probably add more later.

I really hate it when people save everything on Desktop

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

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.

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.

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

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

"HEY POLLY, QUIT SQWACKING!"

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.

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

• 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.

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

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.