For me, it’s “Clear Storage”. Sometimes I try to clear the cache of some mobile game I’m playing and end up deleting all my progress instead.
The mute icon on a browser tab. Chances of wanting to select the tab: 80%; close the tab: 20%; mute 0%. If I want to do that I’ll right-click and choose from the menu.
Discord voice call just tap the name and tap the call button once in a blue moon.
I’m always so scared about this after having it happen exactly once. Even worse when you hit video call.
Kaepora Gaepora goes: “Did you get all that?” and you just smash A and answer “No”
One eternity later…
The home button is on the touchscreen of my smartphone. When I try to type in a hurry, I often miss the spacebar and tap the home button at some point in a paragraph. Then suddenly I’m looking at the apps I have open, feeling old, wishing for a physical keyboard.
F1 (in Windows)
Here, let’s forcefully open up Microsoft Edge regardless of what your browser is set to!
Not specifically a button but I swear if I’m not looking at my phone playing something for audio on YouTube, the lightest touch anywhere on the screen just so happens to be where the ad is.
A refresh button when I’m moving around on a map with right mouse button (don’t ask me why it’s made this way, idk) and it resets all my work done on the map.
Almost all the buttons of the YouTube video player in Android, I don’t know if it is a bad design, or I have just stupid fingers, but I always end up touching stuff I don’t want to, even exiting the video sometimes.
Anytime I go to tap something on a page and it suddenly decides something hadn’t loaded yet and suddenly changes whats under my finger/mouse.
This is how we know human advancement still has potential. Nobody has implemented a solution for this. It could be so simple.
Keep the element where the cursor is in the same spot. Any shifting of other elements above or below, fine, but whatever the cursor is on is locked.
Something loads below? Expand the page down to fit. Something loads above? Expand the page up to fit.
It’s not rocket science, guys.
I get this on the web interface of my 3D print server. Occasionally come back in a few hours having printed the wrong file…
This drives me crazy.
I’ve had that in happen to me where I try to click on something and it opens a new page. I go back to the previous page. Aim for the link I want to click… Press it… refresh Click the wrong one again…
Sometimes this can go on for 3 or 4 times. I feel like I’m going insane when it happens. How can something so simple be so complicated
Yes. Urge to kill RISING!
Lol, I’ve never heard of anyone clears the storage by a mistake.
The back button on my mouse. Suddenly the browser goes back one page and forgets where the video on the other page was. Then I have to seek again to figure it out myself.
If you’re like me and think it’s really stupid that a mouse has a mapped “back” key instead of an extra button, you can easily remap it with x-mouse.
It’s freeware, it’s extremely light weight and efficient, cleanly starts on boot with no obtrusive ads or notifications, and has a whole suite of options including active-window-specific remapping.
I use it almost exclusively to remap the back and forward buttons on my trackball.
The N key on my phone keyboard. I’m constantly hitting it when I meant to hit Space. So frustrating.
For me it’s “v”.
IfvI’mvnotvcarefulvIvgetvthis.
Also, the P and M keys when I mean to hit backspace (I use an AZERTY so the M is at the end of the second row right next to L P and backspace). It’s like aah I want to delete the last character not have more Ps and Ms thrown after it !
For me it’s the . In the browser on iOS. The spacebar shrinks and gives space to the . button that I then constantly hit by accident
I’ve been thinking for like 10 years that phones should have calibration functions specifically for the keyboard.
I have big hands, I am talking about palm a basketball sized hands. This makes it nearly impossible for me to ever hit the letter I think I’m hitting. Surely there’s enough computing power available now to figure this out.
Q in Minecraft. It throws whatever item you’re holding. Sometimes I’m frantic trying to fight something and I end up tossing it my sword. If it’s a zombie, they can pick it up and use it against you.
Nothing like throwing your upgraded diamond sword, into your mob farm. Especially if you haven’t put in the droppers.
Yeah, I got annoyed enough at this that I remapped it to
;.I’ve had drop item on P for a decade now for the same reason
C instead of V when I try to paste something… Like I’ve got something copied and I accidentally hit Ctrl+C again, instead Ctrl+V and now I have to go copy the thing I want to copy again (and then proceed to missclick again, it’s a never ending cycle)
get a clipboard manager app
Use Windows key+v. It will show you all recently copied text
well shit TIL, thanks
numlock. i never use my numpad as anything but a way to type in 2FA codes, and when nothing happens, i get really confused.
