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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Reminds me of when I was getting pissed off that, on my work computer, Windows would randomly close Teams Windows and browser tabs, exactly every 59 seconds.

    Till I found out that the windows version of caffeine hits the F15 key every 59 seconds by default. I had previously set up PowerToys to map an “extra” key on my keyboard to do Ctrl+W. That “extra” key actually turned out to be F15.



  • Maybe you’re wired different. I skimmed the whole thing twice, specifically looking for the directions section, knowing how it should look. I missed it the first time…I thought the joke was that there weren’t any directions, or they were hidden on a page 2.

    Maybe my ADHD mind?

    I definitely get what OP is saying tho. Having an unknown and changing number of warnings, before the directions, in the same typeface as the directions, could make it more dangerous.

    Ideally there would be a color-coded label system for different types/severities of warnings, and the direction clearly printed above/near the top. Having all the warnings first didn’t make me read them, just the bolded parts, looking for the directions. Directions are the most looked-for thing, they should be in an obvious place.

    This is like the drug companies following supermarket logic, putting the milk in the back corner of the store hoping you impulse a bunch of stuff on the way. But instead tricking the customer into learning something, the customer says “all this science shit is boring and scary sounding” and they go get the raw milk from the farm stand because that doesn’t “need” warnings.










  • Because android lacks cohesion there.

    Apple tried to make a platform that functions as a hybrid phone/laptop.

    Android tried to make a big phone and Google saved the laptop-experience for ChromeOS.

    Add to this…I don’t think there’s a single good keyboard case for android tablets. Maybe a semi-decent one for some flagship models…but nothing that compares to the official apple keyboard.

    But now ChromeOS is dying so…what do?


  • When applications get cross platform it sucks.

    For example…in Windows id often use Ctrl+L to access the address bar in a web browser.

    The Mac equivalent to this, I think, is Super-L. Super is the “windows key” on my keyboard.

    So then…go back to windows after building up mac muscle memory…and I’m locking my screen every time I want to go to a new website.

    The outlook keybindings are even more confusing…but outlook for Windows is shit tier (I’ve switched to PWA now). Somehow the macos version behaves better. I really don’t get it.