Why do I have to hit <cntl> <alt> <del> to start my computer? Why doesn’t the login page just come up automatically?
This was one thing that steered me away from buying a Ford when I was car shopping a year ago. I’m sure I could have eventually figured out the “info-tainment center” but I much prefer to know that I can control the temp or radio by feel and not take my eyes off the road.
use auto-correct to change ^ to ° ?
That’s the secret! I was trying to type it with the number row at the top of the keyboard. The system is Windows 7, BTW.
Still, I wish they’d replace the ^ with ° above the number 6.
It’s possible that malware on your machine, or on another machine on your network, could find a way to inject keyboard input into your machine, or try to display a spoof of a login screen on your machine. But the cntl-alt-del combination, supposedly, cannot be spoofed like that.
THIS! And I use black electrical tape.
Well this is completely unoriginal, but god, batteries. It’s ridiculous how much time and effort I spend lugging my power supply, finding an outlet, crawling on the floor under the desk or table to get to the outlet, sitting in some not really comfortable place because it’s close to an outlet and generally worrying about battery life. Oh, and making sure my cords aren’t swiped by someone else.
Ugh, yes. The floor around my nightstand is a rat’s nest of chargers and power strips.
That it’s 2014 and we still don’t have jetpacks
You’ll take my caret from my cold dead fingers. It’s needed for anchoring regular expressions.
But it does :halo:
Right next to the left of the 1 key. Shift+º gets ª. Spanish uses them in abbreviations, you see, so in a Spanish-language keyboard they are indeed there.
(And it’s oversight :p)
TV remotes which turn on with the +P key, but not with the power key. I can see why having “+P” work as “on” would make sense, but damnit, the power key should also work!
Hmm. On my keyboard, <alt>0176 gets me a new footnote. Would love to have a degree symbol.
My thermostat. All of the text is like a 2 point font in raised lettering so it’s the same color as the background. Without a flashlight and a magnifying glass it’s almost impossible to read. It also emits a beep when you adjust anything, so if I want to raise the temperature 5 degrees in the middle of the night, everyone gets to hear BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP.
Remotes for video equipment. They generally have about twice as many buttons as you’ll ever use and the ones you do have are labeled in print that you can’t read in a dim room.
Speaking of not being able to read in a dim room, the back side of about any entertainment device. Raised black plastic lettering on a black plastic background is impossible to see, sometimes even with a flashlight. Would it kill them to run a white paint roller over the lettering so we can see it?
Youtube: why no fast forward or slow motion button?
Knobs.
What annoys me is that all the knobs have disappeared.
You used to be able to change the volume on the TV or radio by…(drum roll…)–just turning a knob. So easy, intuitive, hassle free.
Now you have to first look for your glasses so you can read the tiny icons, then locate and press the correct button and hold it, or press it repeatedly. And instead of a smooth, half-second long twist of a knob, it takes 10 seconds for the volume to adjust by jumping in increments, while the whole time, a graphic bar obscures the screen.
Never mind previously post. Should read the whole thread before posting. . . . how many times is it gonna take . . .:smack:
What I hate about modern technology is that all of the power buttons, the on/off switches are fake.
If I have a problem and I want to cut the power to any device I should be able to hit the on/off and immediately cut power to the thing. What I get is several seconds of “shutting down” or a similar message. Saving, syncing, getting just about ready to eventually turn myself off. Fuck you device!
The on/off button should not be a suggestion that I would like to turn it off in the near future, it should be a power cut-off that is right now.
I do not care what the ramifications are, I want that option. I will live with my decision to turn the damn thing off too soon and the developers of these devices should adapt their systems.
I have my home base PC and printer plugged into a surge protector that is built into the computer desk so that I can hit the big red button if needed, say malware is being downloaded. Make your device recoverable, don’t make me have to sit through your shut down procedure!
But the on/off switches for my iPod, Note 3, laptop, etc. are all just a bullshit of fictional buttons.
Every time I try to play a DVD it’s the same dance. Press the “open tray” button. Nothing happens. Wait a second and press it again. Nothing happens. Wait, is this thing even on? Press the “power button”–really the standby button, nothing has real power buttons nowadays. Nothing happens. Press it again. Nothing happens. And then the tray spastically ejects, then retracts, and the system goes into standby. Then I have to wait a few seconds, press the power button again, wait for the fucking thing to boot up again for 15 seconds, then press the eject button. Now I can finally put in the DVD.
Lack of standardization in all of the fancy technical interfaces we have in public places.
This causes what I call a “novelty mismatch” between newbies and old-hands, causing new users to be frustrated while the old hands grumble behind them.
Example: Go ride the subway in NY or DC. You will need to figure out their fare system and figure out where you can buy a card. In NY you can use cash only in some places and credit in others. But you will have a line of irate folks behind you wondering why the idiots always are in front of them.
Example 2: Card readers at supermarket checkouts. The cashier rolls her eyes as you stumble through the buttons on their card reader, because it is all so obvious to her. But you just used five entirely different readers at five different stores, so who can blame you for not being a pro?
One time I kept hitting the wrong button because the manufacturer had printed the labels *between *the buttons instead of on them, meaning you had to scan the whole layout to see if they labels were above the button or below the button.
The worst I’ve seen is a toaster that beeps when the toast is ready. Loudly. Six times. Not good when everuone else is sleeping.