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[?]diesUndDasMitTassen 🇺🇦 » 🌐
@Andreas_Sturm@mastodon.social

Musste gerade Windows 11 auf einer virtuellen Maschine nutzen, aus Gründen, es war ein komisches Gefüh - was macht es, macht es noch was, was soll das jetzt, auf was wartet es, warum tut sich nix, wieso ist das so umständlich 😂 wie schnell man sich an was Besseres gewöhnt hat. Beim Arbeitgeber erwarte ich diese komische Software und grausliche experience, aber sobald ich einen privaten Rechner einschalte, erwarte ich ein funktionales OS mit Performance.

    [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
    @jwcph@helvede.net

    RE: mastodon.online/@chessert/1169

    I do wish the bar was higher, though.

    Like, yes, LO is better but it's still riddled with MS legacy nonsense, like having to perform explicitly visual editing in several-click-deep popups with no preview, utterly unmanageable bullet lists, layouts etc. We know it can be done better because every single word processor that doesn't cleave to Word does.

    - and yes, familiarity lowers switching friction but again, I just wish...

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      [?]Sophie » 🌐
      @labellaragassa@exquisite.social

      Mensen, ik ben nooit zo blij geweest.

      Na een lange zoektocht heb ik een nieuwe WC-bril. Moeilijkheden bij het zoeken naar een nieuwe:

      * moest D-vorm zijn
      * afstand tussen schroefgaten (voor montage) moest 27 cm zijn.
      * vastschroeven moest van bovenaf gebeuren

      Veel webshops gaven maten niet aan bij WC-brillen (spoiler: universeel is echt niet universeel als het niet overaal past) of dat vastschroeven van bovenaf gebeurd. Veel hadden ook geen werktekeningen van de fabrikant waar de maten op stonden.

      Niet makkelijk, maar het is gelukt.

      Er zit hier een les voor usability en accessibility voor webshops. Zet overal de maten bij. Een tekening met de maten. Dat zoekt zoveel makkelijker.

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        [?]Robert Kingett » 🌐
        @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

        I'm in one of those, a touch screen is the worst design ever made, moods. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me. I'm a pretty good typist but it took me thrice as long to compose one of my lengthy text messages asking a very important question, than when I used my PC to send an SMS message. Why did our generation believe typing on glass is cool. Nobody can type on glass. I'm a very skilled typist and it takes me nearly 10 minutes to fiddle with the awful latency on the keyboard running VoiceOver. Navigating the phone is better, somewhat, but Apple fucked up typing speed forever I feel and I am not even sure what they did.

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          [?]Santiago 🔭🪐 » 🌐
          @santiago@mastodon.uy

          Con GTK2 estaba todo tan bien... luego fue todo cuesta abajo

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            [?]Kroc Camen » 🌐
            @Kroc@oldbytes.space

            Lol, I can't draw lines across my screen any more because copied and broke autorepeat

            @kde

            A piece of code (the code itself is irrelevant), where I am trying to type a comment with a dividing bar by using lots of "=" signs and holding the key down now produces a pop-up menu with Unicode alternatives

            Alt...A piece of code (the code itself is irrelevant), where I am trying to type a comment with a dividing bar by using lots of "=" signs and holding the key down now produces a pop-up menu with Unicode alternatives

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              [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
              @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              RE: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri

              @thismarkp thanks!

              @pauamma equal thanks to you. I'm almost certain that it was you who tuned me in to the comparable menu usability issue long before the refresh.

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              [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
              @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              Pages such as <freebsd.org/community> can not be reached through the hamburger.

              When the hamburger menu is forced: the Community submenu can not load the Community page. Other submenu headings may be similarly bugged.

              Without the hamburger, with Community as a menu (not a submenu): a click on the menu item for Community does work.

              @thismarkp sorry for not noticing this sooner.

              Cc @pauamma only because I vaguely remembering you commenting about top level menu behaviours long ago (maybe three or four years ago in Bugzilla).

              Screenshot: the Community submenu in the hamburger menu. Clicking the submenu heading does not lead to the Community page.

              Alt...Screenshot: the Community submenu in the hamburger menu. Clicking the submenu heading does not lead to the Community page.

              Screenshot: without a hamburger menu, the Community menu with Community as an item within the menu.

              Alt...Screenshot: without a hamburger menu, the Community menu with Community as an item within the menu.

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                  [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
                  @jwcph@helvede.net

                  Welp - since search basically everywhere has turned into "I see your suggestion in my input field, but how about I show you a shitload of stuff entirely unrelated to it?" it just occurred to me that the young folks out there probably don't even realize that originally, a search field was for entering the thing you wanted to find *and then the engine would present you with that thing* if at all possible & if it wasn't, it would just tell you that.

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                    [?]joachim » 🌐
                    @joachim@drupal.community

                    Great I fucking hate it. idownloadblog.com/2024/07/01/h

                      [?]Karel 'Clock' K. » 🌐
                      @clock@net.miaumuh.ch

                      @_elena @cercle @palaisdetokyo @LeMuseum @imacrea Mastodon is doing everything to prevent me from doing what I want: expand a given post in a new tab:

                      1)CTRL-click wrongly overwrites current tab instead of opening a new one
                      2)CTRL-click on"Expand this post"in the"…"menu of the post wrongly overwrites current tab instead of opening a new one
                      3)When I try to work it around by duplicating the tab, the duplication takes ages and functions wrong - the position on the page is wrong, which causes data loss
                      4)When I try to work it around by CTRL-click and then CTRL-back, the CTRL-back takes ages and functions wrong - the position on the page is wrong, which causes data loss.

                      I feel contempt towards Mastodon when Mastodon is going out of its way in preventing me from using a standard browser semantics and all possible workarounds I can come up with. I perceive Mastodon as passive aggressive and obstructionist.

                        [?]Karel 'Clock' K. » 🌐
                        @clock@net.miaumuh.ch

                        @_elena @cercle @palaisdetokyo @LeMuseum @imacrea

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                          [?]Karel 'Clock' K. » 🌐
                          @clock@net.miaumuh.ch

                          I don't understand why so few people are using Linux. It's so amazing! For example for just 740 MB of your hard disk space, you can have the astronomical program Stellarium, which displays a blank screen and doesn't react to clicking anywhere.

                          blank screen

                          Alt...blank screen

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                            [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
                            @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            Not all users of FreeBSD agree that cohesiveness is a strength [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                            Quoting Will Orr @worr at <lobste.rs/s/f6wcbv/are_freebsd> (April 2025):

                            ＂… My impression as a user is that FreeBSD isn't concerned with providing a cohesive OS experience for end users. Other BSDs like OpenBSD (the other server OS I run), NetBSD, etc. are much more concerned with this.

                            One of the big examples has been talked about here: jails. There isn't a cohesive end user experience for jails in the base OS, instead you're given some of the low-level building blocks, and expected to build it yourself. There are a number of jail managers that work various degrees of ok. Another way this manifests is the 3 different firewalls they ship, with differing feature sets and ways of interacting with them. More debatable would be bhyve, in that the tools for it are quite low-level, and even the docs refer you to an example script for common operations.

                            The user experience pains around tools like these end up pushing people towards 3rd party tools, which kills a lot of the cohesiveness typical of other BSDs. That's not to say that low-level tools aren't useful, but there seems to be a huge gap between tools targeted towards end-users and what the OS provides out-of-the-box.＂

                            Cc @encthenet @david_chisnall @FreeBSDFoundation

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                              [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
                              @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              Pages such as <freebsd.org/community> can not be reached through the hamburger.

                              When the hamburger menu is forced: the Community submenu can not load the Community page. Other submenu headings may be similarly bugged.

                              Without the hamburger, with Community as a menu (not a submenu): a click on the menu item for Community does work.

                              @thismarkp sorry for not noticing this sooner.

                              Cc @pauamma only because I vaguely remembering you commenting about top level menu behaviours long ago (maybe three or four years ago in Bugzilla).

                              Screenshot: the Community submenu in the hamburger menu. Clicking the submenu heading does not lead to the Community page.

                              Alt...Screenshot: the Community submenu in the hamburger menu. Clicking the submenu heading does not lead to the Community page.

                              Screenshot: without a hamburger menu, the Community menu with Community as an item within the menu.

                              Alt...Screenshot: without a hamburger menu, the Community menu with Community as an item within the menu.

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                                [?]Pete Orrall » 🌐
                                @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                @rl_dane The big issue I have with is it's long-winded. Man, there is just so much typing for basic tasks. As cryptic as bash is at least it's succinct.

                                While I want to acknowledge 's efforts to bring shell scripting to the ecosystem, they definitely missed the point on , , and . It really seems like Microsoft abandoned while developing it.

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                                  [?]Luci “Milky Princess” Tea » 🌐
                                  @bri7@social.treehouse.systems

                                  list of possible button interactions:

                                  • push
                                  • double push (pushing twice rapidly)
                                  • tap (briefly touch without pushing)
                                  • double tap
                                  • half push (like on a camera shutter)
                                  • swipe (like an iphone)
                                  • twist (like a volume knob or pong paddle)
                                  • slide (like a mix deck or 3ds circle pad)
                                  • push until inverted, and the button is wrapped around your finger
                                  • wiggle finger inside button
                                  • gentle rhythmic wiggling
                                  • keep going.
                                  • don’t stop.
                                  • push your finger in deeper
                                  • that’s it
                                  • long push

                                  remember it’s not the size of your button, it’s the notion of your motion

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                                    [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
                                    @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    It took two years for me to realise that Snac has the ability to show replies.

                                    The obscure hamburger (⋯) that is sometimes in the footer area does not present a pointing finger cursor when pointed at.

                                    If you click whilst the I-beam cursor (⌶) is visible, replies appear.

                                    Screenshot: an I-beam cursor (⌶) over the obscure hamburger (⋯) above the last line of the footer in Snac.

                                    Alt...Screenshot: an I-beam cursor (⌶) over the obscure hamburger (⋯) above the last line of the footer in Snac.

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                                      [?]Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: » 🌐
                                      @markwyner@mas.to

                                      Sneak peek of a slide from the talk on accessibility that I’m giving next week.

                                      Please join us as @pdxa11yux hosts me at a local library here in Portland. I’ll do my best to educate and entertain you. And if they let your dog in with you, I’ll pet it.

                                      pdxa11yux.org/events/2026/05/2

                                      Graphical text that reads “alt text is for people, not capitalism.”

                                      Alt...Graphical text that reads “alt text is for people, not capitalism.”

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                                        [?]abadidea » 🌐
                                        @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                        a new frontier in baffling interface design has opened.

                                        a five-star-rating display, except the half-star of four and a half stars is in the middle

                                        Alt...a five-star-rating display, except the half-star of four and a half stars is in the middle

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                                          [?]Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) » 🌐
                                          @nekohayo@mastodon.social

                                          If you've been testing GTK/libadwaita applications on a touchscreen and experienced difficulty pasting text using only the touchscreen, I believe I have now filed the bug report you are looking for: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/i

                                          Alt...A video showing my struggle to paste text using touchscreen input into GTK Entry widgets or libadwaita AdwEntryRow widgets. It only works when precisely hitting the existing blinking text cursor at the edge of the widget.

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                                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                            @abucci@buc.ci

                                            The typical webapp login process for me is anywhere from 5 to 7 steps, and I'd say I give up about 5-10% of the time after the 2nd CAPTCHA. I can't imagine this is good for anybody, and it almost surely does not reduce abuse either. Just a swirling dark pattern feeding on itself. Everyone likes to ape post-9/11 airport "security" for some reason.


                                              [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
                                              @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                                              @dan

                                              Little kids: the final boss of testing.

                                              @itgrrl @ricci

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                                                [?]Chris Mackay 🇨🇦🐈🐈 » 🌐
                                                @tantramar@zeroes.ca

                                                Something virtually no social media service/app has ever gotten right is a solution to I-just-saw-something-a-few-seconds-ago-but-I-scrolled-by-it-and-now-it’s-gone-forever.

                                                Search can seemingly never be scoped to “last 500 posts in my feed” or “posted in the last 5 hours” or “only posted/boosted by accounts I follow”.

                                                It must be a much harder problem than I imagine (“Dammit, Jim; I’m a web designer, not a programmer”) — and I’m all too well aware that “just” is a 4-letter word — but I’d use a feature like this daily.

                                                  [?]Scott Jenson » 🌐
                                                  @scottjenson@social.coop

                                                  I think I've found the world's most unambiguous salt and pepper shakers

                                                  A pair of salt and pepper shakers that are shockingly unambiguous. There is an s and p set of holes stamped in the top. They are black and white and they are even labeled salt and pepper

                                                  Alt...A pair of salt and pepper shakers that are shockingly unambiguous. There is an s and p set of holes stamped in the top. They are black and white and they are even labeled salt and pepper

                                                    [?]itgrrl :donor: » 🌐
                                                    @itgrrl@infosec.exchange

                                                    from the folks who brought us … I see that has updated the app and now it takes an extra tap to see what app updates are available – great job with the there Apple, no notes^ 👏👏👏
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                    ^ I do, in fact, have so. many. notes… 😩

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                                                      [?]🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth » 🌐
                                                      @dazo@infosec.exchange

                                                      Looked at some "task/todo manager" and came across

                                                      zanshin.kde.org/

                                                      I think they lost their way in regards to what "simple" means ...

                                                      With "simple", this is what I would expect: extensions.gnome.org/extension

                                                      «ZANSHIN: A POWERFUL YET SIMPLE APPLICATION TO MANAGE YOUR DAY TO DAY ACTIONS, GETTING YOUR MIND LIKE WATER.» Sounds good ...

                                                      Alt...«ZANSHIN: A POWERFUL YET SIMPLE APPLICATION TO MANAGE YOUR DAY TO DAY ACTIONS, GETTING YOUR MIND LIKE WATER.» Sounds good ...

                                                      ... but simple application!?! ... Screenshot is of a GUI application with 4 panes with various settings, for task filtering and data sources of tasks. On top of these panes, there are 7 buttons with various functionality.

                                                      Alt...... but simple application!?! ... Screenshot is of a GUI application with 4 panes with various settings, for task filtering and data sources of tasks. On top of these panes, there are 7 buttons with various functionality.

                                                        [?]Scott Jenson » 🌐
                                                        @scottjenson@social.coop

                                                        Is becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

                                                        I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

                                                        Post from @carnage4life showing how their followers are growing on threads/Bluesky but falling on Mastodon.

                                                        Alt...Post from @carnage4life showing how their followers are growing on threads/Bluesky but falling on Mastodon.

                                                          [?]Scott Jenson » 🌐
                                                          @scottjenson@social.coop

                                                          Is becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

                                                          I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

                                                          Post from @carnage4life showing how their followers are growing on threads/Bluesky but falling on Mastodon.

                                                          Alt...Post from @carnage4life showing how their followers are growing on threads/Bluesky but falling on Mastodon.

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                                                            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                            I start my modern car (2023) that's been sitting for about ten days. The very first thing it does is demand a software update, which fails because the battery is "too low". After driving it to charge, it finally starts the update (locking me out of the car for 30 minutes, completely unusable). Once it's done, the dashboard becomes "more modern" - which basically means it's worse and cluttered with useless information.

                                                            Then, I start the old car (2007) that's been parked for MONTHS. It spits out some smelly exhaust, makes a weird noise for a few seconds, and goes: "Let's go, I need to stretch my 'legs'."

                                                            I take it to the car wash. A guy there with a brand-new Chinese car takes a look and asks me about it. I tell him it's from 2007.
                                                            He peers inside the cabin and asks about the "infotainment" setup, since he "can't see the screen".
                                                            I calmly explain that it has a CD player, it even reads MP3s, and it has an Aux-in: I just plug my phone in with a cable and that's it.

                                                            He looked at me like I was an alien. Or an ancient Roman. How on earth do I survive without a screen always available, and having to actually plug in a physical cable every time? Crazy!

                                                              [?]@RonSupportsYou » 🌐
                                                              @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social

                                                              People who work at @Mastodon recently revised and screwed up our home pages. Before @Mastodon staff made our home pages worse, it was easy to go to my home page, click on Replies, and see the replies that I sent. After they made their unfortunate changes, I do not know how to find the most recent reply that I wrote. It could be impossible to find, now that @Mastodon staff made a good thing much worse.

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                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting "AI" buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.


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