Cousin Mose

It’s faster? For me it’s a lot faster to hit the share sheet and send a URL than it is to screw around with a screenshot (which is also larger and takes longer to send when using a slow VPN).

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 screenshot instead of sending a link. I don’t want to see your crusty shitphone or Windows UI, thank you very much.

Or, as a web developer: users who take a screenshot of a problem but completely exclude the URL and/or any other identifier I’d need to actually find the relevant record(s) so I can hope to reproduce the problem and find its cause.

Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:

1. Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
2. Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
3. The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
4. The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
5. Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store

Happy I don’t need to swap .docx files anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.

And on macOS people not understanding that just because all the windows of an application are closed it doesn’t mean it’s not running.

I actually love this design because there’s no need for a window to be there while playing music for example.

Back when I’d fix people’s Windows machines the first thing I usually did was run a standalone VNC server and put that shit on Ethernet. I don’t want to touch your nasty Cheetos keys.

IT deploying the shit hole GlobalProtect instead of a “real” macOS .mobileconfig that can run as an actual service and be on 24/7. Also IT not black holing IPv6 on the VPN (since they don’t want to support it) causing all the traffic to leak outside the tunnel.

…at a software development company.

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I came to say the same because the spoon sounds like a bigger problem than using fingers.

As a person in that demographic it’s wild to me that leftism isn’t appealing… we’re supposed to just blame everything on everyone but ourselves I suppose?

I feel you. My first jobs were in fast food, then Walmart, then warehouse jobs after that. So even though I’m a web developer now I still have that eternal frustration with people moving too slow.

What I always thought to be my first memory. I explained it to my mother and she said she only lived in the place I described for the first six months of my life.

I always thought it was fake because I thought it was impossible to have memories that early on in life.

That kind of phrasing always seems they assume that not believing is the same as rejecting and therefore you too believe in the existence of God/god.

They just completely miss the point.

I live in Los Angeles and I’d say that people being completely unaware of their surroundings and other people.

People don’t move out of the way unless you confront them with a loud “excuse me” and that’s a gamble because they might try to start shit with you.

While driving people don’t move to the rightmost part of the street to get out of the way while making a right turn despite the right lane (usually) being super wide to allow for flowing traffic.

When ordering at a food establishment, people don’t decide what to order before/during the time they’re in line. Instead, everyone looks kind of annoyed that it’s taking so long but once they reach the counter it’s their turn to leisurely browse the menu, ask stupid questions, etc and hold up the line.

My motto is “don’t these people have anywhere to be? Anything to do?” I’m originally from the Midwest so it’s weird to me that people move this slow and act so clueless in an urban environment.

This is tough, because I used to be there but I kind of grew out of. I just started drinking tons of water all the time and now if when I get thirsty I just crave water.

I do drink two iced pour over coffees in the mornings though. They seem to keep me going for most the day caffeine-wise, so that’s helped a bunch too.

Ha, me too! That’s exactly what I do!

I find it embarrassing to carry fast food (or any restaurant food that isn’t considered healthy) from my car to my apartment.

I work from home and my neighbors know that. I don’t get out much and don’t really eat out often either but I don’t want to be the guy that’s seen as carrying tons of premade food back home.

I know it’s rather silly.