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.

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [+] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    The "Post" button on Lemmy before I finished writing my c

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    ads. I have literally never clicked on an advertisement on purpose.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    When trying to hit the full screen button on YouTube and I accidentally hit the progress bar and it skips to the end of the video

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The N key on my phone keyboard. I'm constantly hitting it when I meant to hit Space. So frustrating.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I, because on youtube that takes me to picture in picture mode and I've literally never wanted it, but it's right about k which is pause/unpause

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why not use space for pause? I never use k.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I always hit the fucking emoji button instead of the number switch button, and I almost never use emojis but my brain doesn’t want me to change it

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    When I hitbthe B button instead of spacebar on my tiny, touchscreen cell phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    For me it's the period next to the spacebar. I think my right thumb comes down at just the wrong angle to touch both at the same time. One of these days maybe I'll wise up and change the layout.... but not today.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    numlock. i never use my numpad as anything but a way to type in 2FA codes, and when nothing happens, i get really confused.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The button on my mouse that changes the sensitivity. It's right on top between the left and right buttons, so it happens quite frequently. Maybe I should finally figure out if I can disable it in settings somewhere, but then I'll need to change sensitivity for some reason.

    Also, when I swipe back on Android and it takes me to the home screen, closing the app. When I swipe back on purpose I don't even want to go back to the home screen, usually just the top of the app, or clear route etc. from Google Maps, but it's even worse when I accidentally swipe. Whoever made that design choice deserves a kick in the groin. That is like the most single annoying thing about Android I can think of.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Caps Lock key. I hate it so much that I took it off my keyboard completely. Been that way for over 6mths now. Love it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Steam Big Picture mode.

    Its right there right next to large mode, which you need to use to browse the store.

    and every time, I hit big picture mode instead.

    and have to sit through the stupid animation, then try to remember how to put it back in regular mode.

    and I dont understand why they cant give us an option to disable big picture mode. Its only useful for a niche minority of users, let them have it without becoming a headache for the rest of us.

    and make steam remember fucking window sizes and positions while you''re at it, fucking valve. every goddamn steam update just makes the performance and usability worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Going for tab and hit caps lock

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    My oven has capacitive touch buttons for the clock and timer. They're really sensitive, and they sometimes trigger even for skin underneath clothing. So sometines when I lean against it while using the stove top, I accidentally set a timer with my penis.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I hate it with a passion when my phone wakes up the screen and starts pressing random buttons on the media player on hot summer days when I start sweating. I have to turn the phone around in my pocket but I'm always conscious about bumping into anything destroying the screen

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You'd think the chance of accidentally clicking Close on a browser tab would be fairly low, right? Not low enough.

    I've also forgotten which application had focus and terminated it, which is a great way to feel like a fucking idiot.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The „unmute“ button on redgif when it then just takes me to redgif itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Discord voice call just tap the name and tap the call button once in a blue moon.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've hit the spacebar in Baldurs Gate 3 during combat (ends the current turn) way too many times.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The button on my stylus. I'm trying to draw and this menu pops up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The share button on a porn site.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The Insert key in a keyboard. I hit it all the time when I use End, Home, or Delete. I finally pulled the button from my keyboard.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    When I'm playing Minecraft and the youngest cat wants attention, she always steps on my keyboard number pad and disables my mini-map. 😒

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ctrl + Q (close window) in my browser instead of Ctrl + W (close tab)

    Similarly, Ctrl + R when Discord has focus (when I thought Firefox was focused instead).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Lol, I've never heard of anyone clears the storage by a mistake.

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