- Any user input should take top priority over anything. I don't want to wait for your 50 banner and ads to load to click the thing I already know I want. If I opened a program or clicked a link I don't want, I want to be able to leave even before its wasted more time loading the thing I don't want. And holy shit, those tutorial popups that explain features that you can't click out of, and have to click through all the prompts to start using the fucking program, made way worse if you went there by accident and are now stuck.
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I feel this.
I've visited websites of legitimate companies that I want to support, but as I'm looking to spend my money I get punched in the face with subscription popups.
If disrespecting me is the first thing you do when I visit your website, I can't give you my money. It's that simple.
And paid apps that beg you to review their app, no matter how many fucking goddamn times you've closed that popup, is a punch in the dick.
I hate 5. there's nothing worse than clicking on a page, clicking a button and the split second before you click it the page inexplicably moves 2 inches up or down causing you to click something else
YouTube is terrible at this for me, I'll open a video go to click full screen and right at that moment all the sidebar videos popup and the whole video window shifts left and I end up clicking on another video entirely. This happens to me at least 5 times a week.
YouTube as a site is just terribly designed imo. i miss the olden days of YouTube back when videos were rated with stars and everyone could customise their channel font, layout, background colour etc
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5 is worst on websites, but "adaptive UX" apps do this, too. It's a crime.
4 is trivially fixed, for many Linux WMs. Here's for KDE. It's less trivial for xfce, but possible. Here's how to do it in i3 (this is as simple as any configuration in i3).
3 is clearly satire, and a very real and valid condemnation about modern web page design. Use Hugo (or similar) and pick a lightweight theme: there are several nice looking ones that specifically exclude JavaScript, which is the main culprit.
1 is such. A. Pain. Sure, if you use KDE or mconnect and the KDE app on Android, it's easy. The Device Connect app works really well. Apple to Apple is trivial. But arbitrary device to arbitrary device? The problem is that there's no standard championed by anyone. Apple is not interested in pushing their protocol: they have a vested interest in making all other devices a PITA so people are encouraged to buy into the Apple ecosystem. Google has been oddly inactive about it. Samsung does the same thing Apple does. We have the Wormhole protocol which is fantastic, but not even the main Linux desktops have built-in support; c.f. KDE Connect.
python3 -m http.server
It's the only way I can send anything to my old iPad. Aside from straight up using some cloud service ofc. This is much faster tho.
may i introduce you to LocalSend? Works on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone/iPad; its FOSS, and uses a REST API and HTTPS encryption. It even has a portable mode, i use it in our Windows/Linux/Android/Steamdeck home and it works flawless and fast.
edit: Didn't see that it was already recommended below, lol. but no harm done, localsend is really a great tool for any network, especially with mixed os clients
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#1 - kdeconnect. Plus several other cool features on it
Or sshfs between computers
OK. Now tell me how I do it when I want to send it between a phone and a laptop tethered to that phone via hotspot.
Honestly? Hardwire is the only way I've found to always consistently transfer files like this, to this very day
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5 is infuriating, especially if the site engages in fuckery like putting an ad under where the desired click disappeared from, so the user ends up clicking the ad.
the chaotic neutral for #1 is making a torrent and leeching off of youself
autofellatio
But how do I send the torrent file to the other device?
uhhhhh
make it a torrent
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i was going to say, your missing one finding a job in cs.
isn't 4 expected behavior? if i open an application i expect it to be focused when it opens
True, but so many applications open more than once. They open a window that is just a logo, then 5 sec later a window with a loading bar, then finaly the actual application. And each time they steal the focus. Fuck that!
Logitech software that wont register my games keybinds unless I open it to spend 3 minutes loading and then hides my game while I'm frantically trying not to die from my lack of utility keybinds
If you open an application, yes. What if another application does?
Or what if you want to open an application that takes like a minute to load like Discord or photo editing software or CAD software, and want to do things while the splash screen is there and loading still?
Steam steals focus like 5 times during launch.
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I still remember when my 386 had 4MB of RAM, and I didn't have a math coprocessor.
And I could still get online.
I was going to write that I'm old. But, no, I'm not that old.
Google maps when Android auto detects music moves all the buttons up out of their usual place but it's slightly delayed. Most dangerous #5 I've encountered.
Dark patterns. All 5. Problem solved
Hello from programming.dev. Yes. This is correct.
Hi :3
- Syncthing, Localsend, Firefox Send, Cloud drives
- Any download manager out there (Gopeed, Motrix. JDownloader, XDM, etc.)
- Vanilla JS, uglification, minification.
- Configure it in the settings of your desired DE
- Remove timer to move button or delay it more.
- Is probably CLS, and that's up to the website maintainer to fix
I would guess they're a Windows user based on 2 and 1. wget -c works for continuing downloads, and transferring files is trivial with sftp.
Fun fact we download things with browsers and not always wget also not everyone has an open port.
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