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Yesterday I accidentally learned that you can reposition the closed captions on YouTube videos. I waa at the Smartboard talking about how the cursor and my finger were a couple of inches apart, and I accidentally dragged the captions of a YouTube video that we were watching.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

My entire tech career.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That if I touch myself down there I feel funny. Haven't stopped since

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

And if I use my down there to touch someone elses down there it feels even funnier

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

my cat keeps finding new Windows features anytime he walks across my keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I do the same when wiping my phone. Some time ago I wiped it carfully and suddenly all the colors changed until i tapped the screen again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A ton of stuff. One that I figured out by myself and not many people seem to know is that in most softwares you can triple click on a word to select a full paragraph of text (double click selects the word). It works on code editors and IDEs as well, to select one line of code.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I have also discovered that accidentally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

On Google maps, you can zoom in and out with just your thumb by double tap+hold and then moving your thumb up and down

[–] Still 4 points 11 months ago

that's a feature of image viewers as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Whoah ! Nice.Thanks for that info

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was looking at someone's photos on an iPhone and we both discovered you could cut parts of the image out with a long press and drag (IIRC.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You can make them into stickers and put them into messages, can even have them moving. That stuff was an advertised feature though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So many things that it's hard to think of just one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I learnt (the hard way):

  • There are electrified fences
  • You don't learn to wheelie while clipped in
  • Some dogs shouldn't be touched
  • Binging on sugar free candy will keep you close to the toilet.

Just recently I found out that my new razer mouse can enable/disable scroll wheel indexation by pressing the small button next to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm a mechanic in a factory and maybe 1/10 calls I get starts with "what the fuck is that?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That you can rotate your entire screen by 180° on Windows. I forget the shortcut key but I did panic a little when it happened the first time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Control + shift + down arrow key I think, it was the peak of comedy in our secondary school IT classes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is there a need for this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some people like to rotate their monitor to fit more text on the screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My monitor is 9:16 so I can scroll tic-tok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That I can change the cursor position when typing by sliding left and right on the space bar (key?)

And also if you long press the enter key it brings up a shortcut for emojis/gifs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On iOS you can also move up and down between lines and select text with the spacebar (hold space, tap on keyboard somewhere else with another finger, drag space to select).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Neat for ios users!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A multimeter in amp mode acts the same as a regular wire. So you can use the probes as a means to generate a signal. If there is a god, and it is an engineer, then I am probably going to hell for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can hold down spacebar or left click to fast forward thru a YouTube video!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can do the same thing on tiktok. Hold near the left side of the screen, and it’ll play at 2x speed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

that x marks it