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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by tokamak-teapot »

js2 wrote: post #88
miah_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).

Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

Lots of old documents with rules about writing ridiculously large parts of them in ALL CAPS. For no reason at all, that I can determine.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by not1ofU »

johnsoft wrote: post #92
formerly_proven wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Del…

I think I've had this happen too. My fix is win+l to logout, then log back in.

Doesn't Win+L lock the screen?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by mst »

mrguyorama wrote: post #75
mst wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A non-zero number of websites have followed web twitter in making '?' produce a hotkey display. Naturally tumblr isn't one of them.

Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?

In the case of twitter, because it's documented along with all of the other shortcuts in the documentation: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet

They have rather more docs than you'd expect, the big problem seems to be that nobody expects them to have useful documentation so it often doesn't occur to us to look - hence why I figured it was worth posting it for people who didn't know about it yet.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dbatten »

Rd6n6 wrote: post #99
dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

Button presses are often handled by state machines at a driver level so that a single “press” only registers as a single press. Otherwise, it will register as a lot of presses because the physical switches bounce on contact. They call this debouncing. Probably, a drivers state machine did not transition out

This doesn't seem to explain how it would happen after plugging in a new keyboard, or trying to use the on-screen keyboard, though...

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by ctraynor »

formerly_proven wrote: post #54
dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Del…

The reason why this will fix it is because Ctrl+Alt+Delete has a higher level of system interrupt than alternate ways to get to task manager. Ctrl+Alt+Delete fixes a surprising number of issues by interrupting runaway issues.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by jandrese »

kps wrote: post #52
drcongo wrote: post #28

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And most of them don't check to see if the user is also holding down a modifier key, thereby overriding your system keyboard shortcuts. Yes. I _am_ looking at you Google Spreadsheets.

Firefox used to not send those to the site js; I think that broke with the Quantum update. Just one of its thousand cuts.

I'm sure that was a "bugfix" where someone complained that website required you to hit CTRL-Q to navigate or something and the browser was consuming the key. Have to make it work like Chrome.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by treeman79 »

atribecalledqst wrote: post #41
dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

You can get into a similar state on MacOS by pressing a key multiple times in a row (option I think). It just quietly disables a large number of keys. I figured it out by accident one day because I assigned the key as my "push to talk" on Discord. That was a fun hour trying to figure out what had happened.

Remote learning with a 1st grader showed me just how many ways a computer can get screwed up by random impresses.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by black_puppydog »

I feel like in a thread like this, Asana deserves a shout-out for utterly fucking up the UX in any firefox version I've tried, up to and including nightly.

Typing in the various text input fields has ~1s of lag. It's a TEXT FIELD for fuck's sake!

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by jandrese »

evanelias wrote: post #60
pjc50 wrote: post #37

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There were a huge number of users. It was only after it sold that Yahoo realised how many of them were using it for porn, which in retrospect should have been obvious: it's an image hosting site.

No, the percentage of porn content was actually relatively small at the time of the sale. Low to mid single digits if my memory is correct. During Tumblr's peak heyday (~9 months before the sale iirc), Tumblr's daily posting volume was around 1/5th the size of Twitter's at the time. Keeping in mind that Tumblr had no character limit and much greater multimedia support, the amount of content being posted on Tumblr was…

The thing that drove me crazy about Tumblr is how you would find a post with some interesting content and scroll down to see if there was any more information about it.

The comment section would be thousands of lines long, but every line was something like:

    User blahblah reblogged this!

    User whatever likes this post.

    User someone reblogged this!
You can't hold a discussion when your own system spams the comment section with irrelevant crap like this.

There was also the meme of the "shitty Tumblr gif" thanks to their fairly low image size limits.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

black_puppydog wrote: post #108

I feel like in a thread like this, Asana deserves a shout-out for utterly fucking up the UX in any firefox version I've tried, up to and including nightly. Typing in the various text input fields has ~1s of lag. It's a TEXT FIELD for fuck's sake!

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