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A bug which affected only left handed users

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Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by nomel »

recursive wrote: post #14
gpvos wrote: post #12

I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

If you have an iPhone, enabling reachability is very nice [1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by mikestew »

w-ll wrote: post #32
mikestew wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis… You, me, and my wife. I’m just waiting for my phone to hit 79% battery health so I can take them both in for battery replacement. It’s gotten to the point that I frequently get asked, “what phone is that”. I imagine because all phones are the size of aircraft carriers now, and an iPhone Mini really stands out.

Will the do a batter replacement for a 13mini? i just cracked my last new-in-box fore battery issues.

If you have Apple Care, I assume Apple will. They’ve done it before, but not on something this old. If not, there’s always DIY or 3rd-party.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by elesiuta »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #36
recursive wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

I have a regular pixel 10, and I can palm a basketball. But I can't use this phone one handed.

Same here, I suspect the majority of people with average to small hands could never really one hand phones (with a good enough screen size) in the first place so it makes less difference to them.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by nitwit005 »

nja wrote: post #9
sixhobbits wrote: post #3

something similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen to scroll.

sometimes I wonder if things like this are actually dark patterns to _encourage_ accidentally clicking 'like' etc. similar to how in Threads, the '...' icon (under which 'save' is hidden) is so small that half the time clicking on it just clicks the entire thread (opening it to view replies) -- sometimes I suspect they make the target extra small on purpose or how on FB, some of the options in the menu are now under…

Making bad assumptions about data seems more likely than deliberate malice. If you A/B test different designs, and you see a huge increase in "interactions" with some design, you'll tend to assume that's a positive thing, unless you spend the time to interview a lot of customers to figure out what's going on.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by sapphicsnail »

naikrovek wrote: post #40

As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely. I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see. So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people…

I'm sorry it upset you. I thought it was funny but I'm also younger and I think I escaped most of the dextrocentric bullshit my parents' generation had to deal with. My mom was forced to use her right hand but it was mostly just an inconvenience for me. I like making jokes about being sinister (literally the Latin word for left) but I'd probably feel differently if people smacked me over it.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by what »

lostlogin wrote: post #37
IncreasePosts wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a regular pixel 10, and I can palm a basketball. But I can't use this phone one handed.

I’m 196cm tall and can’t use one handed. It is ridiculous. Bring back normal sized iPhones.

Why do you mention your height but not the size of your hands? Maybe you just have small hands?

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by what »

naikrovek wrote: post #40

As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely. I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see. So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people…

Can you elaborate on this “right handed bias”? I can’t think of anything other than a can opener where it might matter?

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by csande17 »

what wrote: post #49
naikrovek wrote: post #40

As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely. I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see. So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people…

Can you elaborate on this “right handed bias”? I can’t think of anything other than a can opener where it might matter?

Scissors are the other big one; most of them are designed so that when to try to use them with your left hand, you end up pushing the blades apart slightly so they don't cut as well (or at all).

With that being said, self-deprecating jokes about how left-handedness is an affront to God are definitely a prominent feature of lefty culture.

(Edit: I guess formal place-setting is another area of society that assumes right-handedness, as well as restaurants that pack people close enough together that everyone needs to use the same hands to avoid elbowing each other.)

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