What's a button you hate tapping or clicking accidentally?

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.

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
- Yes. Urge to kill RISING!
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.
I get this on the web interface of my 3D print server. Occasionally come back in a few hours having printed the wrong file…
This drives me crazy.

C instead of V when I try to paste something... Like I've got something copied and I accidentally hit Ctrl+C again, instead Ctrl+V and now I have to go copy the thing I want to copy again (and then proceed to missclick again, it's a never ending cycle)

Use Windows key+v. It will show you all recently copied text
- well shit TIL, thanks
get a clipboard manager app

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

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

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

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

For me it's "v".

IfvI'mvnotvcarefulvIvgetvthis.
For me it’s the . In the browser on iOS. The spacebar shrinks and gives space to the . button that I then constantly hit by accident
Also, the P and M keys when I mean to hit backspace (I use an AZERTY so the M is at the end of the second row right next to L P and backspace). It's like aah I want to delete the last character not have more Ps and Ms thrown after it !
I've been thinking for like 10 years that phones should have calibration functions specifically for the keyboard.

I have big hands, I am talking about palm a basketball sized hands. This makes it nearly impossible for me to ever hit the letter I think I'm hitting. Surely there's enough computing power available now to figure this out.

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.

Yeah, I got annoyed enough at this that I remapped it to ;.
- I've had drop item on P for a decade now for the same reason
Nothing like throwing your upgraded diamond sword, into your mob farm. Especially if you haven't put in the droppers.

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

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.
oh man this actually pisses me of so much. I've been using the swiftkey keyboard long before it was bought by Microsoft, back when it was a paid app, and I swear it has gotten significantly worse at word prediction , key detection, and swipe accuracy.

I'm finding that I have to type letter by letter if I want any kind of garuntee that it will choose the right words. Swipe has become a waste of time because I am constantly going back to fix words it got wrong. And B instead of space is a constant!

F1 (in Windows)

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.

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

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

Why not use space for pause? I never use k.
- Way to often the player is not in focus (mostly after alt tabbing) and space bar scrolls me one page down. Now I have to scroll up again and klick into the picture. Infuriates me just thinking about it.
- Because I use j and L for back and forwards 10 seconds, so I might as well use k for pause and resume given its in the middle. Also often space will just scroll down the page, like how up and down arrows sometimes do volume and sometimes scroll.

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

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.

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.

I always remap it to be an additional super key so it has an actual purpose and I can more easily use keyboard with no windows key.
- It's an ESC key for me personally. Some of my friends with the fancy schmancy keyboards have it so that holding that button down gives their keyboard an additional layer. Like, holding that down will make J/K/L/I work as arrow keys, something like that.

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.

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.

Going for tab and hit caps lock

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.

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.

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

I'm always so scared about this after having it happen exactly once. Even worse when you hit video call.

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

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.

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.

Undo closed tab is Ctrl + Shift + T in most browsers!
- Doesn't always prevent Consequences - youtube is hilariously bad at remembering where you actually were in a video, for example.

The share button on a porn site.

When I got my mouse, it was so sensitive that I couldn't rest my pointer finger lest I accidentally click. Had to take the mouse apart and put some rubber pieces under it to reduce the sensitivity. Razer Deathadder V2. Works amazingly well after that mod.

Also I use the MessagEase keyboard on my phone and I'm constantly hitting spacebar when I meant to hit 'E'.

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

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.

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

Nuclear missile launch button. Luckily it has a cover you have to pull first! Haha.

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.

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

For me, it’s any button my dog hits when he steps on my PS5 controller while I’m watching TV. ANY button.

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

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

The share button on any porn site.

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.

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).

Not specifically a button but I swear if I'm not looking at my phone playing something for audio on YouTube, the lightest touch anywhere on the screen just so happens to be where the ad is.

A common one is # or + while trying to hit Enter. Also annoying is Caps Lock instead of Shift.

First thing I do with every new keyboard, at home or at work, is literally remove the CAPS LOCK key and throw it in the garbage.

Yes I know that there is software solutions, but it's just easier this way, especially when I don't necessarily have admin privileges

For work i have to compress files together for submissions and on Mac the compress option is right above the duplicate option, not all the time but enough times to piss me off I end up duplicating the files instead of compressing them.

Can we stop opening help webpages each time i accidentally press F1 instead of esc? Pretty please?

I cant remember if it's Facebook messenger or WhatsApp as I don't use either that often, but one of them has a button on the keyboard to send like animated images or something and it's so easy to hit that button and then select an image but the problem is that it doesn't add it to a message which you then have to send, it just sends it straight away. I've sent some really inappropriate things to people I hardly know as a result, and I don't feel like the attempt at an explanation helps.

The back button of my tablet.

if I slide my finger from the letter "q" on phone keyboard to bottom right, it's an ESC.

some apps register that and sometimes leaves the whole page where it was

Kaepora Gaepora goes: "Did you get all that?" and you just smash A and answer "No"

One eternity later...