Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

"ne" presses enter for netflix.com

"l" presses enter for lemmy.world

Auto completing urls are so fast.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I accidentally used chrome the other day.

Tried to go to Gmail with "gm" enter.

No autocomplete, just a Google search.

Almost went to the General Motors website.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Even better, save specific search engines with shortcut codes: type 'w' + , start typing to search on Wikipedia.

[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It’s a level of hell to watch other people continue to type out the full URL while the auto complete is already there, until they make that one typo towards the end and hit enter before you had a chance to tell them.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Truth, but it's three more key presses when I can just click the bookmark under the address bar instead of clicking the address bar. Takes you three times longer!

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk dude, I feel like there is more wrist movement involved in mouse control than typing.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I fucking hate the death of keyboard shortcuts and not being able to reliably tab through fields. Particularly in UIs designed for data entry.

All our patient care reporting software has gone to a touch-screen centric UI ... when half the fields still require typing information in.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago

I still find myself tabbing while signing in but it almost never works.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're like me with folders, sub folders, and sub sub folders of bookmarks. Sometimes it's easier to just search. It would be great if I can do a search within my bookmarks!

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Firefox can search your bookmarks. I'd be surprised if another browser couldn't, but it probably isn't as easy as just using the address bar

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I was only joking but you're right, this is already a thing, for Chrome too. TIL.

For any Chrome users here, type @bookmarks before your search in the address bar.