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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 81 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Nah, that’s merely “Heck.” In Hell you use a TV remote.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, in hell its answering Captchas that can't be answered:

"To get out of hell and go to heaven, simply click on the fruit pictured that has the same weight as mathmatics"

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The worst circle of hell is just normal Captchas.

Click verify once no pictures of bicycles remain but there are always more bicycles, then after 30 days of that it starts again with crosswalks.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My tv remote is motion so that's not really too bad. Point and click.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hate that function. It's imprecise and the cursor always shows up when I don't want it.

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[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

In hell you have to use a TV remote while checking the password manager app on your phone to input 32 random characters, many of which are numbers and symbols that don't appear on the main keyboard, and there's no button to unhide what you've typed so you can never get it correct on the first attempt.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

At least there are some remotes that use T9

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[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Typing with a controller really isn't that bad. That's more like a purgatory thing. Hell would be having to use a television remote.

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With a different on screen keyboard everytime. Some QWERTY, some A-Z. Some with with a separate section with capital letters instead of a shift button.

[–] sour@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

I never understood why on screen keyboards are A-Z.

Everyone knows where letters are on a QWERTY keyboard, why even have something different?

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

That's the upper level. On the lower level you use a remote control, and there's tons of input lag.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

"@" and "." need to be accessed by a separate punctuation page.

[–] weebkent@ani.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

and its not the fancy bluetooth one on new TVs where you can point it anywhere, but good old infrared, aiming and all. All the while the batteries are half dead/not slotted correctly so you have to open it up and roll it around a bit to hit the g-spot so it works.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also the keys sometimes get stuck, and the keyboard closes without saving your input when you press up in the top row.

Oh wait, that's just Android TV. :(

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also the passwords are in a key manager and are 30 random characters. You have to look at your phone and manually enter them one character at a time via the remote.

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TV remotes are worse often, they add a bit of delay, worse buttons, and a 50% chance of any given input not being registered

At least in a gamepad the directional buttons are consistent.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have a STB where text input is solely via the D-pad plus color buttons for Shift/Num/Backspace/Confirm. Pretty normal except the number pad has the telephone-style alphabet printed, which I would very much prefer.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Challenge accepted.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Games controller is no way near as bad as TV remote, the delay alone makes it so much more frustrating

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

TV remote, and it doesn't wrap around to the other side of the letter box.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Minimum 18 characters, must use caps, lower case, punctuation, numbers, and at least 4 special symbols.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Me who already does this on PS5

"I thought hell would be worse."

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago
  • And you never know if it will be qwerty or alphabetical.

  • You have to open the option menu for capitalization

  • Special characters are all in submenus under the letters

  • There is no backspace

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On an Alphabet order keyboard

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did this to my boss once. I noticed he was using one of those ghastly low-throw 'boards that show up with all the cheap entry level Dells and Amazon refurbished pieces of shit, and unlike on a real keyboard the profile is the same on all of the keys on those, regardless of which row they're on.

So I rearranged all of his letters into alphabetical order. For good measure, I created a custom keyboard "language" layout that actually make it type that way, too. He put up with it for nearly an entire day before giving up and asking me for a different keyboard.

Actually...

I just had a poke around in the supply room. I still have it:

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[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

I once got a couple of Amazon Echo Dots as part of a promo. Little spherical devices with about a 3" round touchscreen. To set it up you had to enter your Amazon account info by tapping a keyboard on that tiny screen.

My password at the time was a random 80 character string, full of special characters. That would have been painful enough, but the password entry box would hide each character a second or so after typing, so it was nearly impossible to keep track of where I was, and whether I had skipped or double entered something.

I should have just binned them immediately at that point, but I spent probably an hour of typing passwords on those two fuckers--more out of stubbornness than anything else.

[–] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Question: Do I have a choice on what controller I use?

For some reason, I imagined the controller scheme of a Wii and using the pointer controls to type each letter

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who grew up inputing passwords in Mega Drive games with one: there are worst things.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] raina@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Eh, beats finding yourself in that complete breakdown of a process where you're having to recite your email address character by character to a person who somehow is both

a) judging YOU and

b) unsure the part after the @ can actually be something besides gmail.com.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

The closest I got to hell recently is trying to get Australia Post's imbecilic voice 'recognition' software to understand an alphanumeric code over and over and over...

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The first level of the game is called “input a 3000 word essay on why you are in hell”

Any spelling mistakes will require a full do over.

Depending on your crime the return/erase button may be disabled.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sin, crime doesn't necessarily cause damnation in most mainstream religions that have a Hell

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

And the keyboard is randomized with every letter typed.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It blows my mind that in many cases I can't use my voice to enter text in fucking 2025.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm pissed that it worked better in 2019 vs 2025. (At least for Google's voice recognition)

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm even more pissed that my old Motorola flip phone could dial by voice on the device, but my current pocket supercomputer running the latest Android can't do it without recording my audio and sending it to a server somewhere to be processed in the "cloud," and doesn't even work if I'm standing somewhere with spotty data service.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, I kind of want the old assistant back. I don't find Gemini any more useful for my use cases. It feels dumber sometimes.

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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sport competition idea.

we randomly choose a bad text input method, see who can type the fastest, 3 errors and you're eliminated.

T9 keyboard, game controller, remote control, VR point and shoot...

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

T9 doesn't belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Digital Stockholm syndrome.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends whether we talkin predictive T9 or not

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[–] SinkingLotus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell is just real life but someone keeps eating nature valley bars in your bed.

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[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Speed runneres entered the chat

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

In Hell, you pay for a subscription to use your controller.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can only communicate by typing messages in Xbox game chat. With no ai word finishing.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget the endless TFA challenges, which will either never arrive, will arrive after the code is expired, or the code just won't work.

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