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What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

    Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

    Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

    Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

    Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

    Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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    wrote last edited by [email protected]
    #88
    • Double clicking with the mouse on a word usually selects the whole word with the space after, very nice for copy-pasting.

    • Double clicking on the selected word will sometimes select the whole line(In some applications it actually selects up to the newline marker, so it will grab multiple lines if resized smaller).

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    • Z [email protected]

      This seems like a lot of work to bypass a password on an unencrypted drive. You can access all the files using a bootable Linux drive.

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      #89

      They are already using the Windows recovery disk. This is not about accessing the disk, but to access the OS with admin rights.

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      • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

        Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

        Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

        Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

        Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

        Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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        #90

        Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

        While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

        It's great for researching.

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        • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

          Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

          Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

          Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

          Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

          Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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          #91

          Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.

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          • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

            Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

            Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

            Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

            Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

            Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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            #92

            Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless.
            Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc...

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            • J [email protected]

              Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless.
              Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc...

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              #93

              Just getting people to switch away from chrome to get ublock origin is a major hack all itself and completely changed the way you use the internet.

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              • J [email protected]

                Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                It's great for researching.

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                wrote last edited by
                #94

                there's a extension to do this with the right click button instead too

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                • M [email protected]

                  Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.

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                  #95

                  I had to read the post twice, is the arrow keys the life hack? zu the fold, }} two paragraph and 3) to jump three sentences is. And we haven't mentioned macros yet

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                  • psaldorn@lemmy.worldP [email protected]

                    It's well worth learning, you can use vim motions In lots of apps (or they have vim plugins) and even some websites will let you navigate with hjkl and search with / etc

                    There used to be a web based vim game to help you learn, vim tutor maybe?

                    Any time I'm forced to select text with a mouse it feels like a massive ball ache.

                    Don't get me started on editing text on an iPad, they have gone out of their way to make selection and editing, like changing a URL, a total nightmare.

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                    I learned vim using vim adventures and open-vim, both are browser-based. I'm not an expert yet though, but I'm done using nano

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                      Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless.
                      Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc...

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                      Why have I not been doing this?! Just removed the "2 years old" .world banner.

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                      • J [email protected]

                        Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                        While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                        It's great for researching.

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                        #98

                        Showed a coworker that while he was training me.

                        "OK, right-click on that and..."

                        <center click>

                        puzzled

                        "OK, right-click...

                        <center click>

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                        • J [email protected]

                          Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                          While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                          It's great for researching.

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                          Or ctrl-/command-click!

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                          • T [email protected]

                            Oh kid, I do this for over forty years now.

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                            I'm kinda mind blown that this is even considered a tip. isn't this just basic functionality of a text box???

                            it's shit like this that makes me think I do know tech a little bit, until i stumble on an actual tech community and feel like I know nothing

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                            • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                              Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

                              Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

                              Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

                              Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

                              Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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                              wrote last edited by [email protected]
                              #101

                              Are you serious? arrow keys instead of clicking? let's take it further:

                              shift+arrow highlights letters
                              ctrl+arrow skips entire words
                              ctrl+shift+arrow highlights entire words
                              home/end jumps to start/end of line
                              ctrl+home/end jumps to start/end of text box
                              ctrl+shift+home/end jumps to start/end of textbox and highlights it
                              um, do you need me to explain what ctrl+xcv do? or ctrl+zy? or ctrl+asdwerfgop?

                              isn't this just basic typing? didnt yall learn this in the 90s??? how are you all on the internet right now

                              wait til you hear about how i swipe texted all this

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                              • J [email protected]

                                Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

                                While browsing on the web and you want to "open link into a new tab", click using the mouse wheel like it's a regular left or right click.

                                It's great for researching.

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                                Unless the page uses shitty "link" implementation where buttons are use instead of actual anchor tags. Fucking SPAs…

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                                  Windows+L every time I leave my desk.

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                                  and win+x > up up right down enter, every night

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                                  • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                    Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

                                    Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

                                    Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

                                    Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

                                    Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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                                    Not sure if this has been said already, but win + m collapses all open windows.

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                                      Actually use Home and End keys to get to the start and end of text.

                                      Ctrl + F for searching text. Very useful.

                                      Alt + Tab for window switching.

                                      Linux + USB drive to switch away from Windows.

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                                      Combine home and end with ctrl to move to the start or end of the file. As a dev I use this a lot.

                                      I also have keyboard shortcuts for code folding and mouse shortcuts to navigate between usages, declarations and implementations. Onboarding people is a slog when they don't have the same shortcuts.

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                                      • B [email protected]

                                        Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I'm on a roll.

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                                        Not a computer hack, but some phone keyboards have backspace and whitespace drag, the former allowing to select a range form the cursor to delete and the latter moving the cursor. Way more usable than trying to fat finger cursor position and selection.

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                                        • H [email protected]

                                          This is a huge one for me. For those who don't know, this brings up the rev-i-search utility which allows cycling from most recent to oldest commands executed. It also supports partial finds so if you did 'cd' it would cycle the most recent change directory commands.

                                          The forward search (in case you're somewhere in the history stack) is ctrl+s and operates the same except crawls the command history forwards.

                                          I use these constantly in my normal workflow and they save a ton of time.

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                                          wrote last edited by
                                          #107

                                          I use zsh autosuggestion and syntax highlighting plugins it gives me usable history search and completion functionality.

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