A bug which affected only left handed users

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incognito124•28 minutes ago

Reminds me of this old youtube bug where some of the videos that were uploaded ended up upside down because of a phone orientation during recording:

https://bruteforceswimathon.medium.com/youtube-help-my-video...

cwillu•15 minutes ago

Right-handed, and I run into this bug constantly.

gpvos•about 2 hours ago

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.

recursive•about 2 hours ago

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.

robin_reala•about 1 hour ago

There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis, and I plan to keep it going until Apple caves and makes a sensibly sized phone again.

mikestew•43 minutes ago

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.

embedding-shape•42 minutes ago

Then I guess there is me with my iPhone 12 Mini. Replaced the battery some months ago, Apple techs broke the screen, so got a free new screen too. It's starting to get very slow though, every update it gets worse. I can feel that just running Spotify and Waze over CarPlay is starting to be too much, add in sending live location via Telegram at the same time and the phone almost grinds to a halt.

ozim•39 minutes ago

Hey count me in, I am on iPhone 12 mini, so I guess you didn’t count 4 because of that ;)

mgkimsal•32 minutes ago

I must be at least the 5th 13mini user.

ThrowawayTestr•about 1 hour ago

Get a ring for the back of your phone. Makes one handed use much easier.

madaxe_again•about 1 hour ago

I’m a guy who’ll leave his laptop on the floor and will bend double from a chair to use it, on the floor, because I have forgotten I can pick it up. I am ergonomically insensitive.

Anyway, I use my phone in my left hand, my right hand, or both, pretty much equally.

BrenBarn•15 minutes ago

I had to read this a couple times and look at the comments here before I realized they were talking about scrolling on a phone. I was like "who scrolls with their thumb?"

Terr_•about 3 hours ago

> A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture™.

Or perhaps the righteous versus the sinister.

PTOB•about 2 hours ago

I approve of Latin jokes. Well done.

Terr_•about 1 hour ago

Oh no sir, I am merely a humble boorish villain.

sscaryterry•about 1 hour ago

The older I get, the more sausage fingers I get.

walthamstow•34 minutes ago

One of the great things about promoting LLMs is I don't have to care about sausage finger typos any more

dools•34 minutes ago

To obtain a special dialling wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now

TacticalCoder•about 1 hour ago

> The older I get, the more sausage fingers I get.

It seems with age fingers do not just get fatter (feet too btw) but also get drier. So the keys do not register as well on smartphones: older people hitting right in the middle of the virtual keys, one by one, in a slow but decided manner are not "just old". There's apparently some science behind it.

sixhobbits•about 3 hours ago

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.

nja•about 2 hours ago

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 the AI generated content, which pops in just slowly enough to encourage misclicks as items shift under your finger

all to make some PM's numbers go up, of course...

relaxedmedal•about 1 hour ago

I think they do encourage it - probably due to marketing. If you are getting paid per click its in your best interest to get someone to click irrespective of content. Snapchat do it with the scroll up feature, instead of it going to the next clip as most doom scrollers do, it goes straight to a profile. Vice Versa on other popular platforms. That little 'glitch' for a second, and now a new popup came at just the time you were about to press right where your digit is and you are loading onto a sponsored site. Of course the sponsor then boasts look how many clicks you have got.

pbhjpbhj•about 1 hour ago

NYT games app loads in an interstitial screen with a play button, as you go to click it they shift it up and put a subscribe button there so that when you click you accidentally click subscribe. Evil genius.

It could be accidental, but without that there's no reason to have the interstitial screen at all.

LeifCarrotson•about 2 hours ago

I'm not left-handed, but I often scroll my phone with my left thumb. My right hand is on my computer mouse, or holding a pen, or employed to make precise touches on the phone screen with my right index finger, or briefly comes over to join with my left thumb for typing...

Scrolling doesn't require much precision, and I naturally hold my phone in my left hand.

loloquwowndueo•about 3 hours ago

The solution is simple : don’t use LinkedIn :) I only use it when looking for a job and I never look at the “feed” (what’s that for anyway?)

throw1234567891•about 3 hours ago

I get more useful and up-to-date info from LinkedIn than from here.

tuvix•about 2 hours ago

Not sure who you’re following on LinkedIn but this is most assuredly not the case for me or anyone I know

Forgeties79•about 2 hours ago

LinkedIn is this constant networking event where everyone is looking for their next opportunity. It just feels gross to participate in it. Especially now that the only thing people do is talk about AI or use AI to talk about AI on their behalf.

john_strinlai•about 2 hours ago

up-to-date info on what sorts of topics?