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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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

F1 (in Windows)

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

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 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.

Going for tab and hit caps lock

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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