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.

    • shplane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      If anyone left their computer unlocked at my old job, the entire office was getting an email about how much you love Justin Bieber

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    33·
    14 days ago

    Keyboard shortcuts in general.

    • Alt + left right (previous/next page in browsers)

    • Windows + 1 (2, 3, …) on Windows and KDE focuses the window at that position in the taskbar

    • Alt + Tab to switch windows (hold shift to go backwards)

    • Windows + Tab to switch windows within the same application (like, all browser windows if you’re in a browser)

    • Alt + 1 (2, 3, …) on Windows/Linux usually selects the corresponding tab

    • Ctrl + Tab to cycle through tabs like Alt-Tab does for windows (hold shift to go backwards)

    • In most browsers or things with a URL/go to bar, Ctrl+L will focus that. No need to click the address bar, Ctrl+L, example.com, Enter.

    • In Discord and Slack, you can press Ctrl+K to open a box to quickly type a channel/DM name to go to it quickly

    • If you have them, the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys are actually pretty useful. Press Home instead of scrolling all the way back up.

    • F1 is usually help

    • F2 is usually rename

    • F3 is usually search

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      14 days ago

      F6 - goto and highlight the URL bar in a browser

      ctrl + F5 - clear cache and reload the tab

      F11 - super full screen browser

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      5·
      14 days ago

      I’ll add some mouse ones: if you have thumb buttons they are next/previous page.

      Mouse wheel down clicking on a link opens it in a new tab.

      Mouse wheel down clicking on a tab label closes the tab (no need to hunt for the little x).

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
    28·
    14 days ago

    Microsoft has never fixed the sticky keys replacement cheese to unlock a PC you have physical access to. Ive done it up to W10, never tested it on W11.

    1. Get a Windows recovery USB.

    2. Boot into the recovery menu and open the command prompt.

    3. Navagate to system32 and make a copy of the cmd.exe file (for a backup)

    4. Copy the sticky_keys.exe and have it overwrite cmd.exe, then reboot.

    5. On the login screen, smash the shift key until the command prompt appears and for some reason (because no user has logged in yet) it has admin permissions, so you can reset local passwords.

    6. Once your logged in as a local admin, copy the backup of cmd.exe back so noone is none the wiser (except the security software that knows you messed with something)

    • feannag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      14 days ago

      That… Seems like a pretty massive vulnerability. Like obviously that can be locked down by each user or administrator, but still…

      • Sheldan@lemmy.world
        7·
        14 days ago

        It is, we used the same just with the accessibility button in earlier Windows Versions to troll one another in school. Thing is, if encryption is enabled it won’t work.

        • Züri@lemmy.ml
          2·
          13 days ago

          Not having the disk encrypted is the same as writing the password on the frame of the screen.

          • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
            6·
            13 days ago

            Exactly, bitlocker or disk encryption prevents this from working and because you need some means of editing the file system outside of the user permissions, also physical access is required. At this point your are pretty much authorized to unplug the box and walk out of there with it (even if your not supposed to).

    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
      4·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I used to use a boot CD with a password eraser. I think the last time I used it was win 7 though

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    252·
    14 days ago

    Find a Linux distro you like and install it instead of Windows.

    Use LibreOffice, not MSOffice

    Ditch Google, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

    Tech walled gardens are insane asylums. Leave them.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    23·
    14 days ago

    Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
      6·
      14 days ago

      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.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      True. But also if you are going to use arrow keys to navigate you will want to also know where your scroll lock key is because it’s almost useless unless you use arrow key navigation

  • JamonBear@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    13 days ago

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

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      13 days ago

      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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

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

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    13 days ago

    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.

  • Bitflip@lemmy.ml
    14·
    14 days ago

    Ctrl+r on bash and zsh (possibly others) for quickly recalling anything you’ve typed before

    • hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      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.

      • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
        2·
        13 days ago

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

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    14 days ago

    Keyboard shortcuts for everything. Mousing to a menu is a waste of time in any app you use daily.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
    12·
    14 days ago

    Set up three WireGuard network interfaces on a VPS then accept traffic from your end devices to route through the three double hop VPN tunnels to a country with better privacy laws. Install an ad and tracking blocking DNS server to block all nefarious hostnames as well as more granular blockers for your browsers.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
        1·
        13 days ago

        Mainly to keep my end devices appearing to connect to a VPN in the same country. I usually do that especially when I travel to other countries that seem to block WireGuard leaving their borders.

        I suppose if I had fiber at home I’d do it all there but cable internet’s slow 30 Mbps upload speed along with constant power outages make it a no-go.

  • Drekaridill@feddit.is
    11·
    13 days ago

    Ctrl + shift + esc brings up the Windows task manager directly instead of the menu you get when you press ctrl + alt + del

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      13 days ago

      Just remember that ctrl+alt+del is a system level interrupt that should always work as long as the kernel is running. Ctrl+shift+esc is not, and won’t work in some situations like being used inside a fullscreen frozen program.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 days ago

    Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b

    It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
      1·
      13 days ago

      That’s handy, my computer is struggling to run crusader kings 3 when I start it up sometimes and I have to restart the whole thing. Next time I’ll try this.

      Trying to save to buy a new pc but with a baby on the way most of our money is going to baby stuff at the moment