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My favourite activity is yyppppppppppp

It wasn't always like this.

I swear every version of Windows between 3.11 and XP was 100% reliable. Then it just started... slipping.

What's weird is that it often works on the second try.

Because your company makes you use Azure Virtual Desktop to connect to a VM and AVD's clipboard handling is as unreliable as anything else from Microsoft?

I have unconfirmed theories.

• My C and V key are literally the most worn keys on my keyboard. The letters are completely worn off, they're by far my most used keys. That amount of use probably makes the contacts degrade and less reliable.
• Windows 10 (I think?) introduced a "fancy clipboard" with history and multi paste and generally made it an "app". In my experience the fancier it is the more failure points, since it's no longer just a simple OS memory buffer, it has its own application logic.
• Since it's a global hotkey, the OS has to:
  • Handle the interrupt
  • Query the currently active window / application for a "copy" output of the currently highlighted context
  • Wait for a response
  • Place that response into a buffer of some sort
  • In a highly volatile asynchronous UI where the user can alt tab at any time, I imagine often what happens is that you just didn't wait long enough for the data to actually copy. Pressing CTRL+C would be equivalent in reliability as waiting 2 seconds, but it's more fun to press the button a bunch

Because copy and paste started bring over formatting.

If you do control shift V, it removes it and is much more reliable.

it pisses me off so much. literally every month some new feature/bug is added to critical software that we use and which results in clearly quantifiable wasted time, money, and stress

the ctrl+c issue alone has cost the company a few thousand dollars in the past year from the few cases I can think of off the top of my head. there's a bit of software that we use where we need to enter the information that exists in one field into another field. obviously copy paste is the way to do this, it's simple and it should work, right? except the program is built on Access and has its own problems on top of Windows fucking everything up. so what happens is people paste the previous copy into the new field instead of the newly-attemped copy. and that results in people spending hundreds of dollars to order the wrong part. bc the fucking software is garbage to interact with.

It's also just a Windows issue because it doesn't recognize that I pressed control c sometimes

No. This is the dumbest UX decision anyone has ever made, and I will die on this hill. The keyboard is for text, and the mouse is used for navigation. Anything else, is a bastardization dreamt up by mad men.

I've been stubbornly using that for years but eventually the convenient placement of c/v won me over.

thank you.

"These two columns... I see what you're doing here, I'll just continue that formula down ok?"

Great! How about this table? Can we copy this bit here and move it to-

"Your honor I have never seen this man in my life, I don't speak English, and I think he's threatening me."

Pretty sure that's an X (and I guess now Wayland) thing, not a KDE thing. I could be wrong, but I think you could sit down at a VAX from the '80s and expect it to work.

That was part of X right? Not jusy KDE. And a lot of wayland stuff also has it.

I wish there was a way of making that the default behavior, I spent so much time removing random formatting that people have inserted into excel documents.

CoPilot likes to come in and tell me about all of the errors in the spreadsheet, but it's really clunky and slow so it's often easier to just fix them manually, it never fixes formatting issues the stupid thing.