Everyone on the interwebs:

“Whaaat, Windows has terrible UI elements?! You don’t say!”

But there’s always room for another laugh. If we focus an usability alone – ignoring things like incompatible UI toolkits from three different centuries and conspiracy-themed advertisements dressed as news items in your task bar – the builtin symbol/Emoji picker was my favorite. You press Win + . and you can easily pick a specific typographic quote character or apostrophe. Those can be hard to distinguish, so they are rendered with three pixels. What a great help!

Yes, that’s the actual size on the left

But today I encountered this beauty when I wanted fiddle with the audio balance real quick. Normally I would assume this is coming from one of those deliberately hellish UI threads on Reddit. But no, it’s real:

Are you okay, Windows audio settings?