[yokohummer7]

> I often would use the mouse cursor to 'mark' the position of the loading bar (we really are spoiled for speed these days).

This is just me, oh my gosh. I thought I was the only one who did that. But now I come to think about it, it can't be true.

It has been a really long time since I used that technique last time...

[johnchristopher]

What ? I still do that at least once a week/month.

Last time it was for the linux dropbox updater, last week.

I am also a fan of using another window so I can use the mouse and still have a marker to monitor progress.

[Swenrekcah]

I do this all the time too, but unfortunately many processes today only go around in circls instead of showing the actual progress.

[yokohummer7]

I guess what has changed is me, not the computing environment. When I was young, I easily grew impatient when things were going slow. Nowadays I still kinda feel nervous, but not to the point to warrant such bookkeeping methods.

[TomMarius]

Today everything goes so fast that it's faster to kill and restart if it's not visibly moving, IMHO

[bump-ladel]

A couple of weeks ago, I marked the (no)progress bar on a macOS update with a piece of surgical tape.

[james-skemp]

Thank you for posting a physical marker; I was afraid I was the only person that's done so.

I've been known to use Post-its and the frame of my monitor as a marker. Both are much easier with how prevalent dual-monitors are these days.

[darkpuma]

Shit, I think I last used it last week! In my GUI wrapper for rsync while transferring some large files. It took about 45 minutes for one of the files.