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Re: Technology pissing me off today..
Note to Microsoft, how NOT to inspire confidence in an OS upgrade that people didn't ask for:
Include, by default, something stupid like moving the taskbar to a center alignment instead of the left alignment we've all been using for 40 years.
Here's what people will think, "This upgrade didn't do anything useful except force me to adapt to something that I immediately have to waste the time to figure out how to undo, so WHY did I need this whole thing anyway??"
I think this is called "bad optics"
Source: I work with people and their reaction to technology every day
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"Progress" in the IT world is moving backwards.
I am currently using a mishmash of Mircosoft, HP, Bing and more.
It is constantly trying sell me something that I can't live without (like McAfee).
I have basically hated this POS since I discovered it didn't come with word processing, the basis of home computing.
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Diaphone Jim wrote:
... constantly trying sell me something that I can't live without (like McAfee).
McAfee was considered a good suite of products like 30 years ago, now it's just a pre-installed junkware whose main function is to constantly beg for you to pay attention to it. McAfee hasn't done anything within memory but write increasingly more panicky pop-ups, "the security you never asked for and never clicked on one single time is about to expire and your computer might ƒUCKING EXPLODE if you don't TAKE ACTION NOW! RIGHT NOW!"
But that's yesterday's complaint.
The new scourge of humanity is that every single application by every single vendor has forced itself to upgrade to a version that has "AI tools" that nobody asked for. The motherƒuckers are undoubtedly scraping every single keystroke of your personal information to feed the plagiarism machine designed to end human civilization.
I have basically hated this POS since I discovered it didn't come with word processing, the basis of home computing.
I think that "Google Docs" does everything that "MS Office" does, and I think it's free. I mean, all you have to do is link up all your devices with an account beaming all of your personal information to the dark overlord, but I think you can get a free word processor in the bargain.
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Thread Starter- Flint
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Pasted something in Word lately?
Annoying ƒucking rEsEaRcH panel pops up EVERY TIME.
Wondering how to turn off this AI slop that nobody asked for?
Ever clicked around looking for the settings, only to be mystified?
Well, it's so simple and uSeR fRiEnDLy!1
- Start Word.
- Press Alt+F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.
- Press Ctrl+G to activate the Immediate window.
- Enter the following line, or copy/paste it from this post into the Immediate window:
- With the insertion point anywhere in the line, press Enter.
- Press Alt+F4 to close the Visual Basic Editor.
- The Research task pane shouldn't appear any more.
Application.CommandBars("Research").Enabled = False
The ƒucking thing is designed to be impossible for regular users to turn off.
The executive that pushed for this useless feature will be happy to see how many people are using it*
*because they can't figure out how to turn it off
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Thread Starter- Flint
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OH BOY!
I can get AI to help me with my taxes!
Thank you, daddy H&R Block!
The amazing technology that, when asked what popular films were released in the 1980s, will confidently tell you-- Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Toy Story 5, Toy Story 6, Toy Story 7, Toy Story 8, Toy Story 9, and Toy Story 10.
What else could be better suited to doing my ƒUCKING TAXES?!
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Thread Starter- DanaC
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the Audible app is doing my head in. the most recent update has left it so unstable. so annoying whne you are totally immersed in the story and then it goes silent.
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oh crap. this is bad news. how are you listening? me = phone, android
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Thread Starter- DanaC
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same - android phone. what's annoying is that the only way to solve is to restart the phone
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#@$!&#$
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