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[Screamer]

The Google TV app on mobile requires you to have an internet connection to view downloaded TV shows.

So when I go hiking, I like to have some stuff downloaded to watch in my tent to unwind. Done it many times with the old Play store app. This was the first time using it now as Google TV. No mobile reception, no viewing the content I locally downloaded on my phone. Very fucking annoying. It seemed specific to the TV page. I had no movies downloaded by I could access that page. The TV, needed internet connection.

What a massive fucking design fail that is. Through the settings I could delete downloaded TV shows, but not watch.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The Google TV app on mobile requires you to have an internet connection to view downloaded TV shows.

So when I go hiking, I like to have some stuff downloaded to watch in my tent to unwind. Done it many times with the old Play store app. This was the first time using it now as Google TV. No mobile reception, no viewing the content I locally downloaded on my phone. Very fucking annoying. It seemed specific to the TV page. I had no movies downloaded by I could access that page. The TV, needed internet connection.

What a massive fucking design fail that is. Through the settings I could delete downloaded TV shows, but not watch.

It's likely by design. Google loves gathering metrics in real-time and seems averse to temporary storage, to synchronise when a connection is available.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

i also dislike eclipse IDE. it was what we has to use in my CS lab courses and what was installed by default on my work laptop.

Back in school-which wasn't today so grain of salt-we used thin clients to program, because it was cheaper for the school, and we used to spend the first 15 minutes of class waiting for 20 of the thing to boot.
Also I might be too used to Visual Studio but eclipse always looked like shit. How could the de facto IDE for one of the most ubiquitous programming languages be this much ass is beyond me. At least IntelliJ is taking over the market.

 

[Screamer]

It's likely by design. Google loves gathering metrics in real-time and seems averse to temporary storage, to synchronise when a connection is available.

I just think there's a generally blind slot to software design these days that assumes everyone has a constant and high-speed internet connection. It's like the whole focus on, "the cloud" for everything. Maybe that is fine in Silicon Valley, but for many of us who live in other parts of the world. It is insane to think it is a viable option.

"Here's my latest GoPro footage, let's spend the next week slowly uploading my footage to the cloud via my phone. To then slowly redownload select clips to my phones internal memory to edit. With no ability to put footage on my expansion memory slot which would make the process so much easier."

GoPro's software on the phone deserves to be shat on here. As far as I can figure out, you can trim a clip and do a screenshot. Otherwise the Quik app on the phone will only let itself edit the clips. You can't just stitch some clips together and do a quick edit. It uses some AI to mash up the clips to music. Select two clips and it intercuts them. It won't just put them on a timeline one after the other.

Besides maybe dumb little kids recording themselves doing lame shit, who would actually use this software to make videos? The AI editing is shit if you have any self-respect.

I could be a retard and just not have seen the option for a normal editing timeline, but that retardation is on them for not making it obvious if it is there. I vaguely think you used to be able to do this, but the other week trying this. I couldn't find an option besides the AI editing mash up crap.

 

[Snigger]

Anyone who still uses Gnome is either suffering from a mix of Stockholm Syndrome and Sunk Cost Fallacy or is just too retarded to use KDE

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

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Anyone who still uses Gnome is either suffering from a mix of Stockholm Syndrome and Sunk Cost Fallacy or is just too retarded to use KDE

I agree, Gnome is fucking shit as is gnome software in general. Well gnome disks is good but outside of that & polkit-gnome the entirety of gnome us fucking stupid. KDE is definitely pretty & easily customizable but I'm a retard so I use ice window manager.

When some shit that came out 2 years before gnome has still managed to retain an understanding of the words lightweight & efficient, you have lost the fucking plot. Fucking gnome is a bloated piece of shit & I genuinely despise it & their devs. If they wanna be the apple cunts of the linux desktop then people will just stop using them cause the way it goes they have almost the same fucking philosophy as the faggot retard who develops the enlightenment window manager.

Enlightened - What the Daily WTF?

Nothing changed from then to now with this one. It's still a fucking shitshow that when it crashed back to login my ass was clenched so hard cause I was scared it bricked my install. Thank god I didn't have a virtual machine running at the time or I'd have lost my school assignments.

 

[Linkola's IT Guy]

Anyone who still uses Gnome is either suffering from a mix of Stockholm Syndrome and Sunk Cost Fallacy or is just too retarded to use KDE

Agree, GNOME sucks. KDE is great for users who are used to Windows-style desktop. The real autists don't use a desktop environment at all and instead use some /g/ meme window manager like i3-gaps or dwm.

 

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they have almost the same fucking philosophy as the faggot retard who develops the enlightenment window manager.

Enlightened - What the Daily WTF?

take that back.

E actually works (unfortunately, even with Gayland nowadays). Gnome can't claim that

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

take that back.

E actually works (unfortunately, even with Gayland nowadays). Gnome can't claim that

I will not. I've had it crash on me 3 times, the 3rd booting me back to my login screen. I was genuinely scared that I bricked my install for a moment.

 

[Doppelmonger]

I was thinking about some software bundled with industrial equipment but then it hit me that any "smart" thing that comes with an app that forces you to create an account to even use it.

I bought a wifi extender and it asks me to download the app to configure it, but as soon that I instsled it, the sign up screen welcomes me to create an account to use the darn thing. Refund politics are messed up in tacoland so I either create a fake profile or sell it at a loss.

Fuck that kind of shit.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

I was thinking about some software bundled with industrial equipment but then it hit me that any "smart" thing that comes with an app that forces you to create an account to even use it.

I bought a wifi extender and it asks me to download the app to configure it, but as soon that I instsled it, the sign up screen welcomes me to create an account to use the darn thing. Refund politics are messed up in tacoland so I either create a fake profile or sell it at a loss.

Fuck that kind of shit.

Oh my god I hate shit like that. Whatever happened to being able to just idk open a web browser & enter the local web address for the fucking thing & configure it that way? Far less invasive than some shitty account only app & more customer friendly. Oh I forgot, the customer is wrong & is little more than a slave to these kinds of cunts.

 

[moocow]

How could the de facto IDE for one of the most ubiquitous programming languages be this much ass is beyond me.

It is every bit as good as the Java it's built on, enjoying all the performance and flexibility benefits afforded by the platform.

This is not a compliment.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I am now at the point where I will seriously look into alternatives. "Alternatives". I have been a paying Adobe customer for many years and I have used paid versions for many years before that. I have sold it into a couple of workplaces and helped pick out the the appropriate plan and licenses so they're not trying to upsell them into something they don't need. Fuck you Adobe. The last drop wasn't the random two-factor authorization to even start Photoshop it was the cloud drive. I disabled it in the past but it is back for me and they changed some things: it can't be disabled now and syncing can only be paused. It is possible to hide it via the registry but not remove it. If I wanted a cloud drive I would install and enable a cloud drive, if I have a cloud drive I don't want I expect that I will be able to disable and remove it.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Windows Explorer. What an awful excuse for a file manager, and this is coming from someone who actually like Thunar and elementary OS's Files. No tabs, the dumb ribbon interface taking up half of the window, and bizarre remnants of Internet Explorer all over the place add up to a generally unpleasant experience.

macOS Finder. It's not that bad most of the time, but I'd prefer it to make up its mind: either be a spacial file manager à la Mac OS 9, or be a not-spacial file manager.

Addition:

Windows 10: Ugly, inconsistent spyware with constant user interface regressions, Windows 10 tries to hide the fact that you are indeed using a computer, but unlike the iPhone, does so in the clumsiest ways possible. The backwards compatibility offered by Windows 10 is impressive, but because Micro$oft nuked the Aero theme from Windows 7 out of 10, anything that relies on Aero looks like complete shit.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

I was thinking about some software bundled with industrial equipment but then it hit me that any "smart" thing that comes with an app that forces you to create an account to even use it.

I bought a wifi extender and it asks me to download the app to configure it, but as soon that I instsled it, the sign up screen welcomes me to create an account to use the darn thing. Refund politics are messed up in tacoland so I either create a fake profile or sell it at a loss.

Fuck that kind of shit.

If it's a Linksys device you can still set them up without an account or app. They've been especially egregious about hiding the option in recent years. I had to replace a router recently and was fuming pretty hard thinking they had removed it entirely.

When you get to the landing webpage that says to install the app, you have to know to click on the image of the smartphones. There is no text and no cursor indicator to tell you that the image is a clickable link. That will take you to the you to the local account page. Even then, once you log in it only gives you limited options to configure. If you want to actually configure all the device settings you have to click the "CA" link at the very bottom of the screen. I believe you have to do this every time you access it too.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

If it's a Linksys device you can still set them up without an account or app. They've been especially egregious about hiding the option in recent years. I had to replace a router recently and was fuming pretty hard thinking they had removed it entirely.

When you get to the landing webpage that says to install the app, you have to know to click on the image of the smartphones. There is no text and no cursor indicator to tell you that the image is a clickable link. That will take you to the you to the local account page. Even then, once you log in it only gives you limited options to configure. If you want to actually configure all the device settings you have to click the "CA" link at the very bottom of the screen. I believe you have to do this every time you access it too.

Can you confirm what routers don't do this kind of bullshit? I'd like to believe netgear doesn't do this or cisco for that matter. I hope to god cisco doesn't since their stuff gets used alot as course material in networking classes.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

Can you confirm what routers don't do this kind of bullshit? I'd like to believe netgear doesn't do this or cisco for that matter. I hope to god cisco doesn't since their stuff gets used alot as course material in networking classes.

Unfortunately I can only say if it's consumer equipment that you can buy at best buy, it is likely infected with this BS. You'll have to research each model number independently. And the hard part is that the info might be wrong. Most of the responses for setting up the router I had said "no, you must use the app" even though you can do it the normal way, just very very hidden.

The thing is that Linksys routers have been pushing the "make an account" thing since at least like 2010 or so. And each newer one I've come across has made the option to configure without an account more and more hidden. I don't remember TP-Link or netgear ever pushing it but who knows what has happened in the years since. This might just be industry standard across the board. I really miss the good old wrt54g.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

Unfortunately I can only say if it's consumer equipment that you can buy at best buy, it is likely infected with this BS. You'll have to research each model number independently. And the hard part is that the info might be wrong. Most of the responses for setting up the router I had said "no, you must use the app" even though you can do it the normal way, just very very hidden.

The thing is that Linksys routers have been pushing the "make an account" thing since at least like 2010 or so. And each newer one I've come across has made the option to configure without an account more and more hidden. I don't remember TP-Link or netgear ever pushing it but who knows what has happened in the years since. This might just be industry standard across the board. I really miss the good old wrt54g.

Well shit. If we're lucky then maybe OpenWRT will work on such devices. A little digging is telling me that apparently Asus routers don't do this. Not finding anything about Netgear but the current situation just doesn't look good. & it makes my barely beating heart a little bit sadder.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

Well shit. If we're lucky then maybe OpenWRT will work on such devices. A little digging is telling me that apparently Asus routers don't do this. Not finding anything about Netgear but the current situation just doesn't look good. & it makes my barely beating heart a little bit sadder.

I have bad news on that end. It was an urgent replacement on my end so I didn't have time to research but as far as I could tell basically all wifi 6 routers have locked down firmware. It isn't likely that many consumer routers will be able to use alternate firmware at all going forward.

Governments aren't happy about people setting things to operate at unauthorized power and channel settings and the companies arent happy that you're getting things for free that they could be charging you for. The trend with technology is not advancement, but toward data collection, planned obsolescence, and obfuscating the details to appeal to the average idiot consumer.

The fortunate thing is that you can always rely on the professional market to hold out on implementing this kind of garbage, it'll just come at a price. Otherwise you might have a refuge in pc based routers but implementing wireless on these is probably a major project if possible at all.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

I have bad news on that end. It was an urgent replacement on my end so I didn't have time to research but as far as I could tell basically all wifi 6 routers have locked down firmware. It isn't likely that many consumer routers will be able to use alternate firmware at all going forward.

Governments aren't happy about people setting things to operate at unauthorized power and channel settings and the companies arent happy that you're getting things for free that they could be charging you for. The trend with technology is not advancement, but toward data collection, planned obsolescence, and obfuscating the details to appeal to the average idiot consumer.

The fortunate thing is that you can always rely on the professional market to hold out on implementing this kind of garbage, it'll just come at a price. Otherwise you might have a refuge in pc based routers but implementing wireless on these is probably a major project if possible at all.

Man you know what. Just give me some fucking coaxial cables & moca adapters. At this point I can just buy an unmanaged switch & connect all my shit with otg adapters at this point. Fuck all this extra shit. Maybe networking should collapse if this is what we'll have to deal with going forward.