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lole, i'm using a version of lineage OS thats based off of android 8.1
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Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI
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Nigga please... a Raspberry Pi 3+ with bare metal emulators, that's the way to go.
Unfortunately most of the bare metal emulators for the RPi haven't caught up to the 4 or 400 yet... still better than a repro mini console or RetroArch tho.
Back on the topic of shitty software, Evernote 10 is hot garbage. It's slow, it's bloated, it's cucked and the interface was changed for no good reason. There's a reason Evernote ended up backtracking (slightly) by offering Evernote Legacy. The last time I was this pissed off at a major software update was when WordPress introduced Gutenberg.
The terrible interface will never change either, so once you're used to it you're golden.
I feel the same way about the 65C02, even though it's not quite the same as the mighty 6502.
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Holy shit nigga I remember this fucking cube shit. I think it was Zorin OS I experienced this for the first time & to be honest I fucking hated it. It's basically just making virtual desktops use more resources than it really should. Sure I may use 2 virtual desktops but why the fuck would I want it to be a draggable fucking cube that's more broken than joe bidens brain? Also if you think the cub was bad allow me to really make your dick shrivel back inside you.
There's an option to make it a sphere instead but I call it the Painal Bead because this shit just fucking hurt to use to try & switch Virtual desktops.
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...speaking of window managers, I just properly set up Calm Window Manager on a legacy raspbian install. Holy shit this is more capable than a near-featureless stacking WM should be. The groups function doesn't like dropdown terminals all that much but it is mostly superficial ugliness.
Edit: I have a fever and posted in the wrong mood. Holy fuck am I off track.
Edit: I have a fever and posted in the wrong mood. Holy fuck am I off track.
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I don't have anything to add, I just saw this scrolling down and seeing the thread's name right next to the internet explorer icon made me laugh.
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Wait, you mean Android 12 has a wrongthink website checker system-wide that cannot be turned off or what?
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No, it just looks like a fuckup that affects forum use in certain browsers. I post on other perfectly innocent forums, some using xenforo. It seems okay if you just want to post a few words, but quoting posts or posting images makes things go weird, starting with making the post box spool down like you're bashing the return key.
It affects Samsungs browser and Brave. No two BATs a month for Josh, for now. Duckduckgo seems fine though.
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Internet Explorer crashed so fucking much. It repeatedly crashed every single session I had with it. I can't believe it took me so long to download Firefox.
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You think that's bad. Look at microsoft edge. Edge was so shit that they scraped it & now use a chromium base for the "NEW" microsoft edge.
Manul Otocolobus
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Yeah, but, it was nice to have another browser lying around with a different web rendering engine for those rare sites that fucking hate the chromium rendering engine.
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That's fair. I don't like the the fact everything wants to be chromium based either. Especially since I'm the weirdo that still uses a locked down firefox but I digress. That's the thing I always hated is that everybody wants to put their all their eggs into a single fucking basket when it comes to software. It's even more exacerbated when it's shit software. Holy shit discord is such a fantastic example of this faggotry. We already know how much of a fucking resource hog the shit is thanks to it being a shitty electron web app. From performance issues to the absolute spyware level shit of their "desktop app", that's not including how they operate their service. If they lock your account then they demand give them a phone number in order to unlock it. What's even worse is those animal fuckers have the fucking gall to demand I give them a cell number from either AT&T, Verizon, or fucking T-Mobile. What's really fucking astounding is people defend this bullshit & say shit like "Well just give them a phone number." I am not religious but if there is anything in the universe that could make me believe that God is real it would be that on day overnight discord somehow gets fucked & all their servers & source code end up corrupted beyond the point of recovery. Oh my fucking god that would be such a fantastic fucking day if that happened
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Other people have brought up iTunes, Spotify, and the like...strap in kids, because I'm about to tell you about what I've learned from years of subjecting myself with Amazon Music, the single most enraging software I've ever had the displeasure of using.
TL;DR: Amazon Music fails at doing the one thing a music player is supposed to do, PLAY MUSIC, and fails even harder at copying the competition. I don't get why they didn't just show Winamp to the monkeys on typewriters who code this shit and have them just copy it. It'd be about a million times superior to this aggressively terrible excuse for a music listening platform.
I'm drunk and malding, so please forgive any spelling errors. If anything else occurs to me I'll add it to the list.
To preface, I've been using Amazon Music since 2012 or so. I started using it because Spotify required Facebook logins at the time, and being allergic to Facebook and fact I already started using Amazon Prime I figured it would fit in nicely. Before this, I used YouTube or Pandora to find music, but downloading songs from there was a hassle and I had to make sure my phone was synced and other inconvenient shit from before CURRENT_YEAR.
Now, the overarching problem with Amazon Music is that it's obvious they couldn't give three-fifths of a crystalized shit about the user experience at all. This was obvious from the get-go, as going from iTunes and Winamp I noticed a few vital things Amazon seemingly forgot to include:
Seriously, every update for Amazon Music, to this very day, breaks something important for every minor issue it attempts to address. Let me merely attempt to summarize the kind of shit I had to put up with for the past 9 years:
As dumb as it sounds, switching to iTunes again made me so much happier. When I typed in an artist in my library and had the cursor go to it without leaving the playlist, or when I scrolled through a 2000+ song playlist without waiting for it to load, it was downright comforting, like I had finally left an abusive lover for one that actually understands me and treats me like a human being.
Now, the overarching problem with Amazon Music is that it's obvious they couldn't give three-fifths of a crystalized shit about the user experience at all. This was obvious from the get-go, as going from iTunes and Winamp I noticed a few vital things Amazon seemingly forgot to include:
- You cannot search for songs within playlists. Searching for anything would always bring you to the artist's page, which would allow you to only play the artists' other songs. As you can probably imagine, if you have a playlist with upwards of a thousand songs on it, you're forced to scroll through the playlist manually to find the song you want.
- Opening up the app on your phone or computer would default playlist ordering by song title, rather than artist or whatever else you set it to before you last closed it.
- You cannot change song metadata at all in the app. You have to go to the song's file to do that.
- Following up on the last point, their genres are incredibly limited. For example, Hard Rock & Metal includes everything from Deep Purple to Cryptopsy, and of course looking up that genre tag will give you a long list of ancient Boomer fodder like Metallica and Bon Jovi that you'll have to sift through to find new stuff (don't get the impression I hate Boomer rock, I do like it, but I'm kinda hipstery with music and I prefer to listen to newer and lesser known acts).
Seriously, every update for Amazon Music, to this very day, breaks something important for every minor issue it attempts to address. Let me merely attempt to summarize the kind of shit I had to put up with for the past 9 years:
- Every other update fucks up the buffering in some way. Songs will go from buffering immediately to taking upwards of 60 seconds to play after an update, even on 100Mb/S wi-fi. Then when they fix it, it tends to lead to any one (or more) of the following issues:
- Crashes, so many crashes on iOS. It'll most often happen while I'm driving or exercising, two periods when I most definitely DON'T want it to do that.
- Apple Carplay/Android Auto integration is completely fucking useless. First off, if you select a song, the Amazon Music Carplay menu only shows you the first 100 or so songs in your playlist or library, and absolutely refuses to load anything beyond that. If you have 100 songs that start with the letter 'a', that's all you're getting. Second off, songs are organized by letter. If you play a song from that letter and put it on shuffle, the only songs it will play afterwards will start with that letter. As in, some smoothbrain at Amazon thought it would be a good idea to make each letter a separate playlist, and only play songs from that playlist. Even better, being foolish enough to actually select a song from an artist's folder or a custom playlist in the Apple Carplay menu is all-but guaranteed to cause the app to crash. About the only thing the Carplay/AA app is good for it telling you what song is playing; I have to open my phone to actually select music, completely defeating the whole purpose of Apple Carplay/AA in the first place.
- Songs only download in the mobile app when you have the app open on your screen. Yup, background downloads are seemingly nonexistent and allowing background downloads on iOS changed nothing (except having my data be uploaded to Amazon Web Services probably).
- They love changing the interface of the mobile app for no fucking reason. They added Alexa integration in 2016 or so (not sure exactly when, don't care as I never have nor have any intention of ever using it), and while they initially put it up in the top corner, near the settings, they later moved it next to the library button, guaranteeing you're going to hit it accidentally. In exchange, they moved the settings button (arguably far more important, even if ultimately useless since Amazon Music has fuck all in terms of options) to where the Alexa button used to in the top corner, now assuring that when if you're deep in a menu you'll have to exit all the way to the main page to access it. Likewise, before you could order songs in your library by artist in the app, but since then they've changed it so doing that just takes you to the artist's page.
- The desktop app is a disaster. Scrolling too quickly causes your music to disappear for several seconds as it waits to load in, something not even Winamp struggles with massive playlists. Since you cannot search within playlists as I said before, if you're looking for a particular artist or song in your playlist you'll have to play an incredibly stupid game of "scroll until you see F" followed by "wait until the F songs/artists load in and make sure you're actually on F and haven't overshot it". It also consumes a LOT of RAM for no goddamn reason when playing music, and I've had it lock up my computer for no reason at all when I had too many things open at once. Again, not even iTunes (far from a paragon of efficiency) nor Winamp do this. Also, the only options available to you are change the directory for your music, and change the streaming quality. That's it. Song volume equalization, crossfade, fuck off, Bezos says you don't need it.
- Later updates basically turned Amazon Music into an extremely shitty copy of Spotify. On the desktop app, searching an artist brings you to their Prime Unlimited page, with all of their material and the material of related artists, rather than, you know, the carefully curated list of songs you built over years in your library. Plus, the app on both desktop and mobile keeps bugging you to create radio stations using "Like" buttons. The catch is, that the AI they use for selecting similar songs is completely retarded and will play songs that have basically nothing to do with whatever you used to start the radio. I created a custom radio for the Black Keys to find similar artists, and it played, no fucking joke, 21 Pilots followed by Lil Pump. I don't listen to either of those two artists, I don't have any songs from them in my library, and I've most definitely never liked anything from those two, so I have no clue how an AI created by one of the world's largest collectors of personal data could possibly think a '70s style blue rock band would be similar to Zoomer faux-rock and a mumble rapper.
- On a related note to the previous point, Amazon Music is heavily biased towards popular artists. It follows the YouTube algorithm problem where if you listen primarily to underground/obscure music it struggles to recommend anything worthwhile to you, but the moment you so much as accidentally click on a Maroon 5 song EVERYTHING it recommends from then on will be Maroon 5. Other services may do this too, but Amazon is especially obnoxious with it since it doesn't give you an option to say "Do not recommend" to suggested music.
- Finally, the straw that broke the camel's back: before, clicking on an artist in your library on the mobile app would bring you to the library of songs you have added, with the Unlimited page as an optional, separate tab. A recent update changed this so that clicking on the artist IN YOUR LIBRARY would immediately take you to their Prime Unlimited Page, and now you have to click "Library" and "See More" in order to see the music that you specifically curated from this artist. There is, of course, no fucking way to change this back at all.
As dumb as it sounds, switching to iTunes again made me so much happier. When I typed in an artist in my library and had the cursor go to it without leaving the playlist, or when I scrolled through a 2000+ song playlist without waiting for it to load, it was downright comforting, like I had finally left an abusive lover for one that actually understands me and treats me like a human being.
TL;DR: Amazon Music fails at doing the one thing a music player is supposed to do, PLAY MUSIC, and fails even harder at copying the competition. I don't get why they didn't just show Winamp to the monkeys on typewriters who code this shit and have them just copy it. It'd be about a million times superior to this aggressively terrible excuse for a music listening platform.
I'm drunk and malding, so please forgive any spelling errors. If anything else occurs to me I'll add it to the list.
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I have to disagree. Edge as was had almost reached a useable state when they scrapped it. The problem was the autistic insistence on poorly defined "backwards compatibility" features that broke every third site and crippled the rendering engine. It was the same as their retarded office open xml format, which included a bunch of tags and tag attributes that essentially said "behave like office 2003" without any definition of that behaviour.
But that aside, for a clean-slate browser, it wasn't bad. They scrapped it purely for marketing and financial reasons; having a chromium-based browser let they say "we're like google, but better! use ours instead!" while farming the majority of their browser development out to the community, which meant they could fire most of that department and funnel the money into something else.
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iTunes on Windows was pretty bad when I used it, back when I had an iPhone. Maybe I wasn't using it right, but the syncing feature never worked right for me. It would constantly add songs I wanted removed, and remove songs I was trying to add.
I much prefer Android phones. I can just organize, add, and remove songs using Windows itself. No problems there.
I much prefer Android phones. I can just organize, add, and remove songs using Windows itself. No problems there.
Manul Otocolobus
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Agreed. The phone number stuff is total bullshit. Also, when one piece of software dominates a space, everyone suffers for it. This is especially true for the internet. Everyone using the same thing creates a common attack surface. One critical exploit is discovered, and suddenly everyone is literally impacted.
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Microsoft launches ‘woke’ spelling tool
Microsoft has launched an “inclusive” spelling tool that offers politically correct alternatives to commonly used phrases.
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I guess it's not a forced feature.. yet. I have to assume they turn it on by default though.View attachment 2913421
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Microsoft launches ‘woke’ spelling tool
Microsoft has launched an “inclusive” spelling tool that offers politically correct alternatives to commonly used phrases.www.standard.co.uk
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IIRC they responded to the outrage by saying that it's not turned on by default. I still think this doesn't top "Alice" & "Bob" being banned in one university's computer science course.
Woke wars: Edinburgh’s computer scientists banned from using ‘Alice and Bob’ as too ‘Western’
Staff also urged to avoid ‘master/slave’ terminology as part of University of Edinburgh’s latest decolonisation efforts
Manul Otocolobus
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Just as an FYI for my fellow Kiwi's, it is possible that the current perpetual version of Office Professional Plus 2021 is the last version of its kind to exist. Microsoft has promised one more perpetual version of office, but they don't say which edition. For all we know, they intend to only offer the crappy Home/Student & Home/Business and discontinue Pro Plus. You can currently get Office Pro Plus 2021 for ~$15 (you can get it for much less than that if you are willing to live with the 1 PC/1 Installation, No Transfer policy of some types)