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Hentai-Semitism said:
This software isn't crappy, but I want to complain about scummy developer behavior.

There's an Android app called Mapy.com (previously Mapy.cz). I got lots of maps for offline use (you could just save them to your phone) before they changed the name.

I updated the app today. You only get a single country for free and THEY DELETE EVERYTHING YOU ALREADY HAVE. Had I known that, I wouldn't have updated it. It's just preposterous.
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Why not use Organic Maps?
 
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Someone's already mentioned Adobe Acrobat(the PDF reader) but I'd like to pile onto how this is the slowest, shittest, most finnicky dog turd of an executable I've ever had the displeasure to use.
For my work we have this thing called a software center which contains the "validated" versions of software we're allowed to use without needing to go and pester IT for permission. For PDFs we have two, one being Adobe's piece of shit.

Acrobat:
  • Never saves its position from the last time I opened that document
  • Has to open with a splash screen that I can't turn off
  • Has to have an ugly giant side pane to the LEFT(where bookmarks should go, you stupid dicks) where I can create an account, log into an account, log onto the drive, and all sorts of pointless online stuff
  • Has to by default load pages as separate images/not allow you to scroll past a page border, so it's one page or the other.
  • Has an awful bookmarking feature that is half obscured by ascii symbols that didn't load properly, doesn't give you the option to autotrack what bookmark you're currently viewing in favor of a button at the top of the pane which takes ~2 minutes to properly calculate where you are in the document and the corresponding bookmark
  • Has genuinely the slowest and shittiest search function I've seen in any software, search engine or otherwise.
    • Has to always load every single new query which takes ~30 seconds on its own
    • Chugs ass when it tries to load a list of auto-complete results
    • Ignores its own advanced search parameters like search by case or search by whole word(or it's just a worse implementation of literally any other search engine's "search by whole word" feature
    • Chugs ass when it tries to highlight results
    • Highlighting obscures xref links because it's the same shade of blue everyone and their mothers use for hyperlinks, instead of highlighting with a yellow shade like a highlighting marker
The other:
  • Is fast
  • Doesn't waste my time
  • Doesn't make me want to strangle my mouse, PC or myself
But I'm stuck with Acrobat because it's got CLOUD INTEGRATION and ALWAYS ONLINE FEATURES and probably soon to be POWERED BY AI™ and it's the only pdf editor available that can be auto hooked into microsoft's equally awful OneDrive cloud.
 
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NitroPDF was one of the better Adobe Acrobat alternatives with perpetual licensing, but "perpetual" is a lie. Old versions can't be activated anymore, so if you ever need to migrate machines for any reason, you'll just lose your installation, no recourse.
Example of one user who got burned:
https://community.gonitro.com/topic/21986-nitro-pro-ver-12-stolen-laptop/

The price of new versions has skyrocketed, and they seem to be going all-in on AI slop. Plus, apparently they plan to discontinue even the faux-perpetual licensing that they currently offer.
 
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Had printer problems for the umpteenth fucking time. I got an HP printer, it came with some proprietary software I have since deleted. I tried looking for it, guess it was wiped from the face of the earth and now all HP software is run by some "Easy Start" application. Tried running it, stuck in the initial installation phase, so now I am left without an official HP helper program for my printer. I fixed the issue eventually, but it made me mad enough to want to commit unspeakable things to the jeets who are responsible for the dogshit code in that company.
Is there any good open source printing programs for Windows? I don't need anything fancy, just something to show me my ink levels and ask me to try the print again if the paper jams or fails to be fed into the printer or something.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
Had printer problems for the umpteenth fucking time. I got an HP printer, it came with some proprietary software I have since deleted. I tried looking for it, guess it was wiped from the face of the earth and now all HP software is run by some "Easy Start" application. Tried running it, stuck in the initial installation phase, so now I am left without an official HP helper program for my printer. I fixed the issue eventually, but it made me mad enough to want to commit unspeakable things to the jeets who are responsible for the dogshit code in that company.
Is there any good open source printing programs for Windows? I don't need anything fancy, just something to show me my ink levels and ask me to try the print again if the paper jams or fails to be fed into the printer or something.
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If you're only going to be printing off text documents, I highly suggest getting a laserjet printer made by Brother.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
My printer works perfectly fine and I do not need another one, I simply need software to make printing easier.
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Well, there's always running Linux on some kind of SoaC, connecting your printer to that through CUPS, and sending whatever you need to that to print it. Might unironically be less of a hassle.
 
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Well, there's always running Linux on some kind of SoaC, connecting your printer to that through CUPS, and sending whatever you need to that to print it. Might unironically be less of a hassle.
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This is likely gonna be the solution to most retarded and malicious printers, absolutely no internet access and only a local CUPS server to print through. Printer companies like payment processors need to be curb stomped to hell
 
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30+GameOvers said:
Had printer problems for the umpteenth fucking time. I got an HP printer, it came with some proprietary software I have since deleted. I tried looking for it, guess it was wiped from the face of the earth and now all HP software is run by some "Easy Start" application. Tried running it, stuck in the initial installation phase, so now I am left without an official HP helper program for my printer. I fixed the issue eventually, but it made me mad enough to want to commit unspeakable things to the jeets who are responsible for the dogshit code in that company.
Is there any good open source printing programs for Windows? I don't need anything fancy, just something to show me my ink levels and ask me to try the print again if the paper jams or fails to be fed into the printer or something.
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Update to the story: Today my Windows Defender told me that the official HP software, which is the only thing the HP website will let you install at this point, is adware(OfferCore). Sure enough, looking at the install logs, it tried to do some registry tomfoolery without letting the users know about it. Best part is that now that I deleted all remnants of this cursed software off my system from the appdata folder, I keep getting false positives that the adware is still on my computer. This is apparently a common problem and the only way to solve it is to manually delete the scan history folder within Windows Defender Program Data folder...in Safe Mode, as the system will never give you the permission to access it normally without some bulshittery involved with changing permissions, and the only other way to delete the history is to include a task in task scheduler that wipes scan history upon restarting the computer. How Windows never fixed this, I will never know, wasted half my day doing a full computer scan just in case because of it.

All of this could have been solved if the old printer software was backed up on official servers somewhere, but no we have to force everyone into using one shitty all-purpose program that handles everything equally worthlessly. Old bad, new good!
 
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Armoury Crate, iCUE, and all RGB software is terrible. If you have multiple components from different brands, they will conflict with each other. Even Windows itself has its own form of this with their Dynamic Lighting system (hardly anything supports it though). Even the so-called solution to this problem SignalRGB is terrible. It never connects properly to some of my parts and takes 3 minutes after booting up to apply my lighting changes, and they show way too many ads for a program just made to change your PC's lighting.
 
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