Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI

[Samuel Fuller]

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.

RGB is for autistic faggots anyway, so it is a good thing the software to control your little pride float sucks.

 

[Hellwalker]

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.

How about OpenRGB? It exists to have as much control over your RGB shit without having to rely on various different programs. I use it for my Steelseries mouse and Corsair keyboard.

(Be sure to get to get the beta builds on Gitlab by going to Build, Piplines, and clicking the download button on the most recent build under Actions. The official releases haven't been updated since 2023 and new devices are constantly being added)

 

[WaterDeluxe]

RGB is for autistic faggots anyway, so it is a good thing the software to control your little pride float sucks.

I only thing I own that has RGB lighting is my mouse and I couldn't care less if it just stopped working right now. I build alot of computers for children who just want them to play Fortnite or whatever so they usually want the most RGB in their PC as possible. I stopped telling people I'd help them/their child troubleshoot anything related to RGB lighting because it was just constant stress and just general stupidness (modern youth is so technologically retarded and that doesn't help either).

 

[Zeftax]

Mapy.cz

I fucking hate seznam and their recent "ethical cookies" bullshit. For anyone not czech here, seznam is basically the czech google in that they own the search engine, the afforementioned mapy.cz, multiple news journals and bunch more other shit. Recently, they started a new pr stunt/money making attempt in offering access to any page they own either for free with targeted ads, for a monthly subscription with non-targeted ads and a monthly subscription without ads. They claim this helps the user have more choice over how his data gets processed. I use librewolf, so my cookies get cleaned any time I leave the browser, so this stupid disclaimer shows up anytime someone sends me a link to a news article they own (most news links I receive), BUT I do not have JS enabled for most websites, and their stupid fucking dogshit requires JS to load the page at all now - so now anytime I try to access a page they own I just get a stupid fucking alert telling me I MADE a mistake - no, your website is just unusable.
For mobile maps I use trekarta, its not very good, but good enough for most of the stuff I do.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

they started a new pr stunt/money making attempt in offering access to any page they own either for free with targeted ads, for a monthly subscription with non-targeted ads and a monthly subscription without ads. They claim this helps the user have more choice over how his data gets processed.

That's some military grade Judaism.

How popular is uloz.to in the Czech Republic? I used that site for a few years because it was a little known goldmine of old B movies, but they completely changed their terms of service last year, rendering it 99% useless. I think now it's only good for file sharing among paid members. There's no search engine and you can't see ANY content.

 

[Zeftax]

How popular is uloz.to in the Czech Republic?

Damn, I haven't even heard of anyone using them in years. Once upon a time it was THE file sharing platform, but I honestly thought they had already shut down after the police forced them to implement some way to stop people from pirating so easily.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

That's some military grade Judaism.

How popular is uloz.to in the Czech Republic? I used that site for a few years because it was a little known goldmine of old B movies, but they completely changed their terms of service last year, rendering it 99% useless. I think now it's only good for file sharing among paid members. There's no search engine and you can't see ANY content.

It's been copyright cucked and will never recover. Like you say it was a goldmine of rare content such as czech movies and series and more which doubled as a pretty reliable file host for when you needed to share small files. Now it's all gone. Just recently I was looking for a very specific indie movie that I just know 100% I would've found on there before the great cuckening.

Kinda reminds me of what happened to hellshare which started out as a seemingly legit file host but progressively rebranded into hellspy which was essentially ulozto but with a lot of porn and without all the things that made ulozto nice. I have a lot of memories from late 00s warez forums where everyone seemingly insisted on using the shittiest, most decrepit shady ass file hosts for everything, which not only tried to scam you out of money but also deleted shit all the time and the service itself would usually undergo enshittification for years before effectively ceasing operation. You know, the days when you saw a rapidshare link and your reaction wasn't "oh shit get this AIDS garbage away from me" but more akin to "sigh, at least I know what I'm getting into... *presents asshole*"

It was so much fun spending a week downloading 70 parts of a rar file only to find out that part 64 was fucking gone forever.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

It's been copyright cucked and will never recover. Like you say it was a goldmine of rare content such as czech movies and series and more which doubled as a pretty reliable file host for when you needed to share small files. Now it's all gone.

So they got mass DMCA'd to death? What a shame. I got so many old DTV movies (mostly 80s and 90s sci-fi, action and martial arts movies) from there.

Just recently I was looking for a very specific indie movie that I just know 100% I would've found on there before the great cuckening.

Give me the title and I might help you out. I can't guarantee anything, but you have nothing to lose.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

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.

I've recently received a couple of emails from my alternative to Acrobat (for creating and editing PDFs only; I use Sumatra when I just need to view them) stating that perpetual licenses will now only support either the current version or the most recent previous version and nothing else. (Example: v14 and 13 would be supported, but not v12.) Notably absent from that verbiage is whether customers can upgrade for free or a nominal cost. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the answer will be no. All this while software in general adds AI and other features the average user neither wants nor needs. Bloatware sucks.

Had printer problems for the umpteenth fucking time. I got an HP printer

I finally got rid of my HP color printer that was a lesson learned in You get what you pay for. It was one of the first models that got the update to require HP ink only, and its maintenance cycles suck up so much of that expensive brand-name ink that I barely got to use some of those cartridges for actual printing before they needed to be replaced. I was set to retire it for good once I finished off the last of the ink, but I decided to not wait and retire it as part of my summer cleaning and it's set to go to the recycling plant.

I hope you have better luck with your HP printer. I'm thankful I have an older model HP laser printer that has worked reliably for over a decade since it came out before HP turned its products into crap. I also have an older HP color printer that came out before the aforementioned ink updates, so I'm holding onto it until it dies because I'm not sure who makes decent inkjet printers these days (and I don't want to buy another POS printer if I can help it).

To stay somewhat on topic with this, I dislike dealing with HP's proprietary printer software and setup CDs that come with the current models. No, I don't want bloated apps I'll never use that would let me print cute t-shirts and other items of disinterest with your printer. Just give me a print driver that works.

If you're only going to be printing off text documents, I highly suggest getting a laserjet printer made by Brother.

<aol> Me too! </aol>

I've used Brother printers for both personal and office use over the years. They've been absolute work horses and they can easily last 10-15 years if you treat them right. My only dislike with Brother laser printers is they require a drum unit to insert the toner cartridge into. To me, it seems like little more than a pointless consumable item people have to pay for periodically, but it's also a tradeoff I'm willing to make as long as Brother printers work as reliably as they have.

Thread tax: Any software having an uninstall process that doesn't remove all traces of the program when it's no longer wanted/needed is worthy of being labeled a piece of shit.
Edited for spelling.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

I've used Brother printers for both personal and office use over the year. They've been absolute work horses and they can easily last 10-15 years if you treat them right. My only dislike with Brother laser printers is they require a drum unit to insert the toner cartridge into. To me, it seems like little more than a pointless consumable item people have to pay for periodically, but it's also a tradeoff I'm willing to make as long as Brother printers work as reliably as they have.

Brother printers really are amazing. My laser printer has lasted 20 years and still runs like new.
The drum units cost me about $150 but last well over 10,000 pages. As a fairly casual printer user its only had to be replaced once. Toner is way more expensive and needs to be done more often too.
Also have a 20 year old Brother Inkjet that still works amazingly, can get cheap ink for that too. But it doesn't get used too often nowadays.

I am surprised no one has mentioned QuickBooks yet.
I worked in IT support and it was the biggest piece of shit I have ever dealt with, and I didn't actually have to use it. Very tempramental and QuickBooks support was so bad I had to figure shit out myself.
Looked horrible for the accountants to use as well, so its not even good in that way. Honestly surprised the world keeps running when you see this software in the wild.

In fact you could extend this to all accounting software. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP, Reckon and MYOB are the ones I've encountered personally and are all massive pieces of shit that deserve to burn in hell.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I am surprised no one has mentioned QuickBooks yet.
I worked in IT support and it was the biggest piece of shit I have ever dealt with, and I didn't actually have to use it. Very tempramental and QuickBooks support was so bad I had to figure shit out myself.

From my limited experience with QuickBooks as a user, it works for smaller businesses without a lot of business activity but doesn't seem like it would be robust for anything large scale. Perhaps the enterprise edition is different in this regard, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's not true..

However, it's also been my experience that QuickBooks regardless of the version seems to have errors pop up that are either inopportune, cryptic, or both. Trying to find help for those cryptic error codes and messages definitely isn't very efficient and it often felt like chance or dumb luck to find an actual resolution for the error.

In fact you could extend this to all accounting software. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP, Reckon and MYOB are the ones I've encountered personally and are all massive pieces of shit that deserve to burn in hell.

This raises the question of what accounting software, if any, is decent. (Or is the whole slew of offerings simply one massive piece of crap.)

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Going to go slightly retro with this answer, but Adobe Flash.

I originally had Flash when it was Macromedia Flash (version 8 I think) and it was fantastic. Worked very responsively, the UI was brilliant at doing what you wanted and being function-over-form without being ugly, and it was very stable.

Somehow, somewhere along the way, it updated to *Adobe* Flash, and I'm absolutely certain of the version for this one because the name of the software is burnt by trauma into my brain: Flash CS5. Holy fuck, what an absolute dogshit piece of software. Adobe pretty much bought Macromedia and proceeded to give the Flash codebase AIDS. You could barely do a fucking thing without it crashing without warning, and you could seemingly get your Flash project into a state where it was near soft-locked into constantly crashing the program, for absolutely no discernible reason. Hope you enjoyed the hundred hours you sunk into this now-practically-unusable project. I'm sure it was much slower, too.

The fact that *this* buggy piece of shit was the actual industry fucking standard is just unfathomable. Also unfathomable is that (to my knowledge) nobody has made a better tool for hand-drawn, non-rigged 2D animation in the literal 2 decades since the last version of Macromedia Flash.

Also *also* unfathomable is that the use cases for Flash were always split fairly evenly between interactive games and pre-rendered animated videos, yet for most of Flash's entire lifespan there was no good way to frame-perfectly export an animation to video until people on Newgrounds made a third-party tool*. The options were:

- The built-in "export" feature, which just didn't work as IIRC it only applied keyframes to objects one level deep, so to speak.
- Other third party tools that would basically render the animation in real time and record it, causing dropped frames to severely cap the project complexity ceiling.

*It was called Swivel, and I was informed about it by OneyNG himself, who was an absolute bro and used to answer Youtube PMs (RIP PMs) from n00bs like me.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

In fact you could extend this to all accounting software. QuickBooks, Sage, SAP, Reckon and MYOB are the ones I've encountered personally and are all massive pieces of shit that deserve to burn in hell.

It looks like QuickBooks is sunsetting its current one-time purchase desktop software and expecting users to migrate to its more expensive subscription services . Looks like I may be moving over to my tax software's companion bookkeeping program with spreadsheets for what won't migrate over.

Godbear forbid someone not want their data in the cloud.

 

[The Noise]

Several people have said Discord before and I'm inclined to agree. Their platform used to be blazingly fast and just work OOTB seven or eight years ago. It was a hail mary moment for Skype users like me who were tired of Microsoft's bullshit making the platform unusable. Fast forward to today and I constantly have issues with my audio device suddenly being disconnected and either having to physically replug it or restart my entire PC. Every time they update the client they add some new bullshit thing I have to figure out how to hide or disable.

On top of all of that, in the seven years the platform has existed they still haven't figured out an elegant way to do DM permissions. There are a million tiny little toggles and settings that all interact in completely mysterious ways. Does turning on DM privacy in a server override the account setting? When do message requests happen versus outright blocking the message? Who knows? Not Discord!