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

[An automatic clown]

Surprised no one mentioned SAP. Now I'm sure SAP is fine on it's own.
But my employer decided to stake the whole fucking farm on it. Everything from quality assurance, inventory, parts, finished product, vacation, time sheets and payroll are run off this system.
The GUI we have is not user intuitive unless you've been using it for a while.
For example I go to look up a part. I can't just type a fucking description. I need a variant, a variable, a stool sample and a functional location just to even begin to see if I have this in stock.
It's so unreliable that my coworkers frequently come up "is your sap working?" " Can I use your PC to close out this po? Mines down"
It seems like my employer just keeps crowbaring worthless "modules" onto an already full of shit client just to make managements job easier of pulling reports that don't mean anything.
I don't even work in the IT department and I've got boomers who can barely check their email asking how to do complicated inventory movements in SAP. They ask me after they fuck it up, naturally.

Another one is Datametrics DC Pro. It collects and saves measurements of specialized equipment which is pretty cool because some of our lab equipment is old as shit
But it's so insecure you can just scroll back and delete previous measurements that someone else took.
Another problem is it's set up on a PC separate from the PC the instrument is plugged into on one of those KVM switches. So when some halfwit knocks a plug out they just leave it. The program doesn't tell you it's not connected to the instrument PC
There's a reason we keep a Windows 95 PC set up in the back and functional!

Also why in the fuck do devs still bother making splash screens for programs anymore?

 

[diesel bottle]

itunes. music player in 2021 with no flac support omegalul

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

flameshot is okay but doesn't seem entirely reliable. The interface is also pretty wonky. Still need to look around more.

Install IrfanView on Linux

Installation of IrfanView on your Linux machine.

www.boekhoff.info

I do all my resizing/cropping/rotation in IrfanView.

 

[Wood]

Why does Windows' Calculator take 5+ seconds to start on my work box oh my fucking God

 

[69ing Ur Mom]

Adobe CC. Any time it does any updates to any software or cloud up/downloads it monopolises my entire internet connection so nothing else works.

Photoshop CC: someone already mentioned above how adobe still thinks they're the center of the universe.

Pirated Adobe products are pretty awesome. The problem is that you are paying for this shit. They DRM is fucking satanic.

All updates inevitably make it slower and more crash-prone too. Also it wants to run a half dozen processes in the background at all times.

My post-close Adobe batch routine:

DIEDIEDIEDIIEDIE

Adobe anything. They own the market, but their software is shit and jack of all trades, master of none. None of the new programs offer something new. And DRM is a pain to deal with.

I'm surprised by how little hate Adobe has gotten. Their entire suite of products is bloated with upsells to get users to spend money on cloud storage and stock media. I do not want to see ads in software, much less software that I'm paying for.

All the proprietary file formats are designed to lock people into the Adobe ecosystem.

What's worse is that updates break the software. Why pay for a subscription with "updates," when updating will waste hours or more of your time?

I stopped using Adobe when I wasted 10+ hours due to a bad update. I updated Premiere Pro, edited a video, and then it exported with green (dropped) frames. I rolled back to the previous version that didn't drop frames, but I was unable to open the project file. It was not compatible with the previous version of Premiere Pro.

When I search for a solution, I can across an Adobe support thread that was started more than a decade ago. It was long and filled with people encountering the same bug year after year. It never got fixed because all the work went into trying to suck more money out of people.

 

[UtInEqUA]

I bought some fancy new RAM sticks from Corsair, and they require their almost 1GB program just to change the colours on it. Thankfully, once you set it, it will stay that way, so I don't have to use it. I have tried some free alternative, forgot the name of it but it was a bit meh. RGB software in general is a mess, but most of the lighting in my PC is via an infrared remote anyway.

 

[moocow]

I bought some fancy new RAM sticks from Corsair, and they require their almost 1GB program just to change the colours on it. Thankfully, once you set it, it will stay that way, so I don't have to use it. I have tried some free alternative, forgot the name of it but it was a bit meh. RGB software in general is a mess, but most of the lighting in my PC is via an infrared remote anyway.

The fuck are you doing buying a component with bling lights on it that goes inside the case where you won't be able to see it?

Wait. Why do computers need bling lights in the first place?

 

[UtInEqUA]

The fuck are you doing buying a component with bling lights on it that goes inside the case where you won't be able to see it?

Wait. Why do computers need bling lights in the first place?

cause my case has a window, and bling lights are cool. also the ram was cheap

 

[moocow]

cause my case has a window, and bling lights are cool. also the ram was cheap

I've heard you can make RAM go 1% faster if you cut the leads to the pretty bling lights.

 

[UtInEqUA]

I've heard you can make RAM go 1% faster if you cut the leads to the pretty bling lights.

the rgb strips increase your FPS by around 20% bro

 

[mikaylatoads]

the rgb strips increase your FPS by around 20% bro

I heard they also increase your mouse accuracy

 

[ks99]

Any present-day laptop BIOS/firmware for making it a fucking pain to sort out booting from anything that isn't Windows. I just LOVE having my installation USB work flawlessly on one laptop and be completely unrecognised on another, whether it be due to some shit with Secure Boot, the fact that the USB uses MBR rather than GPT for the partition scheme and the former just isn't accepted, or some other bullshit brought along by third parties like Intel for whatever stupid reason.

>MBR vs GPT on USB meme

Come home, white man.

 

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>MBR vs GPT on USB meme
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Come home, white man.

Easier said than done when you're also dealing with laptops that don't come with a CD/DVD drive and you have next to no real incentive to get an external one.

 

[Toolbox]

Easier said than done when you're also dealing with laptops that don't come with a CD/DVD drive and you have next to no real incentive to get an external one.

That and I'm seeing discs from just 20 years ago or less experience disc rot. At least with flash storage there's some chance it'll last longer.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

I saw a laptop the other day that had no cd drive, no hdmi, no vga. Society is doomed.

You think that's bad? Some of Apple's newer MacBook Laptops don't even come with fucking USB ports. At all. Hope you didn't have any thumb drives or accessories you wanted to use with your $799 sheet of aluminum.

Fuck Big Tech.

 

[ks99]

That and I'm seeing discs from just 20 years ago or less experience disc rot. At least with flash storage there's some chance it'll last longer.

First off, you're incredibly unlikely to need an install disc for any OS to last that long. Secondly, the production quality most discs you could buy 20 years ago sucked dick. I think the only ones you'll find on Amazon now are Verbatim, which IIRC are mostly manufactured by the Taiwanese ghost of Taiyo Yuden. Third, flash media, although non-volatile, requires enough of a charge to remain in order for the data to remain intact. If you don't turn on the drive for 20 years, that's as much of a risk as a DVD-R shitting itself.

Easier said than done when you're also dealing with laptops that don't come with a CD/DVD drive and you have next to no real incentive to get an external one.

The solution is to not buy laptops that don't have an optical drive :^)

 

[ks99]

You think that's bad? Some of Apple's newer MacBook Laptops don't even come with fucking USB ports. At all. Hope you didn't have any thumb drives or accessories you wanted to use with your $799 sheet of aluminum.

Fuck Big Tech.

But you don't understand, you see, they DO come with USB ports!

USB-C evangelism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

 

[DaddyCowboy]

As a college student, literally any software we need to use functions like garbage. For example, websites/software for homework (especially things involving math or science) are impossible to navigate, are completely buggy, and mark your inputted answers as incorrect over arbitrary bullshit. To make this even worse, the teachers who use these websites/software are usually technologically inept, so you have no easy way on figuring out what the fuck to do in a timely manner. Finally, the customer support for this trashfire is completely non-existent.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

>> Be me trying to install a program
>> Cannot get it to work
>> Try to contact the customer service
>> Gets forwarded to a FUCKING user forum because they're "Upgrading" the customer service experience
>> Tried to ask the forum member and mods for the solution
>> "Your Windows version is too recent for the program"
User forum is a mistake

 

[WinnieTheJew]

Any present-day laptop BIOS/firmware for making it a fucking pain to sort out booting from anything that isn't Windows. I just LOVE having my installation USB work flawlessly on one laptop and be completely unrecognised on another, whether it be due to some shit with Secure Boot, the fact that the USB uses MBR rather than GPT for the partition scheme and the former just isn't accepted, or some other bullshit brought along by third parties like Intel for whatever stupid reason.

I have thrown away a laptop over this absolute wankery. It was a cheap little netbook type thing that wasn't worth much but the BIOS wouldn't let me disable secure boot. No way to add keys or change the boot order or anything. ASUS ANUS also has the most clueless customer service Pajeets on Earth.