• @DaddleDew
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    10 days ago

    I find the tiny amount of jank comforting

    It’s like a subtle reminder that you aren’t being exploited by a big corporation.

    • thermal_shock
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      1610 days ago

      seriously, really helps learn troubleshooting too, not just throw and error number at you and close.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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        79 days ago

        not just throw and error number at you and close

        Lol every Microsoft error I’ve seen in the last few years has been of the “Oops! Something went wrong!” variety. I would kill for a fucking error number.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 days ago

          Not like it matters, even when google finds a promising link, Microsoft has invariably moved or deleted the article, but instead of just telling you it’s gone, you get the windows 11 landing page…

        • @[email protected]
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          29 days ago

          Fucking Apple going down that route too.

          “<Your disc> can’t be ejected as it’s in use”

          It fucking ain’t. I’ve force quit all the fucking apps you shithead. The only way to safely eject is to shut down.

          • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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            29 days ago

            My macbook is circa 2012 and many years ago my CD drive just completely vanished from Finder. No indication that it exists anywhere, so no hope of ejecting the old CD that’s stuck in there now, and of course I can’t stick a fresh CD in. My kingdom for a fucking physical eject button.

            I remember trying to use a Mac back in the early '90s. There was no disk eject button and the power button was this big knob sitting right next to the disk drive exactly where a rational person would expect there to be an eject button, so I kept accidentally powering off the computer whenever I wanted to eject a disk. Took me some time to accept the incredibly intuitive dragging the drive icon onto the fucking trash can to eject.

        • @scarilog
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          29 days ago

          UwU something just went fucky wucky and we have to shut down

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          I saw this one recently in a car: “Error: USB input.” Okay, so what am I supposed to do now?

    • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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      10 days ago

      But, this seems to imply that there is no jank in software made by big corporation.

      • @renzev
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        10 days ago

        Corporate jank has a different flavour to open-source jank.

        Corporate jank is like *Download the adobe download update manager in order to download updates for your adobe update manager now free of charge! Just don’t forget to activate your adobe download update manager activation license in the adobe activation license activator software"

        Open-source jank is like Yeah, it’s broken unless you install this specific package or there are three and a half different states that the “brush” tool can have, and the “half” is what you want most of the time or these 5000 lines of logs are not important and can be ignored, except once in a blue moon where a really important critical notice is hidden somewhere in the middle or why are you using the official installer, nobody uses the official installer! Just get it from your package manager!