I love computers I love them so much I even make videos about loving computers
but every once in a while they just grind my gears like when you're typing
and then you go to press enter and then a dialogue box pops up and you press
enter and it goes away and you're like oh my gosh what did I just agree to and
I am not the only one around here we've got a huge list of problems so why don't
you join us in this therapeutic exercise and let it all out who knows maybe
you'll even find a solution to one of you your problems for example here's a
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target for Tech gripes but I'm not letting them off the hook they've burned
me too many times I mean I'm still about them ripping Google play music
away and then just never reimplementing some features like native streaming to
Sonos Wi-Fi speakers that was so good
Gmail used to be good too I cannot be the only person who's ever thought gosh
who's my new PR contact at MSI again and
tried to get autocomplete suggestions for anyone at that corporate domain only
to have Gmail go you mean you want to find people with the name MSI okay gmail
how about we get Boolean on this business no dice there either I mean I
guess asterisk msi.com could technically
be an actual person so fine I'll use the search at the top of the page and come
on I was so specific with quotes even no
no if you want to find all of the emails from a particular domain you need to
make your way all the way to Advanced Search and filter by incoming address
now to its credit this does finally work
and it even adds the Boolean operators for you but I still think it could be
more streamlined and so could spam management coincidentally right as I was
sitting down to write this up I found a very important email in my spiced ham
folder from none other than snazzy Labs inviting me to do a collab I'd be happy
to by the way Quinn um I'm sorry for the slow response but I assure you there's a
good reason you see first of all even though we've corresponded before and
I've even shared you on internal documents your email was sent to the
bowels of my spam folder second as you can see I organized my inbox with unread
at the top to help with prioritization well thing is when I marked your email
as not spam it sent it back to my inbox
so far so good but as a read
email that's not technically wrong I
have read it but I haven't responded to it yet and now it's buried with old
stuff and I would only ever find it again if I man manually searched for it
ah the good news is that in theory it'll never happen again a message came up
when I moved to the inbox indicating that I only need to mark your email as
not spam one time but in practice I
found a lot of issues with that function fortunately though there is another way
and again it's filters for each person that you want to never show up in your
spam you can create a filter yes it takes a lot longer than just clicking
one button but hey maybe you can use this tedious busy work time to think
about how other filters could enhance your life like maybe a filter for local
concert promotional emails or those Google calendar invitations that are
clogging up your inbox you can even use or and and operators if you want to try
to catch more types of emails like maybe you want to block out buy tickets but
not see your tickets seriously filtering your email is a GameChanger and worth
every minute spent customizing them totally unrelated but I've still got
about 30 seconds left uh Google drive sucks for navigating folders with no
obvious way to access a full folder tree structure and by the way why does this
button not jump to the parent folder for a file ah also I hate that YouTube music
can't be signed into a separate account within the same browser it's not a ton
of work to sign into my personal email where I have YouTube premium in another
browser but just why okay I'm not like a
ux designer and I also know nothing about making operating systems and I'm
sure it's very very difficult and I respect the hell out of all all of the
devs down in the trenches making sure that the 1991 version of Turbo Tax will
still run on my system in 2024 but Microsoft what the hell is wrong with
you I mean Windows 11 is a mess and nothing irks me more than your unhinged
settings menu first off why can I only open one settings window if I want to
adjust bluetooth settings and audio settings I got to bounce between two separate sections the operating system's
called Windows give me Windows why don't you have Windows you know what sucks
about your settings menu the power saving menu how come all of the real power settings aren't there I have to go
to the old control panel and go to Power plan to find that stuff there that's
where all the useful stuff is is there an easy way to get there from the power
section of the settings app of course not and also what the hell is the
difference between a power mode and a power plan and how come when I'm on a
certain power plan I can't change my power mode why aren't they one thing
also the related support sections are useless at the bottom of the power page
we have a link that says changing power mode and if you click on it it takes you
to a page that tells you how to get to the page you're already on I mean at the
very least it gets me an answer that's from Microsoft other questions send me
to Bing search where the top result is from a third-party website that could
never be hijacked by evil SEO websites
and a response from co-pilot that doesn't even give the correct answer I
mean Google has been lowering their search engine bar but Microsoft you're
treating it like a limbo competition speaking of limbo how come my battery
life's in limbo whenever I turn on the battery saving mode you replace the
dynamic icon that shows me the remaining life left on my battery with a leaf a
leaf at the time where I want to know how much power I have left I cannot see
it easily because you want to make me feel good for doing my part for the
environment while I'm racked with anxiety about whether I'm going to get to the next bench in Hollow night I'm on
a 75 WTH hour laptop draining it uses half as much power as it takes to boil a
cup of water a cup 250 ml and you're
telling me I need to watch my carbon footprint when you are happy to cut down
another hectare of the rainforce so co-pilot can hallucinate XL functions
that don't exist oh well it's a good thing that I'm doing my part like I get
it I'm supportive of reducing waste and consumption but the whole concept of the
carbon footprint was popularized by BP an oil company in 2004 to take the onus
of change off of them and put it onto you focus on your own minuscule
contribution to the world and feel like you're doing your part and while you're
looking at yourself the oil companies will continue destroying the environment for profit think about it like this if
we all was murdered a little bit less then there would be no more murder says
the man with the massive murder machine like come on sorry that was a big
problem these are supposed to be small problems let's go back to annoyances I
have with the settings tray why do the Ethernet and audio icons act as a single
button with a left click but two separate buttons as a right click it's
confusing and it's not how it works literally anywhere else even the
combination clock notification button that's directly beside it acts as a
single button whether you're right or left clicking and while I do enjoy the
redesign of your quick settings menu could we make the button buttons just a little bit smaller I also appreciate
that you finally put a sound mixer in the Quick Settings but why did you do it
in such a not quick way I don't need spatial sound options above the mixer
sure there are alternative Solutions like ear trumpet which are great but now
that you've made it so that I can't hide the audio icon like I could in every
version of Windows before not even through a group policy setting I got to
sit here with two different icons in my tray sadly we don't have any real fixes
for these problems but as a thank you for listening I'll give you a few cool
configuration tools Chris Titus text Windows utility it's an easy to ous guey
that allows you to quickly install programs that you'll actually like and
you can do a ton of quick tweaks like removing Telemetry removing Adobe bloat
web search from the start menu and so much more you can even use it to set up
a custom Windows ISO that's debloated and stops trying to trick you into
linking a Microsoft account if you're more interested in just changing the way
things look check out wind Hawk it's a collection of visual andux tweaks like
middle click to close Windows from the taskbar adjusting the height and icon
size of the taskbar or the look and feel
of the Windows 11 start menu my personal favorite is modernized folder picker
dialogue we always recommend exercise and caution with these tweaks because
changing system level stuff can present risks to your system security and
stability but maybe they'll lower the risk to your sanity unlike modern games
my biggest gripe is modern gaming microtransactions rampant gambling Bland
hero Shooters and service games obnoxious drms always online bs it's all
bad all gross but what really makes me want to pull my hair out is compiling
shaders at runtime there is no worst feeling then getting a Discord message
from your friends they ask you to boot up halo infinite which of course needs
an update cuz it's been about 2 weeks and don't worry they still hav't edit
anything that you're missing then you wait for the game to load and oh my God
you're greeted with another 10 to 15 minute loading screen waiting for this
stupid bar to go across if this happened every once in a while after a major
update sure but every minuscule update
just for us to get the pleasure to sit through this whole process again but why
do my games even need to compile shaders every time I loaded it already shouldn't
it just be saved well yes actually but before we explain why it might need to
do it every time let's break down what this bar even means the simple answer is
shaders are what makes the game look you know like the game whether that's the
vertex shaders to affect the shape of an item pixel shaders to determine color or
even geometry shaders to change the shape of things such as grass or snow
due to the complexity of modern rendering trying to compile these
shaders juring gameplay will result in
Long hitches and stuttering making the experience just terrible instead the
game compiles those shaders at first launch before you get into the game to
make sure you have a smooth experience it's kind of like chopping your
vegetables up before you even start making the stir fry that way when you
actually start cooking you can just toss in the prepped vegetables but if you did
you'd be constantly stopping to peel an onion or crush a garlic and that would
risk ruining the meal but what if the recipe suddenly changes well that's why
we need to redo our prep things like swapping out your GPU updating your
drivers or even if the dev changes some setting in the game that alters the
usage of those shaders those are all reasons why you may need to recompile
and if the devs you know goof up real bad then that compilation can take a
long time especially if you have older
slower processors so what's the solution
it's pretty easy never update your game your computer or your
Hardware finally my shaders are all done
you know what else took forever Apple adding window snapping to macOS for the
uninitiated window snapping allows you to easily snap an app you have open to
one side of the screen a corner or even full screen by dragging the window to
the edge of the screen it's awesome it's intuitive and it's a feature that
Windows has had since Windows 7 which launched in 2009 but no fear as of Mac
OS Sequoia you can easily snap applications on your Mac I'll show you
on this 14-inch MacBook Pro M4 and boom
snapped great right no not great the way
they implemented this is so unfathomably stupid I just I can't even sure the
window it's snapped but why the is there
this massive Gap it's a tiny screen I
don't want to waste half an inch of mying precious screen real estate on
your stupid bull Apple what the flying
is wrong with you I
just so what I can see my desktop background why I swear this kind of
makes me physically angry do
they even try this before they release it and it gets better remember the Notch
Apple has graced practically every modern Mac with I mean how could you
forget right but don't worry I'm not going to complain about that even if it
does look ridiculous because hey I'm a fan of extra screen real estate it's
just that Apple really seems like they aren't you know macOS is full screen
mode when you click this little green button it's supposed to and I quote take
advantage of every inch of the screen so what is this why does the extra Notch
space do nothing until I Mouse over it why the screen space is there I thought
we were trying to take advantage of it Apple but Jake it's to help you focus on
what you're working on yeah except every app has its menu is baked into the menu
bar you're hiding from me and you know what's more disruptive to my flow having
to move my cursor to the top wait for it to show the stupid menus before I can
figure out where I need to click fortunately both of these gripes can be
remedied for the first one change the settings to have the menu stick around
and for the second disable Apple's built-in snapping and continue using a
third party app like rectangle it's free and wasn't designed by a psychopath what
I don't have an answer to though is how we still don't have a standard way to
transfer files between operating systems to Apple's credit airdrop works like a
dream and Google's nearby share and quick share on Android are also pretty
great but what if you want to send a file between your iPhone and a Windows
computer email maybe but what if it's a new computer it almost certainly has
Hardware capable of sending and receiving data at high speeds like Wi-Fi
or Bluetooth but there's just no native software to do it now there are some
thirdparty solutions like Paar drop a browser-based airdrop clone that allows
you to send files peer-to-peer over your local network or the internet and Works
without having to install or sign up for anything but seriously it would take a
Microsoft engineer like what maybe a few days to build a concept for this instead
they're too busy trying to cram AI into every device with a pulse which is
exactly what my friend Alex is here to tell you about I freaking hate AI okay
that isn't entirely Fair it can be very useful but the willy-nilly bolting of AI
onto everything that I own is infuriating look at this we can come in
here this is a test rap besde sent this stupid button I
accidentally hit it all the time what am I going to do with this okay let's make
it funnier this is only a test but don't worry you're probably going to fail
anyway thank you AI that is so worth it
similarly Microsoft have removed my right Windows key and replaced it with
the co-pilot key and given I have the Habit to hit Windows plusl every time I
leave my computer I accidentally hit consume enough electricity to power
light bulb for 20 minutes button instead all the time Logitech have also built AI
into their mous drivers guys it is a
mouse I do not need AI built into it and
also anybody that has ever used your software before can very easily make a
chat GPT macro by just going in there it would take them seconds you do not need
to do this also Google oh my God Google
I love how you so confidently use AI to grab me the incorrect answer to question
while also stripping that answer of all of the context required to easily tell
it is incorrect In fairness to Google aiso farming has completely ruined their
old way of doing search but that doesn't make me like AI more and again I W to
say there are loads of great uses for AI dlss is awesome protein folding and data
filtering improvements are genuinely good for the world but if you make an AI
chat bot to help your customers and then claim no responsibility for its answers
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