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I love computers. I love them so much. I even make videos about loving computers.

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But every once in a while, I just grind my gears. Like when you're typing and then you go to press

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enter and then a dialog box pops up and you press enter and it goes away and you're like,

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oh my gosh, what did I just agree to? And I am not the only one. Around here, we've got a huge

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list of problems. So why don't you join us in this therapeutic exercise and let it all out?

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Who knows? Maybe you'll even find a solution to one of your problems.

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For example, here's a problem. You want to change the subject,

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solution? You segue to our sponsor. Google might be too easy of a target for tech gripes,

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but I'm not letting them off the hook. They've burned me too many times. I mean, I'm still sore

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about them ripping Google Play music away and then just never re-implementing some features.

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Like native streaming to Sonos Wi-Fi speakers. That was so good. Gmail used to be good too.

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I cannot be the only person who's ever thought, gosh, who's my new PR contact at MSI again?

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And tried to get autocomplete suggestions for anyone at that corporate domain,

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only if they have Gmail go, you mean you want to find people with the name MSI?

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Okay, Gmail, how about we get Boolean on this business? No dice there either? I mean,

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I guess asterisk at MSI.com could technically be an actual person. So fine. I'll use the search

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at the top of the page and come on. I was so specific. With quotes even? No? No. If you want to

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find all of the emails from a particular domain, you need to make your way all the way to advanced

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search and filter by incoming address. Now to its credit, this does finally work and it even

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adds the Boolean operators for you, but I still think it could be more streamlined. And so could

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spam management. Coincidentally, right as I was sitting down to write this up,

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I found a very important email in my spiced ham folder from none other than snazzy Labs

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inviting me to do a collab. I'd be happy to, by the way, Quinn. I'm sorry for the slow response,

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but I assure you there's a good reason. You see, first of all, even though we've corresponded

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before and have even shared you on internal documents, your email was sent to the bowels

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of my spam folder. Second, as you can see, I organized my inbox with unread at the top to

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help with prioritization. Well, thing is, when I marked your email as not spam, it sent it back

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to my inbox, so far so good, but as a read email. That's not technically wrong. I have read it,

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but I haven't responded to it yet and now it's buried with old stuff and I would only ever find

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it again if I manually searched for it. The good news is that in theory, it'll never happen again.

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A message came up when I moved it to the inbox indicating that I only need to mark your email

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as not spam one time. But in practice, I've found a lot of issues with that function. Fortunately,

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though, there is another way. And again, it's filters. For each person that you want to never

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show up in your spam, you can create a filter. Yes, it takes a lot longer than just clicking one

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button, but hey, maybe you can use this tedious busy work time to think about how other filters

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could enhance your life. Like maybe a filter for local concert promotional emails or those

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Google Calendar invitations that are clogging up your inbox. You can even use or and and operators

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if you want to try to catch more types of emails. Like maybe you want to block out, buy tickets,

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but not see your tickets. Seriously. Filtering your email is a game changer and worth every minute

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spent customizing them. Totally unrelated, but I've still got about 30 seconds left.

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Google Drive sucks for navigating folders with no obvious way to access a full folder tree structure.

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And by the way, why does this button not jump to the parent folder for a file?

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Also, I hate that YouTube music can't be signed into a separate account within the same browser.

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It's not a ton of work to sign into my personal email where I have YouTube premium in another

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browser, but just why? Okay, I'm not like a UX designer, and I also know nothing about

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making operating systems. And I'm sure it's very, very difficult. And I respect the hell

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out of all of the devs down in the trenches, making sure that the 1991 version of TurboTax

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will still run on my system in 2024. But Microsoft, what the hell is wrong with you?

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I mean, Windows 11 is a mess and nothing irks me more than your unhinged settings menu.

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First off, why can I only open one settings window? If I want to adjust Bluetooth settings

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and audio settings, I gotta bounce between two separate sections. The operating system's called

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Windows. Give me Windows. Why don't you have Windows? You know what sucks about your settings

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menu? The power saving menu. How come all of the real power settings aren't there? I have to go to

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the old control panel and go to power plant to find that stuff there. That's where all the useful

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stuff is. Is there an easy way to get there from the power section of the settings app? Of course

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not. And also, what the hell is the difference between a power mode and a power plan? And how come

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when I'm on a certain power plan, I can't change my power mode? Why aren't they one thing? Also,

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the related support sections are useless. At the bottom of the power page, we have a link that says

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changing power mode. And if you click on it, it takes you to a page that tells you how to get

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to the page you're already on. I mean, at the very least, it gets me an answer that's from

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Microsoft. Other questions send me to Bing search where the top result is from a third party website

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that could never be hijacked by evil SEO websites and a response from co-pilot that doesn't even

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give the correct answer. I mean, Google has been lowering their search engine bar, but Microsoft

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are treating it like a limbo competition. Speaking of limbo, how come my battery life's in limbo

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whenever I turn on the battery saving mode? You replace the dynamic icon that shows me the

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remaining life left in my battery with a leaf? A leaf? At the time where I want to know how much

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power I have left, I cannot see it easily because you want to make me feel good for doing my part

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for the environment while I'm racked with anxiety about whether I'm going to get to the next bench

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in Hollow Knight. I'm on a 75 watt hour laptop. Draining it uses half as much power as it takes

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to boil a cup of water, a cup, 250 milliliters. And you're telling me I need to watch my carbon

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footprint when you are happy to cut down another hectare of the rainforest so co-pilot can hallucinate

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Excel functions that don't exist? Oh, well, it's a good thing that I'm doing my part.

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Like, I get it. I'm supportive of reducing waste and consumption. But the whole concept of the

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carbon footprint was popularized by BP, an oil company, in 2004 to take the onus of change off

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of them and put it onto you. Focus on your own minuscule contribution to the world and feel like

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you're doing your part. And while you're looking at yourself, the oil companies will continue

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destroying the environment for profit. Think about it like this. If we all just murdered a little bit

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less, then there would be no more murder, says the man with the massive murder machine. Like,

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come on. Sorry, that was a big problem. These are supposed to be small problems.

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Let's go back to annoyances I have with the settings tray. Why do the Ethernet and audio icons

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act as a single button with a left click, but two separate buttons as a right click?

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It's confusing and it's not how it works literally anywhere else. Even the combination

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clock notification button that's directly beside it acts as a single button with your right or left

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clicking. And while I do enjoy the redesign of your quick settings menu, could we make the

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buttons just a little bit smaller? I also appreciate that you finally put a sound mixer in the quick

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settings. But why did you do it in such a not quick way? I don't need spatial sound options

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above the mixer. Sure, there are alternative solutions like ear trumpet, which are great.

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But now that you've made it so that I can't hide the audio icon like I could in every version of

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Windows before, not even through a group policy setting, I got to sit here with two different

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icons in my tray. Sadly, we don't have any real fixes for these problems. But as a thank you for

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listening, I'll give you a few cool configuration tools. Chris Titus Tech's Windows utility. It's

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an easy to use GUI that allows you to quickly install programs that you'll actually like,

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and you can do a ton of quick tweaks like removing telemetry, removing adobe bloat,

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web search from the start menu, and so much more. You can even use it to set up a custom

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Windows ISO that's de-bloated and stops trying to trick you into linking a Microsoft account.

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If you're more interested in just changing the way things look, check out Windhawk. It's a

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collection of visual NUX tweaks like middle click to close Windows from the taskbar,

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adjusting the height and icon size of the taskbar, or the look and feel of the Windows 11 start menu.

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My personal favorite is Modernized Folder Picker Dialog. We always recommend exercising

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caution with these tweaks because changing system level stuff can present risks to your system's

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security and stability. But maybe they'll lower the risk to your sanity, unlike modern games.

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My biggest gripe is modern gaming. Micro transactions, rampant gambling, bland hero

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shooters and service games, obnoxious DRMs, always online BS. It's all bad, all gross,

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but what really makes me want to pull my hair out is compiling shaders at runtime. There is no

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worse feeling than getting a Discord message from your friends. They ask you to boot up Halo

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Infinite, which of course needs an update because it's been about two weeks, and don't worry,

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they still haven't added anything that you're missing. Then you wait for the game to load,

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and oh my god, you're greeted with another 10-15 minute loading screen waiting for this stupid

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bar to go across. If this happened every once in a while after a major update, sure, but every

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miniscule update? Just for us to get the pleasure to sit through this whole process again? But why

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do my games even need to compile shaders every time? I loaded it already, shouldn't it just be

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saved? Well, yes, actually. But before we explain why it might need to do it every time,

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let's break down what this bar even means. The simple answer is shaders are what makes the game

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look, you know, like the game, whether that's the vertex shaders to affect the shape of an item,

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pixel shaders to determine color, or even geometry shaders to change the shape of things,

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such as grass or snow. Due to the complexity of modern rendering, trying to compile these shaders

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during gameplay will result in long hitches and stuttering, making the experience just terrible.

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Instead, the game compiles those shaders at first launch before you get into the game to make sure

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you have a smooth experience. It's kind of like chopping your vegetables up before you even start

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making the stir-fry. That way, when you actually start cooking, you can just toss in the prepped

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vegetables. But if you didn't, you'd be constantly stopping to peel an onion or crush a garlic,

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and that would risk ruining the meal. But what if the recipe suddenly changes? Well,

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that's why we need to redo our prep, things like swapping out your GPU, updating your drivers,

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or even if the dev changes some setting in the game that alters the usage of those shaders,

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those are all reasons why you may need to recompile. And if the devs, you know, goof up real bad,

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then that compilation can take a long time, especially if you have older, slower processors.

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So what's the solution? It's pretty easy. Never update your game, your computer, or your hardware.

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Finally, my shaders are all done. You know what else took forever? Apple adding window snapping to macOS.

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For the uninitiated, window snapping allows you to easily snap an app you have open to one side

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of the screen, a corner, or even full screen by dragging the window to the edge of the screen.

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It's awesome. It's intuitive. And it's a feature that Windows has had since Windows 7,

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which launched in 2009. But no fear, as of macOS Sequoia, you can easily snap applications on

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your Mac. I'll show you on this 14 inch MacBook Pro M4. And boom, snapped. Great, right? No, not great.

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The way they implemented this is so unfathomably stupid. I just, I can't even. Sure, the window,

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it's snapped. But why the f*** is there this massive f***ing gap? It's a tiny screen. I don't

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want to waste half an inch of my f***ing precious screen real estate on your stupid f***ing bull***

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Apple. What the f***ing f*** is wrong with you? I just, so what, I can see my desktop background?

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Why? I swear, this kind of bull*** makes me physically angry. Do they even try this before

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they release it? And it gets better. Remember the notch Apple is graced practically every modern

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Mac with? I mean, how could you forget, right? But don't worry, I'm not going to complain about

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that, even if it does look ridiculous. Because hey, I'm a fan of extra screen real estate.

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It's just that Apple really seems like they aren't. You know macOS is full screen mode? When you

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click this little green button, it's supposed to, and I quote, take advantage of every inch of the

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screen. So what is this? Why does the extra notch space do nothing until I mouse over it? Why? The

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screen space is there. I thought we were trying to take advantage of it, Apple. But Jake, it's to

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help you focus on what you're working on. Yeah, except every app has its menus baked into the menu

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bar you're hiding from me. And you know what's more disruptive to my flow? Having to move my

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cursor to the top, wait for it to show the stupid menus before I can figure out where I need to

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click. Fortunately, both of these gripes can be remedied. For the first one, change the settings

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to have the menu stick around. And for the second, disable Apple's built-in snapping and continue

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using a third party app like Rectangle. It's free and wasn't designed by a psychopath.

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What I don't have an answer to, though, is how we still don't have a standard way to transfer

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files between operating systems. To Apple's credit, AirDrop works like a dream. And Google's

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nearby share and quick share on Android are also pretty great. But what if you want to send a file

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between your iPhone and a Windows computer? Email maybe? But what if it's a new computer? It almost

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certainly has hardware capable of sending and receiving data at high speeds like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

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But there's just no native software to do it. Now, there are some third party solutions like

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PairDrop, a browser-based AirDrop clone that allows you to send files peer-to-peer over your

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local network or the internet and works without having to install or sign up for anything.

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But seriously, it would take a Microsoft engineer like, what, maybe a few days to build a

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concept for this? Instead, they're too busy trying to cram AI into every device with a pulse,

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which is exactly what my friend Alex is here to tell you about. I frigging hate AI. Okay, that isn't entirely fair. It can be very useful. But the willy-nilly

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bolting of AI onto everything that I own is infuriating. Look at this. We can come in here.

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This is a test. Right beside send, this stupid button, I accidentally hit it all the time.

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What am I going to do with this? Okay, let's make it funnier. This is only a test,

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but don't worry, you're probably going to fail anyway. Thank you, AI. That is so worth it.

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Similarly, Microsoft have removed my right Windows key and replaced it with the co-pilot key. And

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given I have the habit to hit Windows plus L every time I leave my computer, I accidentally hit

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consume enough electricity to power light bulb for 20 minutes button instead all the time.

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Logitech have also built AI into their mouse drivers. Guys, it is a mouse. I do not need AI

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built into it. And also, anybody that has ever used your software before can very easily make a

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chat GPT macro by just going in there. It would take them seconds. You do not need to do this.

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Also, Google. Oh my God, Google. I love how you so confidently use AI to grab me the incorrect

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answer to a question while also stripping that answer of all of the context required to easily

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tell it is incorrect. In fairness to Google, AI SEO farming has completely ruined their old way of

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doing search. But that doesn't make me like AI more. And again, I want to say there are loads

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of great uses for AI. DLSS is awesome. Protein folding and data filtering improvements are

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genuinely good for the world. But if you make an AI chat bot to help your customers and then claim no

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responsibility for its answers, you're just a dickhead. And I'd be a dickhead if I didn't segue

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