WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 I love computers. I love them so much. I even make videos about loving computers. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:10.640 But every once in a while, I just grind my gears. Like when you're typing and then you go to press 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:15.200 enter and then a dialog box pops up and you press enter and it goes away and you're like, 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:21.200 oh my gosh, what did I just agree to? And I am not the only one. Around here, we've got a huge 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:27.360 list of problems. So why don't you join us in this therapeutic exercise and let it all out? 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.720 Who knows? Maybe you'll even find a solution to one of your problems. 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:34.080 For example, here's a problem. You want to change the subject, 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:39.520 solution? You segue to our sponsor. Google might be too easy of a target for tech gripes, 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.400 but I'm not letting them off the hook. They've burned me too many times. I mean, I'm still sore 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:50.000 about them ripping Google Play music away and then just never re-implementing some features. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.080 Like native streaming to Sonos Wi-Fi speakers. That was so good. Gmail used to be good too. 00:00:56.080 --> 00:01:01.920 I cannot be the only person who's ever thought, gosh, who's my new PR contact at MSI again? 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.000 And tried to get autocomplete suggestions for anyone at that corporate domain, 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:10.640 only if they have Gmail go, you mean you want to find people with the name MSI? 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:16.640 Okay, Gmail, how about we get Boolean on this business? No dice there either? I mean, 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:23.600 I guess asterisk at MSI.com could technically be an actual person. So fine. I'll use the search 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:33.280 at the top of the page and come on. I was so specific. With quotes even? No? No. If you want to 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:38.960 find all of the emails from a particular domain, you need to make your way all the way to advanced 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:45.840 search and filter by incoming address. Now to its credit, this does finally work and it even 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:51.040 adds the Boolean operators for you, but I still think it could be more streamlined. And so could 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:55.680 spam management. Coincidentally, right as I was sitting down to write this up, 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.640 I found a very important email in my spiced ham folder from none other than snazzy Labs 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:06.320 inviting me to do a collab. I'd be happy to, by the way, Quinn. I'm sorry for the slow response, 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:11.280 but I assure you there's a good reason. You see, first of all, even though we've corresponded 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:16.000 before and have even shared you on internal documents, your email was sent to the bowels 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.520 of my spam folder. Second, as you can see, I organized my inbox with unread at the top to 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:28.000 help with prioritization. Well, thing is, when I marked your email as not spam, it sent it back 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:37.360 to my inbox, so far so good, but as a read email. That's not technically wrong. I have read it, 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:42.560 but I haven't responded to it yet and now it's buried with old stuff and I would only ever find 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:49.280 it again if I manually searched for it. The good news is that in theory, it'll never happen again. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.600 A message came up when I moved it to the inbox indicating that I only need to mark your email 00:02:53.600 --> 00:02:59.440 as not spam one time. But in practice, I've found a lot of issues with that function. Fortunately, 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:04.800 though, there is another way. And again, it's filters. For each person that you want to never 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:10.560 show up in your spam, you can create a filter. Yes, it takes a lot longer than just clicking one 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.160 button, but hey, maybe you can use this tedious busy work time to think about how other filters 00:03:16.160 --> 00:03:21.280 could enhance your life. Like maybe a filter for local concert promotional emails or those 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:26.400 Google Calendar invitations that are clogging up your inbox. You can even use or and and operators 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:31.360 if you want to try to catch more types of emails. Like maybe you want to block out, buy tickets, 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.120 but not see your tickets. Seriously. Filtering your email is a game changer and worth every minute 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.240 spent customizing them. Totally unrelated, but I've still got about 30 seconds left. 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:47.200 Google Drive sucks for navigating folders with no obvious way to access a full folder tree structure. 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:51.440 And by the way, why does this button not jump to the parent folder for a file? 00:03:52.160 --> 00:03:57.680 Also, I hate that YouTube music can't be signed into a separate account within the same browser. 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.080 It's not a ton of work to sign into my personal email where I have YouTube premium in another 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:08.000 browser, but just why? Okay, I'm not like a UX designer, and I also know nothing about 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.280 making operating systems. And I'm sure it's very, very difficult. And I respect the hell 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:17.760 out of all of the devs down in the trenches, making sure that the 1991 version of TurboTax 00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:23.120 will still run on my system in 2024. But Microsoft, what the hell is wrong with you? 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:29.040 I mean, Windows 11 is a mess and nothing irks me more than your unhinged settings menu. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:34.480 First off, why can I only open one settings window? If I want to adjust Bluetooth settings 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:39.120 and audio settings, I gotta bounce between two separate sections. The operating system's called 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:43.360 Windows. Give me Windows. Why don't you have Windows? You know what sucks about your settings 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:47.920 menu? The power saving menu. How come all of the real power settings aren't there? I have to go to 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.840 the old control panel and go to power plant to find that stuff there. That's where all the useful 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:56.480 stuff is. Is there an easy way to get there from the power section of the settings app? Of course 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.960 not. And also, what the hell is the difference between a power mode and a power plan? And how come 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:07.760 when I'm on a certain power plan, I can't change my power mode? Why aren't they one thing? Also, 00:05:07.760 --> 00:05:11.920 the related support sections are useless. At the bottom of the power page, we have a link that says 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:16.080 changing power mode. And if you click on it, it takes you to a page that tells you how to get 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:20.640 to the page you're already on. I mean, at the very least, it gets me an answer that's from 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:26.000 Microsoft. Other questions send me to Bing search where the top result is from a third party website 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:32.640 that could never be hijacked by evil SEO websites and a response from co-pilot that doesn't even 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:37.440 give the correct answer. I mean, Google has been lowering their search engine bar, but Microsoft 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:42.400 are treating it like a limbo competition. Speaking of limbo, how come my battery life's in limbo 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:46.240 whenever I turn on the battery saving mode? You replace the dynamic icon that shows me the 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:52.640 remaining life left in my battery with a leaf? A leaf? At the time where I want to know how much 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:58.320 power I have left, I cannot see it easily because you want to make me feel good for doing my part 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:01.680 for the environment while I'm racked with anxiety about whether I'm going to get to the next bench 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.560 in Hollow Knight. I'm on a 75 watt hour laptop. Draining it uses half as much power as it takes 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:13.200 to boil a cup of water, a cup, 250 milliliters. And you're telling me I need to watch my carbon 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:18.000 footprint when you are happy to cut down another hectare of the rainforest so co-pilot can hallucinate 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:22.080 Excel functions that don't exist? Oh, well, it's a good thing that I'm doing my part. 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:27.200 Like, I get it. I'm supportive of reducing waste and consumption. But the whole concept of the 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:32.720 carbon footprint was popularized by BP, an oil company, in 2004 to take the onus of change off 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:37.360 of them and put it onto you. Focus on your own minuscule contribution to the world and feel like 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.960 you're doing your part. And while you're looking at yourself, the oil companies will continue 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:44.400 destroying the environment for profit. Think about it like this. If we all just murdered a little bit 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:48.240 less, then there would be no more murder, says the man with the massive murder machine. Like, 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:52.080 come on. Sorry, that was a big problem. These are supposed to be small problems. 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:56.720 Let's go back to annoyances I have with the settings tray. Why do the Ethernet and audio icons 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:01.120 act as a single button with a left click, but two separate buttons as a right click? 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:05.040 It's confusing and it's not how it works literally anywhere else. Even the combination 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.840 clock notification button that's directly beside it acts as a single button with your right or left 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:13.360 clicking. And while I do enjoy the redesign of your quick settings menu, could we make the 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.840 buttons just a little bit smaller? I also appreciate that you finally put a sound mixer in the quick 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:22.480 settings. But why did you do it in such a not quick way? I don't need spatial sound options 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:27.280 above the mixer. Sure, there are alternative solutions like ear trumpet, which are great. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:30.960 But now that you've made it so that I can't hide the audio icon like I could in every version of 00:07:30.960 --> 00:07:35.120 Windows before, not even through a group policy setting, I got to sit here with two different 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:39.760 icons in my tray. Sadly, we don't have any real fixes for these problems. But as a thank you for 00:07:39.760 --> 00:07:44.640 listening, I'll give you a few cool configuration tools. Chris Titus Tech's Windows utility. It's 00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:48.720 an easy to use GUI that allows you to quickly install programs that you'll actually like, 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.440 and you can do a ton of quick tweaks like removing telemetry, removing adobe bloat, 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:57.920 web search from the start menu, and so much more. You can even use it to set up a custom 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:02.160 Windows ISO that's de-bloated and stops trying to trick you into linking a Microsoft account. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:06.000 If you're more interested in just changing the way things look, check out Windhawk. It's a 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:10.160 collection of visual NUX tweaks like middle click to close Windows from the taskbar, 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:16.800 adjusting the height and icon size of the taskbar, or the look and feel of the Windows 11 start menu. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.000 My personal favorite is Modernized Folder Picker Dialog. We always recommend exercising 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.240 caution with these tweaks because changing system level stuff can present risks to your system's 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.840 security and stability. But maybe they'll lower the risk to your sanity, unlike modern games. 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:37.840 My biggest gripe is modern gaming. Micro transactions, rampant gambling, bland hero 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:44.560 shooters and service games, obnoxious DRMs, always online BS. It's all bad, all gross, 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:50.640 but what really makes me want to pull my hair out is compiling shaders at runtime. There is no 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:54.560 worse feeling than getting a Discord message from your friends. They ask you to boot up Halo 00:08:54.560 --> 00:08:58.480 Infinite, which of course needs an update because it's been about two weeks, and don't worry, 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.160 they still haven't added anything that you're missing. Then you wait for the game to load, 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:08.080 and oh my god, you're greeted with another 10-15 minute loading screen waiting for this stupid 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:14.800 bar to go across. If this happened every once in a while after a major update, sure, but every 00:09:14.800 --> 00:09:19.920 miniscule update? Just for us to get the pleasure to sit through this whole process again? But why 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:25.200 do my games even need to compile shaders every time? I loaded it already, shouldn't it just be 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:29.600 saved? Well, yes, actually. But before we explain why it might need to do it every time, 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:34.560 let's break down what this bar even means. The simple answer is shaders are what makes the game 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:40.080 look, you know, like the game, whether that's the vertex shaders to affect the shape of an item, 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:45.120 pixel shaders to determine color, or even geometry shaders to change the shape of things, 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:51.040 such as grass or snow. Due to the complexity of modern rendering, trying to compile these shaders 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:57.440 during gameplay will result in long hitches and stuttering, making the experience just terrible. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.120 Instead, the game compiles those shaders at first launch before you get into the game to make sure 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.520 you have a smooth experience. It's kind of like chopping your vegetables up before you even start 00:10:07.520 --> 00:10:11.600 making the stir-fry. That way, when you actually start cooking, you can just toss in the prepped 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:17.520 vegetables. But if you didn't, you'd be constantly stopping to peel an onion or crush a garlic, 00:10:17.520 --> 00:10:22.400 and that would risk ruining the meal. But what if the recipe suddenly changes? Well, 00:10:22.400 --> 00:10:27.040 that's why we need to redo our prep, things like swapping out your GPU, updating your drivers, 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:33.120 or even if the dev changes some setting in the game that alters the usage of those shaders, 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:38.720 those are all reasons why you may need to recompile. And if the devs, you know, goof up real bad, 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:45.520 then that compilation can take a long time, especially if you have older, slower processors. 00:10:45.520 --> 00:10:50.480 So what's the solution? It's pretty easy. Never update your game, your computer, or your hardware. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:58.640 Finally, my shaders are all done. You know what else took forever? Apple adding window snapping to macOS. 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:03.440 For the uninitiated, window snapping allows you to easily snap an app you have open to one side 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:08.640 of the screen, a corner, or even full screen by dragging the window to the edge of the screen. 00:11:08.640 --> 00:11:14.080 It's awesome. It's intuitive. And it's a feature that Windows has had since Windows 7, 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:20.560 which launched in 2009. But no fear, as of macOS Sequoia, you can easily snap applications on 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:28.640 your Mac. I'll show you on this 14 inch MacBook Pro M4. And boom, snapped. Great, right? No, not great. 00:11:28.640 --> 00:11:35.200 The way they implemented this is so unfathomably stupid. I just, I can't even. Sure, the window, 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:42.000 it's snapped. But why the f*** is there this massive f***ing gap? It's a tiny screen. I don't 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.360 want to waste half an inch of my f***ing precious screen real estate on your stupid f***ing bull*** 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:56.320 Apple. What the f***ing f*** is wrong with you? I just, so what, I can see my desktop background? 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:03.920 Why? I swear, this kind of bull*** makes me physically angry. Do they even try this before 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:09.520 they release it? And it gets better. Remember the notch Apple is graced practically every modern 00:12:09.520 --> 00:12:13.280 Mac with? I mean, how could you forget, right? But don't worry, I'm not going to complain about 00:12:13.280 --> 00:12:18.160 that, even if it does look ridiculous. Because hey, I'm a fan of extra screen real estate. 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:22.960 It's just that Apple really seems like they aren't. You know macOS is full screen mode? When you 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:27.520 click this little green button, it's supposed to, and I quote, take advantage of every inch of the 00:12:27.520 --> 00:12:34.240 screen. So what is this? Why does the extra notch space do nothing until I mouse over it? Why? The 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.800 screen space is there. I thought we were trying to take advantage of it, Apple. But Jake, it's to 00:12:38.880 --> 00:12:44.480 help you focus on what you're working on. Yeah, except every app has its menus baked into the menu 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:49.040 bar you're hiding from me. And you know what's more disruptive to my flow? Having to move my 00:12:49.040 --> 00:12:54.080 cursor to the top, wait for it to show the stupid menus before I can figure out where I need to 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.640 click. Fortunately, both of these gripes can be remedied. For the first one, change the settings 00:12:58.640 --> 00:13:03.600 to have the menu stick around. And for the second, disable Apple's built-in snapping and continue 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.920 using a third party app like Rectangle. It's free and wasn't designed by a psychopath. 00:13:07.920 --> 00:13:12.000 What I don't have an answer to, though, is how we still don't have a standard way to transfer 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:17.120 files between operating systems. To Apple's credit, AirDrop works like a dream. And Google's 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:21.040 nearby share and quick share on Android are also pretty great. But what if you want to send a file 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:26.800 between your iPhone and a Windows computer? Email maybe? But what if it's a new computer? It almost 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:32.400 certainly has hardware capable of sending and receiving data at high speeds like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:37.040 But there's just no native software to do it. Now, there are some third party solutions like 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:41.520 PairDrop, a browser-based AirDrop clone that allows you to send files peer-to-peer over your 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:45.360 local network or the internet and works without having to install or sign up for anything. 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:51.520 But seriously, it would take a Microsoft engineer like, what, maybe a few days to build a 00:13:51.520 --> 00:13:56.640 concept for this? Instead, they're too busy trying to cram AI into every device with a pulse, 00:13:56.640 --> 00:14:05.360 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 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:11.200 bolting of AI onto everything that I own is infuriating. Look at this. We can come in here. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:18.480 This is a test. Right beside send, this stupid button, I accidentally hit it all the time. 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.040 What am I going to do with this? Okay, let's make it funnier. This is only a test, 00:14:23.040 --> 00:14:28.480 but don't worry, you're probably going to fail anyway. Thank you, AI. That is so worth it. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:34.560 Similarly, Microsoft have removed my right Windows key and replaced it with the co-pilot key. And 00:14:34.560 --> 00:14:40.080 given I have the habit to hit Windows plus L every time I leave my computer, I accidentally hit 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:46.000 consume enough electricity to power light bulb for 20 minutes button instead all the time. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:53.680 Logitech have also built AI into their mouse drivers. Guys, it is a mouse. I do not need AI 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:59.760 built into it. And also, anybody that has ever used your software before can very easily make a 00:14:59.760 --> 00:15:05.360 chat GPT macro by just going in there. It would take them seconds. You do not need to do this. 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:12.320 Also, Google. Oh my God, Google. I love how you so confidently use AI to grab me the incorrect 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:17.760 answer to a question while also stripping that answer of all of the context required to easily 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:23.280 tell it is incorrect. In fairness to Google, AI SEO farming has completely ruined their old way of 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:29.920 doing search. But that doesn't make me like AI more. And again, I want to say there are loads 00:15:29.920 --> 00:15:34.880 of great uses for AI. DLSS is awesome. Protein folding and data filtering improvements are 00:15:34.880 --> 00:15:40.560 genuinely good for the world. But if you make an AI chat bot to help your customers and then claim no 00:15:40.560 --> 00:15:45.920 responsibility for its answers, you're just a dickhead. And I'd be a dickhead if I didn't segue 00:15:45.920 --> 00:15:50.560 to our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe you'll enjoy the one where people rant 00:15:50.560 --> 00:15:54.320 about us instead and we respond to your mean comments.