Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 8)

[Skodillac]

Se7enheaven said:

AI .
It’s everywhere. Worst thing to be developed and will be the downfall of more things than we care to imagine.

I've got a great marketing slogan for an AI company.

"AI. It's Artificial. But it ain't Intelligent."

There you go AI companies, you can have that one on me.

[trails]

Se7enheaven said:

AI .
It’s everywhere. Worst thing to be developed and will be the downfall of more things than we care to imagine.

Yep. Just ran a recruitment campaign at work for three junior application engineers, many, many AI authored CVs and covering letters.

[v9]

21st Century Man said:

Mime artists.

That’s not unreasonable at all, dude.

[Cotty]

21st Century Man said:

Mime artists.

I see what you did there

[AlexC1981]

TameRacingDriver said:

Theres an option in Settings > Personalisation to turn on the accent colour for title bars and window borders, might help? It will turn your title bar and window edges to whatever accent colour is selected, so make sure you pick a colour you like.

I agree Windows and Microsoft apps in general are inconsistently designed, standards seem to have gone out of the window (no pun intended) nowadays.

That does improve it a little, thanks. I think Adobe picking up on the Windows dark theme was making it worse still.

While I'm on computer moans, the unnecessary extra Save As dialogue window in Office:



Almost every time it opens I have to press another button to bring up this window so I can find the location where I want to save my document.

It's just one extra click, but the annoyance is disproportionate because the older versions didn't have it.

Edited by AlexC1981 on Thursday 17th April 19:17

[rambo19]

Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic and rev the nuts off the bike-makes me jump everytime!

[TameRacingDriver]

AlexC1981 said:

TameRacingDriver said:

Theres an option in Settings > Personalisation to turn on the accent colour for title bars and window borders, might help? It will turn your title bar and window edges to whatever accent colour is selected, so make sure you pick a colour you like.

I agree Windows and Microsoft apps in general are inconsistently designed, standards seem to have gone out of the window (no pun intended) nowadays.

That does improve it a little, thanks. I think Adobe picking up on the Windows dark theme was making it worse still.

While I'm on computer moans, the unnecessary extra Save As dialogue window in Office:



Almost every time it opens I have to press another button to bring up this window so I can find the location where I want to save my document.

It's just one extra click, but the annoyance is disproportionate because the older versions didn't have it.

Dark mode on Win10 is an abomination. It's quite a bit better on Win11 but still, you know, it's windows. Agree on the save dialogue. I press F12 instead for the old school one. Don't get me started on MS software generally, I've been wrestling with it as usual trying to make it do what I fking want without pulling out the rest of my hair. A favourite one today was somehow creating a slicer on Power BI that was impossible to recreate, and cutting and pasting on another page screwed up the filter. Looked it up, yep, it's a bug, it shouldn't have been possible to do what I did in the first place, apparently. Another thing is a tendency for MS to never fix bugs. I think their software is frustrating. It's often very powerful and capable, but utter utter crap to use, and fairly unstable too at times. Almost like its been designed by people who never talk to each other (appears to be fact).

[Error_404_Username_not_found]

XP was Microsoft's finest hour IMO. They have never equalled it; everything since has been rubbish.
I haven't used Windows since retiring and I devoutly hope I never have to again.

I dual-booted my last laptop with Linux long ago but had to take it off when I gave the machine to Mrs 404 because she couldn't get her head around Linux.

[AlexC1981]

TameRacingDriver said:

Dark mode on Win10 is an abomination. It's quite a bit better on Win11 but still, you know, it's windows. Agree on the save dialogue. I press F12 instead for the old school one. Don't get me started on MS software generally, I've been wrestling with it as usual trying to make it do what I fking want without pulling out the rest of my hair. A favourite one today was somehow creating a slicer on Power BI that was impossible to recreate, and cutting and pasting on another page screwed up the filter. Looked it up, yep, it's a bug, it shouldn't have been possible to do what I did in the first place, apparently. Another thing is a tendency for MS to never fix bugs. I think their software is frustrating. It's often very powerful and capable, but utter utter crap to use, and fairly unstable too at times. Almost like its been designed by people who never talk to each other (appears to be fact).

I'll try to remember F12 when I'm back at work on Tueday

[Mercdriver]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

XP was Microsoft's finest hour IMO. They have never equalled it; everything since has been rubbish.
I haven't used Windows since retiring and I devoutly hope I never have to again.

I dual-booted my last laptop with Linux long ago but had to take it off when I gave the machine to Mrs 404 because she couldn't get her head around Linux.

Agree with above, windows XP did everything I wanted, I felt in charge of the computer then along came windows 11 and I gave up with the laptop, upstairs somewhere gathering dust. Keeps reminding me to change things, update etc which I do not want, think they are too intrusive, it is my property to use as I want without their interference.

Always a fan of Apple since the 90’s and therefore home use was apple but needed to use MS to programme CNC machines at work but always had an IT professional who could keep me on the right track. Never needed support using apple, very intuitive to use.

[TameRacingDriver]

Mercdriver said:

Agree with above, windows XP did everything I wanted, I felt in charge of the computer then along came windows 11 and I gave up with the laptop, upstairs somewhere gathering dust. Keeps reminding me to change things, update etc which I do not want, think they are too intrusive, it is my property to use as I want without their interference.

Always a fan of Apple since the 90’s and therefore home use was apple but needed to use MS to programme CNC machines at work but always had an IT professional who could keep me on the right track. Never needed support using apple, very intuitive to use.

I can't bring myself to use Microsoft anymore in my spare time, it pisses me off enough at work. I use a very large "ultra" Samsung tablet now. It's not perfect but by christ it gives me less bother than any windows machine.

[Stick Legs]

AlexC1981 said:

The way so many applications in Windows don't have clearly defined windows anymore. I opened Acrobat, which opened windowed the full width of the screen but not height. When I went to close it, I accidently closed the webpage behind that I was working on.

Plenty of times I have tried to grab a window to move it, only to find I have grabbed the wrong place because the boundary isn't clearly defined against the window open behind it. This was never a problem with Win98/2000/XP.

Attachments that open on a web tab are a scourge.
You then close all your open browser tabs by mistake when you’ve read the document.

Why doesn’t it default to open it in a new browser window FFS.

I know this can probably be enabled but a) I’m very much a ‘user’ not an expert with computers & b) our work computers are so locked down by IT that you can’t even change ‘Bing’ to ‘Google’ as the default browser.

While I’m on the subject:

Bing. It’s just st.

[GasEngineer]

rambo19 said:

Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic and rev the nuts off the bike-makes me jump everytime!

Agree with you but just leave it as:


Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic.


The impatient bds should queue like everybody else. Just because they can squeeze through doesn't make it OK.

[hidetheelephants]

So you want longer traffic queues? You've not thought this through.

[G Thang]

GasEngineer said:

rambo19 said:

Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic and rev the nuts off the bike-makes me jump everytime!

Agree with you but just leave it as:


Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic.


The impatient bds should queue like everybody else. Just because they can squeeze through doesn't make it OK.

That doesn't bother me at all. It reduces the overall traffic volume and congestion.

[v9]

GasEngineer said:

Agree with you but just leave it as:


Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic.


The impatient bds should queue like everybody else. Just because they can squeeze through doesn't make it OK.

Can you explain why motorcyclists should not filter please? It is perfectly legal and actively encouraged on every advanced course I’ve done, where instructors are serving traffic police.
I’d be very interested in your view.

[v9]

And on topic, utter mouth-breathers who block motorcyclists from filtering in queuing traffic.

[valiant]

On on topic but motorcyclists that sit in your rear blind spot and refuse to overtake.

Get in front of me where I can see you! I've given you space, use it!

[FlyVintage]

Se7enheaven said:

AI .
It’s everywhere. Worst thing to be developed and will be the downfall of more things than we care to imagine.

I’m currently searching for a car for my son in law; the amount of adverts with AI authored descriptions is infuriating - it’s just meaningless drivel. It’s even creeping into the trade adverts!

Write a properly informative description you lazy sods!

[milesgiles]

v9 said:

GasEngineer said:

Agree with you but just leave it as:


Poxy motorbikes that filter through traffic.


The impatient bds should queue like everybody else. Just because they can squeeze through doesn't make it OK.

Can you explain why motorcyclists should not filter please? It is perfectly legal and actively encouraged on every advanced course I’ve done, where instructors are serving traffic police.
I’d be very interested in your view.

Because you are incapable of doing it without revving it with the clutch out. It’s like you’re all 7 years old