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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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I mean, for gen alpha, that's an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.
Error messages when I was growing up:
Network Error: TCP protocol not installed.Error messages now:
Something went wrong. :(Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck's sake.
It infuriates me because it’s disrespectful. The message insinuates that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.
Needed to add my phone number for 2FA on a website. Something went wrong :( checked network tab and the error being returned from the API was too short phone number, they'd made an assumption based on the country they were from.
I still had to message their support to let them know, but... They could've made it easier to find out the reason at least.
Never forget that they took away our moving progress bars w/ descriptions of the task being performed at each stage and gave us shitty spinning circles.
We used to progress, now we get fucked around.
A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don't have to talk to each other.
A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It's hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.
I mean we used to just put them on the same thread and block the window message handling loop, causing Windows to freak out. And we liked it.
I'll just check the logs then...
The logs:
Hahaha! Were so fucking quirky! How did you get here? Uh-oh, that wasn't supposed to happen! ThIs iS nOt ThE PaGe YoU'rE lOoKiNg fOr! Hahaha! Like in The Star Wars, which is a nerd movie! HAHAHAHA! Oh noes too mani kittens 😺😸😹😺😸😹😺😸😹!
You mean being made easier for normies?
Year of the Linux desktop and day now.
Ballsy of you to assume that it got "easier for normies", the answer probably lies in asking "easier for what?". Computers have been redefined as consumption devices in a scheme to extract maximal profit out of their captive users. So it's certainly "easy" for a growing number of users baited into dark patterns to hand over their credit card details and get addicted to antisocial networks and whatnot. But using modern devices as traditional computers, with intent, as a productive tool? It got much harder, except maybe for the Linux users, normies and "geeks" alike.
The word 'normie' is just insulting. It implies a hierarchy of knowledge that I just don't accept.
👌 however you want to deal with the fact that your in a massive minority.
I can't dance as well as a ballerina, but they're in the minority and so should be forced to plod like the rest of us.