Mildly Infuriating

Ever since Ford renamed all car components to car components it has been a total bitch to change a tire....

Me: hello jiffy lube, I have a flat car components.

JL: Well bring it right in, we'll fix that for you

Me: here's the car with the flat car components.

JL: oh I see, you've been in an accident. Yeah we don't fix that sort of flat car components. Go to Joe Shmow's Auto repair.

JSAR: yah, I looked everywhere for a fix to flat components and found nothing worth trying. Cat videos yeah. But maybe if we hammer a few more things.

Me: but that's the problem see this is supposed to be a dowel car component, but its flat. It used to be the thing a ma bob. But now its just another car components.

...the conversation would then drag on and included the economy, and politics.

Yep had this issue a while back now took a bunch of searching just to find it so crazy.

Are they doing this on purpose? Why would they even do something like that?

Capitalism's innovative creativity on full display.

Yeah my dad's boss had this issue a couple weeks ago. His remote desktop app disappeared from his phone and he had no idea where. Figured out after looking for a whole day that they renamed it to this stupid bullshit.

Probably another case of too many bean counters (and marketing majors), and not enough software developers. Windows hasn't innovated in forever. Seems like they're the Walmart of operating systems, just cheaper and easier for most people.

So you need ChatGPT to get a helpful answer.

MS 1 : Google 0

It's been a while, i think, and yes, it was a pos move.

i usually press win+r and type 'calc' or 'cmd'. they could make that more efficient by assigning binary numbers to everything.

Will it still be port 3389? I think that’s what it is but I’m too lazy to look it up.

Ahh windows. How I don’t miss you.

Is this year of the Linux Desktop?

Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I've been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by "business idiots" now. People that don't really use or understand the product, and don't really understand the users or their needs. It's an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

I really feel like Microsoft is on a quest to make windows as non user friendly as possible. Everything is hidden behind menus, the search function barely works, the taskbar can't be moved, they're constantly changing program names and can't forget cramming a useless chat bot into the os again. It's just a never ending stream of choices that make literally no sense from the perspective of the end user.

Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

I didn't believe it until i verified it. This shit is true. Wtf! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/windows-app-to-replace-remote-desktop-app-for-windows/4390893

Ah yes, the "windows app" I remote into Linux on. That's like an ex naming a kid after you levels of crazy.

Makes sense, the CEO was just saying the other day that 30% of their code was written by AI

Oh, those sad, sad motherfuckers. My only concern is too many Linux Immigrants. Stay in your shitty corporate hell. It's not like there's any other option. /s

I haven't found Microsoft Documentation for anything since Word for Mac 5 on my Apple Centris 650 in 1992, and I only had that because it came in a printed book.

So this is on par with the Microsoft way: Let other people charge you for outdated help.

MS hasnt improved for the user in about 20 years, not a surprise.

On the phone (well, teams call): "Just open the windows app…"