not just for the obvious capitalist evil reasons but also just because how much of it doesn't fucking work at all. no matter how much RAM my phone has it still can't juggle Pokemon Go and music/a podcast. my google shopping list just stopped updating itself for absolutely no reason. random shit just constantly goes wrong and there's absolutely nothing the end user can do besides hope a fix is pushed out that doesn't break anything else
i went on a dumb but justified rant earlier about how there is goddamn fucking massive roombas roaming around grocery stores bumping into people right now, and they fucking talk to you, they pretend they are sorry for not seeing you but they literally cannot perceive you. how the fuck is a robot going to tell me sorry. that dumb machine will keep running into people until it is beaten with blunt object.
There was a robot meant to make a cross-continental trek; I believe it got all the way through Canada, started in Boston for its US trip, and got 30 minutes out before it was beaten to death.
i saw an article on that. tragic, but the beatings were fundamentally sound—hate to say it but many folks do not want robotics showing up near them and also roombaing, or "hitchhiking." seems pretty pretentious at the least
you see, the solution is for you to buy more bigger better and even technologier technology!
What a friendly looking mathematician, I bet he doesn't build bombs in his isolated cabi-
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There's so much more that software programmers could do to make things run better and be easier to use and more compatible but companies either don't make money off that or it would actively hurt profits so instead we get the ten thousandth social media app or storefront or web 'app' or software meta-meta-meta-framework or whatever.
I had a Windows update today just interrupt me in the middle of doing stuff by downloading and using 100% of my network bandwidth and 100% of my SSD, which caused a bunch of badly programmed stuff (like the Ctrl+Alt+Delete menu, Task Manager, Windows Explorer, and the Settings app lol) to just freeze and making me just sit around and wait while this extremely slow to install update installed. There seems to be absolutely minimal time spent on making working GUIs or programs for Windows (Microsoft really doesn't want people writing software for Windows). Microsoft makes money from Azure and other server stuff now so they neglect Windows. WHY DOES WINDOWS EXPLORER FREEZE WHEN ACCESSING FOLDERS LIKE THAT IS THE LAST THING A FILE MANAGER SHOULD DO THIS ISN'T HARD!!!!
It really is just amazing to me how slow stuff is to develop. It does mean there are many areas of software development that are ripe for good software to be made. But it does take a lot of time and effort to make non-buggy GUIs and software in general, even when there are about a million different software projects designed to make developing certain things easier.
WHY DOES WINDOWS EXPLORER FREEZE WHEN ACCESSING FOLDERS LIKE THAT IS THE LAST THING A FILE MANAGER SHOULD DO THIS ISN’T HARD!
Yesterday, I was copying some folders from a thumb drive to my PC's HD. I tried to cancel copying in the middle of it, but then explorer froze and had to be killed. Now I can't even reformat the thumb drive be cause it acts like it's rapidly being disconnected and reconnected from the USB port when I plug it in, and it's seen as a RAW drive (no file system) anyway :)
Sounds like the thumb drive shat the bad tbh, doesn't sound like a windows error. The cheap ones can sometimes bug out like that.
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That sounds like a really weird error though. If you could get it to stop disconnecting itself you could probably use some kind of file recovery software to get stuff back if it was important at all.
If you could get it to stop disconnecting itself
Yeah, that's the problem. There's nothing wrong with the USB port — I've even tried it on another computer, and it gives me the same behavior. It actually fucked up the USB drive's hardware somehow.
Seriously! To horribly misquote KOTH, it's not making the internet better, you're just making the experience for low end devices worse
Even Linux is not immune. The vast amount of software choices helps a lot, but some pieces of software have grown so complex they can't even be compiled on 32 bit machines anymore.
Thats because they want you to pokemon go get a new phone
When every phone I've used has the same issue though it makes me less willing to spend more on an expensive one because I know it'll have the same problems anyway
I am addicted to video games. I am addicted and I hate it and there is nothing I can do about it.
Me too. I'm actually really bored of video games, but there is absolutely nothing else to do, I have no friends and can't even begin to make any IRL, so :shrug-outta-hecks:
I don't even know what "hobbies" means anymore
but I lift stupid free weights at home and run several times per week
Hobbies stop being fun if you're alone too much. They're supposed to be nice, relaxing breaks from your "main" life of social connection and meaningful work, but without that stuff they become extremely unfulfilling.
yep, that's true. unfortunately I haven't had a friend IRL since I was in high-school (over 12 years ago) and I doubt my ability to make any once social distancing isn't necessary. honestly don't know what to do, probably just going to literally go insane.
Yeah, I have literally no idea how to make irl friends now that I haven't had any in a while. I feel like I probably come off weird just because I'm out of practice.
I sort of wonder whether communists could organize effectively around this issue. Imagine if there was a decentralized network of comrades going around basically acting as a stepping stone for NEETs to integrate back into society, and then those people could do the same for other people. Like it's basically mutual aid directly targeting the widespread effects of social alienation. Because there are a shitload of people in this position and it's very much an anti-capitalist issue.
Smash/sell your console and replace your computer's operating system with a BSD
counterpoint: technology good because automation is an essential part of the development of communism.
But have you consider the following: disruptive innovation
also software engineers should ideally be tired and overworked, the more projects they're expected to be working on right now the better they are
I have an app on my phone I use for all of my prose writing. I paid $15 for Night Mode + the ability to upload to Dropbox easily, which is nice for sharing, and I found out a few months ago that they apparently updated the app so that it now costs $15/month to upload to Dropbox.
But guess who was annoyed by automatic updates and turned them off years ago? ;)
Both of my main phones (Moto Z Play [3GB RAM] and now Pixel 3A XL [4GB]) can technically play and listen at once, but if I have to pause it at any point, it always freezes for a few seconds and often it kills the player app in the background immediately, and if I manually switch back to it to start something again I have to reload PoGo when I'm done
The Z Play also sometimes just stopped the audio without me even pausing lol. Guess that's the difference another gig of RAM makes
I hate how you have to pay for youtube premium so you can play videos in the background
Also I hate how on my phone, chrome sometimes reloads a page when I go into a different app. This means that if I have anything that isn't saved, I lose it in a reload
Install Firefox, open Youtube, set "Use PC version", then it would play in background.
oh dang... it had been a while since I downloaded it, not sure what the issue is with their download page lately.
There must be similar sorts of apps other than those, though I enjoyed what vanced gave me compared to the usual shitty official app
Use Newpipe it's open source and has more feature than Youtube Vanced
