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
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.
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.
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.
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