Outlook, Outlook Calendar, Teams, SharePoint... I'm honestly baffled by how bad they are. It's like it was made by aliens who only sort of understand what human beings want. And, of course, Microsoft is super selective about their product managers and pays them a ton of money--even though a golden retriever could have come up with a better UX. Literally all they had to do was fucking copy Google.

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's honestly shocking how bad software in general is. Everything is bloated, there are a million competing standards and frameworks, everything breaks constantly, improvements in processing power are immediately eaten up by increasingly inefficient programs, there is an epidemic of planned obsolescence, and like 90% of software is intentionally designed to make you insane.

    I swear, my college changed course systems like every year at the cost of probably millions of dollars and somehow made it worse every time. My Bluetooth headphones randomly disconnect. My neighbor's fridge stopped working for two months due to a software issue and then randomly started working again. And don't even get my started on web technologies.

      • OllieMendes [he/him,any]
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        3 years ago

        Okay, but if someone told me their fridge needed software updates I'd stuff them in (assuming a locker wasn't nearby).

        • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]M
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          3 years ago

          I wonder if it's still impossible to get out of a fridge if you get locked in one. Kids used to die all the time back in the 50's from that.

          • OllieMendes [he/him,any]
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            3 years ago

            No, they fixed that for just that reason. Unless of course your bougie ass Wififridge needs to connect to Siri before it can open.

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Couldn't afford a new one. Luckily they had a mini fridge in the basement

    • sawne128 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      improvements in processing power are immediately eaten up by increasingly inefficient programs

      True for internet speed and web pages also. I don't really understand how it can take like 10 seconds on a 100 Mb/s connection for some text in a comments section to load, but I swear all the big websites are like that now.