There’s a massive delay to even open my control panel. Fundamental, easy tasks that I’ve accomplished reliably since Windows XP are no longer reliable. Multiple problems, I have no confidence anything will work.
Think of all the wasted time for so many millions of people around the world
Last week my television started translating programs into Spanish. No fucking reason. Far too much time wasted on a slow menu to fix.
Recently, I could no longer use necessary phone app with no-option utility; due to the latest Apple OS update, it would no longer function. Time for a new phone to replace my few-years-old phone.
A newer car from 2024… long story short, reflecting lights caused camera issues, triggering all sorts of driver vocal alerts like KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD. Off to the dealer. Later, updates change the user interface without warning; it’s like having all of the buttons on your dashboard rearranged spontaneously.
All of these issues are on modern hardware that hasn’t been modified in any way.
My apologies for losing my mind, first world problems. But it’s relentless
I was helping a co worker with a windows issue. Tried opening task manager. Took 30 minutes to open. And during that time we were able to open chrome and browse the web for suggestions on how to fix.
What a load of crap… task manager was always top priority to open and lightweight enough to open fast.
I’m constantly shocked how poorly Windows 11 runs on brand new high end hardware.
My current job has expensive enterprise class HP laptops, brand new, Nvme drives, the newest CPUs, 32GB RAM, blah blah.
Nearly every day, my corporate VPN app just shits the bed. The tray window that pops up to connect just goes black and never shows anything. I have to open task manager, end the process, wait 30 seconds for it to autostart to then authenticate.
My WSL instance constantly fails to start and I have to run a Powershell command to fix it. Programs won’t maximize won’t open when I try to switch to them until I do it 4-5 times.
Everything is slow and clunky even when I have almost nothing running.
Meanwhile my 8 year old low end Thinkpad with 8 GB of slow DDR4 RAM and a 2.5inch cheapo SSD runs fine with Linux Mint thrown on it and I frequently go 4-6 months between updates.
Dude of all the things I hate about modern tech, I think the most obnoxious one is that it STILL takes multiple seconds for a simple text-based menu to load. On my one TV, sometimes it takes so long to load that I actually forget that I’ve opened it and am annoyed when it finally shows up. Gotta save all that precious compute power to load ads and shit, I guess.
This is my last Windows laptop.
There’s a massive delay to even open my control panel. Fundamental, easy tasks that I’ve accomplished reliably since Windows XP are no longer reliable. Multiple problems, I have no confidence anything will work.
Think of all the wasted time for so many millions of people around the world
Last week my television started translating programs into Spanish. No fucking reason. Far too much time wasted on a slow menu to fix.
Recently, I could no longer use necessary phone app with no-option utility; due to the latest Apple OS update, it would no longer function. Time for a new phone to replace my few-years-old phone.
A newer car from 2024… long story short, reflecting lights caused camera issues, triggering all sorts of driver vocal alerts like KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD. Off to the dealer. Later, updates change the user interface without warning; it’s like having all of the buttons on your dashboard rearranged spontaneously.
All of these issues are on modern hardware that hasn’t been modified in any way.
My apologies for losing my mind, first world problems. But it’s relentless
I was helping a co worker with a windows issue. Tried opening task manager. Took 30 minutes to open. And during that time we were able to open chrome and browse the web for suggestions on how to fix.
What a load of crap… task manager was always top priority to open and lightweight enough to open fast.
I’m constantly shocked how poorly Windows 11 runs on brand new high end hardware.
My current job has expensive enterprise class HP laptops, brand new, Nvme drives, the newest CPUs, 32GB RAM, blah blah.
Nearly every day, my corporate VPN app just shits the bed. The tray window that pops up to connect just goes black and never shows anything. I have to open task manager, end the process, wait 30 seconds for it to autostart to then authenticate.
My WSL instance constantly fails to start and I have to run a Powershell command to fix it. Programs won’t maximize won’t open when I try to switch to them until I do it 4-5 times.
Everything is slow and clunky even when I have almost nothing running.
Meanwhile my 8 year old low end Thinkpad with 8 GB of slow DDR4 RAM and a 2.5inch cheapo SSD runs fine with Linux Mint thrown on it and I frequently go 4-6 months between updates.
I’m sorry, wtf why does a car know where your eyes are‽
To track when you’re falling asleep or texting or are vaguely Asian looking.
I fucking hate the future… Bullshit panopticon
Dude of all the things I hate about modern tech, I think the most obnoxious one is that it STILL takes multiple seconds for a simple text-based menu to load. On my one TV, sometimes it takes so long to load that I actually forget that I’ve opened it and am annoyed when it finally shows up. Gotta save all that precious compute power to load ads and shit, I guess.
I was just talking about this with one of my coworkers today. It’s so stupid. Wtf are doing?