Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@Permeatfisk says : And here we are, four years later, some of us still forced to use Win11, M365 and Teams at work - with all their so called ”Feature updates”. So much lost time and added frustration! Add to that: why not start updating at the very time you are in need of using the software, thereafter starting a spiffy ”what’s new”- guide and the worst possible time?>> <<@mrHaXuanQuyen2K8 says : 9:15 I hate the new Windows as a Service platform.>> <<@eaqie says : While your complaint about the cookie messages itself might be valid. The proposed solution and reasoning behind it are faulty. Many websites put literally hunderds of tracking and advertisement cookies on your computer. These cookie messages are not there to accept the basic website functionality cookies as those are usually impossible to turn off. These cookie messages usually specifically let you turn off any additional cookies that are not in your best interest. Lately, some news websites have even gone as far as prompting you to ask advertisement cookies form their more than 400 advertisements or pay money to proceed to the article. These is no decline option! They're selling your data and make you easily trackable and surveilled through these cookies and it would be advicable to decline all optional cookies instead of enabling them. I recommend installing automatic cookie blocking extensions, anti tracking extentions like Ghostery. And instead of turning off cookies alogether, which also disables essential cookies for accounts and shopping carts. And that would actually make the cookie message prompt up every time (because the website also uses cookies to remember your preference for that) you should turn on cookie isolation instead so websites cannot cross-site track you. Security is an essential, often overlooked part of computer science. It is important to protect yourself and your family against privacy breaching security risks.>> <<@7hkey says : Email programs not showing the actual email address but only the name of the sender. Great way to help spammers.>> <<@7hkey says : Feature updates: it's not only software. In a way it affects products that you buy regularly too: you pick product x of brand y, and when you want to buy the same thing - because you liked it - again, the product has already changed, everything has the tag "new!". New formula, new smell, new functionality... Ffs i just want the same toothbrush!>> <<@ostrovmusic says : I'm a video editor. What's irritated me most in recent years is that the balance between creating a good product and making money has shifted completely toward the latter. Take Adobe's subscription and AI nonsense, for example. I'm still using Premiere [before AI rubbish] Pro 2020 and don't see any point in upgrading. Moreover, everything has gotten significantly worse in Premiere Pro 2025 on the same hardware (rendering speed, importing long videos, etc.).>> <<@snowthemegaabsol6819 says : 5. I find this to be much more of of an issue with low quality mice or displays rather than bad webpage design. That and on mobile operating systems, but that entire UI just sucks anyway. Very rarely is there any situation where I actually need the precision afforded by a scrollbar, but for those rare instances, changing your browser's UI scaling is the easiest permanent solution 4. Yes, for god's sake, and this is even more annoying as cookies were supposed to be a time saving convenience. Then they started being misused by companies and data brokers and now data privacy laws have to get involved, it's such a damn mess 3. This is an unfortunate consequence of a shift in priorities. Managers of professional websites are responsible for maximizing user throughput and engagement, and optimizations just isn't how you do it. People like flashy backgrounds, pleasing banners, satisfying grid layouts, crisp images and animations. And because websites no longer have to be optimized to be usable, at least to the people they "care" about, of course they wont spend and development resources on it. After all, how else are they going to fit all that feature creep into their workflow? 2. I will push back on this though. I really genuinely don't get the micro HDMI hate. I can't go onto one video on this platform about pi stuff and not see a single complaint about it, how fragile they are, how they can get dusted up easily,, all the usual stuff. I've never had a single micro HDMI connector or port break, and never had to dust one out. And that's with fairly frequent cable changes. I get that in principle, it's more prone to breaking under stress and wobbling while the cable is plugged in. But I don't see how that's an issue with the connector or port, that's just a skill issue. I plug it in with no more force than necessary, never pull on the cables to either side, up or down, and they're still working just as good as day 1 after all these years 1. This is a pretty bad comparison. A drill is a drill, the expectation is that is drills and nothing else. Scissors are scissors, the expectation is for them to cut and nothing else. A Windows PC is expected to suit every consumer and professional use case that has ever existed, exists right now and will exist in the next 10 years. This is increasingly the expectation with Linux as well. Regular updates are the only reason why you can still use old hardware to run new software. Without them, there would be far bigger problems with planned obsolescence and E-waste, which are bad enough as is.>> <<@Wii505 says : I don't get why some companies will still sell a game that worked on an older version of Windows and just not bother to make sure work on newer versions of Windows from time to time. And what it worse is some companies will re-release a game digitally and it will have a random problem because of some ancient DRM that randomly gets triggered and Manhunt is a good example of this>> <<@williamgarcia9858 says : One thing I don't like on Windows 10/11 is how updates do not give you any sort of information about the available updates.>> <<@sxyqt3.14 says : the worst thing about modern scroll bars is that in old windows you could just flick your mouse to the right not paying attention and just left click and it would make the scroll bar jump. this was super nice for scrolling for me. now theres a little GAP between the edge of the window and the scroll bar meaning i have to look, aim my mouse and then do it. Which is just tedious>> <<@markbrad123 says : I find the updates annoying too. People are now having to enable the ' Do not install drivers' setting in GPEDIT to stop the Update service installing a new BIOS firmware and bricking laptops. If you wanted to do that you would really want to backup your BIOS firmware first. The other thing is why can not Microsoft put some code in update to cease updating when an update is failing ? I think you would better be using a micro HDMI to HDMI female instead of a cable then there is less chance of breaking a pin using micro HDMI when plugging it in. You just then plug in a HDMI cable which is less likely to have pin breaks when plugging in.>> <<@CraigRodmellMusic says : Frankly, I miss the days when operating systems were built into ROM, and you updated the operating system ONLY when you replaced your hardware. I have one PC that runs Windows 10 offline. It will stay running Windows 10 offline. I don't need a ton of "updates" on it. It will also never get Copilot/Recall or any other unwanted "features". Microsoft tried installing Copilot during an update (which Microsoft decided I needed, not me) on my Daily Driver (also currently Windows 10). I uninstalled that pretty damn smartly! Mind you, it's a bit of a moot point, because in the New Year, it will be converted to Linux.>> <<@Kennephone says : The worst thing about micro usb/hdmi is that in most cases there's enogh room not to use it but for some reason they decided to.>> <<@adamlxrd says : To #1, the harsh truth is that the drill is your drill, and only you have the right to change it. The hardware you run Windows on is yours and only you have the right to change it, but the OS isn’t yours. It’s just a licence to use proprietary software, and it’s up to Microsoft what they want to do with it 😢>> <<@JohnWindberg says : soldered on, not upgradeable parts (storage & ram), on desktops>> <<@Helio_Centra says : You can use an ad-blocker to remove the cookie acceptance messages.>> <<@1957CRAZYDJ says : Agree 100% with you.>> <<@kuchesezik says : chris: 10:50 louis rossmann: say no more.>> <<@treshanremolano159 says : Faulty Automatic Windows Updates last Friday caused a lot of Windows 10 and 11 computers to crash, making a major global outage.>> <<@azogthedefiler91 says : I like cookies! Oh wait!!!>> <<@Praxibetel-Ix says : The best kind of cookies are chocolate chip ones. ;)>> <<@trumpetplayer6397 says : I agree with you completely, Chris. I started reacted several years ago already, when the Op system welcomed me back to Win10 as I started it up....And I thought right away: Who are you welcoming me back to my own computer?? And now it's always: Please wait, while 'we' are doing changes to your computer system (and it's all to protect you from yourself).>> <<@richferraro4422 says : Late to the party but have to vent. My subscription antivirus is very annoying most likely because I’m not using a state of the art notebook. Boot up performance is literally held captive at least 10 minutes. Make the mistake of attempting to open a program will add another 5 min. Then I am barraged with their incessant advertisement pop ups (that take minutes to clear) throughout the session. Now Bill Gates has decided he wants me to buy a new computer for his latest brainchild. I thought I could just weather the OS updates but now the software vendors are jumping on the money wagon. I don’t need the bells and whistles but guess I’m in the minority.>> <<@richferraro4422 says : Late to the party but have to vent. My subscription antivirus is very annoying most likely because I’m not using a state of the art notebook. Boot up performance is literally held captive at least 10 minutes. Make the mistake of attempting to open a program will add another 5 min. Then I am barraged with their incessant advertisement pop ups (that take minutes to clear) throughout the session. Now Bill Gates has decided he wants me to buy a new computer for his latest brainchild. I thought I could just weather the OS updates but now the software vendors are jumping on the money wagon. I don’t need the bells and whistles but guess I’m in the minority.>> <<@comes2mind797 says : I hate the stupid locking mechanism on display cable plugs. The people who implemented this mechanism ignorantly Assume all users are retarded. I had to use a pair of channel lock pliers to press on the plug hard enough to get it out of the slot /header. Most of the time there is not enough space around the display plug to get your fingers around the plug. Another time I pulled the locking end off of the display plug cable end. The locking mechanism needn't have the hooked claw. Apparently, common sense is not all that common.>> <<@Game_Blox9999 says : The thumbnail is what looks like an HDMI-C plug, and it looks like it's enjoying our suffering.>> <<@Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name says : A main factor about product degradation would be the so-called product testers. Having few experince with products they profit from hiding in an anonymous working situation (in "home office", not having to appear "outside of an avatar"), getting products as parcel or package to their real world address, rating bad stuff as good without having to argue or explain in comparison, maybe even additionally paid by a firm telling what/how to comment a product. Many dumb product raters (/haters) give many useless opinions, and the industry doesn't even back-check why they should degrade their products. The dorks get what they like "for us" whilst hard workers and quality hardly gets improved by experience, great tools get lost. I think every idiot wanting some money can claim impersonating a "well educated eye or head, knowing what would be great for the world (like many changes), letting the world know". Avoiding to become involved in a discussion about degraded products. Well a lot of unpracti-cable dorks must lurk in the civilisations environment, growing like mushrooms in incompetence, "not knowing makes fun"..>> <<@gosnooky says : A top annoyance for me are popups that spawn whilst you're in the middle reading a website - like "Subscribe to our Newsletter". Bonus points if the close button can be measured in Planck lengths, and even more bonus points if closing said popup resets your scroll position to the top of the page (I guess people still use >> <<@Kenshindegozaru says : Amazing video. I feel so identified with this matter. The worst thing for me, at least that I can remember now, is the SOFTWARE in general, and maybe more specific VIDEO DRIVERS. I get so many weird issues with software these days that is not funny anymore. I don't know if its the programmers or their bosses, but someone just got TOO LAZY. Thanks for this.>> <<@SenileOtaku says : #5 - not only visible and usable scrollbars, but they absolutely *MUST* have scroll arrows. #1 - And BOY are you right about Linux picking up the bad habit of "feature changes". The GNOME Project just *loves* to break everything for anyone else dependent on GTK+. And they have such a vehement hatred of themes, they've decided to pick up the boneheaded Microsoft practice where you can't configure the appearance, AND there is no way to differentiate foreground and background windows, because they've forced them to look exactly the same. I don't think the GNOME folke use their computers for actual WORK.>> <<@GroovingPict says : The cookie consent thing is only annoying because websites make it deliberately difficult to deselect the ones you dont want; you have to go through several menu options in some cases. This actually violates the directive that enforces this cookie consent message in the first place, as it states it should be a single-button operation. That said, I dont find it annoying to have the option to turn off tracking cookies, etc. Not all cookies are equal, and you cant just disable all cookies as that would also include useful cookies, such as the ones that store your login session or whatever. But while Im happy to accept those kind of cookies, I am absolutely not ok with accepting the ones that are used for ad tracking or "performance tracking" or whatever other clever wording they want to be calling those intrusive cookies. And honestly Im a bit baffled that you seem to be perfectly ok to just freely accept those kind of cookies as well>> <<@twistedwhiskers8776 says : Here is one small user interfaces in older pieces of software on high resolution, monitors and no user interface scale option>> <<@mihailvormittag6211 says : 👍>> <<@tesses50 says : Device makers if you want to use micro hdmi, use usb c instead (alt display mode, and use this for charging and data as well if a laptop or camera or something)>> <<@leandrotami says : the gdpr cookie consent thing is specially annoying because I don't even live in Europe and the sites serving those websites aren't European either, but they still put it there>> <<@DevotedGamer1 says : Windows OS is the most annoying spyware, switch to Linux, the safe OS>> <<@lcarliner says : A solution to the micro-HDMI degraded durability would be, in connection with a full HDMI cable at both ends would be a should be a a short micro-HDMI adaptor able with on one end bethe micro HDMI connector and a full FEMALE HDMI socket on the other end.>> <<@tbirdtelecaster7481 says : Highly annoyed by kernel updates that leave me with a wifi usb dongle that won't work anymore, you retrieve a clone driver from github to find it doesn't work, you look online in linux forums to find others with the same problem being guided on how to get it to work only to find that it doesn't and then the query comes to an end because no one really has an answer. I love linux but I wish the forums weren't so full of misinformation.>> <<@rubeusvombatus says : The need to make mobile devices slimmer and lighter and sacrificing connectivity along the way very much stems from tech journalists (who mostly review devices on a surface level) prioritise design and (what they think is) portability over function, without realising that it makes a device less user friendly and even less portable in some cases (see older MacBooks and dongles). The enemy of the state for those people when it comes to laptops seems to be the TrackPoint. The only manufacturer left that is using them is Lenovo and even they are desperatly trying to get rid of it (see the XX40 line). And it's not just that, soldered RAM and batteries have the same origin (plus manufacturers wanting to save a few pennies per device).>> <<@Xingqiwu387 says : Wonderful! I agree on all counts.>> <<@skylarjensen3249 says : my biggest gripe is Microsoft stripping features from a version of office that I purchased a perpetual license for (Office Home and Student 2016) and putting said features into the Office 365 "experience" to try and get me to upgrade. it ROYALLY pisses me off.>> <<@cagmito76 says : Windows file explorer what an annoying mess the left hand selction menu is !!>> <<@robertlock5501 says : I really really miss lightweight snappy websites>> <<@mitchellsparks5194 says : you are right on about the automatic upates in windows it is aggrevating>> <<@seireiart says : Well... At least starting 21H2, Windows 10 isn't coming with new and major features, and it's instead focusing on Security Updates.>> <<@ricktaylor1645 says : yep, micro usb sucks>> <<@absurdbird3556 says : For me it's error messages with long codes, and the text can't be selected, copied or pasted. What daemon came up with those?>> <<@burgermeister7244 says : Chris you are the greatest! Don't ever change. 🙂>> <<@dubment says : Windows and facebook are doing the same thing where they change and add stuff without any consent or notice, not sure how they can be so dumb as to not inform their users of new features or shortcuts that they add, for windows you can get a debloated custom image like revios that also has automatic updates turned off and runs like a champ with 70 processes in task manager like windows 7 used to...>> <<@FelisSilvestrisBE says : I know this is an old video but... - Anything other than a 'basic' windows in which I will add modules or system when I need them! Let get Windows streamlined! - Ads. They just don't work for me. I need something, I look it up, research what's best for me. Really: anything that tries to get my attention. - These errors/crashes/faults that multiple users have been experiencing and have been posted online for YEARS...without a solution. - The fact that in Belgium and France we use a AZERTY keyboard. - GAMER everything. The branding. I like games, but I like my machines quiet, sleek and "industrial chique" please. - The world of bad/worse office chairs. Most of them are. - Stuffing motherboards full of features you don't need, but leaving most add-in slots empty. I want something? Let me add it myself. Yes, even audio :). I desire only USB, NIC, 1 video output on the IO shield, thank you. No, not even WiFi :). - Give me back at least 5.24" bay! - Accounts/logins for everything, general data hoarding. And basically everything you said. And I'm feeling better now, than kyou ^^>>