Just about the time I figure out where everything is in the store, they move it all around. I know they want me to spend more time shopping, but it’s still a giant PITA.
@2many2no I hear you on this one. I had been shopping at the same grocery store for about 9 years. Knew where every single thing would be that I wanted. They completely redesigned the store about a year ago. I’m still learning it. I wanted to cry.
@2many2no@blaineg I’m wondering what they charged him with. Criminal mischief? And if he didn’t work there and have access to a forklift, just how did he create a labyrinth? And how does one create a pedestrian labyrinth with no exit? Are people incapable of retracing their steps? Is there an oubliette at the end?
@2many2no you likely realize they do this not simply for realigning merchandise… It is an attempt to break your habbits and get you to buy stuff you previously ignored.
An aside: Costco is disappointed if your cart contents don’t break triple digits dollars. One reason you don’t see single packs of things that would otherwise be less than $5.
Costco, more than Sam’s, seems to enjoy feeling out how far they can push you with package sizes.
Look at batteries. It wasn’t that long ago that AAs were 36 packs. Now they’re 72 packs. Ruffles at Costco: 28 oz. At Sam’s they recently, mercifully, reduced from 18 oz to 16 oz.
As our kids move out, we’ve been discussing sharing a membership with neighbors. We have relatives already doing so.
The point: Given aging demographics and smaller families, Costco might want to “redesign” their ever-bigger model. (We find we now buy more staples at Sam’s even with their 1% vs Costco’s 2% reward on their cards.)
Microsoft Windows operating systems !
Started with Windows 2.0 .
Suffered through (and paid$$$ all the ‘upgrades’ through the frustrating 9x builds). XP finally worked great, but has dangerous security holes. Win 7 is my anchor. I am sure they will kill it off but I’ll hang with 7 till then.
@aetris@Zebra I started with 3.0, in 1991, and remember getting really excited about 3.1. I think back on what I had to do, to get anything done and I wonder how we ever survived.
Oh, how times have changed.
@Zebra Ubuntu is far worse. The switch to “Unity” (because we’re going to make phones run on Ubuntu!) was even worse than Microsoft’s “we’re going to make everything look like a phone” mess of Windows 8.
It’s taken years, but both have finally come to their senses, somewhat. More likely it’s the fact they could sell ANY phones with either Windows or Ubuntu.
@Zebra Oh make no mistake, Microsoft wants Windows 7 dead, dead, dead, dead. Official support continues for Win 7 until January 14, 2020, but MS wants it dead yesterday.
First there were the ever more aggressive pushes to get people to take the free upgrade to Win 10. Then there was pulling availability of new Win 7 licenses. Then there was the behind the scenes arm twisting to get Intel (and probably others) to stop making Win 7 drivers available for newer hardware. And since that wasn’t enough, they released a special “update” for Windows 7. It’s only purpose is to pop up a scare window that says “This hardware is unsupported”, even though it runs just fine.
TV show lineups. It seems that every time I find a show entertaining and/or interesting it will either be moved opposite the only other show I find entertaining and/or interesting or it will be outright cancelled. (Firefly for example)
Yes I came here to say exactly this. I swear these quizzes must be written by a group of men cause this was my exact first thought.
I hate it when they redesign my favorite bra. It happens constantly and then I have to spend another 2 years looking for a new favorite that I can buy 5 of them before the next update.
You can adjust to a new website but Lord, you can’t adjust to a new bra.
My usual freeway entrance and exit ramps on our town’s main bypass.
Redesigned three times in the last 20 years or so. And they still don’t have them done worth a flip. Now the entrances are laid out just before the next exit. (So you have to enter just as other drivers are trying to exit, so be prepared to jostle for that right-hand freeway lane. And you have to drive pretty far at lower speed before you can speed up on the entrance ramp. And the exits are earlier now – I drive past them from habit in the left hand lane if I am not really watching out.
(They must think they have extra taxpayer money to burn through.)
@blaineg@RiotDemon I’m not really sure, but I’m guessing there probably isn’t. You might want to try hitting up Google, though. It may be possible with a rooted phone.
@RiotDemon@therealjrn The GUI usta look like this and any Word feature was accessible with 2 or 3 mouse clicks. Then they decided that drop down menus were so 1980s and we got the ribbon and it only take 4 or so clicks after scrolling over the whole screen.
And if you have Office 365, all the icons changed in the last week or so, and the tabs don’t look like tabs anymore. It looks nice, but GUH they could have warned us in advance.
@edwardsm6@sammydog01 I do find it funny when the waist is super high, but then the butts are hanging out the back. A few weeks ago at the mall there was two girls, maybe 17/18 and literally, half their ass was out, but their belly button and way more was covered.
@katbytercrappy statement design is a pet peeve of mine! I’ve considered starting a post simply on this.
It isn’t hard to get right. And spending a bit of energy on doing it right multiplies out in benefits to millions of users. And respecting their time. Both paper and online.
So not doing it right shows a particular disdain for your customers.
Focus bigtime on balance, due date, and minimum payment. Big, bold typeface - at the top - in a highlighted box. Simple. You can screw up everything else on the page.
@katbyter doing statements right doesn’t appear to correlate to good customer service in our experience.
Good customer service: Amex & Discover. That’s about it for credit card companies.
Good statements: Chase & Citi (Costco). Discover approaches but fails.
Bank of America fails on both fronts. They generally detest customers. The sole thing they do pretty right? Their phone app. But they can’t help showing their customers they detest them with the addition of the truly irritating AI “Erica”. (Somebody at BoA gave the entire customer service budget to the App team and ignore all other customer service.)
The absolute worst Credit Card customer service: Target and Sam’s. Both also horrible online. Sams doesn’t even keep more 12 months of statements online. You have to request they mail them!?!? It feels like an old crusty mainframe experience.
@callow@JoeSeadog I keep several accts logged in and used them with both the old and new version next to each other on the same PC. The speed difference was very clearly a step backward.
I have a network of 5-600 computers that run manufacturing and test equipment. I’m stuck with supporting operating systems back to Windows XP. I need lots of slots for PCI & PCI Express cards. I need serial ports.
Every 6 months or so, a new wave of motherboards comes out, removing at least one feature I need. The latest abomination is having only 4 slots on a full-size ATX board, where the standard is 7 slots. Now there’s multiple M.2 SSD slots, or worse, empty space, taking up the space where there should be card slots.
@blaineg So you’re buying new motherboards to load XP onto new machines to run large scale manufacturing systems. Why are you using general purpose consumer-grade products in an industrial setting, and expecting components to be tailored to your specialized needs? A specialized need is best served by specialized equipment.
Look for industrial use backplanes and rack-mountable features. Need lots of slots? Look at “Mining” motherboards if you’re stuck with generic consumer-grade equipment. e.g. the Asrock H110 Pro BTC+ has 13 PCIE slots. Also, if your apps are winXP, you might be better off running Linux as a base OS and run XP in VMs (or even under Wine). Linux is much better at I/O and scale for industrial and SCADA use.
If you want to run with the big dogs, you gotta get out from under the porch. There us no such thing as a free lunch. You just can’t buy a motorcycle and expect it to do the job of a 1/2 ton truck.
@blaineg@mike808 The main reason people want to run consumer-grade PCs for industrial applications? They are cheap, cheap, cheap. I write OEM SW for use in industrial/manufacturing settings, and I can’t believe the cheap crap platforms some of our customers expect to use in performance-critical applications. And then they blame the software if it doesn’t perform.
@mike808 I’m fine on XP support. The need for it is slowly going away. (It’s customer driven, some are still running systems on XP, and want us to test on what they’re running.) And I built up a sufficient stockpile of boards and CPUs that support XP.
We do use industrial PCs in a few applications, but the price penalty can be 2x - 10x more than mainstream hardware. Mining motherboards are useless, I still need some PCI slots. And the mining boards I’ve seen are stacks of x1 PCIe slots, I need at least x4 slots.
I have zero control over OS choice. Customers and management decide what we’re going to be running, and then it’s up to me to provide the hardware. I’m starting to see a slow shift towards Linux, so there are some bright spots.
Win 7 is the current headache. Though it’s still officially supported for another year or so, hardware with 7 drivers is vanishing fast.
I’m really just moaning about being stuck on a much slower cycle than the rest of the world.
“Nobody needs 7 expansion cards” - Guffaw!
“PCI slots are extinct” - Ha!
“Serial ports are dead” - Snort!
And I’ve got both the truck and the motorcycle. The truck’s job is to haul the dirt bikes.
@mike808 Yea, I’ve seen a lot of cheap crap from equipment vendors. One of the worst offenses has been using Home versions of Windows to save a (very) few bucks. On a system than needs to be joined to a domain??? Fortunately those vendors have gone out of business.
I use good quality stuff because it saves a lot of trouble 5-10 years down the road. And I’ve got plenty of 10+ year old systems still running.
@cranky1950 Actually I have the perfect job. I have unlimited freedom to choose the hardware I feel will do the job the best. Funding rarely gets in the way. My work uniform is obnoxious t-shirts.
In the words of Joe Walsh, “I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.”
Shampoo. Seriously. Took years to find one that wouldn’t dry my hair or strip the color. One day it says “new and improved” which really meant totally different and terribly awful. So shocked when I washed my hair and found that it didn’t really clean my hair and left it oily. So pissed. It’s taken a good 5 years to finally find a replacement. And dozens of products. I’m glad Sephora and Target have such generous return policies.
Dog food. Great Danes have uncertain tummies. It can take months of unhappy babies to find a food they can tolerate, then the manufacturer goes and changes something and we are back to pudding poo and refusing food and the great quest for another affordable 4 star kibble.
Gmail app and webmail interface. I mean, it’s never been great, but at least it was usable 3 iterations ago. You’d think after nearly 15 years, and probably as many versions, Google would eventually get it right.
Example 101: their original “program”, Gmail. Try to change a setting. Still a chaotic disaster after all these years. Like they threw all the settings in a laundry basket and poured them out on the table.
Clean, simple user interface with the features 98% of users actually use: outlook dot com.
Woot discovered I was still a mod and they took it away. Not that I did anything for years and years, but there were some useful links…mostly being able to see someones last 10 or so posts. Great to see if an old friend has been around recently. Had some more exciting stuff that I didn’t use. Saw Gimma was still a mod. Didn’t see anyone else.
@smilingjack did they take it away when they redesigned their product discusion logic and wiped Wooter handle history?
Confusing to see folks trying to make a new comment but responding to an existing one. And it not being graphically clear whether a comment is a response.
Laptops, particularly MacBooks. They’ve been getting worse since the switch to “retina” screens. I don’t want novelty “luxury” upsell garbage, I want to upgrade the storage two years after buying the thing, when it makes sense to do so. I want the plausible prospect of repairing old hardware, if necessary. Bleh.
@InnocuousFarmer The same for windows laptops that insist on giving me a big HDD instead of a small 64-128GB M.2/SSD and extra SSD or M.2 slots. At least they’ve finally ditched the dvd player, but not because nobody uses them, but because they make it too thick.
Heat dissipation is still an issue. Apparently none of these “geniuses” ever took a thermal design/engineering course, or practiced with data centers before taking a swag at laptop component design.
@mike808 Windows runs on anything though. You can find a Windows laptop with hardware that is acceptable, whatever your preferences and needs. If you want macOS, it’s your choice of double-priced desk ornament or the highway.
I mean, if Apple sold a Thinkpad, I wouldn’t be complaining.
Just about the time I figure out where everything is in the store, they move it all around. I know they want me to spend more time shopping, but it’s still a giant PITA.
I’m looking at you, Costco.
@2many2no I hear you on this one. I had been shopping at the same grocery store for about 9 years. Knew where every single thing would be that I wanted. They completely redesigned the store about a year ago. I’m still learning it. I wanted to cry.
@2many2no I’ve never actually been to Ikea, but:
@2many2no @blaineg I’m wondering what they charged him with. Criminal mischief? And if he didn’t work there and have access to a forklift, just how did he create a labyrinth? And how does one create a pedestrian labyrinth with no exit? Are people incapable of retracing their steps? Is there an oubliette at the end?
@2many2no @blaineg @moondrake
/define oubliette
NOUN
@2many2no you likely realize they do this not simply for realigning merchandise… It is an attempt to break your habbits and get you to buy stuff you previously ignored.
An aside: Costco is disappointed if your cart contents don’t break triple digits dollars. One reason you don’t see single packs of things that would otherwise be less than $5.
Costco, more than Sam’s, seems to enjoy feeling out how far they can push you with package sizes.
Look at batteries. It wasn’t that long ago that AAs were 36 packs. Now they’re 72 packs. Ruffles at Costco: 28 oz. At Sam’s they recently, mercifully, reduced from 18 oz to 16 oz.
As our kids move out, we’ve been discussing sharing a membership with neighbors. We have relatives already doing so.
The point: Given aging demographics and smaller families, Costco might want to “redesign” their ever-bigger model. (We find we now buy more staples at Sam’s even with their 1% vs Costco’s 2% reward on their cards.)
@moondrake It’s fake, but I thought it was funny.
@blaineg I think
I’ve beenI’m still in that store.@2many2no @blaineg You’re definitely not in the store. If you were, you wouldn’t have had cell service to send that post.
fukos?
Woot Forums
@heartny Took one look and I haven’t been back. Boy do they suck.
Microsoft Windows operating systems !
Started with Windows 2.0 .
Suffered through (and paid$$$ all the ‘upgrades’ through the frustrating 9x builds). XP finally worked great, but has dangerous security holes. Win 7 is my anchor. I am sure they will kill it off but I’ll hang with 7 till then.
@Zebra - I came here to say this!
@aetris @Zebra I started with 3.0, in 1991, and remember getting really excited about 3.1. I think back on what I had to do, to get anything done and I wonder how we ever survived.
Oh, how times have changed.
@Zebra Ubuntu is far worse. The switch to “Unity” (because we’re going to make phones run on Ubuntu!) was even worse than Microsoft’s “we’re going to make everything look like a phone” mess of Windows 8.
It’s taken years, but both have finally come to their senses, somewhat. More likely it’s the fact they could sell ANY phones with either Windows or Ubuntu.
@Zebra Oh make no mistake, Microsoft wants Windows 7 dead, dead, dead, dead. Official support continues for Win 7 until January 14, 2020, but MS wants it dead yesterday.
First there were the ever more aggressive pushes to get people to take the free upgrade to Win 10. Then there was pulling availability of new Win 7 licenses. Then there was the behind the scenes arm twisting to get Intel (and probably others) to stop making Win 7 drivers available for newer hardware. And since that wasn’t enough, they released a special “update” for Windows 7. It’s only purpose is to pop up a scare window that says “This hardware is unsupported”, even though it runs just fine.
@blaineg @Zebra Ubuntu, huh? I bet you’d like Slackware.
@InnocuousFarmer It’s been years since I looked at Slackware. At the time it seemed painfully barebones.
During the Unity days I ran one of the alternate spins like Xubuntu (XFCE window manager).
TV show lineups. It seems that every time I find a show entertaining and/or interesting it will either be moved opposite the only other show I find entertaining and/or interesting or it will be outright cancelled. (Firefly for example)
@Mehrocco_Mole this. There is so little worth watching on network TV to start. I’ve abandoned more than one show due to this. Then the DVR happened.
My bras. You finally find one that fits and they discontinue it. Right, ladies?
@sammydog01 Were you talking to others, or just looking down when you said that?
@sammydog01 bralettes all the way.
@sammydog01
Yes I came here to say exactly this. I swear these quizzes must be written by a group of men cause this was my exact first thought.
I hate it when they redesign my favorite bra. It happens constantly and then I have to spend another 2 years looking for a new favorite that I can buy 5 of them before the next update.
You can adjust to a new website but Lord, you can’t adjust to a new bra.
my phone. you finally get used to the layout of settings, and they put out a big update that changes everything! (Android 7.0 to Android 8.0)
Make up
My usual freeway entrance and exit ramps on our town’s main bypass.
Redesigned three times in the last 20 years or so. And they still don’t have them done worth a flip. Now the entrances are laid out just before the next exit. (So you have to enter just as other drivers are trying to exit, so be prepared to jostle for that right-hand freeway lane. And you have to drive pretty far at lower speed before you can speed up on the entrance ramp. And the exits are earlier now – I drive past them from habit in the left hand lane if I am not really watching out.
(They must think they have extra taxpayer money to burn through.)
@phendrick I-75 SB & M-59
Phone OS.
Yes, they are bringing new stuff to the table with each update, but why do they have to change the way my clock looks?
I was so frustrated about this that it finally dawned on me to make sure if there was any settings to make it look normal again. There was.
Thank you random poll!
@RiotDemon I always get excited when I get a new phone update. My latest phone is the Pixel 2, so I was one of the first to get Android 9.
@RiotDemon @TheCO2 Is there a way to restore the “recent apps” button instead of the new swipe up, swipe sideways mess?
@blaineg @RiotDemon I’m not really sure, but I’m guessing there probably isn’t. You might want to try hitting up Google, though. It may be possible with a rooted phone.
The stupid ass ribbon
@cranky1950 You wear an ass ribbon?
@cranky1950 @therealjrn Pin the tail on the … ?
@therealjrn No-uho I have to use the stupid as ribbon with dumbass word and dumberass powerpoint and outlook
@cranky1950
/giphy ass ribbon
@therealjrn Great design, usability will shoot it down.
@cranky1950 @therealjrn still trying to figure this out.
/image PowerPoint ribbon
/image Microsoft word ribbon
I thought they were task bars… The letters say ribbons… Still confused.
@RiotDemon @therealjrn The GUI usta look like this and any Word feature was accessible with 2 or 3 mouse clicks. Then they decided that drop down menus were so 1980s and we got the ribbon and it only take 4 or so clicks after scrolling over the whole screen.
@cranky1950
And if you have Office 365, all the icons changed in the last week or so, and the tabs don’t look like tabs anymore. It looks nice, but GUH they could have warned us in advance.
@TheFLP That’s ok the new microsoft style guide is only marginally usable. But, it is free now.
Girl jeans. Those high wasted jeans are just stupid looking.
@edwardsm6 I agree, but they are popular as fuck for some reason.
@edwardsm6 @RiotDemon I like jeans with waists high enough to wear briefs. No one wants to see more than that.
@edwardsm6 @sammydog01 unless your undies are a few inches above your belly button…
@edwardsm6 @sammydog01 I do find it funny when the waist is super high, but then the butts are hanging out the back. A few weeks ago at the mall there was two girls, maybe 17/18 and literally, half their ass was out, but their belly button and way more was covered.
@edwardsm6 @RiotDemon Well that’s just stupid.
Credit card statements. Seems they’re new and improved every other month. No better, just different.
@katbyter but then you wouldn’t have the fun of playing:
@katbyter Ditto for utility bills.
@katbyter Ditto for the corresponding apps! Every damn month it’s a whole new interface.
@katbyter crappy statement design is a pet peeve of mine! I’ve considered starting a post simply on this.
It isn’t hard to get right. And spending a bit of energy on doing it right multiplies out in benefits to millions of users. And respecting their time. Both paper and online.
So not doing it right shows a particular disdain for your customers.
Focus bigtime on balance, due date, and minimum payment. Big, bold typeface - at the top - in a highlighted box. Simple. You can screw up everything else on the page.
@katbyter doing statements right doesn’t appear to correlate to good customer service in our experience.
Good customer service: Amex & Discover. That’s about it for credit card companies.
Good statements: Chase & Citi (Costco). Discover approaches but fails.
Bank of America fails on both fronts. They generally detest customers. The sole thing they do pretty right? Their phone app. But they can’t help showing their customers they detest them with the addition of the truly irritating AI “Erica”. (Somebody at BoA gave the entire customer service budget to the App team and ignore all other customer service.)
The absolute worst Credit Card customer service: Target and Sam’s. Both also horrible online. Sams doesn’t even keep more 12 months of statements online. You have to request they mail them!?!? It feels like an old crusty mainframe experience.
I am tempted to say Meh, but it is same design I have experienced for years. That, and the fact that it is not my favorite website.
That latest web gmail is slowwww as hell to start up. The old version was much faster.
@RedOak it’s the absolute slowest*
@JoeSeadog @RedOak Thanks, I thought it was just my crappy computer!
@callow @JoeSeadog I keep several accts logged in and used them with both the old and new version next to each other on the same PC. The speed difference was very clearly a step backward.
Human interaction.
Motherboards.
I have a network of 5-600 computers that run manufacturing and test equipment. I’m stuck with supporting operating systems back to Windows XP. I need lots of slots for PCI & PCI Express cards. I need serial ports.
Every 6 months or so, a new wave of motherboards comes out, removing at least one feature I need. The latest abomination is having only 4 slots on a full-size ATX board, where the standard is 7 slots. Now there’s multiple M.2 SSD slots, or worse, empty space, taking up the space where there should be card slots.
@blaineg So you’re buying new motherboards to load XP onto new machines to run large scale manufacturing systems. Why are you using general purpose consumer-grade products in an industrial setting, and expecting components to be tailored to your specialized needs? A specialized need is best served by specialized equipment.
Look for industrial use backplanes and rack-mountable features. Need lots of slots? Look at “Mining” motherboards if you’re stuck with generic consumer-grade equipment. e.g. the Asrock H110 Pro BTC+ has 13 PCIE slots. Also, if your apps are winXP, you might be better off running Linux as a base OS and run XP in VMs (or even under Wine). Linux is much better at I/O and scale for industrial and SCADA use.
If you want to run with the big dogs, you gotta get out from under the porch. There us no such thing as a free lunch. You just can’t buy a motorcycle and expect it to do the job of a 1/2 ton truck.
@blaineg @mike808 The main reason people want to run consumer-grade PCs for industrial applications? They are cheap, cheap, cheap. I write OEM SW for use in industrial/manufacturing settings, and I can’t believe the cheap crap platforms some of our customers expect to use in performance-critical applications. And then they blame the software if it doesn’t perform.
@mike808 I’m fine on XP support. The need for it is slowly going away. (It’s customer driven, some are still running systems on XP, and want us to test on what they’re running.) And I built up a sufficient stockpile of boards and CPUs that support XP.
We do use industrial PCs in a few applications, but the price penalty can be 2x - 10x more than mainstream hardware. Mining motherboards are useless, I still need some PCI slots. And the mining boards I’ve seen are stacks of x1 PCIe slots, I need at least x4 slots.
I have zero control over OS choice. Customers and management decide what we’re going to be running, and then it’s up to me to provide the hardware. I’m starting to see a slow shift towards Linux, so there are some bright spots.
Win 7 is the current headache. Though it’s still officially supported for another year or so, hardware with 7 drivers is vanishing fast.
I’m really just moaning about being stuck on a much slower cycle than the rest of the world.
“Nobody needs 7 expansion cards” - Guffaw!
“PCI slots are extinct” - Ha!
“Serial ports are dead” - Snort!
And I’ve got both the truck and the motorcycle. The truck’s job is to haul the dirt bikes.
@mike808 Yea, I’ve seen a lot of cheap crap from equipment vendors. One of the worst offenses has been using Home versions of Windows to save a (very) few bucks. On a system than needs to be joined to a domain??? Fortunately those vendors have gone out of business.
I use good quality stuff because it saves a lot of trouble 5-10 years down the road. And I’ve got plenty of 10+ year old systems still running.
@blaineg hahahahahahaha sucks to be you! retire become a tech writer and boondock fulltime!
@cranky1950 Actually I have the perfect job. I have unlimited freedom to choose the hardware I feel will do the job the best. Funding rarely gets in the way. My work uniform is obnoxious t-shirts.
In the words of Joe Walsh, “I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.”
Shampoo. Seriously. Took years to find one that wouldn’t dry my hair or strip the color. One day it says “new and improved” which really meant totally different and terribly awful. So shocked when I washed my hair and found that it didn’t really clean my hair and left it oily. So pissed. It’s taken a good 5 years to finally find a replacement. And dozens of products. I’m glad Sephora and Target have such generous return policies.
Dog food. Great Danes have uncertain tummies. It can take months of unhappy babies to find a food they can tolerate, then the manufacturer goes and changes something and we are back to pudding poo and refusing food and the great quest for another affordable 4 star kibble.
Ice cream containers.
Hair.
Gmail app and webmail interface. I mean, it’s never been great, but at least it was usable 3 iterations ago. You’d think after nearly 15 years, and probably as many versions, Google would eventually get it right.
@ruouttaurmind Goolge fails at user interfaces.
Example 101: their original “program”, Gmail. Try to change a setting. Still a chaotic disaster after all these years. Like they threw all the settings in a laundry basket and poured them out on the table.
Clean, simple user interface with the features 98% of users actually use: outlook dot com.
Woot discovered I was still a mod and they took it away. Not that I did anything for years and years, but there were some useful links…mostly being able to see someones last 10 or so posts. Great to see if an old friend has been around recently. Had some more exciting stuff that I didn’t use. Saw Gimma was still a mod. Didn’t see anyone else.
@smilingjack did they take it away when they redesigned their product discusion logic and wiped Wooter handle history?
Confusing to see folks trying to make a new comment but responding to an existing one. And it not being graphically clear whether a comment is a response.
@RedOak Nope, wandered over to check it was still there.
My batteries. They fit so well in my refrigerator just as they are…!
Jeans.
I hate website redesigns at first, but get used to them quickly.
Laptops, particularly MacBooks. They’ve been getting worse since the switch to “retina” screens. I don’t want novelty “luxury” upsell garbage, I want to upgrade the storage two years after buying the thing, when it makes sense to do so. I want the plausible prospect of repairing old hardware, if necessary. Bleh.
@InnocuousFarmer The same for windows laptops that insist on giving me a big HDD instead of a small 64-128GB M.2/SSD and extra SSD or M.2 slots. At least they’ve finally ditched the dvd player, but not because nobody uses them, but because they make it too thick.
Heat dissipation is still an issue. Apparently none of these “geniuses” ever took a thermal design/engineering course, or practiced with data centers before taking a swag at laptop component design.
@mike808 Windows runs on anything though. You can find a Windows laptop with hardware that is acceptable, whatever your preferences and needs. If you want macOS, it’s your choice of double-priced desk ornament or the highway.
I mean, if Apple sold a Thinkpad, I wouldn’t be complaining.
(Is it too late to whine about headphone jacks?)