Does Anyone Ever Trash Talk Their Devices?

[Laurie]

  Nope, I don't hold the hardware responsible for it's limitations. I suppose it comes from more than 45 years of being a hardware technical and having to repair or replace hardware the rest of you abused. So I quietly and politely blamed the customers, more vocally the designers and the software engineers and companies that put out such garbage. I try to put the blame where it properly belongs and feel satisfied when I am able to fix it.

Laurie

[Kylo]

I once physically assaulted a mixer. Our old mixer was old as dirt, my parents got it as a wedding gift. The power cord plugged into a little socket on the side. It got to the point were it would just quit and you had to wiggle the cord to get it going again. I was trying to whip cream with it and it just kept dying and I was constantly having to wiggle the cord. I was already getting very pissed and annoyed then when I grabbed the cord to shake it it gave me a good shock. It hurt! So I lost it and started beating the mixer with a wooden spoon and cursing at it. When I turned around my dad and brother were standing there laughing at me. What made it especially embarrassing was that 3 days earlier my brother was kicking the lawn mower because it wouldn't start. I told him not to be so childish and told him kicking it wouldn't make it start and to get a grip on himself.

Something like that happened yesterday too, my SO got a shock from the XBox controller and decided to drop kick it as a reflex and swear at it for a few minutes. I still cannot figure out how he got a shock from it when the (brand new) recharge cable was fully attached and the battery was attached as well.

I don't usually attack inanimate objects but the monitor is my exception. Since I know it works, it has no excuse to start flickering on an off sometimes. I don't turn the computer off at all now as the monitor will definitely flip out if I do.

[DawnOday]

All the lagging and refusing to work, is why I disabled automatic updates. It still ticks me off when I am in the middle of something, and it starts looking for updates. Or, when it decides to disconnect from my Wi-Fi.
It was worse before I switched internet providers. Imagine trying to do anything with 0.1 Mbps! I'm sure I'd get reported if I mentioned which company screwed me over like that. I used to get 10 Mbps from that company, but they decided to make all their customers pay a much higher price for that internet speed, calling it an "upgrade". Now, that really made me cuss and yell.

I don't have to imagine it. I am a veteran of 600 baud.

[Lady Sarah]

This stuff reminds me of the show Happy Days, where The Fonz would hit the juke box to turn it on.

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[Sarah_P]

I don't have to imagine it. I am a veteran of 600 baud.

600?!! Well la-de-da! I started with a 300. And I LIKED IT! 

[KathyLauren]

600?!! Well la-de-da! I started with a 300. And I LIKED IT! 

Ha!  I started out at 110 baud!

Is is possible to have a Windows computer and not curse it out?  When I move the mouse and the cursor doesn't respond for several seconds.  @#$%!!  Or when I download a web page and get set to click on a link only to have the screen scroll itself half a millisecond before the click.  @#$%!!

It's a good thing I don't have a smart phone or I'd be tempted to curse it out in public.  Cursing like a sailor is not very ladylike.

[Sarah_P]

Ha!  I started out at 110 baud!

Is is possible to have a Windows computer and not curse it out?  When I move the mouse and the cursor doesn't respond for several seconds.  @#$%!!  Or when I download a web page and get set to click on a link only to have the screen scroll itself half a millisecond before the click.  @#$%!!

It's a good thing I don't have a smart phone or I'd be tempted to curse it out in public.  Cursing like a sailor is not very ladylike.

I think windows is designed to be infuriating (even the original versions, when it was still an optional OS), especially for those who actually understand computers & software. Windows 8 was a masterpiece of frustration.

On the web page issues, that's probably the page loading ads. Those, especially video ads, are usually the last things to be loaded, and tend to bump things around even afterwards. I visit the video game blog site Kotaku regularly, and they always have a video add in the  middle of every article (between paragraphs). After the video ends it closes the video box, which bumps everything below it up. I'm usually halfway through an article when the ad ends, and suddenly what I'm reading has gone up off the page. 

[Lady Sarah]

Ha!  I started out at 110 baud!

Is is possible to have a Windows computer and not curse it out?  When I move the mouse and the cursor doesn't respond for several seconds.  @#$%!!  Or when I download a web page and get set to click on a link only to have the screen scroll itself half a millisecond before the click.  @#$%!!

It's a good thing I don't have a smart phone or I'd be tempted to curse it out in public.  Cursing like a sailor is not very ladylike.

There is that Windows 10 laptop I have that never stops updating. That's all it does, so I cannot do anything on it. So, I put it away, and did a factory reset on the Windows 8 laptop, and stopped it from ever updating. God forbid it ever auto update to 10.

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[Laurie]

  I will agree that windows 8 was particularly frustrating when it came out. About half of the complaints with it were not Microsoft's doing. Computer makers were putting it on systems that were not up to the task of running it properly.  Not enough memory and a processor that was too slow. Those were the major culprits. yet windows got all the blame. once the first major update was done a lot of microsoft's problems were fixed. That of course could not fix the limitations of the hardware they put it on.
  I went from windows 7 right up to 10 and for the most part I think it is good. I do not use their new browser because they never fixed their memory hogging problem with it. They don't even admit that it is there. I also will not use their crappy mail app. I don't like apps anyway because the are too dumb and unsophisticated. They are fine for phones or a tablet but I run a real computer and want real programs.

Hugs,
  Laurie

[Colleen_definitely]

Eeew metro screen

[Sarah_P]

  I will agree that windows 8 was particularly frustrating when it came out. About half of the complaints with it were not Microsoft's doing. Computer makers were putting it on systems that were not up to the task of running it properly.  Not enough memory and a processor that was too slow. Those were the major culprits. yet windows got all the blame. once the first major update was done a lot of microsoft's problems were fixed. That of course could not fix the limitations of the hardware they put it on.
  I went from windows 7 right up to 10 and for the most part I think it is good. I do not use their new browser because they never fixed their memory hogging problem with it. They don't even admit that it is there. I also will not use their crappy mail app. I don't like apps anyway because the are too dumb and unsophisticated. They are fine for phones or a tablet but I run a real computer and want real programs.

I also just really hated how 8 hid away everything in weird places on the desktop, plus trying to force the tablet style desktop on you. Under the board it just felt like everything moved slower to me, too.
The only place I ever had to use 8 was my father's computer, whenever he'd manage to do something he shouldn't have (usually by opening emails & clicking on ads & popups he shouldn't be even after telling him not to). He did install it practically day one, without realizing his PC just -barely- squeaked by as far as compatibility.
I actually do like 10, but they do keep trying to hide things away again - like the control panel. And they won't let me turn off automatic updates. They play havoc on the library's public PCs, since the security prevents them from actually processing the updates and ends up crashing the system half the time.

[V M]

I was perfectly happy until windows 8 came along and 10 just aggravated me further

The vernacular I would use regarding both windows 8 and 10 is not acceptable here or in public, and don't even get me started on my internet provider

[Colleen_definitely]

MS seems to be trying to outdo google and apple in all of the ways that make me dislike their products AND tries way too hard to treat everything like a phone.  Bloatware that you aren't allowed to get rid of, "suggested apps" that it will download without your permission, ad profiles and data mining, and gigantic "computing by play skool" live tiles. 

[Laurie]

MS seems to be trying to outdo google and apple in all of the ways that make me dislike their products AND tries way too hard to treat everything like a phone.  Bloatware that you aren't allowed to get rid of, "suggested apps" that it will download without your permission, ad profiles and data mining, and gigantic "computing by play skool" live tiles.

Control panel and device manager are easy to get to with the desktop search.  I do not and will not use that phone start screen with tiles. Nope no way.  I use the desktop screen as a real computer user should. Screw that kid stuff.

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[Sarah_P]

MS seems to be trying to outdo google and apple in all of the ways that make me dislike their products AND tries way too hard to treat everything like a phone.  Bloatware that you aren't allowed to get rid of, "suggested apps" that it will download without your permission, ad profiles and data mining, and gigantic "computing by play skool" live tiles.

I had actually forgotten about the auto-downloading store suggestions. I found a small alteration you can make to the registry that blocks that (should be able to google it, I can't remember what it is right now). I had to do that on mine & all the library computers.
I've fiddled around a bit with linux, but haven't really gotten to know it yet (although the porn filter server we use is running on linux).

Control panel and device manager are easy to get to with the desktop search.  I do not and will not use that phone start screen with tiles. Nope no way.  I use the desktop screen as a real computer user should. Screw that kid stuff.

I know I can find it that way, but it used to be just 2 clicks away in 10. Then they updated & took it away. Actually, I really do miss MS DOS. It was so simple & made perfect sense.
I remember back in the 80s when stores had PCs set up for display, but none of the staff really knew much about them. I'd type up a quick infinite loop (usually scrolling some text a reputable business wouldn't want) in basic & leave it running just to see how long it took them to clear it. 

[Colleen_definitely]

The intentionally less convenient start menu designed to make people stop using it is my biggest gripe about using win10.

The registry/services edits that kill the auto download of apps MS gets paid to force upon you seems to be persistent but many of the other edits I do seem to get reset after forced updates.  I miss the days where I actually owned my computer.  If I didn't play a few games now and again I'd really like to just switch to linux.  I may still since I seem to play fewer and fewer games these days.

The BASIC gag was always good, about the only harmless prank one can play now is rotate the display (ctrl+alt+arrow) and hope the poor sap working the floor doesn't know that one.

[Laurie]

The intentionally less convenient start menu designed to make people stop using it is my biggest gripe about using win10.

The registry/services edits that kill the auto download of apps MS gets paid to force upon you seems to be persistent but many of the other edits I do seem to get reset after forced updates.  I miss the days where I actually owned my computer.  If I didn't play a few games now and again I'd really like to just switch to linux.  I may still since I seem to play fewer and fewer games these days.

The BASIC gag was always good, about the only harmless prank one can play now is rotate the display (ctrl+alt+arrow) and hope the poor sap working the floor doesn't know that one.

So you're the one....
The Aussie screen thing gave me some grief when I first ran into it.

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[Kylo]

Vista had me swearing a bit, that's for sure.

[Colleen_definitely]

Vista: the OS that should have never been.

[Kylo]