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The internet at my apt.s isn't the greatest and can sometimes be rather frustrating, especially when I'm in a hurry or trying to get something done and and my laptop suddenly develops a peculiar lag or just won't post very well and I have to reload and repost several times

This is when the vernacular tends to become rather interestingly colorful with the frickin' frackin' something something or other sniggle snaggle

How about you? Have you found yourself wishing your smart phone was just a bit smarter or trash talking any of your other devices?

YEP

Yes all the time especially at work where the computers and internet are Slow and I  have so much work to do

I have a habit of talking to everything that gets on my nerves. I threaten them too. " just for that  you go into the trash! "  Stuff like that. My family thinks I'm a little nuts. When my dad sees me do that he says something like " and it didn't even say it was sorry. What a rude laptop".  Yeah, my dad thinks his dad humor is  funny.  ::)

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 19, 2018, 06:18:13 AMYeah, my dad thinks his dad humor is  funny.  ::)

Dad humor is funny, it's you young'uns that just don't get it. .. Ok, benefit of the doubt, I'm sure you do sometimes ..

True comment here. My sister-in-law (kind of my oldest daughter as she lived with us during her terrible teens) and both my adult girls appreciate the humor I had now that they are older and think back. Dads way of helping development along, whether you think so now or not. Plus the added benefit of, when the awful day comes, that Dad is no longer there .. that voice will haunt you forever with those irritating little tidbits of fun :)

Quote from: V M on January 19, 2018, 04:51:52 AM
How about you? Have you found yourself wishing your smart phone was just a bit smarter or trash talking any of your other devices?

Is this a trick question?  :laugh:

Yes  8)  It's a trick to rock around to rock around that's right on time it's tricky, tricky, tricky tricky tricky

 For the most part, my devices do what I expect them to do however the one I talk back to from time to time is Siri. I ask her how to spell words sometimes and if she doesn't go out of her way to give me something other than what I ask for, she must have hearing difficulty. After several tries I will switch to a computer dictionary or use another word.

Then there is Google. Yesterday I was looking for a radio part called a vibrator used to provide the proper voltages needed to operate vacuums tubes. They stopped putting them in radios about 50 years ago so I knew they might be a little difficult to find. It turned out they were very difficult because the internet is loaded with vibrators of the sexual kind. At least I was lucky enough to find a design to make a solid state replacement should I need one.

Yes.  My employer just released the newest, shiniest, neatest, most feature loaded, and unfortunately buggiest spectrometer yet.

They doubled the price on these things and the customers are still getting more bugs per dollar than ever before (what a deal!)

I should have been done with this install three days ago so yes, there has been much trash talk here.

Where I work there is a pretty famous screen message if the system cannot find a file. I do see customers and other running around in t-shirts with this error printed on. Apparently it is so famous that you can buy t-shirts with it.   Same customer also made glasses for the holidays with our company logo and the slogan "This is why we drink" (beer and wine glasses). I always try to hold back trash talking our stuff. But you are so right. I love the slogan "more bugs per dollar"

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 19, 2018, 08:56:24 AM
Yes.  My employer just released the newest, shiniest, neatest, most feature loaded, and unfortunately buggiest spectrometer yet.

They doubled the price on these things and the customers are still getting more bugs per dollar than ever before (what a deal!)

I should have been done with this install three days ago so yes, there has been much trash talk here.

Oh yes. Maybe my own not so much, since I don't want to hurt my device's feelings.   ...  ???

I'll often curse everything at work (I'm the resident IT person), hardware and software both. Mostly I just curse about the utter incompetence of our ISP (which is literally the only one available to us). If we had more in the budget we could get some better hardware & software (our print server for the public computers is.... not great), but alas that's what happens with non-profits.

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 19, 2018, 08:56:24 AM
Yes.  My employer just released the newest, shiniest, neatest, most feature loaded, and unfortunately buggiest spectrometer yet.

They doubled the price on these things and the customers are still getting more bugs per dollar than ever before (what a deal!)

I should have been done with this install three days ago so yes, there has been much trash talk here.

The problem is a race to market. For example when I worked for Boeing we installed an ERP system. It cost over a billion dollars to implement. When we were done, they decided not to roll it out to all facilities. The idea behind the update was to replace 10,000 different systems to a hand full of off the shelf software. Unfortunately the program was developed for process manufacturing. IE Items were list in grams, ounces, pound, tons etc. and not custom built end products that require measurements like ea. and sets. Our programmers ended up having to rewrite the code. Five years later they scrapped it. The biggest problem is they launched the program without the bugs fixed. I had the job of finding those bugs, writing navigational scripts but we were working from a prior version not the final program. No matter how much I protested we were doing it wrong, the timeline caught up with us and we launched anyway.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqEOfzyvAU  The story of my computer life.

Hi
As I build my own comps when I can afford I know their capability, and having had a download speed of 14k (yes true and on a hard wired connection, 100 yards from the fibre supplied broadband telecoms box) until about 6 years ago, so I am well aware of the inevitable lagfests but I am more stable nowadays with regards to swearing and throwing hardware through the window. Now with 50+Gb my son does the swearing despite being told MMOs tend to be bad for lag  sometimes (lots of swearing and banging/breaking of KBDs etc).
Mind you, in-between self med and GP prescribed meds, a gap of 4 months, I have broken a Chinese smart phone in half... Oops .. cost me £250 to replace (was Chinese co bad and still bad..) as for some reason my angry side got a bit bigger.. not good.
Take the E and relax girls.. :)
Katie

Quote from: DawnOday on January 19, 2018, 12:58:17 PM
The problem is a race to market. For example when I worked for Boeing we installed an ERP system. It cost over a billion dollars to implement. When we were done, they decided not to roll it out to all facilities. The idea behind the update was to replace 10,000 different systems to a hand full of off the shelf software. Unfortunately the program was developed for process manufacturing. IE Items were list in grams, ounces, pound, tons etc. and not custom built end products that require measurements like ea. and sets. Our programmers ended up having to rewrite the code. Five years later they scrapped it. The biggest problem is they launched the program without the bugs fixed. I had the job of finding those bugs, writing navigational scripts but we were working from a prior version not the final program. No matter how much I protested we were doing it wrong, the timeline caught up with us and we launched anyway.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqEOfzyvAU  The story of my computer life.

Omg I have done that multiple times computers tv car what ever does not work right and I just admitted it

That reminds me, we had a patron that was getting really angry at his laptop. He kept banging on it with his hand, then he dropped it on the floor and stomped on it. When he threw it halfway across the room I had to ask him to leave. I think his track pad wasn't working or something, but he wasn't being very talkative about it. Actually, he hardly said anything as he further damaged his laptop, which was kind of creepy.

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.

Quote from: DawnOday on January 19, 2018, 12:58:17 PM
The problem is a race to market.

Absolutely.  And I'm the person who gets the joy of telling a customer why the new half million dollar spectrometer they bought isn't working right after I install it.  It's humiliating.

My monitor is one of those comedic tropes where a device doesn't work unless you physically abuse it. The car that won't start until you head butt it, the space ship that needs a punch to get going.

I still have not been able to figure out what the problem with the backlight is, or why whacking it in a certain way gets it to work when there's nothing wrong with the connections.

I suspect the designer at the company who made it is laughing his hair off somewhere.

My phone is a woman of ill repute. I let her know that occasionally.  :laugh:

Quote from: Viktor on January 21, 2018, 10:13:26 AM
My monitor is one of those comedic tropes where a device doesn't work unless you physically abuse it. The car that won't start until you head butt it, the space ship that needs a punch to get going.

I still have not been able to figure out what the problem with the backlight is, or why whacking it in a certain way gets it to work when there's nothing wrong with the connections.

I suspect the designer at the company who made it is laughing his hair off somewhere.

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.

  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

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 21, 2018, 11:20:16 AM
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.

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 19, 2018, 06:08:01 PM
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.

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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Quote from: DawnOday on January 21, 2018, 01:13:32 PM
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!  ;D

Quote from: Sarah_P on January 21, 2018, 09:25:42 PM
600?!! Well la-de-da! I started with a 300. And I LIKED IT!  ;D

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.

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 22, 2018, 07:36:07 AM
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.  >:(

Quote from: KathyLauren on January 22, 2018, 07:36:07 AM
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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  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

Eeew metro screen

Quote from: Laurie on January 22, 2018, 05:08:13 PM
  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.

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 :icon_blink:

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. 

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 22, 2018, 08:13:06 PM
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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Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 22, 2018, 08:13:06 PM
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).

Quote from: Laurie on January 22, 2018, 09:29:04 PM
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.  >:-)

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.

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 23, 2018, 06:58:24 AM
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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Vista had me swearing a bit, that's for sure.

Vista: the OS that should have never been.

(https://i.imgur.com/H45u8Hh.jpg)

Well, in Vista's defense, it was better than ME.
My first PC had windows 3 on it, and I think I only really started it up for solitaire.