Same. If I sign up for something and end up not using it there’s a reason. If I wanted to use it and had issues I’d have contacted support or used whatever documentation is available to figure it out. Emailing me after the fact wouldn’t change anything. Honestly I’d prefer they lose my information altogether.

I only use self checkout if I can carry what I’m buying in my hands. Anymore than that and I’ll go through a lane. Seems like half the time I get flagged for the dude to come check anyway though so WTF is the point?

The easiest example that comes to mind without having it in front of me is the giant “recommended” section when you open the start menu or file explorer. It’s just bullshit I have to scroll past every time. It wouldn’t be as bad but someone decided having a indecipherable picture of whatever is in the document or a big word icon was somehow useful. And it shouldn’t be in the start menu at all, who’s opening documents from their start menu? The fact that these things made it to prod without someone testing it and being like “wait a minute, this sucks actually” is infuriating to me. They’re a billion dollar corporation, they can easily afford to test shit. Just about everything they turn out should be gold. The fact that they don’t is just rubbing their disdain for their users in our faces.

The constant shoving OneDrive in my face is another issue. I don’t use it, I don’t need it, I have a backup of my data, I’m not going to set this up, I don’t need to be reminded in three weeks, just fuck off.

I wasn’t trying to argue with you.

I don’t know how much it actually costs to run my washing machine so I cannot make a definitive statement.

Pretty sure that beats the $40 to fill my tank by quite a lot.

The great majority of my gas stops are stop, fill up, leave. I expect those would be eliminated by having a EV I just charged at home though.

Transmitting from Your PC > ai server?

There’s a list but the main themes are the overall degradation in performance when they “upgraded” my PC from 10 to 11 and just how sloppy and half assed it seems to be. The obfuscated settings, the way it constantly seems to be putting itself in the way of whatever I’m trying to do, the spike of anger I get every time I open the start menu… Basically the overall experience just got worse by just about every measure.

On the other hand they finally introduced tabs to file explorer and powershell a decade late so I guess there’s that… Even those are still worse than what 3rd party apps who don’t have billions to spend on development though.

Is there some option where I can pay for an optimized version of Firefox? I certainly haven’t seen it. What about windows itself?

Nobody minded keeping things tight before ram got cheap but it’s suddenly a problem now that it’s expensive again?

Yeah, I wish current devs would understand that I didn’t buy a shitload of ram for them to waste it. I bought it so I could have a shitload of things running at the same time. I currently have like 6 applications running and I’m using 20gb of ram ffs.

What would you consider “the greatest”?

10. I’m not putting 11 on anything of mine after dealing with it at work and on the laptop I ended up switching to Bazzite. It’s atrocious.

I’m still primarily on windows myself, about 80% of the way to pulling the trigger on switching to Linux as my main driver, but I haven’t been able to work out all the things I need to be able to do yet, and dual booting really isn’t that viable for me because the amount of shit I typically have going at once means rebooting isn’t a trivial process. I’ve found a lot of shit on Linux to actually be pretty simple to accomplish once you know where to look for information, but finding that information can be tricky and that’s what makes the process so frustrating. That said my windows system is starting to have enough problems just running stably that it might force the issue before long.

My Jabra ones work but they’re kind of janky.

Because the worse windows 11 gets and the more people move off of it, the more corporations will be forced to support it with their products. Meaning we won’t have to rely on hacky bullshit to get them to work.