The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange -- it turns out my 2011-vintage rant still rings true, now also available trackerless: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_problem_isnt_email_its_microsoft_exchange.html #inefficiency #timewasted #email #archiving #microsoft #exchange #compliance #deduplication #unsolvedproblems #smtp #mail #annoyances

#Annoyances ... People who use the spoon that they just stirred their tea with to take sugar out of the sugar bowl.

"iT's Ok ThE sUgAr sTiCks To ThE sPoOn"

The heck it does. If it did I wouldn't keep finding disgusting tea stained clumps of sugar in the sugar bowl.

@Tusky Is there a way when clicking "load more" in #tusky to load the posts above the current post, so that I don't have to remember where the last read post is and have to scroll?

If you use Firefox Sync to send web pages from mobile to devices with a larger screen, it's very annoying to see all your computers named as "user's Firefox on ...", "user's Firefox on ...", ... so you can't tell which icon is which.

Under the Account → Settings menu (which may only be under the hamburger menu) there's an Account Settings page that allows you to change your computer name to something shorter.

I'm not a web designer or anything, but if you find yourself having to put "Jump To Recipe " buttons on your #recipe website, maybe just go ahead and assume nobody wants to read your 1700-word essay on the history of the ginger snap and put the recipe at the top of the page.

every #browser #extension that opens a web page with changelog without a clear consent to do so, should result in devs of these extensions being slapped by rotten fish on face for straight 10 minutes

is it me or #ios keyboard randomly switches from letters to emoji panel while typing? or maybe my hand somehow smacks that button in the bottom left corner...

Podcasts were, generally, a lot of nerds nerding about stuff that was interesting to them and to some others.

But it was sufficiently populous to pull the then BBC index of all podcasts down when it ran out of dB connections, ok there were other reasons for that.

Now it's celebrities talking to other celebrities about stuff that is interesting to them and I guess others.

And it's a cheap way to rebroadcast.

This must be one of the worst things a company can do. Ten working days to unsubscribe? Honestly, such companies don’t deserve an iota of anyone’s business.

Need help at the office?
'Annoyances' books give tips to circumvent troubles in Microsoft suite

By Peter Coffee, PC Week Labs
October 1, 1997

#annoyances #software
#taxonomy #humor

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117012601/http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0929/29books.html

There is almost nothing that irks me more than someone calling me, setting up a time of their choosing for a phone meeting and then not calling even 30 min later or texting to reschedule

It's the height of rudeness in my book #RudePeople #annoyances

Mac user? Hate .DS_Store as much as I do? Here’s a little insight into those supposedly “hidden” files that seem to propagate like rabbits. #macos #finder #annoyances #trivia #apple #networking https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/07/03/on-the-origins-of-ds_store/

There are a lot of noises that sound different over the phone to me than in person. One is the sound of a person chewing their food. Perhaps it is because there BT is in contact with their face when they are chewing.

I'm not shy about ending a conversation because I don't want to hear someone chew.

Yet I have a friend that will call me after visiting a drive-through and call me chewing hashbrowns. I always end the call quickly and say why.

Not having easy access to YouTube is a pain in the bottom!

Certainly with every software service everywhere racing to adopt #AI someone somewhere can figure out a model that will allow companies that issue bill reminders to figure out that you’ve already paid or scheduled a payment and quit sending out unneccessary reminders.

Well THIS explains everything! Forever, it seems, I was having issues with inline autocorrect in Telegram. If I started a large word near the end of the entry space, it would cut the first part off and insert the word it thought I wanted after the unfinished word. Very, VERY annoying. I had to turn off all the extra bits just to have a sane typing experience.

It seem that 14.3.1 has fixed that, so maybe I'll turn it on again. #apple #autocorrect #annoyances https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/02/09/macos-14-3-1/

¡Buenos días! Do you Duolingo? I do, every day, for several years. I've come across some things that make me go, "DAMMIT Dúo!" over the years. Here a a few.
Next week, I'll talk about things I really like about the app and system.

#Duolingo #Language #Learning #App #Annoyances

https://bit.ly/49ew0ro

i hate crap like this. please stop interrupting what i'm doing to show me something that is 100% not useful to me and is all about increasing whatever metrics you're trying to optimize

anyway, instead of doing something useful or enjoyable, i'm now trying to figure out how to disable this from ever appearing again. i don't care how cute your waving fox logo is

I like #Mastodon, but there are some specific #annoyances that I feel all the time, listen here for reference:
1. Often a comment being presented as if it were a root-level post, and it's difficult to find the conversation it's a part of.
3. Related, sometimes have to open a post's original page to view its context, meaning, to then interact with it, I have to _then_ paste its URL into my home instances' search box.
2. A comment's boosts and likes are mostly hidden (or presented as "1+") unless I go to its original page, and even then it's rarely accurate.
4. My timeline sometimes gets truncated. I'm pretty sure there should be more than 21 posts on it right now, but there seems to be no way to load more.