What it says on the tin.
(If anyone is feeling positive, we could do vice versa also.)
The whole Apple ethos seems to be "we know best how you should manage your stuff and use your devices". If you happen to follow how Apple thinks you should do stuff then it all works pretty well for the most part. If you don't then it's a massive pain in the arse.
#26 - I hoped someone would say that - thanks!
Finder is by far the most irritating file browser I have ever used. I could rant on for ages about its many faults.
Any torrent client starts out great and ends up a hideous adware monster.
#37 Paper tape was fine, too!
On the PDP-11's that had a fanfold paper tape reader, paper tape was amazing.
The tape would be folded, in opposite directions, at about 6" length, to form a tight zigzag stack.
Secure with a couple of rubber bands, and it's far safer than a reel.
And the reader was clever.
Stand the stack upright on one side (without rubber bands of course), feed the lead into the reading head, trigger the read and stand back.
The clever part is that as it unfolded the tape and read it, it re-folded and re-stacked it in the output hopper, so you lifted it out in exactly the same state it went in.
None of all the tedious rewinding and spooling and messing about. And in a storage drawer, you could mange the tapes far better than spooled tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--OHNxXFeE
The video shows how it worked - but not how WELL - their example is reading from the tape and printing to a slow matrix printer, waiting for each printed character.
For loading a tape to memory, you would not BELIEVE how fast those suckers would shove the tape from side to side.
You could have more fun with the reels of paper tape, though.
Oh god yes Adobe Acrobat. Did a free trial of the pro version, I could barely get it to work and my laptop ground to a halt. Was the quickest free trial ever.
Scratching marks on clay tablets was all you need
Am not a technie but for a pain in the arse example; try stopping cookies from the various sites I use, Fb, Google etc and it does become such a pain in the neck that am now not surprised that users let cookies in left right and centre; I have blocked cookies - apart from essential ones (which one wonders about) and ever since everytime I open the Ff/Linux browser I have to go though a rigmarole of pages saying this and that and the other. Now why the fuck do they want to know everything? a[part from tailored adverts which I have no interest on?
Google Music was great, (free) YouTube music is quite deliberately shite, in an effort to get you to shell out for the paid version
Microsoft 'updates'.
We're going to:
Close down your laptop for an hour just when you need it!
Ensure that it takes longer to boot up...
...and everything runs more slowly!
We've removed some functionality you found useful...
...and added some utter mince you'll never use.
IF YOU HAVE ANY DIFFICULTIES - tough. And I'm the richest man in the world: MWAHAHAHA!
Close down your laptop for an hour just when you need it!
This
I thought Win 10 allowed you to control when it installed stuff.
I do try to delay updates but sometimes it just seems to go ahead and do it.
Resistance, as the yanks in CPST say, is fyootle.
This was a major problem in Universities at the beginning of this academic year - colleagues returning to campus after 12 months working online, switching on their office PCs to prepare for first classes, and Updates rising like the Zombie Army of the Dead to wreak havoc.