I used to think it was USB (just everything about it), but now I'm on the cookie consent train. It's infuriating that every website that implements cookie consent has a different UI with a button in a different place, and most have no option of 'no', just 'accept'.
Is funny to see you in the comment section. I hope EU forces any websites to either allow you acces to it or just shut it down , as i see a ton of garbage websites that will not let you view content unless you accept a 250 cookie page with all type of vendors and shit that is spying on you.
Also it made already so-so mobile versions of websites even less usable - the combination of browser UI, request to allow notifications and cookie accept form make visible only a couple of lines of content!
The most annoying thing on the internet, that no one is mentioning is the disappearing trend of browsing through content by page number(something like "page 1,page 2,etc.)! Now everything is a "load more" which makes searching something more difficult and makes the web page load harder!
1. Software subscription trend. 2. Flat design. (For example, Firefox's new proton design, in my opinion, is quite horrible.) 3. Software requires you to stay online to use even if they don't really need to. (For example, single player games, or some software with licensing mechanism)
Big +1 on the scrollbar rant, I can't even start to imagine why scrollbars come in the shape they do today. What makes it even worse is that nowadays many scrollbars disappear and just reappear when the mouse is near them. Complete crazyness...
Fully agree with u on that, recently a lot of devs started writing unoptimized code without caring anything about computing resources.It has also alot to do with some companies who forces devs to implement features asap which technically results in messy sourcecode. I see that everyday in my job.
I've worked in a E-waste recycling center & frankly seeing all the waste & just badly designed products ending up as endless piles of waste infuriates me to no end. Due to this I've started appreciating tech in a more industrial form factor, certainly means that the product was at least sold & advertised to last. 🤔
@@abstractapproach634 well they still do fix, test & resell most of the usable computers and peripherals. Now we didn't do any soldering work since that would've required someone with the proper experience and background (liability and all) and this is how I scored myself the occasional unusable piece of tech. The one that comes to mind was a switch with 24x 100/100 Mbps & 2x 1Gbps ports, it had a blown capacitor.
@@razielkayn3885 nice, I've often wondered if you could "hack" a board into giving two IP addresses to the router and get twice the bandwidth. It would probably require an external board, and maybe have switch like you scored involved 🤔. Before I got an update I swear I saw my eth and wifi being utilized. But I must have been wrong, haven't seen it since .... just one or the other if I forget to plug in my eth cord.
Some of mine: 1. Reduced customisation in order to "simplify" things. 2. Ever noticed how much shorter cables are getting? 3. Three different user interfaces to manage 365 users with their antique user interfaces. 4. Having to create a freaking account for every piece of software. 5. The worst thing, CAPTCHA, especially blurry picture CAPTCHA with questions like: "Find all images with a cross walk".
Too much customization is also bad. "Why this software is stupid? - "oh there are preferences". - "why the software is so buggy" - "oh you changed preferences, just reset those, then it should work". Testing all combinations of prefs is impossible.
Im with pizzablender (never thought those words would be in a sentence) . Customisation wastes time and prevents others from using your computer if they need to. If the software is good it will suit the ergonomics of everyone and should be left alone!! So i can use it the next time in turn my computer on. Im not mensa, I’m not smart, I’m not young, and I’m not wired on caffeine. Give me a chance !!
@@Mike-tv9rk There may be functions that are used only by experts, but please no "customization". Even changing the color of things causes bugs (as some parts will be impossible to see, for example).
@Edgar Walk #4 Amazon Prime Video... Create an HBO+ Account To Watch This Movie With a 7 Day Free Trial 😇 Yeah, Nah, I'll Find Something on *Netflix 😇* Too Many Subscription Services. I Wouldn't Be Surprised If There Is a Subscription Service to Manage *All* Your Subscription Services 🤔😂 It's Your Choice Though; Once You Have The Money and The Resources To Fund Your Subscriptions, It's👌🏿 Everyone Needs Money, You Know? 😇 Blessings 😇
I am highly annoyed by a trend that is in line with narrow scroll bars: Reducing the "visibility" (or maybe the "recognisability") of all kinds of GUI-elements. It used to be that things like dropdown-boxes, said scroll-bars and other interactive elements clearly messaged their purpose through their size, form or icon. But then came designers who put "less is more" above all else, and the end result is, that some buttons are far too small and unobtrusive to inform the user about their purpose, sometimes even hiding the fact that they are interactive. This is bs-design, ignoring decades of what a good GUI should be. Plus, it's ironic that Apple is one of the worst offenders in that regard, given that they were once so highly regarded when it came to intuititve GUIs.
The whole modern web is just crap. It’s piles of random barely release quality flavour-of-the-week JavaScript libraries hanging onto decades old browser technology. You can tell JavaScript and CSS are poorly thought out when people go and invent TypeScript and SASS. I mean, HTML is still human readable text… We have machines talking to each other using ASCII. Sure, we compress and binary encode it, but your browser still downloads megabytes of text and parses it. At least real Java was a bytecode. We’re not very good as software engineers at starting over with a brand new version 2, are we? Imagine being able to scrap HTTP/HTTPS and start over with a fully stateful asynchronous binary system designed for applications, shopping and mobile banking. And then leave the web for websites and other information content.
One thing that annoys me, if you use an ad blocker (usually to stop annoying ads and to generally make browsing faster on things like news sites etc) when the box pops up demanding you disable your ad blocker because they won't let you view what you want to look at without having them spamming you to death first
My response is to selectively disable javascript (I use NoScript) for everyday browsing, and for the truly noxious, disable CSS so all I see is plain text. It's so much more peaceful. And if the site still doesn't work, I'll bet I can find the same content somewhere else.
Use UBlock Origin and make full use of the filter list that blocks adblocker detection scripts. If you're feeling draconian go full NoScript and only whitelist stuff you trust.
@@Senshikaji They're getting smart to Pi-hole; ad servers now report back to them if your request never arrived, so that client JS can later make an AJAX request to the server and decide whether to throw an overlay DIV in your face. I sometimes go into the developer tools and just take potshots at the DOM until I manage to delete the overlay and read the article. It doesn't work on pages that actually send the article content within that AJAX response instead of just a permission flag.
Top of the list for me has to be dynamically loading web pages that decide to move everything on the site around the precise moment you try to click on something.
Twitter is the main offender for this. You’ll be reading something and suddenly it goes away. Or you read things on your phone, switch it off, turn it back on and it reloads the page and you lose the content. The threading in Facebook and Twitter is pretty bad too, it makes 1990s mail clients look sophisticated. My phone loves to move notifications as I’m about to click on them, often replacing them with new ones. I understand the mechanism - the phone detects me picking it up and wakes the screen, then it fires off some update requests to all its running apps. This takes a few seconds - just long enough for me to see an interesting but old notification on my phone, which then goes away just before my finger touches the screen to open it.
I think Micro HDMI wins for me as the most annoying. If it's on a phone or tablet it is essential to shrink the HDMI port, absolutely not on a desktop or laptop! I like that it's the same proper HDMI on my laptop, my TV, my monitor and my BluRay player.
I agree 100% with everything said. 3 more to add. Number 1, software that keep flashing special offers every time you use it. Number 2 Windows updates that completely lock up the PC, when the joke is that Windows suggest you can continue working normally, you can't. Number 3. Windows adding crap you have previously removed only to find it reappear again, and some you cannot remove at all.
Wait, you mean you don’t want to install Candy Crush on your fresh Windows 10 install? Well how about the Microsoft Solitaire collection? No? Well let’s just put the weather on your taskbar now and when you hover over it, pop up the latest news.
You know the World really is going to heck when even ExplainingComputers needs to have a rant about life in general. Christopher, I feel your pain. Just hold on.
@@mickey8643 AMC went dead in the late 1980s. I mean, just look at the AMC Pacer and it's not too hard to figure out why. I remember someone who had one of those. The AC didn't work and in the summer it was like driving around inside of a domed magnifying glass. Hotter than heck!
My biggest annoyance has to be modern graphical UIs. I remember when buttons looked like buttons and there was no ambiguity. Now I can be sat there looking at a screen looking for the "Okay" or "Next" button, and it ends up that a green tick what looks just like a random piece of artwork is said button. There's no indication it's a button, no border, no embossed look, just a random piece of artwork. Such a basic thing anyone should realise is awful, yet since Apple started it, everyone seemed to follow.
Watching your video reminded me that I am getting old. I find myself complaining more and more about the stupid things going on around me. It is as if people are no longer THINKING. All of your five are on my list certainly. I would love to get hold of the idiots at Microsoft who think they know more about what I want, than I do. I take the time to setup things they way I want them and then they come along and change things. Some of us don't want a new/better way of doing something. I want to keep doing it my "old/dumb" way and I think that should be my right. They are driving me away from their product.
As a webdev, I absolutely agree on heavy web pages. Nowadays it's somehow a norm to include a huge framework into a web page just to display a fancy fade effect.
Sadly web development nowadays is more about learning "frameworks" and generators instead of making webpages from scratch. Yeah the framework is easier to maintain long term but is massively overkill for simple text based blogs and news outlets. Not to mention the ads distribution which is totally hands off and comes with their own JS payload "Trojan horse" within the ads
@@YounesLayachi one of the reasons they use frameworks for is because the up-to-date security patches but again these frameworks are opensource in most cases where hackers or bad users can study and find vulnerability issues more easily than they could with unknow code base which can lead to attack massive amount of website based on that framework (I found daily attempts to attack my simple website thinking that it's a WP based)
That is why when I see web browsing shown on a SBC, I always say go to a site like CNN. I remember when a coworker got a hand me down computer from engineering and he was shocked on how fast the web was on that machine. You should not need a 2000 dollar computer to browse the web.
Automatic updates and automatic feature updates got to me so much that they pushed me into Linux full time. It is very annoying to have things move around on you constantly and to leave your workspace for a few hours to return to a rebooted computer. Then you have to wait until it finishes installing whatever mystery "goodies" that the manufacturer thinks you just can't do without.
The cookies bit, 😂. What’s worse is when a website is focused on you viewing an ad than giving you the content that inspired you to click on the web link in the first place. Also, every site wants you to be a member now or signup for a newsletter, and the ad for tha is so annoying when encountered on a mobile browser.
I would argue this somewhat...these days, it's rather hard to find a mouse that doesn't have one. Still, I agree with the point about the width, and would add the point that not everything works decently with the mouse wheel...file browers come to mind...should the scroll wheel scroll the scroll bars, or scroll the file selection within the browser pane? The answer seems to be rather inconsistant.
Scroll wheels are ubiquitous on regular mice or rodents. However, alot of the wacky ergonomic ones, the ones you in particular use all the time dont have a scroll wheel.
I find the most annoying thing about computers is when hardware no longer works because the software is now obsolete, even though the hardware is perfectly serviceable. Who would think that the software would wear-out before the hardware.
Fun fact: if your programs or games are old enough, new OS will actually refuse to run them properly, if at all. Or at least be just unable to for some reason. Makes you want to stick with WinXP, Win95 or even DOS (or DOSBox).
@@stephensu4371 W10 is compatible with older software, to an extent; but that extent is shrinking to the point you have to rip DLLs from W7 drives, and in some cases you'll be forced to choose between down-grading to WinXP or waiting on fans/others to make DLLs for today's systems. See my comment here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HuF4NfU0k3Q.html&lc=Ugx7WMmOLSS-xPmrYZ14AaABAg
I have a M-Audio sound card that will not work under Win10 even with the latest drivers. The card has a great SPDIF port which I like to use with an external DAC, but now I have to use the inferior TOSLINK, since the DAC I have on the PC lacks USB.
The worse thing about the Pi4 is the video ports. Especially when certain "kits" ship with super thick cords. The strength of the cord can easily break those ports. So thankful for the Argon One case with full size HDMI!
The regulators did not regulate "you must harass people with popups about tracking them". The regulators told them that tracking without consent was unacceptable. The WEBSITES decided they refused to stop doing an invasive, onerous, and unwelcome thing, so they decided to simply meet the letter of the regulations by harassing you. And no, we don't "just turn off all cookies". BECAUSE THE WEBSITES BREAK IF YOU DO. They demand cookies. They won't work without cookies. Truly, you're forced to have them and accept them. We just set up a private or temporary (firefox) window, the browser will take any stupid cookie the website wants to give us, and then we throw it away five minutes later, automatically, because we're tired of having Mark Zuckerberg knowing how long it took for that Taco Bell order we had for lunch to send us to the bathroom. (Because yes, they know that about most of us.)
Excellent correction to state where the actual blame for these "annoyances" lies. Regulators are simply responding to the consumer abuses of the corporate capitalism. That the corporate capitalists turn those essential regulations into annoyances is ENTIRELY INTENTIONAL.
@@arxaaron That was a major reason for my comment. RU-vid did the same thing in response to American laws forbidding companies tracking children under 13. They were doing it, deliberately. And so the US government was going after them for breaking the law, deliberately. How did they respond? By changing their frankly nefarious data-mining practices? Of course not. They simply decided to punish channel creators to turn them into a lobbying body to change the laws so that Google's bad behavior would be permitted to continue unabated. And they knew what they were doing, too, because Google employees have admitted that they deliberately use their policies, algorithms, and responses as social activism to change public perception, awareness, and action on things such as "issues of importance", elections, etc. Yes, Google management has admitted they're trying to brainwash people to think and vote a certain way to influence the governments that constrain them. They aren't alone in that, either. And they use data mining to determine what techniques are and are not working to change people's thinking and behavior. If that's not reason for regulation, I don't know what is.
I use the browser extension self-destructing cookies rather than "private" or "incognito" sessions. It's not like they can't track you - there's always browser fingerprinting.
Browsers need a “shopping” mode where all these cookies still exist, but are sealed away from regular daily browsing, since turning them off out of spite just breaks most of the web. Facebook really does need to track you with a cookie so it knows who you are to show your content, that’s literally how it works. Good old stateless HTTP and all that.
The most bloody annoying thing is adverts that get in the way of you wanting to download a program and especially the ones that turn up late and appear slap bang in the place where you was going to hit the advance to the next page button.
@David Reads David, I think what Jonathan is describing is when you go to download free software (not something cracked) and after you click on the downloads link up pops a new page with a "Download" button front and center. Problem is that that download button is for some other piece of software (registry cleaner, anti-spam, system tune-up,, chrome browser add-in, or similar garbage...) unrelated to what you're actually intending to download. The actual download may have already started or is a different link at the bottom of the page.
What annoys me is when you want to price an item and the company wants you to email them for a "quote", this is just a sales technique so they can size you up. If you are selling something on the web please have clear pricing on your site I am not going to email you to find out how much something costs, I will take my business elsewhere
@@aytviewer2421 spot-on Kelsey👏👏👏 In fact for the last thing I downloaded I gladly gave a contribution for it. if the program is good I believe that person is worth supporting.
I get caught all the time with that one, even windows does it, I open file explorer, see the drive etc I want move the mouse and click, just as windows fleshes out the folder list with a few more entries making my click a miss-fire, Thank You microsoft.
The idea is that if you are using a lot of ports, then you are stationary and can use a hub. I have a hub that gives more USB3 but also has ethernet and HDMI. Only cost £15.
If I spend 1000 in a laptop I expect that comes with everything is possible to make my life easier. That's why I have computer! To make my life easier , otherwise why spend a lots of money on it??
The newest laptop I have is about 6 years old. HDMI, USB, Ethernet, Wireless, Bluetooth, SD Card slot AND a VGA port. I've upgraded the RAM and replaced the HDD with a SSD. Better connectivity than the modern ones.
It used to be that business laptops came with docking stations for the office, that provided extra keyboard/mouse/monitor connections, allowing you to use it like a desktop. With USB-C, instead of "docking" you're plugging in something you need to be extra (gosh, I guess they want more money from you...)
With thin scrollbars there is often an irritation on top of the annoyance: A scroll bar that is thin when you initially try to target it, but gets wider once you activate it. What is the point to that? Part of the level of annoyance may be generational. I've seen an article or two that claimed millennials and younger simply accept that figuring out new interfaces every third time you use something is just part of the process. If you can train users to accept bad design why make the effort to make good ones?
Yes, I'm sure these things annoy mostly old-school people, who grew used to great designs of the past. Newer generations simply don't have the parameters or think they're for the oldies.
I hate when the webpage jumps or change layout due to loading on another section or media, causing my mouse click going waste or to unintentional link. After the cookies madness this jumping pages are the most annoying for me
... or it loads but for some reason the links don't initially work. This is usually because the "link" in fact triggers some javascript thing that has to be downloaded from a server in Mongolia
Yes! And also when I'm reading a web page and one of the ads gets replaced by another of a different size, and the text reflows around the new ad and moves while I'm trying to read it.
I'd be fine with cookie consent messages if they actually let you say no to them. However, most cookies are not optional, and the consent messages just are there to let you know if you don't want to use cookies, you need to leave the site. The Web is far too bloated today. Web browsers are far too large, and Web sites take far too long to load. It's very, very annoying, don't sacrifice usability for aesthetics.
" ... need to leave the site. " , and away we go . Find generally there are 20+ more sites with the same content or info I was looking for that don't take up the page . Crappy design = " Next .... "
@@ronanharris8216 VS Code is pretty nice, though. And personally, I'd rather have a heavy app that works natively on all OS than an lightweight app that works only on a single OS (which is usually Windows, which I don't use), Wine is quite troublesome sometimes and running a VM is even heavier.
Consent messages not a problem, how they take all screen is problem. Some sites (very few) give a bar at the bottom. It (bottom or top bar) do not interfere with browsing and site do "not" put cookies if you not exempt them.
when I was learning to make websites (graphic design courses) the first thing my teachers would do is have us try the uploaded site in different browsers and settings for usability. after that was always conscious about how each website displays for users with either vision or sight problems, astounding to see how many fail in the area.
So true. Accessibility is ignored by so many these days. Not least RU-vid Studio is clearly designed by those with good eyes sitting at very large screens working on fast machines with fast Internet connections . . .
Hundreds more videos just like this, please, Christopher :) Playlist style - A big gripe for me is these "streaming wars" leave us forced to use crappy audio/video players. All are annoying, sluggish, unreliable, and barren of anything resembling a "feature". It should be a base expectation that streaming sites allow their paying users to access content with our own players like VLC. Companies that don't offer this, can justifiably fade to dust. Some that would get you blacklisted from the modern world for talking about: - Since anti-virus and internet security are such a high profit industry, do they really have any interest in making viruses/threats/spam go away? - Tech movies always portray big tech as worrying that, "some kid working out of his garage can put us out of business in a month!!" But, why has that never come close to happening in 40+ years? Reeks of anti-competitive practices.
4) In fact, those consent forms are illegal in EU in that they're designed illegally, at least if one article's to be believed: the regulation seemingly said that customizing must be as easy as totally refusing and fully consenting, which is the completely opposite the vast majority of the templates do.
I'm a professional web developer working for a large international agency. I typically implement one or two cookies per site. And yet, the sites I work on usually end up with 50+ cookies. These are created by the framework(s) being used and numerous third-party libraries and services. I have no idea what each cookie does and it's impractical to chase each of these down manually. But if I did, I'd have to do it every single time any library is updated. A large site will have dozens of libraries. If it's a node site it will have hundreds. Good luck with that. Of course, a developer could create everything from scratch and take comfort from their principled stand as they starve to death from lack of work. Or they could modify every library themselves, cutting their client off from future bug and security fixes while they introduce all new bugs and security issues. Thus, the solution is to use a third-party library. That library will require cookies of its own, won't have an interface compatible with the rest of the site, and will annoy everyone forced to deal with it. The EU cookie consent policy is garbage. It makes the world worse rather than better. It demonstrates the ignorance of the bureaucrats tasked with this regulation. And I suspect this is true of everything else the EU does.
Even worse than thin scroll bars are disappearing scroll bars. On what planet is this OK? Part of the intent of a scroll bar is to let you know HOW MUCH content is in the box, and how much you'll need to scroll to get to the bottom. It's all really stupid to hide a scroll bar. If the first part of the text fits with perfect paragraphs on the screen, how do you know you need to scroll down to read more when the scroll bar is hidden until you put your mouse over it?
Chris, I never saw you in this way! You are stunned. Sawing you trying to find words about this automatic feature upgrade is hilarious! Well sometimes I'm also thinking, what the heck is going on with my computer. Some time ago I clicked there and that happened and now I clicked the same way and something completely different. And most of the time I'm not sure whether it's my fault or not. Thank you very much you spoke this out!
@@AlpacaFiasco Meant to reply to the video and not your comment, yt mobile interface is less than ideal. He implied that the new tiny-width 'feature' can't be changed in the other OSes.
@@Thracx No worries. I still think that doesn't help the issue Christopher has with modern scroll bars, which is they are too narrow in a lot of cases.
@@AlpacaFiasco True, except I think his problem is just with scrollbars in general (and therefor likely with the modern increased resolution). I don't think the width of the bars has changed in nearly forever, at least not in Windows (past the auto-hide feature of course, which I also dislike but turned off years ago and half forgot about). Also worth nothing from a development point of view, allowing users to easily change the scrollbar with is likely to break (older) apps. I've made many apps back in the day with tightly arranged controls - features like DPI scaling would always break them, and mgmt never budgets time to handle edge cases for those 1-3 users. Should be much less of an issue today with modern apps...but we all still have a few older apps lying around! Anywho, that is part of what such 'advanced settings' are often kept to registry and 3rd party config applications - kind of like those 'removing this will void your warranty' stickers!
Worst part with the cookies pop-ups is... they've ALSO started asking for permission to show notifications, which I don't want. So I can't just blindly press "yes" on everything.
I *NEVER* allow any website to send me notifications. The webdev who thought that was a good thing should be tarred and feathered and then made to click "NO" to notifications one million one times before being allowed to resume normal life.
You can also block notifications in Chrome and Chromium based browsers (like Brave which i highly recommend). Go to Settings and do a search for "notifications" and you'll find it. There's also browser extensions that will block _most_ (but not all) cookie pop-ups.
However most scroll wheels are quite chunky in their moves, so in some cases they might as well not have them. (on this website, about 7 text lines - just usable) In other cases I have hundreds of lines to scroll through, the only real option is the scroll bar.
i just can fully agree with all mentioned aspects! Especially the Micro HDMI plugs are driving me mad! Christopher speakes again from my heart, pointing out the exact matter! Well done, my friend! Cheers from germany
Another thing that does me is on ebay, listings that come up "cheap" to get higher up the lowest price but then have a drop down where the cheap price is for something like a bolt set for the advertised item & the item itself that you want is astronomical.
The thing that used to annoy me is when installing an app they cleverly hide you accepting install other apps in the installer. You think you're clicking on "accept" to accept installing the app you want but it's you accepting install of another app with it like "McAfee antivirus" or some toolbar for your browser.
I remember some AV software trying to install Chrome unless you were paying attention and caught the box to uncheck rather than just clicking Next. :-/
I remember an installer for an HP scanner which had a pre-checked box for "Install Enhanced Features". It just submitted your email to an HP spam-spewing system.
@@DaimlerSleeveValve HP: Yet another example of how far the great can descend into something far, far less great. There was the time when everything with their name on it was top notch and customer relations were first class.
I completely agree with all of these, but especially with the last one. I cannot describe the anger I have to go through every time Windows updates. Most notably, the last Windows update that magically added that little weather or whatever icon to my taskbar. And the button to disable it is in such an illogical position. Ridiculous!
Has anyone noticed they used a tickmark in those options menu although there should be dots because they are like radio buttons? Has Microsoft anyone who still knows how basic and intuitive UI works?
I would like to congratulate Explaining Computers for addressing what I find most annoying. It is not about the machine itself, but it still makes irate! It seems that almost all computing videos are geared only for gaming and/or overclocking. What about those of us who just want to learn about standard computers, how they work, and how to build them? It seems EC has us covered! Thank you sooo much!!!
I have one app that for months I had no clue there even was a scroll bar so missed parts of the program that I could have been using had the scroll bar looked like a scroll bar and not a line! Great video!
- Renting instead of being able to buy - Software that doesn’t work anymore after an OS update. - increasing system demands after OS updates. Not updating the OS isn’t an option because of security reasons
The system demands for MacOs are ridiculous in the extreme. The newest one (forget the name) has what looks like basic requisites but Apple declares my 12 iMac vintage and just because says my computer which technically meets said requisites is not supported. One reason Apple is on my bad list.
I did a short arithmetic experiment recently, which attempted to fashion a simple formula to represent complexity. Here's what I came up with: 3 points in a plane are connected by 3 line segments. 4 points are connected by 6 line segments. 5 points are connected by 10 line segments. And so on. The formula for that Complexity C = number of line segments = (n^2 -n) / 2 . Now, assume each point symbolizes an executing "process". How many executing processes did XP have, on average? How many executing processes did Win7 have, on average? How many executing processes does Win10 have, on average? The Complexity of each Windows version can be roughly represented by using that formula to calculate "C" when "n" equals the number of executing processes. Clearly, it is no exaggeration to observe that Complexity increases geometrically as the number of executing processes increases. In our formula, a "line segment" represents a contingency e.g. if Process A does this, then Process B is affected directly. If Process A blocks WRITE access to File Z, all other executing Processes that need WRITE access to file Z will err. It gets worse: in reality, a "contingency" between 2 executing processes could actually involve multiple effects that result from a single cause. For example, a Registry setting like IRPStackSize may be too small, resulting in any number of negative consequences for local area network operations. Bottom Line: instead of paying its programmers to change cosmetic appearances, as will soon become "standard" in Windows 11, I strongly urge Microsoft to take at least a full calendar year to focus on reliability and bug fixes. Such a policy announcement should be welcomed with open arms by Microsoft's millions of customers, and should do wonders for Microsoft's ailing reputation. That reputation has been harmed substantially by forced Windows Updates that stop a PC from doing a routine STARTUP.
Perfect fathers day video. What about me: Slow loading websites that move the page as you click a link due to loading content above, so you click an advert instead. Surely 30 years in, websites could have a physical framework which doesn't change as content is populated
That is achievable with a couple of lines of code. Unfortunately, every sheep sheerer and his carpet cleaners brother can allegedly "create a website" nowadays.
Agree 100% with these especially cookies! I also hate websites that intentionally hide their contact details especially phone numbers! More often than not you’re at the mercy of a web form that doesn’t give you confidence that your request will be answered!
Searching for a simple thing like how to turn off windows news in taskbar, and having too scroll past an entire page of 5+ minute RU-vid videos before you thing the information in text that you can read in 10 seconds
Love the attention to detail on the thumbnail color that effectively hides the watch bar. Was scrolling through my subscriptions and KNEW I've watched this previously.
Systems that log you off periodically for your safety, especially on phones that already have screen locks etc. Web pages that do not trim trailing spaces if your answers. Especially annoying with phones. Pages that are so full of ads that you maybe see three lines of content.
The trimming spaces thing reminds me of a lot of forms, especially support ticket kinds, where I type and format things into neat paragraphs, etc. and then it trims all line feeds, and reduces any series of spaces to a single space, turning my nicely formatted letter into a giant block of text.
Proprietry garbage was what killed so many manufacturers and made their hardware useless once technology marched forward. It's why the Superdisk 120MB floppy, the Zip Drives, and the Betamax are relegated to the museum bargain bin.
@@gigaslave Yes, I remember (in my 'yoof') saving up and buying a Zip drive and a couple of cartridges. Six months later the manf of the Zip dives was bought by a competitor, who promptly killed the Zip drive in order to force people to buy their inferior offering. I hated that company with a vengeance. It was my first introduction to 'predatory' capitalism. The pattern has been repeated since then, with big companies buying up start-ups etc who might threaten their markets. This not how the market economy should be. The end results are some products that could benefit consumers simply disappear, to our dis-advantage!!
@@RobinTheHoodedMan The bigger issue is Big Technology deliberately forcing 'standards' and killing off worthy rivals by shenanigans instead of outselling them. At least USB 2 killed Firewire by being cheap to license and good enough for so many things, and USB portable drives killed all the older portable media by being too convenient and efficient.
Christopher, I watch your videos for a long time and have never seen you frustrated like this. And yes, 100% agree with you, especially with Feature Updates. That's why I used to put my laptop into sleep and pull the charger off when it's not in use - this is my silly workaround to win a battle with Windows Update - when on battery, it's not implementing updates
What's annoying me most at the moment - video ads with sound levels boosted to the max to be louder than the videos they are constantly interrupting Anyway, Chris is spot on in this video (as always :) And as for HDMI cables, I find even cables with full size connectors to be bad for longevity, compared to DP, DVI etc. (As I say myself, hdmi is a standard with the goal of not transfering video signals - unless lots of criteria is met , all to protect "content" )
Not only the web is awfully bloated. Desktop software and apps as well. It has gotten so bad, that if we would still optimize, we could most likely play 4K videos while browsing the web with an old Core 2 Duo...
I'd make it at least a Sandy Bridge. The Integrated Memory Controller and the ringbus between the cores was a huge deal. Uses less power than a C2D most of the time too
@@mrflamewars I think the video codec RU-vid uses called VP9 is a total disaster. It supports multithtreading for encoding, is still as slow as single core... And decoding also uses up to 45% on a Ryzen 5 Pro 4950G when CPU decoding is uses onf 4K 60 FPS material. That is just INSANE.
@@kyoudaiken At least x265 makes up for its CPU-hungry nature by being insanely good for saving disk space with the compressed videos if you set the encode settings correctly.
And they are the worst ads on the internet "try this one weird trick to make your genitals disproportionately huge" and "this girl didn't realize why everyone was staring."
I agree with you completely, Chris. I started reacted several years ago already, when the Op system welcomed me back to Win10 as I started it up....And I thought right away: Who are you welcoming me back to my own computer?? And now it's always: Please wait, while 'we' are doing changes to your computer system (and it's all to protect you from yourself).
Yep! I miss living on the West coast (USA). Used to be that I'd get up on Sunday and there'd be an EC vid up and waiting for me to watch. Now I live on the East coast (USA) and I have to wait a bit until the video is posted. I know it's funny, but I actually do look forward to EC videos each week just as I used to look forward to my favorite TV programs each week when I was a kid.
_Actually_ _necessary_ cookies don't need notification or permission (under GDPR-compliant regulations, at least). The reason for the notification is precisely to annoy you into either complaining about the regulations or to get you to consent to all manner of privacy intrusions that are very much against your own interests - or both. I should point out that I am very much of a mind with you where feature updates are concerned, and am very much _not_ looking forward to the upcoming Windows 11 - it appears to be a UI train wreck.
Its a bad law with bad results. I don’t understand why people love to defend regulator shenanigans as if they were perfect ideas for a perfect world but those pesky humans ruined it.
@@irusensei7501 The law is fine. The problem is that the offenders want to keep on selling you to all and sundry, so make it as difficult as possible to let you have your rights. Click on "Object to all" and you find a sneaky "legitimate interests" has been left enabled. Now their idea of "legitimate interest" is what gives them the most money - carrying on as before.
I couldn't agree more. To #3 we could add those clickbaitish auto-region-based-ads like "This woman found out about this awesome weight loss method and shocked {insert your city here}". The scrollbars could be upper in the list too!
Christopher I agree 100% to you. I have some more annoying items: 1. Micro USB connector is the same as micro HDMI. Tons of cables to charge mobile phones are thrown away because of unreliable connection. 2. Outdated web pages. A small date of creation or a version to which this information relates would stop wasting time. 3. jQuery for everything - even in different versions this goes together with bloating SW 4. Error messages like "Unexpected error..." so there are expected errors or what? 5. HDMI vs. Display Port: Use your laptop at home, in the office and at customer side and your "adapter dealer" is your best friend
indeed, the real problem is sites that refuse to load at all unless you accept cookies, or make it very difficult to only allow functional cookies, which is the option you usually want.
I actually like Lightning for that reason. Everybody complains about it not being standard (though mostly Apple adopts standards, but not the one that wins), but at least it has stayed the same since I got an iPhone 4.
That's why I call USB-C a scam. You buy a black box just to find out it doesn't work. And while it's somewhat acceptable in $5 cable, the worse part is when you discover that hardware does not have some capacity (like Mac use different stream for DP alternate mode and not every HDMI adapter works or lacks second output). You never know until you try to use it.
@@SergiuszRoszczyk That did exist back in early 2000. Usb 2.0 pci cards with via chipset never worked properly, you had to use cards with a Nec chipset, or adaptec cards.
Usually, unless you are buying second hand stuffs that are totally obsolete, you can look it up online to see what feature the USB-C port/accessory supports
This is the most animated I've ever seen you, Christopher. This is also the most animated I've ever been while watching EC. 😂 Just yesterday, I grumbled about the mouse wheel segments being too long for accurate scrolling, the automatic videos on cluttered webpages bringing my phone to a standstill, and those awful cookie windows blocking the content! I believe people should have to opt into cookies via the browser and cookies be disabled by default.
One thing that got me installing Blokada on every Android device I own - pop up adverts getting in the way of the content I'm actually there to see. They did it on computers, now the first thing I've installed in every browser I've run for the last 20 years is Ublock Origin and then they brought it to phones. If website advertisers and the websites who use them respected their viewers, there wouldn't be a need for adblockers and Flash would probably still be alive. But between plugins crashing the entire browser, drive by downloads, adverts that take over the entire page or automatically redirect you somewhere else, my trust is broken.
Number One is Definitely Extremely Frustrating. When You Need To Use Your Computer Urgently, and You Turn It On To Find That Windows 10 is Updating 😭 They Could At least Ask First, If You Need To Use *Your Computer* Urgently; and Let Me Get Options To View What is Being Updated. *Security Updates are Fine, Once They are Stable.* *When My Computer is Already On, They Give Me Options To Choose From; So That's a Plus 😇* *Microsoft,* I Know That It's Your Software; but You're Selling a Product, and I Bought It and That Gives Me a *Right* To Choose When, or If I Want To Update It or Not 💯🤕😇 Great Video Christopher, Blessings 😇
You are bang on with the final one - I turned on my MS Surface Book Pro to simply make a powerpoint presentation, but I had not used it for a month. Updates came in and it failed to save my work, froze, I had to reboot and re-do some work. It was apparent due to a change in the past month... Windows 10 really sucks. I have not experienced this on my other 5 Linux machines (all Debian...).
Having recently had a big problem with MS Flightsim after the last sim update (ie not even loading up) I did a clean install of Windows only to get another set of problems with stuff that did previously work.
By far my most annoying "feature" is windows/apps taking control of input, i.e. Pop-ups or delayed opening windows. I find myself many times a day having to Ctrl-Tab back to the window I was typing in or having to start over due to this. Drives me nutz! The others on your list are also high on my list of annoyances as well.
So many times when I'm typing a message / password, when another application that thinks itself more important opens up in front of my message........ you just got me triggered!
A big one I can't stand is web pages filled with adverts that overlap the main page itself, whether it's just a block on the middle of an article or an advert that takes over the page, it's dumb and I hate it and it's 10 times worse of the mobile web page varient
Next to Deadpan in the dictionary they need to have your face, Mr. Barnatt. Absolutely hilarious delivery, top-tier, really. As to what annoys me are web browsers that make my tabs get continually smaller and smaller until they're unrecognizable. I want a minimum size option and when they minimize to that size instead of getting smaller, they simply scroll to the side.
You hit the nail right on the head. I totally agree with you on all these annoyances. My grief is the use of grey font on white background making reading difficult on web pages. Even Google maps has pale wishy washy grey features that make it hard to even distinguish roads!!! Grrrrr!!!
It's a good list. One thing I've done with my Win10 box is change the firewall from "default pass everything" to "default block everything". You can also enable metered connection. When I want to update, I can turn off the firewall (I'm behind a hardware firewall too). Long enough to update, then I lock things down again.
Sometimes it's helpful. I work Service Desk, you be amazed how many people think changing ".docx" to ".pdf" is a valid way to convert a file. They're hidden for the normal folk, us more advanced users can turn it off.
@@burgersnchips If users would see the extensions, they could learn. The OS shows a warning message when an extension is being changed. I prefer well-informed users to keeping them stupid.
"File extensions for known file types" is also an extremely lazy way of programming an operating system. As far back as the Commodore Amiga and Workbench, it was able to identify a file type entire from the file header itself within the file - plus, later on in Workbench 2.0 and beyond (from memory anyway), you could define your own filetypes and what applications would open them - you could happily change ".jpg" to ".mov" and it would still open in an image viewer if you double-clicked it. I think Linux does it slightly better and would allow you to configure it to open a file based on its file header - but I don't think even then that it's configured to work that way in most Linux desktops. Having said that, I just did the same extension change on my Linux XFCE desktop now and it did still open it in the image viewer.
Agree. I always configure Explorer to show extensions. There are many things like this where they're trying to dump down things and make them easier but it is very misguided because that ignorance leads to confusion and mistakes.
Great video, well seasoned by humour. Your frustration was palpable about automatic feature updates, made more so by the 'weapons' in your hands. For me, as my only computer is a Raspberry Pi 4 (4Gb) it is the lack of support for Chromium by websites, which is my No. 5. But, my No. 1 is the slowness of the broadband connection, as fibre is not available where I live, unless I sign up for cable TV, at double the price, or more.
Absolutely agree. I remember when the old gripes included downloading "necessary" adware, such as Real Player. Shockwave and Java were also a hassle as was the endless search for codecs. The Internet changes, but annoyances never truly go away.
Right on. Another major old but no longer relevant grip I used to have was when plug and play hardware was a new thing. Sure, you no longer had the pesky jumpers to set I/O address or interrupt, but the software mechanisms you were forced to rely on often didn't actually work right in the early days. This lead to the phrase "plug and pray."
Imagine you are driving your "smart car" down the road. It suddenly stops. The engine stops; the instrument go dark. Suddenly, all the instruments light up and go crazy. The engine re-starts and rev's several times. Everything stops and a message appears: "system automatically updated". You start the engine, put the car in "drive" only to find "drive" is now "reverse" and you must hold down the brake pedal to release the brakes. That's microsoft automatic updates.
or blue def (look it up, regeneration mode) better yet, get a John Deere tractor, when check engine light is on, you have to tow to dealer and then wait for a tech
The first thing to breakdown or just stop-working on a mouse is the scroll-wheel. I have three that don't work anymore even though all the buttons and motion works fine. And no matter how you try, scroll-wheels almost never move horizontal slider-bars. I have to agree with everything on the list, though. Micro HDMI should be used as a secondary option only, not the main connection.
At least these days it's the wheel and not the optical sensor, I had the original Microsoft Intellimouse's optical sensor just up and die on me back in the day.
@@wilkgr on a mouse that supports left and right schooling (aka trackpads) there are lots of times i try to scroll left and right but it is not supported by the software :( You end up with one of two things. 1. You scroll up and down to get the program scrolling left and right. Or 2. It randomly moves somwhere and is inconsistant. This second one an example is steam library where it shows you the recent games you've played.
Number one on my list are those messages in mobile apps: "The app version you have is currently too old." "You have to update the app first to be using it." Or they will simply stop working one day after not updating them regularly. Their changelog says "watered the plants and put the thrash outside." That's how planned obsolescence is being done, through software.
@@Tyneras I woudn't say they are "feature compkete" because if they were then there would be no need to install additional software to add functionality to operating systems. But that just how I see thing and I can also see it the way you are pertaining to like with Afobe Creative Cloud or Office 365.
Also, censorship and propaganda ... generated by AI, not real human beings. Back in 2008, I had been leaving VMs for a friend. Somebody modified a "voice print" and imitated my voice by leaving a very insulting VM for him to hear, the next time he played his Voice Mail messages. He thought I had insulted him, and he almost didn't believe me when I told him I DID NOT SAY THAT and I WOULD NEVER SAY THAT. That was 2008, San Diego, California.
I find it annoying how it seems where we're going towards a world without USB type A - if I understand correctly, it's going to be replaced with USB type C eventually, even on desktop PCs! I find it annoying, because I've had multiple USB type C ports and cables fail, yet in my 20 years of computing I haven't seen a SINGLE USB type A port that failed, it's a very durable connector.
One argument would be C has more bandwidth than A. But surely engineers can come up with a connector backwards compatible with A that has just as much bandwidth as C ports?
Interesting; I've had quite the opposite experience. I've had USB A ports wear out so that the cable no longer holds on, but I've never had a Type-C device break on me.
@@wilkgr It always depends on materials too. You can design the sturdiest port in history, and it'll still break easily if the materials were messed with or are subpar. Similarly, the worst designed port might not break as easily if its material can handle abuse and fatigue/flexion-based damage.
The day that Microsoft got hold of Minecraft my life became a living hell. It auto converted my Java worlds. I have no idea how to fix it. And literally every time my daughters friends come round, the multiplayer wont work unless everyone is updated to the same version. And every-time i go to do it the method has changed or the update button has moved. And how many 10 year olds know their account passwords. Bad enough they’ve tortured me for decades but when they make my kids cry somebody has to pay !
You are able to use 3rd party tools to convert bedrock worlds (Microsoft version of Minecraft) to Java (Original Minecraft) search it up on RU-vid also please don’t use bedrock version of Minecraft is a lot worse
The Minecraft thing isn't Microsoft's fault. Mojang keeps chugging along pretty much independent of the rest of Microsoft. That auto-conversion you refer to must have been for the 1.12 version, which changed the internal data structure of the game items. It's one of the things they need to tackle sooner or later, as there's a hard limit on the number of unique things the game could have previously, and as they keep adding more and more stuffs into it. If all you want is a stable Minecraft server where you build stuffs in creative, then you probably don't need to update to the very latest until you have time scheduled for it. Plus, changing the game version on the client isn't that hard.
Scrollbars are essential if you're viewing a long document/page, imagine being limited to slowly scrolling line-by-line through a 200+ page document to get to the relevant chapter, totally impractical.
Oh yes, #5 drives me insane. Designers seem to be heading to 1px wide on a 4K display. And #1 is why my home is Windows-free (and Apple-free, for that matter.)
my number 1 annoying computer thing is the loss of software ownership. I remember when I could go and buy a copy of a particular software or software suit and I owned it and coudl use it forever as many times as I wanted. Now I have to pay for a yearly or even monthly subscription and if a payment lapses or worse the company goes out of business or no longer supports the software I can no longer use it! Soooo frustrating!!!
I'd advise you to read any EULA (end user license agreement) from any common software. You'll find out that you have never bought the software and now "own" it, but instead you have paid for the license to legally use the software (usually 1 concurrent installation). While any installation media, documentation, etc are your physical property, the software itself is *not*.
Things that annoy me about technology these days: 1.Apps that require an update everytime a new version comes out Doesn't matter if the app worked properly or if it is a simple text editor, if a new version is available it will bug you to no end or simply refuse to work until updated. Why?? 2. The bloated webpages as you described 3. The subscription based licenses. I like to buy a version of software and use it until the and of time. I do not want to pay half its price each month just to use it. And after an year all the new "features" make it perform worse and worse. 4. The increasing amount of ads. Now every website looks like one of those sketchy download pages from before 2010, where everything except the little blue 'download' text was an ad. 5. The trend of having thinner devices to the detriment of usability and performance: - paper thin laptops that struggle to load a youtube page, while getting hot enough to fry an egg - smartphones without replaceble batteries
I love that I spent $800 on my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra only to be constantly harassed with android and samsung system updates when I had a perfectly good Samsung Galaxy S8 which did not harass me with anything at all. OH BOY
I mostly agree with all your points. Small, unreliable connectors are horrible - thank god micro USB is being replaced by USB-C! Regarding the cookies, I'm part of the .01% of the population that almost always clicks on "Customize" -> "Accept only neccessary cookies" but it's annoying how that option is always like 5 clicks away instead of... one? And I don't understand either why websites keep getting more bloated and less optimized. On slightly older computers, extensions like NoScript and an Ad-Blocker are basically a must, and even those only achieve so much. You can get very nice looking websites with just a bit of basic HTML+CSS formatting without anything crazy complex. The problem is that so many websites these days are built with bloated templates. And while I'm a person who loves playing with the latest and greatest software (that's why I use Arch btw) I can definitely see how one would just want to get security updates and nothing else. I bet you'd love Debian stable (There's a version of Linux Mint that's based on Debian instead of Ubuntu!) Oh, and one more thing: I hate websites that don't even load anything at all when JavaScript is disabled, even if they're only supposed to display text and maybe images, which should not need scripts at all. And I hate vendor lock-in APIs and libraries like CUDA for NVIDIA, Metal for Apple, DirectX for Windows etc.
I hated that they designed micro USB to go in only one way. So many ports and connectors were broke when people tried blind connecting devices and always the wrong side up! Now with type C you don't have to worry about blind connecting devices as the connector goes in both sides
@@aqmohra4 Historically speaking, many, many, well, most connectors were not done to accept either way (lacking the specific word...). Anyway, in this case I'd say it's the people using the connectors who are more stupid than those who designed them.
As a developer, colleagues used to say "you must have all the good technology" but the truth is the opposite. Old computers have ample amounts of resources, you just got to use them correctly. So. Yeah, wasting computer resources or using too much resources or expecting a certain level of resources for business software because of bells and whistles.
So much modern software is written by just gluing libraries together it's no funny, and probably explains a lot of vulnerabilities and bugs in software. I had a good laugh ages ago when Microsoft said that PowerPoint could no longer (back then) export to video because Apple quick time?? has changed somehow. Even Microsoft is not writing their main cash cow, but just gluing a pile of crap together and hoping we don't notice.
I’m with you on number one! The last update was particularly bad for me. An update always switches num lock off. This one enabled microphone, lost details of Lock Screen picture, changed theme; it’s outrageous.
These are good. But my current pet annoyance is that Bluetooth, which started off many years ago being complicated and unreliable, and now having gone through so many iterations of refinement, is still a disaster area where nobody can ever predict what will happen when you try to get two devices to work together. Will an audio receiver start beeping for no good reason? Why does pushing and releasing this button not do anything? Why do some devices connect automatically and others wait to be told? What does it mean to be "connected" to a device but not "using" it? Or "paired" but not "connected"?
I was just about to say the same thing because Bluetooth problems occur very frequently on my computer as well, on both Windows and Linux. It is by far the #1 biggest problem on my system.
Agree, and why does my phone auto connect to my car stereo and start playing music like I want it too 3 or 4 times but the next time it won't connect unless I select flight mode on then off? I just want to get into my car, start it and drive to work or home while continuing to listen to my music, by the time I realise it hasn't started playing I'm sometimes half way down the street and have to pull over to faff around getting the phone out of my pocket, unlocking it, swiping to find the flight mode tapping it on, waiting a few seconds, tapping it off then waiting another few seconds for it to hopefully connect. Even worse is when I've made the mistake of checking facebook on my phone and accidentally letting it play a video or watching a youtube video on my phone, then even if bluetooth connects in my car, it won't start playing my music unless I specifically open the music player app and manually tap the play button again on my phone.
