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Me: slowly backs away in disgust

Why on earth is any self-respecting person installing this on their machine?

Now if only Nixxes would stop using Sony's stupid proprietary audio system in PC games, I'd be happy. Every Sony game causes my sound card to freak out and I lose the ability to control anything - even volume. My surround speakers stop working completely and I'm effectively forced into accepting mono audio.

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No thanks. Here's a YouTube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufs0Rwx8sOk

At this breakneck speed of technological development, one can only imagine what wonderful boons await consumers in the next few decades.

I have clients who regularly send me photos/videos to publish on websites. There are many usability issues around this:

1. There is no option to "download all", which means you need to click through every photo manually and hit the download icon.

2. When navigating through photos, the download icon is often hidden behind a submenu which means it takes two clicks to download a photo instead of one.

3. It's impossible to download videos without first having fully buffered them. This means you need to click through the full video to ensure it's streamed to your device before the download icon appears. This is super annoying especially with longer videos.

4. Bonus non-web annoyance: if a user sends you multiple photos, your phone goes insane with notifications and sounds like a rapid-fire pinball machine. DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING

As a web developer I find it incredibly difficult to even think of releasing software with these kinds of basic inadequacies.

1: https://apps.apple.com/

Shame they didn't bother to invest any time in making sure their expensive devices wouldn't end up as paperweights. Seriously, it's infuriating that they were lauded for the creativity of this project but it's fallen to hobbyists and volunteers to engineer an entire suite of software to make this dead hardware work again, just because the initial developers were either too lazy, too shortsighted, or too restricted by bean-counters to develop open source (or at least self-hostable) software for these machines. You can't even change the server address of these things without hardware flashing and risking bricking your hub.

I say this as someone who uses Linux daily. It's simply not ready for mass exposure. The second a layman wants to do anything remotely custom with it, they are going to struggle.

As annoying as Google's monopoly of the web is, I wish sites would just stick with YouTube for video content.

Can you think of any example sites/web apps which illustrate what you mean? I'm imagining something like VSCode, but AFAIK it's built with a custom JS framework and not React.

I have honestly yet to see an example where using something like React doesn't just look like it's adding unnecessary complexity.

If I'm making a typical website, all I'm using is a few PHP files, a single CSS file and maybe some JavaScript.

There are no build steps. No minification. No compilation. No frameworks.

I just can't understand even using Rails for web dev.

There are countless free alternatives available. When did paying for group chat become a thing?

A record label has never lost a sale because somebody discovered they could "get music for free" by watching YouTube critique videos.

Realistically, what's probably happening is the labels have decided it's too (i.e. would cost too much money) to apply a nuanced approach to copyright striking and so are knowingly flagging everything containing snippets of their music whether it's fair use or not. They've simply decided to not care.

Getting rid of the customisable/movable taskbar and replacing it with the god-awful Mac-style centre menu was an absolute travesty of design.

Similarly, replacing functional control panel dialogs with the "settings app".

The insistence on packaging programs as "app bundles".

Then there's the slew of useless always-online garbage, which literally nobody asked for, and which basically amounts to user-hostile spyware.

MS needs to accept that user interface design mostly peaked about a decade or two ago, and anything beyond that has been pointless tinkering at best, or actual regression of usability at worst.

Imagine being able to block `ads.google.com` or whatever from all of your devices at once but without having to rely on local DNS. Or being able to block `pornhub.com` from just some of your devices but not all of them.

I assume the technology to do this is readily available in the form of parental control software or enterprise/office firewalls. However on the consumer level I don't know of anything which does this effectively.

Absolutely not. For the reasons in the article.