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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by lloydatkinson »

Someone1234 wrote: post #35

Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…

Don’t forget posting a link rarely embeds properly. Posting a YouTube video doesn’t show a player like practically every modern chat platform.

Oh and the most insulting part is how they treat its users like children. You can use giphy to embed a gif but if you search for any “bad” words it says no results. Search for fuck, and it hides them. Everyone using it is an adult, why apply this conservative boomer “nO sWeARIng alLOweD”?

To top it off if you instead copy paste a giphy url it doesn’t embed that properly either!

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by pbar »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. I use it and love it every day in both dev and prod, but I also really kind of hate it. I'll keep my complaints short. There should not be a system-wide daemon. (Or any daemon). It should not require root at all (no setuid either). From outside the container, the container and its processes should be a single process (with threads). (Like glueing a bunch of processes together.) The containers should be nest-a…

The reality is that containers via `runc` really _are_ just bundles of processes with some sugar to control Linux namespaces. Using another runtime (kata, etc) would get closer to the tighter abstraction you mention, but it would truly be a VM, just a small one.

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Post by michaelcampbell »

creativeembassy wrote: post #220

Dropbox. I've used it for a decade, but now it's slow, bloated, and takes over CPU and memory like there isn't a single other program I need to run... and I was paying $20 for the privilege. But a few weeks ago I switched to Syncthing[0], and it's the best software transition I've ever made. Opposite of everything Dropbox is now: fast, simple, and I don't even notice it running in the background. Seamless setup, and…

My problem with Dropbox is the client would silently fail and stop on my Windows boxen. As this was easiest (UI-wise) way to share docs quickly between my wife on her windows box and my various Linux/Windows boxes, this was a deal breaker.

Also moved to Syncthing. And equally happy.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by michaelcampbell »

westoque wrote: post #42

JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.

It amuses me that the applications meant to promote agile work practices are presumably written in an agile environment, are almost universally shite.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by Havoc »

Twitter iphone app.

The home screen stream is this weird mix of people you follow, suggested streams, things your followed people liked and ads.

Each swipe down involves "OK I'm looking at something here it's a surprise...what is it..an ad? someone I follow? Some other gibberish?".

I can totally understand why people just delete the app. It's worse than FB imo - which is setting the bar really high already

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by adventurer »

frank2 wrote: post #221

Google Chrome. (I use Chrome because all of the other browsers are even more annoying to me.) Technically speaking most of the code that seriously annoys me runs inside my browser, but IMO it was never realistic to hope that the myriad creators of individual web pages or web sites would collectively create a good experience for me: my only hope was for the makers of browsers to make choices different from the choices…

Google Chrome is constantly creating temp. files that eventually take 40GB+ of one of my drives until it is completely full. Every few months I needed to manually remove a ton of files. It drove me back to Edge, which I thought would never happen.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by treebornfrog »

Havoc wrote: post #305

Twitter iphone app. The home screen stream is this weird mix of people you follow, suggested streams, things your followed people liked and ads. Each swipe down involves "OK I'm looking at something here it's a surprise...what is it..an ad? someone I follow? Some other gibberish?". I can totally understand why people just delete the app. It's worse than FB imo - which is setting the bar really high already

Try using fenix, it's a fantastic mobile twitter client.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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Post by tome »

landtuna wrote: post #70

tmux. I mean, I know it's better than screen, but I'm a user of emacs for 25 years, and I still can't get used to the tmux keymapping. I'm reluctant to customize them because I want my fingers to do the right thing on an unfamiliar system. And so many of the defaults are just bad, like constantly renaming windows when you run commands (without making a config file change). Even the command line arguments are differen…

> I'm reluctant to customize them because I want my fingers to do the right thing on an unfamiliar system

How often will be be on a system which does have tmux but doesn't allow you to download your own tmux.conf from GitHub (or wherever)?

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