Zoom. Sick of this app hijacking the audio channel of my Bose headphones when I'm not in a call.
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#12Whatsapp.
It's a garbage app, made by a garbage company running like garbage on a garbage protocol. There is no realistic alternative because friends and family expect you to have it.
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#13iOS and Android
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#14Anything Google acquires and abandons. See Nest.
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#15Whatsapp. It's a garbage app, made by a garbage company running like garbage on a garbage protocol. There is no realistic alternative because friends and family expect you to have it.
I quit Facebook in the latter half of the 2000's. Some of my family and friends suddenly stopped inviting me to things. I think anyone you lose because they have to send you a text message or email instead of a facebook invite/whatsapp message isn't really worth having as a friend.
Especially if the reason you ditch Whatsapp is for ethical/moral reasons.
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#16fucking jira. because $work decided and so here we are.
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#17Tesla. Tesla provide service through the phone app only. The app is extremely slow, the fonts are small (almost unreadable). It is hardly fun to print on the phone. The app does not work in chromebook with android support.
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#18The software on the Sky Q tv set top boxes, literally can’t replace it. (Sky is a TV service in the UK)
It’s clunky to use, particularly with the apps. Things crash all the time and when it decided to do a software update it goes into a spinning loop for hours during which none of the TVs in the house work.
Hate it, but the household have decided to keep Sky…
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#19Zoom. Sick of this app hijacking the audio channel of my Bose headphones when I'm not in a call.
Don't get me started on zoom...
How about making an app that actually work on Linux ? That doesn't take 200% CPU when you're in a meeting.
The same on windows, it's such a badly optimized application with memory leak all over the place...
I hate it with all my guts.
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#20Hate is too Sterling for these gripes, but this is relatively the best fit: Windows 10, useful for some games with friends, because of the “nudges” to change my behavior, like asking if I really want to keep using that program, the magic-fingers messages on installation (suggesting I just blindly trust), and the difficulty to install without an online account, among other things. I can’t replace it yet, but the day w…
One of the things that keep me from switching to Linux on my gaming machine is Game Pass.
With the sheer number of games that exist elsewhere, is it really necessary to fund Microsoft's attempt to monopolize gaming?
You can just not have what's on Game Pass. You will survive. It didn't exist a couple years ago, but now you can't do without?