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Zoom. Sick of this app hijacking the audio channel of my Bose headphones when I'm not in a call.
As much as they try to hide the fact, it is actually possible to join a Zoom meeting in your browser. That way you don't have to install a sketchy app with root privileges and directory traversal bugs.
This may be too broad, but instant messaging. I only ever use it as a clipboard to share snippets or screenshots with people, but email is so much better to communicate. In person meetings can't be replaced by text, sorry. I use a shared album for pics and video.
I hold the exact opposite opinion. I hate in-person meetings, or voice call meetings or video call meetings because there's no written record of anything unless you're also transcribing, in which case you're not concentrating or thinking.
Zoom. 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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Lack of granular settings for notifications, wonky integration with the desktop client, groups, your id is your phone number. There isn't much that's wrong per se, but when compared to e.g. Telegram it's much worse.
There are very good reasons why your I'd is your phone number
The alternatives I've explored include session, and wire. Session probably would be a great alternative, or at least it seems so superficially. But the user base is extremly small, it still uses electron and they dont seem to release updates very often. It's also essentially just a fork of signal, so you might as well just use that for a few reasons that I'll omit for brevity. As for wire, theres a lot to be desired. But the main complaint I have is that theres no way to put a lock on your session the way there is with signal. I emailed them about it, and they told me they had "no plans to implement such a lock out at this time". I also have issues with it not sending and receiving messages properly. And so on, as such...
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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.
I admire your steadfast adherence to your principles, but as far as I'm personally concerned, there's no way it's a +EV play to be somewhat of a PITA to everyone else, on the basis of a position that would be percieved on the other end somewhat like "weird computer man yells at cellphone software".
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I hold the exact opposite opinion. I hate in-person meetings, or voice call meetings or video call meetings because there's no written record of anything unless you're also transcribing, in which case you're not concentrating or thinking.
Oh, I'm always taking notes whether work or business. I have notes that go back to 2005 on my home computer dealing with rental payments, college transcripts, gas payments and bills when calling up 1800 numbers for support, etc. It isn't that I don't trust my memory, it is just that if I am being pressured to do something it is a lot easier when I can look at the outcome/promise from the previous conversation.
Web browsers. But I'm not sure if I hate either the web browser or Javascript.
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There are very good reasons why your I'd is your phone number
There may be good reasons why your ID can be your phone number but I've never heard a good reason why your ID must be your phone number. Do you have any?