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Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by rickstanley »

Teams. It's an abomination. Slow, clunky, polluted UI, consumes memory like it's breakfast, terrible ignominious Linux support, useless "user voice".

Can't change because I trapped myself in a company that is MS partner, and have all the Microsoft's suite.

I can expand on some points:

- useless user voice: just go to feedback hub and see it for yourself, years old (now "renewed" because of the migration from User Voice) requests, with default response from the developers "hey! We hear you..." No, you don't;

- terrible Linux support: the current version of Teams for Linux is months old, from October 2021, and I think it's just a wrapper for the web version, but worse, because it uses an electron version that doesn't support screen share on Wayland;

- it's slow, every action you try, hover, focus, text,etc just feels slow and unfinished;

There's still some fight internally between people that like teams (those who has an RTX 3090, that can run teams without sweating) and people that don't, the latter created a channel/group/whatever is called, to change from Teams ("Teams alternatives"), but I think it's a lost cause.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by t0bia_s »

CodeGlitch wrote: post #81

Android. When holding my phone up to me ear after answering a call, the screen won't switch off and random buttons will then get pressed because you know, I'm holding it against my ear. Can't find any options in the seeing to fix this issue. My wife has exactly the same problem despite using a different make of phone. How can Android fail at the most fundamental task? The alternative of Apple is too expensive for me.…

I never had such issue with Lineage OS. I'm using it over 7 years now. It sounds like HW related problem.

Btw price of iPhone is non acceptable for me from two reasons. Device could be easily lost and I do not need powerful HW with terrible battery life for calls and messages.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by t0bia_s »

doubled112 wrote: post #51

Lastpass. I can't replace it because it is the corporate standard at work. The UI seems to work against me. Search? Don't even bother, better off with just your eyeballs. Refresh? No, try logging out and back in. There are better alternatives, both when it was chosen and now, but it wasn't my decision to make.

Bitwarden. It is not perfect, but better than Lastpass.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by giomasce »

bjourne wrote: post #114

Latex. The document object model is stupid. The Latex language's syntax and semantics are weird and idiosyncratic. Every Latex package uses its own weird conventions. It's slow. But there are thousands of packages out there for almost any conceivable problem you might have. And that makes Latex very very useful. But it is not well-designed software.

There's not DOM outright: each command is just a macro that is designed to expand to "the right thing". More or less.

More in general, I tend to hate all macro languages, like LaTeX, M4 and the C/C++ preprocessor (fortunately in the latter case the impact is usually more limited, because the C/C++ preprocessor layer is thinner than, e.g., a LaTeX document). They tend to require a lot of shenanigans even to make easy things, so the source quickly become a tangled unmaintainable mess, when each time you touch something, you make seemingly unrelated errors appear.

For a trivial example, consider in C:

    #define IDENTITY(x) x
In any reasonable language you would expect that if you see `IDENTITY(y)` you could replace it with `y`. Of course not with macro languages.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by t0bia_s »

andrecarini wrote: post #196
Spooky23 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you don’t like computers.

The unavoidable fate of those working with computers long enough!

So true. There will be great tech work resignation. Oh wait... Isn't that happening?

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by nickysielicki »

rchaves wrote: post #25

Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever

Jira, bitbucket, and confluence are complete abominations. I hate Jira so much that it will be among the first questions I ask when I interview for my next job. I miss gitlab so much.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by CodeGlitch »

kyriakos wrote: post #135
CodeGlitch wrote: post #81

Android. When holding my phone up to me ear after answering a call, the screen won't switch off and random buttons will then get pressed because you know, I'm holding it against my ear. Can't find any options in the seeing to fix this issue. My wife has exactly the same problem despite using a different make of phone. How can Android fail at the most fundamental task? The alternative of Apple is too expensive for me.…

Sounds like a model specific issue and not a fundamental android issue. I've had quite a few phones and none had this particular issue.

My wife's phone (different make) also suffers from a similar issue.

Btw mines a Nokia and hers a Google, priced mid range.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by CodeGlitch »

boogies wrote: post #185
CodeGlitch wrote: post #81

Android. When holding my phone up to me ear after answering a call, the screen won't switch off and random buttons will then get pressed because you know, I'm holding it against my ear. Can't find any options in the seeing to fix this issue. My wife has exactly the same problem despite using a different make of phone. How can Android fail at the most fundamental task? The alternative of Apple is too expensive for me.…

That’s incredibly pathetic. My phone’s UI (sxmo) is a bunch of desktop software and a handful of phone specific tools stuck together with shell scripts and it manages to turn the screen off while the proximity sensor detects my ear during a call. If you’re willing to drop most native mobile apps and maybe spend some time tinkering, you could get the far niche-er alternative of a GNU/Linux phone for as little as $150…

What hardware are you running on?

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by CodeGlitch »

jasonjayr wrote: post #115
CodeGlitch wrote: post #81

Android. When holding my phone up to me ear after answering a call, the screen won't switch off and random buttons will then get pressed because you know, I'm holding it against my ear. Can't find any options in the seeing to fix this issue. My wife has exactly the same problem despite using a different make of phone. How can Android fail at the most fundamental task? The alternative of Apple is too expensive for me.…

What phone model? I had a moto z that used pogo pins to connect the top screen proximity sensors, that after the adhesive weakend holding the thing together, lost contact. That was the only time I had an android phone fail to block input when I was on a call...

Nokia X20, my wife has a Google (not sure which model) that suffers the same. In fact her previous Google also failed with the proximity test... Which is why I'm thinking there's a fundamental problem with Android rather than just poor hardware.
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