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

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Post by stonewareslord »

twalichiewicz wrote: post #161

I noticed most of the replies in this thread refer to mobile / desktop software, but nothing compares to the hell that is car infotainment system for me. Using the Audi MMI is painfully clunky, inconsistent, and riddled with subscription-locked features. At this point I just immediately wait for CarPlay and avoid touching anything in the car’s native OS. Honestly they could probably just save a lot of development tim…

I just recently did this. The radio was $89 and had the fewest features I could find: CD, USB, aux, am/FM and NO Bluetooth or touch screen which exactly fit my requirements. It's replaced my terrible touchscreen system and given me 2 single din slots of storage space. Replacement was relatively easy and as long as you have a headphone jack on your phone, there are no issues. Just need a soldering iron, removal kit, car-specific mounting kit, and model-specific wiring harness.

Of course, it's much easier to find one with Bluetooth; there are tons of other ones with "smart" features that are the same price.

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

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Post by fartcannon »

tsuujin wrote: post #189
fartcannon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

This is a silly take. Game Pass is the best value in gaming today by a huge margin and I say that as a general naysayer of MIcrosoft. It is a reasonable take for someone to stay with MS because of the service.

Theres no reason to be childish. There's lots of alternatives to game pass that will net you significantly high quality experiences without supporting convicted monopolist Microsofts Disney-ification of the games industry.

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

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Post by billconan »

Android Studio (I have a recent macbook pro), I still have trouble running it fluently. it's so slow.

Confluence (slow and the awkward editor. I often need to directly modify the raw html to get the page rendered correctly. for example when needing to add long paragraphs under one bullet point.)

Jira, so slow and complex.

Gimp, its usability is the worst. but no other alternatives under linux.

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

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Post by broknbottle »

riidom wrote: post #123

Discord. I basically don't use it, avery few months I'd say, but I still hate it, because it drains all the good Q&A's from the internet and puts it into its chatlogs, with a mediocre search ontop. Discord for gaming ramblings and chitchat may be okay, but I hate when software projects misuse it as a support channel. Give me some forum instead, I know many ppl here on HN dislike discourse, I don't get it though, for…

I can't put my finger on it but every time I have to use Discourse, it feels like something is 'off'. It feels like it's just a mashup of reddit + stack overflow + forums. I much prefer the older style phpBB forums setup. I would take that style just implemented in a newer tech stack over Disourse any day.

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

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Post by more_corn »

Confluence is absolute garbage. Atlassian uses the interrupt early and often design philosophy. It’s next to impossible to just write in flow with confluence. Formatting never works, it’s actively worse than simply composing in notepad. Also discovery is laughable. Confluence is where documentation goes to die. I’ve often found myself knowing that a document exists, some key words and what team owns it and I’m still utterly unable to find it. Documentation discovery is like thing two after “get out of my way and let me write” Confluence is a perfect example of failure 100% in implementation. What they do is exactly right, how they do it is wrong in every way. I’ve used a dozen documentation tools and I tell you confluence is worse than nothing. I’d you have nothing at least you didn’t waste time writing something nobody can ever find.

It’s bundled with jira though and jira is how most companies do scrum or agile or whatever planning work in sprints is called these days. Jira isn’t so bad but it brings brother confluence to the party so don’t let it in.

I use Notion these days. At least it gets out of my way and lets me write. The todo template is mostly sufficient for sprint planning.

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

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Post by antifa »

riidom wrote: post #123

Discord. I basically don't use it, avery few months I'd say, but I still hate it, because it drains all the good Q&A's from the internet and puts it into its chatlogs, with a mediocre search ontop. Discord for gaming ramblings and chitchat may be okay, but I hate when software projects misuse it as a support channel. Give me some forum instead, I know many ppl here on HN dislike discourse, I don't get it though, for…

> I just think they are not true

Whichever ones are true, will be worse under discord anyways!

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

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Post by gorjusborg »

muzani wrote: post #231
riidom wrote: post #123

Discord. I basically don't use it, avery few months I'd say, but I still hate it, because it drains all the good Q&A's from the internet and puts it into its chatlogs, with a mediocre search ontop. Discord for gaming ramblings and chitchat may be okay, but I hate when software projects misuse it as a support channel. Give me some forum instead, I know many ppl here on HN dislike discourse, I don't get it though, for…

I actually prefer IRC over Discord. I'm not sure why. Discord feels a bit excessive in its features. I don't like the bots. It doesn't handle multiple channels well, not as well as Slack, and yet something about it makes people do so many, unlike IRC. There's the mess of roles/self roles. There's just something about it that encourages overcommunication. You have announcement channels that people just tell you to mut…

I feel similarly, IRC is better (to me) than the slack-like apps.

At first, the novelty of in-lining sections of the web felt magical, now I feel it raise my anxiety level.

IRC is to Slack-likes as a book is to a television.

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

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Post by amai »

Everything from Microsoft.

I don't use anything from them myself, but I cannot avoid dealing with it because relatives and working colleagues still use MS stuff. Recently our school introduced MS Teams and it is terrible. ICQ was a better messenger than this abomination.

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

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Post by lulzury »

geocrasher wrote: post #58
0x2c8 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I really enjoy writing wiki pages in Confluence.

While I detest Jira, I find Confluence to be quite good for writing documentation. It's full featured and mostly just works. For our customer facing documentation at work we use Zendesk and while it's good it's nowhere near as good as Confluence.

While Confluence is very good for writing documentation, it is worse than wikis for searching, especially in a large organization.

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

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Post by vanilla_nut »

hadrien01 wrote: post #243
vanilla_nut wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used cloud JIRA and non-cloud JIRA. They both have the same (99%, at least) awful UI and UX. They both routinely lag out performing even the most basic operations. They both crap out on me if I leave a tab open overnight and try to do something in it the next day. They are both miserable to use. On-premises is not some solution.

Here’s an on-premises instance of JIRA hosted by Atlassian: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER It’s way faster than any cloud instance I’ve used. Sure, it’s just public browsing, and most features are hidden behind login, but good luck getting that performance from the cloud version.

Wow, thanks for sharing! This is legitimately the fastest Atlassian product experience I've ever had. Probably by an entire order of magnitude. It makes a little more sense how they bamboozle execs into foisting JIRA on their entire org now.

I can definitely believe that a well-tuned, properly specced on-prem JIRA can be faster than the cloud version ever can be, now. TIL!

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