it all makes sense if you know how Korean software is like.
buttons being jpegs is the norm
Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
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Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#22It's comic when reading but for sure this is tragic. I _have a feeling_ that bloat will continue increasing in the next years. It makes me wonder why did large companies are investing so much in web and putting web devs to write disk utility desktop apps?
> It makes me wonder why did large companies are investing so much in web and putting web devs to write disk utility desktop apps? It's because in these environments where corporate cancer has metastasised, programmers are not in charge of hiring programmers, or much of anything when it comes to decision-making really. HR is composed of people who are not programmers. They are looking to hire people with a list of sh…
I don't follow - why do you think HR would be interested in shiny hot new web stack keywords over anything else?
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#23I feel like the complaints here are…not really Samsung's fault? > So I’ve dug around and found a cleanup script buried six folders deep inside the app bundle. Let’s try to run it: > sh ~/Library/'Application Support'/Samsung/'Samsung Magician'/SamsungMagician.app/Contents/Resources/CleanupMagician_Admin_Mac.sh > It ran. And my kitty exploded. Sweet kitty overflowed. Hundreds - literally hundreds - of lines of chown:…
> I feel like the complaints here are…not really Samsung's fault?
I don't know man, the last time I uninstalled an app on macOS, all I had to do was drag it to the trash. If you find this procedure sane, then I don't know what to tell you.
Samsung is responsible of how users interact with their app, including its install and removal.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#24I empathize with many of the complaints, but some are a bit ridiculous. Using custom fonts in software UI is completely reasonable and normal, even if you don't like it.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It makes me wonder why did large companies are investing so much in web and putting web devs to write disk utility desktop apps? It's because in these environments where corporate cancer has metastasised, programmers are not in charge of hiring programmers, or much of anything when it comes to decision-making really. HR is composed of people who are not programmers. They are looking to hire people with a list of sh…
I don't follow - why do you think HR would be interested in shiny hot new web stack keywords over anything else?
Because they lack any better signals from within the company. At several places I have worked, hiring is almost fully detached from the groups that need the workers. They never could find good candidates for our teams. This kind of disconnect is what corporate cancer looks like, and it is endemic in big business.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#26I think the most obscene thing here is that macOS is now littered with permission prompts for camera, background execution, etc, but makes no effort to stop even industry partners from spraying the disk with dozens of files that can’t be removed easily.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#27I empathize with many of the complaints, but some are a bit ridiculous. Using custom fonts in software UI is completely reasonable and normal, even if you don't like it.
I remember a time when UIs looked consistent, instead of custom-branded, and I still think the "completely reasonable and normal" state is the former, not the latter.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It makes me wonder why did large companies are investing so much in web and putting web devs to write disk utility desktop apps? It's because in these environments where corporate cancer has metastasised, programmers are not in charge of hiring programmers, or much of anything when it comes to decision-making really. HR is composed of people who are not programmers. They are looking to hire people with a list of sh…
I don't follow - why do you think HR would be interested in shiny hot new web stack keywords over anything else?
To a non-developer, every application they read might as well be a list of buzzwords. They cannot comprehend a word of it. Web stacks offer the opportunity to list more and newer buzzwords. Do I set up an interview with the person who lists "C systems programmer" or with the person who is a "full stack React, Tailwind, Next.js, Node.js, Electron, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS engineer seasoned in Javascript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS"? Well, the latter certainly sounds 10x more impressive. Into the trashbin the systems programmer application goes, they just don't have enough skills for an enterprise of our scale!
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#29I empathize with many of the complaints, but some are a bit ridiculous. Using custom fonts in software UI is completely reasonable and normal, even if you don't like it.
Reasonable? That's subjective. I don't think it is, personally. Normal? Unfortunately, yes.
Re: Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
#30I empathize with many of the complaints, but some are a bit ridiculous. Using custom fonts in software UI is completely reasonable and normal, even if you don't like it.
I remember a time when UIs looked consistent, instead of custom-branded, and I still think the "completely reasonable and normal" state is the former, not the latter.
When, Windows 3.1?