#gripes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gripes, aggregated by home.social.
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Gripe: I'm so tired of badly behaved bots making the web that much shittier these days.
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Microsoft gripe of the day: no longer can you (easily) find files by filename in Explorer, instead it asks "Try describing an image or file"
WHY CAN I NOT SEARCH FOR "MYFILENAME.TXT"!! OR "MYFILE*.*"?!?!
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Pet peeve: product managers who "help produce product documentation" by outsourcing it to an LLM and then never even taking the time to read and check the output.
In the time it takes me to fix this garbage, I could have just written it myself, and with much higher quality.
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Judging by the number of "breaks" I've been taking all afternoon, I seem to be a bit irked and anxious about my writing -->revising -->formatting -->publishing workflow.
Seems unnecessarily clunky and cumbersome(this also includes the sudden, inexplicable loss of any spelling ability I may have, previously, possessed).
Hopefully, this year, I can improve on the process.
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GRRRRRR!!!
Could Android's voice dictation be any WORSE? I swear, i feel like it's some kind of completely malicious bastard that's deliberately trying to screw up what I say in whatever ridiculous way possible.
Unless I talk like Mad Davros. For some reason it behaves itself perfectly when I use that voice.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
But people tend to look at me strangely if I use that voice in public. 🙄
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Argghhhhhh
Interview a forecaster at the NWS, folks, not people who go viral on the Nazi website.
"prominent climate blogger" is not a qualification for weather prediction.
https://ktla.com/weather/southern-california-storm-brings-very-concerning-rain-forecast/
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We live in a managerocracy. Everyone wants to be a "manager", nobody wants to do the work. It's not surprising GenAI bullshit machines are so popular as you can cosplay being a manager, while "outsourcing" all the work.
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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Folks, when placing your carry-ons in the overhead compartment, you should place them ON THEIR SIDES so the compartment space can be maximized.
I'm amazed how many travelers haven't learned this yet...
Not doing so is inconsiderate for those boarding later who then needlessly struggle to find space for their carry-ons.
#airTravel #luggage #behavior #gripes -
When you boost things in Dutch or French into an English-language--based feed, what percentage of your followers are you expecting will be able to appreciate them?
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Cmon agencies... This is not how you post emergency/wildfire info. 🙄
"This content isn't available right now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted."
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#Alertan sobre #enfermedades en #ElSalvador https://boletinaldia.sld.cu/aldia/2024/05/23/alertan-sobre-enfermedades-en-el-salvador/
El Colegio Médico de El Salvador alertó hoy sobre el incremento de los casos de #gripes graves y fiebre #tifoideas en el país.
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Fine, learned how to connect a natural gas dryer (yes, outgoing technology... but, still), and checked for leaks.
(Don't trust the contractors would do it correctly, and when I asked the plumber if he connects gas appliances he started bickering with me over my distrust of the not-trustworthy contractors, so I decided to do it myself).
Will have the gas company double check things (they do that as a free service) before turning it all on again.
