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  1. I thought Jira couldn't get any worse. And then the employer upgrades Jira to the next level of absurdity version. I was wrong 🤦

    #jira #ranting #enshitification #atlassian

  2. I thought Jira couldn't get any worse. And then the employer upgrades Jira to the next level of absurdity version. I was wrong 🤦

    #jira #ranting #enshitification #atlassian

  3. I thought Jira couldn't get any worse. And then the employer upgrades Jira to the next level of absurdity version. I was wrong 🤦

    #jira #ranting #enshitification #atlassian

  4. I thought Jira couldn't get any worse. And then the employer upgrades Jira to the next level of absurdity version. I was wrong 🤦

    #jira #ranting #enshitification #atlassian

  5. I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen


    #ranting #technology #technofascism #computers-were-a-mistake
  6. I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen


    #ranting #technology #technofascism #computers-were-a-mistake
  7. I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen


    #ranting #technology #technofascism #computers-were-a-mistake
  8. I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen


    #ranting #technology #technofascism #computers-were-a-mistake
  9. I've grown up with computers since before my teen years even, I got my first Internet account in 1993, I've watched decades of corporate rot and political corruption of U.S. high-tech culture, and I must say: there's a white-hot core of rage inside me over how computing and geek culture got taken over by all the fuckin' NARCS. Tech and programming got coopted by all the snottiest, fashiest, bootlickiest dweebs, ice-cold neo-fascist minions like John Carmack and Roko Mijic, people who see no higher purpose for technology than serving the whims of the police state and figuring out new ways to slaughter people at a safe distance. I remember in the 1990s when you started to see crap like the NSA openly headhunting for ambitious programmers, and the U.S. Army trying to make war seem like slaying a dragon in a videogame, and gawd I remember laughing and my friends laughing but the joke was on us! Geeks responded to that shite. The money was too good, the power too intoxicating, and heaven help us all, there really and truly exist geeks who can make themselves feel like slaughtering [insert slurs here] with some drones is heroically equivalent to being a Knight of the Round Table.

    ~Chara of Pnictogen


    #ranting #technology #technofascism #computers-were-a-mistake
  10. I swear dealing with complaints to big companies goes something like this:

    I call them. No one answers, the recording tells to send them an e-mail or fill some form.

    No one ever replies to the e-mail or form.

    I give them a 1 star review. I'm almost instantly contacted by a customer service rep, whose mandate is to get me take that review down.

    #ranting #dystopia

  11. #ranting why does no one on this platform include links? I'm continually seeing interesting comments about what is clearly a news story, with no link to said news.

  12. Come on, #microsoft, it's 2025. How hard would it be to make #Outlook themeable.

    Imagine using a solarized, catpuccin, nord or monokai theme in Outlook 🤩 instead of the current while-on-black and black-on-white. 😵

    Even Win 3.1 had more color schemes than Outlook now. And you were able to add your own ones. In 1992!

    #ranting #win31

  13. Earlier today I had a fully functional VPS server, running caddy, which served up 4 web sites, perfectly. The files for those static sites were in folders owned by 'root'. (That becomes relevant soon)

    The server also has docker running, so I thought I would install an app there which would provide web analytics for my sites (goatcounter).

    I defined the docker compose file, started it up in docker and two things happened: goatcounter refused to run (never got to know why), and my 4 web sites started throwing error 403 (unathorized). They refused to load all of a sudden.

    After much struggle, I moved the files for those sites to a new folder, made the 'caddy' user own the files and the 403 went away, but now I am left wondering how goatcounter could have caused that.

    I get that caddy needs access to the sites' files, but it was running just fine before and I did not change the permissions on those files. This is the mystery I have no explanation for and it's killing me.

    #selfhosting #caddy #ranting

  14. One of the most repulsive things you can find on the web are marketing disguised as tech blog posts. You search for stuff, then find something that looks like a useful blog post in the topic.

    It starts by showing you how to do things you searched for using common tools. Once it has solidified your confidence, it lists the product to sell as the most viable option.

    This is unethical. 🤮

    For people using search engines, it is annoying and frustrating.

    For others who rely on Copilot, ChatGPT etc., it's a perfect trap. AIs seem to be unable to tell marketing and facts aside, and the readers won't see the source, to realize the intention behind the article.

    💡 An ideal search engine should downrank sites for posting any form of disguised marketing as delivering such results would undermine the reliability of the search engine itself.

    💡 Also, a well working AI would not use such sites as source as to avoid damaging its own reputation.

    Strangely, all common search engines and AIs gladly deliver false results, especially if they are paid for it, and most of the users are not aware of it.

    The problem is that unbiased search engines and AIs, if they even exist, have a great disadvantage because they have to compete with competitors that make more money by deceiving users. 😤

    #searchengines #ai #techmarketing #ranting

  15. Happy Stay Away From Bus Stop Bins Day to all. And again tomorrow. And Tuesday, because the bins here are emptied on Wednesday.

    And a special Fuck You to people who drive their prawn heads, in their car, to the nearest bus stop and drop their smelly scraps into the bin so that the smell as they ferment bothers bus passengers waiting there.

    Or you could freeze them until bin night, like any normal person might.

    Anyway, don't even walk *near* a bus stop bin this weekend until after the next rubbish pickup day.

    #Easter #Ranting

  16. Thanks to the French National Library digital offer, I'm discovering lots of publications and I've just come across a British magazine on #BirdWatching.

    It's almost perfect...

    There's lots of advice, tests to help with identification, good addresses for observing species, an international focus, a column on urban birdlife (and it looks relatively inclusive).

    It would be almost perfect if there wasn't a section on the photographer explaining why a particular photo makes him cringe and how we should take real photographs.

    FUCK THESE ELITISTS! Can't we just enjoy the birds? Just enjoy the great outdoors? Do we need some guy with expensive gear to explain to us how we should enjoy OUR HOBBIES? How, even in our spare time, we have to be PERFORMING?

    It's shit all over the place, at every level, and you can't even get away for 2 minutes without being caught out by control and the cult of effort and excellence. What are you? Photo fascists?

    #Ornithology #Photography #Art #Politics #Ranting

  17. I am so angry right now.

    I have been planning to buy a MacBook Laptop for the last 6 months, and today I got around to testing if my ham radio software would work under x64 emulation in Win11 ARM64 edution.

    Of course it F**king doesn’t. The main piece of software that runs most of my radio stuff completely craps out on the Visual C libraries being x64 emulated.

    With v7 of the software promising linux and Mac support, but with no solid timeframe, I’m now back to trying to figure out how to best upgrade my radio shack when Win10 reaches EOS.

    Linux is no-go (you may have seen previous posts) - Rig control is only just barely there and the number of interdependencies that create additional conditions to make things work is just not making it practical for me.

    Upgrading existing Win10 machine is no-go thanks to MS deciding there was a need to generate a heap of e-waste by locking Win11 functionality to only recent CPUs.

    My other SFF machines will suffer the same CPU lockout fate.

    Leaning into replacing apps with Mac equivalents is less than idea, as most of the ham radio app development uses the windows platform. I don’t need to make my setup any more niche than it already is :)

    I’m thinking my only option at this point is to purchase a cheap Win11 compatible laptop and dedicate that to the radio shack and mobile operations.

    #hamradio #amateurradio #ranting #venting

  18. As much as I love the customisability of #iOS18 it feels as buggy as every random #Android

    No particular #android bashing here just #ranting a little about #apple

    Right now I cant properly rearrange #apps over Focus Groups as it seems like Apps can only be on one screen at a time. -.-

  19. @tursiops La saison 1 et 2 de SAO vont ensemble. Perso j'aime les séries quand elles racontent 1 histoire. Les films c'est une limite de temps. Les séries permettent d'aller plus loin en terme de narration. Mais le commerce veut qu'elle fasse de l'audience, peut importe si c'est du n'importe quoi... Et ça c'est mauvais. Et c'est presque toujours la raison qui rendent les séries impopulaires.
    #JeNeMEnervesPas #ranting

    C'est pour ça que je m'inquiète de la saison 3 de Tsukimichi, par exemple.

  20. I've just spent the whole afternoon trying to find affordable car insurance. I thought it was bad enough last year that my premium went up by over £100 for no reason, but this year it has more than doubled!! I haven't even made a claim!

    Such a joke. The insurance industry must be making a killing! Maybe I should change career!

    #ranting #insurancepremiums

  21. Dear Friends of #cakes (pan cakes that is), ​:ablobcatcoffee:​
    As you may know, the easiest recipe is two
    #eggs and one mashed up banana (a recipe beloved of #Minions) 🍌
    #Search for '2 ingredient one banana two egg pancakes', if you missed the recipe. I sprinkled it with #lime juice and had #strawberries and #grapes as a side delight. #Breakfast yum. Done. ✔️

    So now to the less important and
    #impotent events. Managed to send a #federated #toot from my #apple #iphoney, without swearing and #ranting about having to use one #finger. Nigella #Ferengi Farage (UK) and Donna 'Nazi gal' T-Rump are still in the news? Why? Feed them to the #hogs. They will and have, us poor minions, #plebs and armchair #anarchists. ​:anarchy:​

    And in
    #luvvly news:
    -
    #Trees to be given the #vote (oh wait that was a #dream) 😇
    -
    #Witched... eh #watched 3 episodes of 'The #Acolyte'. Good? Yes.
    - Drinking a pot of black
    #tea and #spiced #turmeric teabags. With milk. Works. Good.

    Have a wonderful
    #Sith, Sin, Sun, day. Be kind to everything... especially yourself. 🦋

  22. Dear Friends of #cakes (pan cakes that is), ​:ablobcatcoffee:​
    As you may know, the easiest recipe is two
    #eggs and one mashed up banana (a recipe beloved of #Minions) 🍌
    #Search for '2 ingredient one banana two egg pancakes', if you missed the recipe. I sprinkled it with #lime juice and had #strawberries and #grapes as a side delight. #Breakfast yum. Done. ✔️

    So now to the less important and
    #impotent events. Managed to send a #federated #toot from my #apple #iphoney, without swearing and #ranting about having to use one #finger. Nigella #Ferengi Farage (UK) and Donna 'Nazi gal' T-Rump are still in the news? Why? Feed them to the #hogs. They will and have, us poor minions, #plebs and armchair #anarchists. ​:anarchy:​

    And in
    #luvvly news:
    -
    #Trees to be given the #vote (oh wait that was a #dream) 😇
    -
    #Witched... eh #watched 3 episodes of 'The #Acolyte'. Good? Yes.
    - Drinking a pot of black
    #tea and #spiced #turmeric teabags. With milk. Works. Good.

    Have a wonderful
    #Sith, Sin, Sun, day. Be kind to everything... especially yourself. 🦋

  23. Dear Friends of #cakes (pan cakes that is), ​:ablobcatcoffee:​
    As you may know, the easiest recipe is two
    #eggs and one mashed up banana (a recipe beloved of #Minions) 🍌
    #Search for '2 ingredient one banana two egg pancakes', if you missed the recipe. I sprinkled it with #lime juice and had #strawberries and #grapes as a side delight. #Breakfast yum. Done. ✔️

    So now to the less important and
    #impotent events. Managed to send a #federated #toot from my #apple #iphoney, without swearing and #ranting about having to use one #finger. Nigella #Ferengi Farage (UK) and Donna 'Nazi gal' T-Rump are still in the news? Why? Feed them to the #hogs. They will and have, us poor minions, #plebs and armchair #anarchists. ​:anarchy:​

    And in
    #luvvly news:
    -
    #Trees to be given the #vote (oh wait that was a #dream) 😇
    -
    #Witched... eh #watched 3 episodes of 'The #Acolyte'. Good? Yes.
    - Drinking a pot of black
    #tea and #spiced #turmeric teabags. With milk. Works. Good.

    Have a wonderful
    #Sith, Sin, Sun, day. Be kind to everything... especially yourself. 🦋

  24. Dear Friends of computer easeware,
    ...that is like hardware but easy now...
    ​:ablobcatbongokeyboard:​
    Just added 64GB of
    #extra #storage to my #home server. Plugged in a #memory-stick, I had lying around, catching dust and snails. Now, fueled up with #green #tea and a break in the #weed #patch I #pretend is a #wild #garden. ​:blobcatstrong:​

    I took the
    #enclosed pic somewhere near #Victoria #Rail Station in #Westminster. In those days I used to travel by coach (similar to #Greyhound Buses). Westminster was guarded by please-police with machine guns and the SAS dressed as tramps/hobos on Westminster bridge. ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Those were the days, when everyone
    #breathed in #pollution and viruses will-nilly. Wifi was boosted by microwaves that few could hear or feel. 📶

    As someone
    #immune to life, I am pleased to have survived Dr #WHO (World Health Organisation), the collapse of the #Empire Strikes backing and of course Maga+Puttin' (or #crazy-golf as it is known in UK (United #Kindness).

    Anyways enough
    #ranting from moi (ooh #la-la), je parlez les #fromage Farage. Which I think is a bad egg... or is that fabarge? 😆

    Have a great day. Be good or bad but be Nappy... eh
    #happy... 🎉

  25. Dear Friends of computer easeware,
    ...that is like hardware but easy now...
    ​:ablobcatbongokeyboard:​
    Just added 64GB of
    #extra #storage to my #home server. Plugged in a #memory-stick, I had lying around, catching dust and snails. Now, fueled up with #green #tea and a break in the #weed #patch I #pretend is a #wild #garden. ​:blobcatstrong:​

    I took the
    #enclosed pic somewhere near #Victoria #Rail Station in #Westminster. In those days I used to travel by coach (similar to #Greyhound Buses). Westminster was guarded by please-police with machine guns and the SAS dressed as tramps/hobos on Westminster bridge. ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Those were the days, when everyone
    #breathed in #pollution and viruses will-nilly. Wifi was boosted by microwaves that few could hear or feel. 📶

    As someone
    #immune to life, I am pleased to have survived Dr #WHO (World Health Organisation), the collapse of the #Empire Strikes backing and of course Maga+Puttin' (or #crazy-golf as it is known in UK (United #Kindness).

    Anyways enough
    #ranting from moi (ooh #la-la), je parlez les #fromage Farage. Which I think is a bad egg... or is that fabarge? 😆

    Have a great day. Be good or bad but be Nappy... eh
    #happy... 🎉

  26. Dear Friends of computer easeware,
    ...that is like hardware but easy now...
    ​:ablobcatbongokeyboard:​
    Just added 64GB of
    #extra #storage to my #home server. Plugged in a #memory-stick, I had lying around, catching dust and snails. Now, fueled up with #green #tea and a break in the #weed #patch I #pretend is a #wild #garden. ​:blobcatstrong:​

    I took the
    #enclosed pic somewhere near #Victoria #Rail Station in #Westminster. In those days I used to travel by coach (similar to #Greyhound Buses). Westminster was guarded by please-police with machine guns and the SAS dressed as tramps/hobos on Westminster bridge. ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Those were the days, when everyone
    #breathed in #pollution and viruses will-nilly. Wifi was boosted by microwaves that few could hear or feel. 📶

    As someone
    #immune to life, I am pleased to have survived Dr #WHO (World Health Organisation), the collapse of the #Empire Strikes backing and of course Maga+Puttin' (or #crazy-golf as it is known in UK (United #Kindness).

    Anyways enough
    #ranting from moi (ooh #la-la), je parlez les #fromage Farage. Which I think is a bad egg... or is that fabarge? 😆

    Have a great day. Be good or bad but be Nappy... eh
    #happy... 🎉

  27. #FYI #Ranting

    If you are a door-to-door #sales person and can't be bothered to read a fucking sign that says, “No Sales Except Cookies!” then please burn in hell.

    That means don’t fucking knock on my door and pretend you didn’t see my sign. Don’t act like you aren't selling something when you literally have a clipboard in your hand recording sales. Don't stand on my front porch for 10 full minutes then leave a card. If you ain’t selling cookies, candies, etc. then I ain't interested.

    If I needed a new roof, my #insurance is my first call, not some random company that can’t read signs.

    [/rant]

  28. Dear shared friends,😌
    As an #enriched blue blood … Yes lobsters have blue blood but I am not guillotine fodder. As I was #ranting … before being interrupted by my selfie, I have joined Olio and hope to start giving away my junk … eh riches.🤲 For my first #attempt I tried #offering to collect some #indoor #garden labels. I suppose I could use lolly sticks or a plastic pot cut into labels but … why not. We are now growing #parsley, #thyme, #dill, #mustard all #indoors under #LED. 👩‍🍳

  29. Dear shared friends,😌
    As an #enriched blue blood … Yes lobsters have blue blood but I am not guillotine fodder. As I was #ranting … before being interrupted by my selfie, I have joined Olio and hope to start giving away my junk … eh riches.🤲 For my first #attempt I tried #offering to collect some #indoor #garden labels. I suppose I could use lolly sticks or a plastic pot cut into labels but … why not. We are now growing #parsley, #thyme, #dill, #mustard all #indoors under #LED. 👩‍🍳

  30. Dear shared friends,😌
    As an #enriched blue blood … Yes lobsters have blue blood but I am not guillotine fodder. As I was #ranting … before being interrupted by my selfie, I have joined Olio and hope to start giving away my junk … eh riches.🤲 For my first #attempt I tried #offering to collect some #indoor #garden labels. I suppose I could use lolly sticks or a plastic pot cut into labels but … why not. We are now growing #parsley, #thyme, #dill, #mustard all #indoors under #LED. 👩‍🍳

  31. Dear shared friends,😌
    As an #enriched blue blood … Yes lobsters have blue blood but I am not guillotine fodder. As I was #ranting … before being interrupted by my selfie, I have joined Olio and hope to start giving away my junk … eh riches.🤲 For my first #attempt I tried #offering to collect some #indoor #garden labels. I suppose I could use lolly sticks or a plastic pot cut into labels but … why not. We are now growing #parsley, #thyme, #dill, #mustard all #indoors under #LED. 👩‍🍳

  32. The Synthesizer Cave is back! Renovations over. The dust is mostly gone, the wraps are off the towers, the keys out of their garbage bags.

    A bunch of reviews coming – Novation PEAK, Dawsome Kult and Novum, lots of UHe, Waldorf Largo 2...

    Over 150 vaguely honest reviews about knobs.

    nilamox.com/mancave21/

    #synth #synthesizers #ranting #reviews

  33. Dear Friends of the #Critical,

    I
    #wish I could use #Free #Software. I #try. #Constantly. For example here is the NOT NEW #difficulties I am having to create a #podcast. Below link on rent an #English #gobby #ranting #lobster. AND I have been using #Audacity for a long time on #Puppy #Linux previously, Where the volume was always too low. Puppy eventually created its own #audio #recorder. That is another story.

    How
    #blind people or those with even less #neurons manage to use Audacity successfully is a #tribute to their #persistence and probably wallets to get new #hardware and pay their local #GNU heroes [I have a long term plan for that] ​:firefish_love_happy:​

    Now what are the
    #developers [Bless them] doing #wrong? #Nothing. This is the nature of #free, #proprietary and #combination systems across many #formats including phone/computers. Everything would be perfect if not for end users. ​:anarchy:​ Unfortunately they are the point of uses, the #ergonomic test bed.

    Will I be filling out a form? A long term test dialogue? Nope. Done that. Been there. Have the T-shirt.
    That is a kindness for the new generation to engage in
    ❤️

    https://audio.com/lobster/audio/audacityrant

    Below text generated with AI.
    "The speaker is
    #frustrated with the recent #upgrade of Audacity 3.4.1 software. They are unable to find #basic #functions and their #headphones #support has #disappeared. They suggest finding #workarounds, such as using other programs for playback. They criticize how free software often becomes #unworkable due to added features, similar to non-free software."

  34. Dear Friends of the #Critical,

    I
    #wish I could use #Free #Software. I #try. #Constantly. For example here is the NOT NEW #difficulties I am having to create a #podcast. Below link on rent an #English #gobby #ranting #lobster. AND I have been using #Audacity for a long time on #Puppy #Linux previously, Where the volume was always too low. Puppy eventually created its own #audio #recorder. That is another story.

    How
    #blind people or those with even less #neurons manage to use Audacity successfully is a #tribute to their #persistence and probably wallets to get new #hardware and pay their local #GNU heroes [I have a long term plan for that] ​:firefish_love_happy:​

    Now what are the
    #developers [Bless them] doing #wrong? #Nothing. This is the nature of #free, #proprietary and #combination systems across many #formats including phone/computers. Everything would be perfect if not for end users. ​:anarchy:​ Unfortunately they are the point of uses, the #ergonomic test bed.

    Will I be filling out a form? A long term test dialogue? Nope. Done that. Been there. Have the T-shirt.
    That is a kindness for the new generation to engage in
    ❤️

    https://audio.com/lobster/audio/audacityrant

    Below text generated with AI.
    "The speaker is
    #frustrated with the recent #upgrade of Audacity 3.4.1 software. They are unable to find #basic #functions and their #headphones #support has #disappeared. They suggest finding #workarounds, such as using other programs for playback. They criticize how free software often becomes #unworkable due to added features, similar to non-free software."

  35. Dear Friends of the #Critical,

    I
    #wish I could use #Free #Software. I #try. #Constantly. For example here is the NOT NEW #difficulties I am having to create a #podcast. Below link on rent an #English #gobby #ranting #lobster. AND I have been using #Audacity for a long time on #Puppy #Linux previously, Where the volume was always too low. Puppy eventually created its own #audio #recorder. That is another story.

    How
    #blind people or those with even less #neurons manage to use Audacity successfully is a #tribute to their #persistence and probably wallets to get new #hardware and pay their local #GNU heroes [I have a long term plan for that] ​:firefish_love_happy:​

    Now what are the
    #developers [Bless them] doing #wrong? #Nothing. This is the nature of #free, #proprietary and #combination systems across many #formats including phone/computers. Everything would be perfect if not for end users. ​:anarchy:​ Unfortunately they are the point of uses, the #ergonomic test bed.

    Will I be filling out a form? A long term test dialogue? Nope. Done that. Been there. Have the T-shirt.
    That is a kindness for the new generation to engage in
    ❤️

    https://audio.com/lobster/audio/audacityrant

    Below text generated with AI.
    "The speaker is
    #frustrated with the recent #upgrade of Audacity 3.4.1 software. They are unable to find #basic #functions and their #headphones #support has #disappeared. They suggest finding #workarounds, such as using other programs for playback. They criticize how free software often becomes #unworkable due to added features, similar to non-free software."

  36. My reaction to GitHub every time I'm forced to go there for something:

    WTF!?! - What drug-addled moron designed this awful, crappy, horribly inefficient user interface?

    My reaction to Ycombinator every time I'm forced to go there for something:

    WTF!?! - What drug-addled moron designed this awful, crappy, horribly inefficient user interface?

    My reaction every time I see "RTFM" on StackExchange, StackOverflow, and such:

    FIX YOUR FREAKING SEARCH FUNCTION!

    #imdone #ranting now

  37. Of course, if my furnaces today used that design, I wouldn't be #ranting.

    I have two #furnaces - at the time this home was built, it was the style here to put in two furnaces, one for the upstairs, and one for the main floor and basement. Kind of like a really #janky #zone system. I replaced both of them when I bought this #house.

    Well, last #winter, the blower motor in one #died. It's kind of nice having two; the house was #chilly but #livable while I was getting it #fixed.

    8/x