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  • EatMyPixelDustto196rule
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    2 days ago

    What gets me are product warning labels that say “Do not do <thing>” but then do not say why. Is it because the product will break, or because it will cause the formation of a black hole, and the destruction of reality as we know it? Or maybe it just plain doesn’t work. Who knows, they’re not telling you. Tell me why instead of assuming that the reason is obvious to everyone. “Do not submerge in water” makes sense to most people on the side of a hair-dryer, but not everyone understands why electricity and liquids generally don’t mix well. We need education, not blind obedience to rules which may or may not be completely arbitrary.












  • The only advertisements that still make any sense to me are those in magazines where the advertisement is relevant to the audience, and sometimes actually useful. They also make no sound, are a static image, and can be easily ignored.

    Aside from those, I cannot stand the annoyance of advertising, and sincerely hope it dies.








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    8 months ago

    I am not a fan of the design inconsistencies or the apparent desire within Microsoft to change the entire GUI style every 5 minutes, but the way Windows has turned into bloated AF adware/spyware has been the main force behind me moving to Linux. I would have been happy with Windows XP forever if they just kept updating DirectX etc.

    My other major annoyance is how Windows Update now forces itself on you, forces a reboot, then takes forever, and of course will randomly fail to apply the updates. Whereas with Linux, the updates just… work. And they don’t take half an hour to do nothing.