What are your technology peeves?

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Manuals or how to guides written by someone who frequently drops articles like "the" and sometimes "a" and "an".

Example: "You'll want to install Tensorflow for Python in new virtual environment."

It's one thing if English is someone's 2nd language but frequently dropping articles is a clear sign of laziness.

That people often seem to equate the existence of a plethora of libraries for a programming language with it being a good language. Example: python.

It's hard to make much headway in some areas of programming without using the most dominant languages in use for the specific case. Try doing data science without Python or R. Or Android programming without java. Not gonna be a smooth ride, and not conducive to collaborating with other programmers.

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Touchscreens. I hate them, bring back buttons.

Electronics.
Google correct.
Google blocking me from using my
email on a library computers because
they want me to use a cellphone to
get in for "security", and it doesn't work.
I still say no electronics be is better for us.

I turned on 2 factor authentication for my main gmail account because I have too much stuff stored on it including countless passwords and it would be a disaster to lose it all or for it to fall into the wrong hands. It's worth the minor inconvenience of not being able to log into it on public computers.

Feature Creep, one a program works well in it's most basic iteration, becomes all too bloated the more updates and features are added, making a once useful application less functional or slower ironically.

Advertising in free applications, an easy backdoor for a rouge virus to infiltrate a system, especially true for android apps.

Combining cycling with un-necessary technology.
Thee other day in work, they werw looking for a helmet a customer was interested in. I think the price was mentioned and it was expensive. I asked why and was told it had built in indicators (Turn signals), it had blueteeth (Why do we need blue teeth?) and if you had a bang in it, it automatically dials the emergency services and gives them the location of where you are. (Great! Accidently drop it on the floor, and as you cycle home from work, you notice a trail of blue flashing lights following you! I'm surprized it didn't have airbags or intruder alarms for if you picked up fleas? Not to mention drop down windscreen wipers.... mirrors and those lights that jump up and down in the mist....Frog lights,)

Google Maps was notorious for this.. Adding useless features like sharing your phone's battery level.. Really?

Google, if this is what you make your developers do to justify paying them their salaries, then you're really sad. Just give me a bare bones Google Maps that runs lightning fast - that's far better than anything you'll ever come up with in version 100 or whatever.

Tech companies that don't have Tech support or customer support instead that use community support forums staffed by people who have no authority to elevate complaints about bugs because they don't actually work for said company and there is no process for them to relay the bug to someone who actually works at the company. Google is a great example, bugs can last for years without ever being addressed.

Their excuse that they can't afford Tech support or customer service is BS, just look at the size of Amazon and the level of customer service that company has which shows there is no excuse that Google has.

-This ties in with planned obsolescence, but not-user replaceable parts (especially batteries). I loved my old cell phone, but the battery lost is ability to charge and batteries are never user-replaceable.

-Locked down devices. Why do I have to jailbreak/root a device to install the applications I want on them?

-Paywalls. I hate a device or program that has a feature I want, already included in the code/hardware I have present, but which I cannot use it because it is software locked. Just include the price for the features in the original purchase.

-Mandatory data mining. I see it as spyware included by the manufacturer.

AI is starting to be used for nefarious purposes by oppressive regimes.

I am not keen on the idea of AI. Clever to make them but to me it seems stupid. We have plenty of human minds, and humans, even if they can be out for their own ends... One has an idea what to expect. With an AI no one knows what to expect.

Low level AI (not general AI) is already in our everyday lives. For example, the Netflix rexommendation algorithm. If we were to replace that with humans... How would you like to wait 5 minutes for your Netflix recommendations to be manually calculated by a person in India every time rather than the current 0.5 or so seconds?

I'm not sure how netflix works or what it does as I have never used it.

Copy pasting on a smartphone makes me wanna throw my phone across the room.