I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I've hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!
What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files... but that's a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it's actually just a CLI that doesn't fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don't like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.
One of the things that I've slowly gotten more and more irritated about to the point that now it absolutely pisses me off is the way these apps make their advanced markov chains have a persona and pretend to be a person.
The way they use pronouns "I" and "my" "me" drives me mad. It is an APP. It should not be pretending to be a person at all. This gimmick angers me, I tell the stupid thing not to do it every time I feel like torturing myself by using one.
I feel considerably better when it behaves like an app should behave and doesn't pretend it is a person or individual.
This, so much. I do not need software that pretends to be a human! Even if it wasn't worse than useless, I'd still hate that part. I do not talk to computers and I do not want the computers to talk to me. It's creepy.
Makes me want to hurl when Windows setup says "We're just getting things ready for you! :)" Fuck off just say "moving files" and give me a loading bar.
Yeah if it's a tool please don't make it speak like an individual, I do not need my hammer to speak to me I need it to do its job properly.
I don't need a talking kitchen knife, I need it to cut things. I agree. Don't make tools personable, make them work.