Have you ever been disappinted in tech?

>>106096956 (OP)
everyday when I interact with technology

>>106096956 (OP)
Every day.

>>106096956 (OP)
Constantly.
But she is right to be disapointed. You can just get an old laptop for the same price and it will be much better

>>106096956 (OP)
Every day I fail to find a boywife on this nightmare hellscape

>>106096956 (OP)
Every time a billion-dollar company fails to make working software.

>>106096956 (OP)
No. Never.

mostly linux. reinstalling windows right now because even in 2025 fuckin ubuntu still doesnt 'just fuckin werk'.
I fuckin hate windows yet Linux will apparently never be fucking ready.

>>106096956 (OP)
Yes. But I'm more disappointed with myself. I bought an expensive chunk of anodized aluminum technology and accidentally scratched it the first day I had it like some kind of retarded basic bitch.

>>106097501
>anodized aluminum technology
>retarded basic bitch
Apple product?

>>106097292
>Ubuntu
that's on you, bud.

>>106098369
Yeah; all the time I am interacting with Linux desktop

>>106096956 (OP)
never, i only use >15yo technology

>>106097119
>she doesn't know about power consumption.
Ngmi

>>106097119
>>106098484
>she and her don't know that in the USA pie is a sweet dessert and that OP's screenshot's woman was implying that she was disappointed because she wanted pumpkin pie because she doesn't like tart flavors or tiny seeds in her food

>>106098916
Wrong.
While most often a person will assume a pie to be sweet, no one expects a neat pie to be sweet nor does anyone expect a pizza pie to be sweet.

>>106098957
*Meat

>>106096956 (OP)
> be dude
> trolls gf
many such cases

>>106097292
just ubuntu. ubuntu (other than server) is bloat. should have just used a normal debian distro.

Here’s the average mobile website OOTB with no adblockers these days.
This is a consumer review site supposedly? I dont know for sure, I read a paragraph and scrolled to the next to find this. I was trying to find details on a digital camera.

This is 3 videos playing at once btw, none of these are static images.
Stuff like this is why I now use like 4 websites and nothing else. I am so sick of advertisements, I stopped using social media entirely because of in-feed advertisements, ads disguised as content, videos with “sponsored segments”, Amazon affiliate links on everything

I visit 4chan, two forums, and my banks website on a regular basis, and every time I leave this little circle I am disgusted by the state of the modern web. If it wasn’t AI generated garbage just shitting up the place, it’s the digital equivalent of wading through a sea of lukewarm horse diarrhea to get to the thing I’m trying to read/watch.

Also my 15 year old blackberry had better autocorrect than a brand new Samsung galaxy has and my iPhone 4S has better touch accuracy than an iPhone 16

Microsoft’s strategy for making people use windows even though its shit is to just never fix it and try to convince people it’s working as expected and that’s the norm. Using 100% of my cpu to run a background malware scan that looks at every single file on the computer, at random, with almost no user control, requiring complicated registry changes to outright disable, only to then be turned back on automatically by a windows update? That’s actual fucking hell.
But there’s this huge population of pussy whipped tech illiterate retards who think they’re smarter than everyone else because they can follow a YouTube tutorial who think this is perfectly fine because you just need to follow this 7 step workaround to avoid this temporarily, for this windows version only before a major update changes it, and only at the detriment of some other nuisance like a constant alert or anti cheat software not working anymore.
They convinced people they need windows defender and that you shouldn’t mess with it and should simply let it ruin your performance.

Oh also, fuck any remotely operated software. Citrix can suck my dick and balls and choke on my pubes. MS remote connection manager somehow changed my IP to that of a printer earlier today and my WMS wouldn’t launch.

If I had to choose between using a modern android device and dragging my balls through a mile of lemon juice submerged broken glass, I’d walk through the glass, dip my shredded scrote into the salt bath waiting on the other side, drag the remnants back to the device and leave a fat fuckin imprint of my sack on the screen just to deter anyone else from ever having to use that shit heap of an operating system.

The next time I see a “you should upgrade to windows 11” pop up on my computer im going to install linu- oh wait I can’t because half my music library simply doesn’t work on Linux because it doesn’t understand flac file headers and the ones I ripped from CDs don’t play on Linux.
So maybe what I’ll actually do is go back to using windows vista where at least it’s transparent to me about being a bowl of shit soup. Because that can play flacs without having a little temper tantrum that the files aren’t in the expected configuration

And don’t even get me started on modern iPhones. I can’t imagine what actual retard thought camera bumps were a good idea. I could forgive everything else, but they’re like a comical representation of bad product design. And then making the lens glass some absurd sapphire shit so they don’t scratch just to compensate for the dumb ass design was icing on the cake. And of course every other manufacturer is just eating that shit up.

>>106096956 (OP)
Endlessly. The reason I'm "good with computers" is because ive wasted my life trying to get them to do what I want

>>106099111
trips manifested via pure anger

>>106098957
>While most often a person will assume a pie to be sweet
in the UK/Aus if you just say "a pie" people assume you're referring to a meat pie. It's not that sweet pies don't exist but they're definitely not the default
pie culture is way more interesting than the original topic of this thread and is technology

>>106096956 (OP)
>Have you ever been disappinted in tech?
yeah everything sucks now.

>>106099129
>trying to get them to do what I want
and they still refuse

>>106096956 (OP)
Purchasing tech, SW or HW , is an art of reading between the lines and gestalt justu where and when you'll be brutally and viciously raped.
I hate the hype and juice lingo that is all over the place and I hate the antichrist.

>>106098473

>>106099111
>cannot play flac file
skill issue.

>>106099335
You do not understand the context in any way, shape or form.
Half my library would play, the other half every single music player considered corrupted.
Zero music players on windows had this problem.

>>106096970
>>106097026
>>106097119
it'll be fine guys. Things couldn't possibly become worse, can they? It should be up from here.

>>106098993
Yeah, this shit is heinous.

Yes, in the single board computers I ever purchased.

>>106096956 (OP)
Yeah, anything advertising niggers touch.
>Email
>Telephone
>Television
>HTTP embedding
>Popups
>Cookies
>Video
>Radio
>Printing Press
It all becomes the most annoying shit.

>>106096956 (OP)
I am more disappointed in how governments treat tech

>>106096956 (OP)
No expectations, no disappointments. My honeymoon with tech died in 2004 and I haven't used anything new ever since. I keep what I already have well serviced and operational.

Yes when Niggers are involved.Niggers ruin everything

>>106101119
Nobody tell him where the resources for his chips come from

>>106098473
reminder that this is what japs think white people look like

>>106096956 (OP)
Back then i bought a Nvidia FX 5200. I have nothing else to say.

>>106096956 (OP)
>Have you ever been disappinted in tech?
Yes, but because of myself. I wish I knew more about technology than I do now. The knowledge and skills I have barely suffice to do what I'm doing currently, they suffice, but barely so.

captcha: kmsyj

>>106096956 (OP)
i bought a cheap projector that really sucks and i regret buying and i barely use it

>>106096956 (OP)
I hate technology.

>>106097292
Ubuntu isn't a good Linux distro, dude. The only reason people still talk about Ubuntu is meme inertia from 2008, but it otherwise has no place in modern discussions.

>>106101262
And what did you think you were gonna get for the 200 part? FX5900 Ultra chad here. Last card with paletted textures support.

>>106097119
pretty sure the joke is that she thought it would be a pie, not a computer

>>106099111
<can't play .flac
lmao, what? Troll post? Imagine.

>>106096956 (OP)
Lots of times. But the web has become truly awful these days.

>>106099572
>>106096956 (OP)
What's the use case for this shit? You wanna tell me normal microcontroller is not enough for you? To do what?

>>106103469
They are Linux computers, not microcontrollers. The usual idea is to run a Linux server with low power requirements.

>>106103469
ESP32 is not powerful enough to run an HTTP and FTP server while also monitoring cameras plus sending out email alerts.

>>106103469
Normal microcontrollers require minimum skills that somebody trying to run some sloppy minimalist linux on top of that junk wouldn't have.

>>106103542
And no. Just hitting some other server that does that work is not a fix. At that point you have two objects involved whereas the microcomputer does it all.

>>106099485
we'll soon need a loicense to do anything on the internet, it can be so so so much worse...
baning encryption is next too

>>106096956 (OP)
imagine being so fat you look at computers and see food

>>106096956 (OP)
imagine being at computers

>>106098464
not wrong

>>106099111
>music doesnt work on lunix
what the fuck are you talking about, lunix plays literally everything, ESPECIALLY flac because its a free codec and doesn't even need any patent-cucked decoders
have you tried mpv?
what error do you even get?
>files arent in the expected configuration
what do you mean?
if you actually tell us your problem, someone might be able to solve it.
>>106099439
can you send me one of those 'corrupted' flac files?
maybe they ARE just corrupted or have weird fucked headers, but you should be able to fix that pretty easily
and since its lunix, you can write a simple script to do this in bulk, to your entire library

>>106096956 (OP)
proprietary software, ALL of it, no exceptions.
and "open sores" software that tries to shill itself as free software (while they call it "open sores" and make zero mentions of freedom outside of maybe the LICENSE file), but contains a bunch of proprietary garbage, or depends on proprietary garbage, or simply shit that restricts your freedom despite being "open sores", with obfuscated code to hide the DRM.
other examples of this half assed "open sores but not really free software" crap include telegram, shit that has an "open sores" client but a completely proprietary backend
also signal, requires a phone and a phone number, centralized CIA server
YidHub, microshaft proprietary vibe-coded broken garbage thats full of pajeet malware binaries but bans you for releasing something that bypasses DRM

>>106096956 (OP)
>Have you ever been disappinted in tech?
It happens every time I read some faggot who can't spell "disappointed".

>>106109150
>>106101534
i am not fucking with you, i battled with this for a week before giving up

here is the context, my music library is like 5500 flacs, i copy them from a backup USB to assorted devices, its the same files as is on my windows machines, they all work fine
except for on linux, we see this scenario when i copy them over to my music directory

this is bone stock ubuntu
and this is scaled down, i carried over 15 random albums and put them in the music folder

note rb in the background only shows 9 albums, doesnt matter how many times you try to direct to different files or whatever, if i put all 5500 in there i get like 2800 that actually show up
VLC shows all the files, but it doesnt show the album art on albums which are "broken"
lollypop (pushed to the bottom right) running via terminal shows the error that the player receives
>no valid frames decoded before end of stream
and it gives that error for every file it reads from the albums that wont show up and wont play via these players

moc doesnt seem to care at all which is nice
but i want to use something a little more graphical, maybe not lollypop but something similar

here is a file, the line hilighted in the image, M79 by vampire weekend, this album/file will not play in most media players on linux
https://files.catbox.moe/wnq34a.flac

you think i would make this shit up? i want this to fucking work, i hate windows to a level unimaginable by other human beings, if this worked i would move my entire existence to linux

and yes ive tried other distros, it does this on any hardware i have linux on, something is wrong with the files but they work perfectly fine on windows

>>106110095
>ubuntu
that might actually cause your problem
>gstreamer errors
try mpv
works on my machine
or perhaps it could be the filename, what the fuck are those filenames??
>copy them over
try sha256sum foo.flac on lunix after copying it, and figure out how to get the sha256 hash (or whatever else you wanna use) on windoze too, make sure they match and nothing got corrupted
>frame stuff
maybe this is because you have thumbnails added to the flacs, you could try stripping out the thumbnails, or mpv --no-video
(also ignore the mpv warnings, those are just me-problems and have nothing to do with your file, its just my ancient hardware)

>>106110095
oh also maybe you lack some pooprietary codecs or gstreamer plugins, try searching for gst-plugins
there are good, bad, ugly, etc... for those (don't ask me why they are called that, i don't even know or care)
also, which distros did you try aside from ubuntu?
i use gentoo and everything works fine for me, but i'll test whatever media players aren't working for you, just tell me the least bloated one that broke for you (no qt/gtk crap if possible)

>>106110095
also if you simply have an inhuman amount of files, poorly written media players might shit themselves, this is just the incompetence of baseddevs, mpv is enough for me, but you can try strawberry player
also, what filesystem are you even using?
did you try to copy some files to another empty dir, and to rename them to less retarded filenames there?
this shouldn't be related at all, but it might be worth a try.

>>106110240
>>106110270
>>106110298
See here lies my problem with Linux, while I appreciate the investigation into trying to get this working for me, I should just work.
I don’t want to fiddle with this anymore. These files play on windows XP without hassle. My car plays them fine straight out of a USB stick. My phone plays them without issue. And they all work exactly as I expect them to.
Something about these files doesn’t work with Linux, and that’s a deal breaker for me when it comes to Linux, I don’t have a giant library of flacs just for fun, they’re all music I listen to regularly and i want an equivalent experience to the modern windows media player.
Which lollypop is pretty close to visually and functionally and I want to use something like that but half my library doesn’t work so it’s not exactly an option.

Beyond Ubuntu my other Linux machines are one running Manjaro and another with regular old Debian XFCE, and my anime brick runs mint.
Id like to use Ubuntu because other than stuff like this it simply works for what I need and doesn’t do anything too obstructive.

>>106096956 (OP)
Twice.
>Need a new tablet
>Got a chance to get a new Ipad Pro M2 for less than half the price
>It's almost perfect hardware utterly gimped by iOS
And
>Buy new earphones
>They sounds great
>Channel matching is so bad you have to crank the balance slider almost all the way to fix it
>Have to send them back

>>106110430
>it should just work
ubuntu is definitely not the right choice for you then, but neither is windows.
if you don't want to fiddle at all, you're out of luck, go buy a mac.
computers are fiddly by nature, you will always have to do some tinkering, and the problem with ubuntu is that you have no clue what actually causes things to break, since you didn't set up your system yourself.
if you were to install gentoo (or even just arch), you at least have an idea about what causes your issues, and will already know how to fix them
i've just accepted that all software has bugs, and every operating system breaks in one way or another, but i can still pick between something that tries to hide everything from me to keep me computer illiterate, or something that actually educates me about how computers work.
yes, this should just work, and its very fucking weird that it doesn't, i've never encountered this kind of issue, usually its just random shit for me, e.g. my keyboard layout switching broke
i figure out what happened, i see that the last thing i did before the breakage was updating xkeyboard-config, so i go and check the changelog for versions
>some symlink crap
i try fixing the symlinks and reverting back to the old version
>still doesnt work
i remove my custom patches and it suddenly works, now i figured out that my patches fucked something up (because 99% of all gentoo breakage is user error), so i looked at them and saw that i forgot 1 comma, problem solved.
i have over 370GiB of music too, most of that being FLACs, and i listen to all of it.
>equivalent experience to windoze media player
you're not gonna find drm support on lunix, i have no idea how the modern one works, but isn't that just mpv/vlc without features?
>ubuntu works
except when it doesnt...
ubuntu is unironically one of the most unstable distros out there, followed by debian, fedora, niche distros on life support, and arch
sadly "user friendly" lunix isn't really a thing.

>>106110569
any attempts to make lunix 'user friendly' end up being microsoft levels of retardation. they all just hide the complex ugly system behind a coat of paint, so the end user has no clue what actually goes on underneath that. in the end, this not only makes it painful for normies to use because shit breaks all the time due to how poorly designed and fragile all that paint is, but it also makes it infuriating for computer-literate people who know what theyre doing.
seriously, bite the bullet and install gentoo, you will be glad later.

>>106110593
forgot to add...
a well designed system is only as complex as it has to be, and not an artificially simplified frontend to a complex system.
gentoo is pretty complex, but only as much as it really needs to be to fill all use cases.
i'm a sysadmin and i can set up servers with gentoo, enable specific optimizations that make everything run faster on very specific hardware, kick out everything i dont need, patch everything i don't like automatically, automate as much as possible, and still fall back to hand-picking packages/overlays/binhosts/USE flags/versions/etc... for everything if i need to.
a friend of me who is an archeologist also uses gentoo because it allows him to carry around a USB flash drive with only and exactly the things he needs for artifact bookkeeping. he can carry around a small usb drive and boot it on any computer, get his work done without any other garbage in the background, and this works on 256MiB of ram, single core x86 machines, but also on modern gaming laptops.
my brother is a gaymer, he uses gentoo because of performance, and my mom just uses it because i installed it for her, she complained about such "user friendly" distros being broken garbage, so i solved that problem for her.