@ArdainianRight There's a point at which user friendly (good, necessary) becomes retard friendly (don't, very bad, plz avoid) @MoeBritannica
User friendly: The computer does what I expect it to do when I tell it to do something, or fails in a graceful and informative way so I know what went wrong.
Retard friendly: The computer does everything for me according to factory-set instructions. I have no control unless I heavily modify the device at risk of permanently damaging it.
Of course, literally every manufacturer has unfortunately decided to go with option 2.
@Giganova8
>the computer does what I expect it to when I tell it to do something
and doesn't pull this genie "haha, I did *exactly* what you said, but not what you wanted" shit that older computers used to. (Yes, I am a zoomie, but I used Win95 as well.)
>and informative way so I know what went wrong
This part is especially important.
Enough of this "oopsie woopsie, we did a fucky wucky" nonsense, give me a fucking error message I can search so I can find out what the fuck happened. Modern stuff doing this is fucking stupid.
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@wolfbro @ArdainianRight @MoeBritannica I feel an enormously powerful urge to commit federal crimes everytime I see those “cute” error messages shit like Discord throws out.
“Oopsie, looks like the office gnomes misplaced your heckin wholesome content!” - 
Yeah, I’m sure they’ll find it real quick when I set your server room on fire you insufferable shitstain. 
And it’s all done because some drooling retard will have a shitfit if he sees strange, arcane numbers and letters, or worse, a request to file a bug report (shock! horror! 
). So everyone with any level of capability has to suffer because these “people” weren’t gatekept away from tech. 
@Giganova8
Oh, so, I have a story relating to that.
I do tech stuff for a huge year-round equipped campsite, nice place, pay is alright for the area, I mostly answer phones and dick around with the logs and things.
Anyway, the fucker wanted me to put 404 as "you were sent on a snipe hunt"
I told him we are putting "this page can't be found" like a normal fucking website because this isn't Scout Camp, this is a website where people want to book campsites, not be bullied by some asshole scoutmaster.
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@Giganova8 For those who aren't american and have no idea what a "snipe hunt" is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
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