AI6YR BenMicrosoft gripe of the day: no longer can you (easily) find files by filename in Explorer, instead it asks "Try describing an image or file"
WHY CAN I NOT SEARCH FOR "MYFILENAME.TXT"!! OR "MYFILE*.*"?!?!
David AmosPet peeve: product managers who "help produce product documentation" by outsourcing it to an LLM and then never even taking the time to read and check the output.
In the time it takes me to fix this garbage, I could have just written it myself, and with much higher quality.
Kevin Bowen 
Judging by the number of "breaks" I've been taking all afternoon, I seem to be a bit irked and anxious about my writing -->revising -->formatting -->publishing workflow.
Seems unnecessarily clunky and cumbersome(this also includes the sudden, inexplicable loss of any spelling ability I may have, previously, possessed).
Hopefully, this year, I can improve on the process.
QuasitGRRRRRR!!!
Could Android's voice dictation be any WORSE? I swear, i feel like it's some kind of completely malicious bastard that's deliberately trying to screw up what I say in whatever ridiculous way possible.
Unless I talk like Mad Davros. For some reason it behaves itself perfectly when I use that voice.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
But people tend to look at me strangely if I use that voice in public. π
Argghhhhhh
Interview a forecaster at the NWS, folks, not people who go viral on the Nazi website.
"prominent climate blogger" is not a qualification for weather prediction.
https://ktla.com/weather/southern-california-storm-brings-very-concerning-rain-forecast/
Koen Hufkens, PhDWe live in a managerocracy. Everyone wants to be a "manager", nobody wants to do the work. It's not surprising GenAI bullshit machines are so popular as you can cosplay being a manager, while "outsourcing" all the work.
Robert W. GehlThe lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?
Hell, no!
Western InfidelsI wanted to try a silly recipe. You know the kind: three ingredients, no cooking, results in a complete Thanksgiving dinner, using only a loaf pan and a fridge.
The recipe was demonstrated on YouTube. Not written-down? No problem, it was adapted from something else, link in description!
Link in the description goes to an Instagram Reel. Link doesn't work, Instagram page loads forever. Maybe YouTube's link re-direction messed up? I don't know.
With the relevant Instagram screen name, I find the Instagrammer's page. But there's no way to search that creator's stuff for something specific.
The information I'm looking for wouldn't fill an index card. This would have been straightforward with the internet of 20 years ago. Today, links are broken, search is broken, and everything has to be a video.
Information used to want to be free. Today, information wants to be artificially scarce.
The dumpy discount store where I buy most of my groceries is already thinning its selection of bargain bin Halloween costumes and plastic skeletons to make room for plastic Christmas junk. I'm sure they're not alone.
In the future, we'll just have three seasons: Spring, Summer, and Christmas.
"WizTree," a fast Windows disk space analyzer with a freebie version, has shown me that a whopping 1% of my precious SSD space is devoted to 26 different obsolete versions of the Microsoft Photos app. Which I have never launched on purpose. Which I have actually uninstalled, and which I therefore cannot actually run at all.
So WizTree does its thing great, but so far it is only illuminating new-to-me frustrations.
This sort of thing doesn't exactly inspire me to rush to Windows 11. I thought that's what they wanted?