global companies making global announcements reflecting or explicitly referencing the season currently occuring in the temperate band of the nothern hemisphere.

especially product laucnhes or event annoucements.

#gripes

Microsoft 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*.*"?!?!

#gripes #microsoft #windows

Pet 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.

#technicalwriting #gripes

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.

#Writing #Gripes #Whinging

GRRRRRR!!!

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. 🙄

#Android
#VoiceDictation
#Gripes
#Rant

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/

#gripes

We 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.

#gripes #oldmanshoutsatcloud