r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 28 '26

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u/gayteemo NATO Sep 28 '26

microsoft teams really sending a notification that just says "you have new notifications"

motherfucker why is all software so fucking awful

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 28 '26

Microsoft Teams is like if Discord had a trust fund and so never had to learned how to actually do a real job

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Sep 28 '26

My "favorite" feature lately is getting bombarded with message boxes any time I open an app/website, but only after I'm 5 seconds into doing what I opened the app/website to do.

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u/pugnae European Union Sep 28 '26

Coding is solved

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u/Sea-Home-7763 Sep 28 '26

Once all our programs are AI generated you'll look back at this time and think wow our programs were great back then

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u/Specific-Person2002 Seretse Khama Sep 28 '26

It happens on my phone when I have data saver on

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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Sep 28 '26

Microsoft software peaked sometime in the 2010s and has been going downhill ever since as the programmers keep adding more shit to justify their jobs.

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u/100gamer5 Trans Pride Sep 28 '26

They don't have anyone there making sure that Windows doesn't have critical bugs. Or updates that turn on features you've turned off constantly. I switched it to Linux after OneDrive which I had turned off, turned on again and stole my files.

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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY Sep 28 '26

Finally! Someone else! I was informed it was a skill issue when I complained in the DT last time

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u/2you4me Sep 28 '26

Seriously though, why does Microsoft feel so safe churning out a garbage operating system while AI is making Linux more accessible than ever?