Your Tech Pet Peeves

[Reitou]

People using your machine and changing window positions and size. Shits me to tears.

[Froggerztech]

• fanboyism

•iPhones

•iPads

•apple in general

•people who think you can't get a decent gaming computer for anywhere under like $1500

•when people feed misinformation

•driver fails

•scams where companies say their product does something when it really does the opposite or at least does the thing way worst than they say it will

•did I say I hate apple?

[dre92]

1. Not empty recycle bin

2. More than 5 items on desktop. 5 items consists of My Computer, Recycle Bin, 'Games' folder, 'Downloads' folder, 'Videos' folder

3. Big windows taskbar icons

4. Recently opened programs on Start menu not set to 0

5. Playing games in 'Window Mode' or 'Borderless Window'

6. Audio level not multiple of 5

7. Seeing someone right clicking + Open New Tab instead of just middle clicking

8. Browser without bookmark bar

9. Messed up cable management

10. Optical drive

11. Unfiltered intake fans

[patriotbarrow]

 

"Controllers are better than keyboards"

 

Genre-specific. I play racing sims and flight sims using a controller because it's both better than a mouse/kb combo and cheaper than buying a flight stick and a good set of wheels and pedals. (although used to be you could buy this here beaut: http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/990925/image/whl4.jpg )

[Dabombinable]

cables, cables and more cables

said cables looking untidy and getting tangled

[patriotbarrow]

Mine has the trash can alone. Just so I can admire HD wallpapers.

 

Right-Click > View > Show desktop icons. 

 

So much SPAAAACE

[patriotbarrow]

THIS.

 

My samsung monitors have this too, and whats worse is they are always slightly out of sync  when flashing

 

I have a Dell and an LG. The LG is the culprit. On the Dell, the light just goes dull amber. How hard is it for everyone to do the same?

[awesomes8wc3]

1) Touching Screens

2) Shitty software

3) People who install the stuff that is "reccomended" by ads.

3) People who take pictures and videos with phones

 

OP is probably going to hate me for this, but:

I have over 200 tabs open.

This is what my desk looks like:

You do not want to see my floor.

[Dabombinable]

-snip-

Lol, that's kinda llike my desk area, except for with really old parts in place of new ones, and 2 well beaten computers to go with their newer replacement.

[marat569]

Neck beards. (Both the stereotype and facial-hair)

[Nickolas47]

Windows 8

[Darkman]

When people call cases computer towers..

[patriotbarrow]

OP is probably going to hate me for this, but:

I have over 200 tabs open.

This is what my desk looks like:

 

You do not want to see my floor.

 

Where... how do you find things in there?

[durfyn00b]

Unorganized files, lack of option to select a destination folder for an install, and when installers try to sneak some crapware that I don't want onto my system.

[thechez99]

When people complain that their 12+ Mb/s internet is not fast enough. I have 2 Mb/s.

 

Sometimes it will dip down to less than Dial-Up for days on end :'(

[cesrai]

I have some tech pet peeves or things that bug me. Here are some of mine:

 

• Cluttered desktops
• Cluttered desk tops (difference)
• Downloading things into C:\
• Distorted pictures
• More than 30 tabs open
• When people play games in a window if not needed
• When someone opens up their laptops and it looks like they spit on it 87 times a day

What are some of yours?

What is wrong with downloading on C ????????????????

[RWT98]

desktop mess

[Ptopman]

All the iphone users that carry their charger, Its called manage your battery and learn to care for it, or replace it... wait... you cant do that (I know most people on here can, i'm talking about the commons)

-sincerely android (I know thats an os and I know that some android phones can't easily replace your battery. Im talking about the 85% of android phones that can).

[Ptopman]

Also when people throw around their laptops when the HDD is reading or writing and then wonder why they need new HDDs all the time.

[xrex64]

This was a good thread. RIP. 

[Whorax]

This was a good thread. RIP. 

That avatar is incredible.

[BOT Edward]

Apple.

 

People hating apple for no reason other than jumping on a bandwagon.

[mr moose]

Is this thread necrotic? 

 

anyway, I'd like to add when people rely on tech websites for information about humanity (eye biology, psychology, social sciences, finance etc).  It's like people don't realise that just because there is a crossover between tech/gaming (a topic they know) and psychology ( a topic they know jack shit about) doesn't make them fucking experts in said field.

[qhgf]

When people think that having 7 devices on a single access point is going to severely degrade the performance. Even when none of the devices are using the network resources.

[ManWithBeard1990]

When the threads on the locknuts of a DVI or VGA connector don't engage. Drives me bonkers.