What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Camofurever1]

I use Outlook for my email, and MS is really trying to do away with passwords and push you towards some sort of biometric login. Not sure how you're supposed to do this on a desktop PC. Gotta click past a bunch of setup prompts every 3rd or 4th time I log in.

Easy.....Quit using MS products.......I quit using them when MS tried to covertly heist my Win 7 computer and put Win 10 on it without me knowing about it. I went Mac and never looked back. There is also Linux. You can do it!

 

[WinterDeere]

Easy.....Quit using MS products.......I quit using them when MS tried to covertly heist my Win 7 computer and put Win 10 on it without me knowing about it. I went Mac and never looked back. There is also Linux. You can do it!

That's fine for kids or home use. I've owned several Mac's and used to run Linux. But I wouldn't even think of trying to run a business on either.

Most of the engineering software I use is not even available for running on a Mac, and although you can emulate, it's too slow for memory-bound or very CPU-intensive processes. Some of them are available for Linux, for those who like to waste time and find more difficult ways to accomplish the same end result, but I'd rather spend my hours on billable tasks than playing with computers.

 

[Camofurever1]

That's fine for kids or home use. I've owned several Mac's and used to run Linux. But I wouldn't even think of trying to run a business on either.

Most of the engineering software I use is not even available for running on a Mac, and although you can emulate, it's too slow for memory-bound or very CPU-intensive processes. Some of them are available for Linux, for those who like to waste time and find more difficult ways to accomplish the same end result, but I'd rather spend my hours on billable tasks than playing with computers.

What kind of engineering software are you running that would be dedicated to MS os only? Most server OS's are either Linux (Red Hat or other flavors) or UNIX (Mac is unix based). I do engineering work also. I use CAD on a daily basis, although I don't do any 3D modeling, though the packages I run do run on Mac and will do 3D modeling just fine.

 

[Oaktree]

Easy.....Quit using MS products.......I quit using them when MS tried to covertly heist my Win 7 computer and put Win 10 on it without me knowing about it. I went Mac and never looked back. There is also Linux. You can do it!

Maybe I should have been a bit more clear, it's Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) I was referring to. Web based, so OS agnostic.

I do agree with WinterDeere's comments about various OSs. PC vs Mac vs Linux is one of those arguments like Ford vs Chevy, orange vs green tractors or R1 vs R4 tire. Use what works for you, there's no "right" answer.

Our state did away with license plate stickers, maybe 15 or 20 years ago. I believe the law enforcement vehicles have forward looking cameras with plate reader software and satellite connectivity, so the silly little sticker is pretty pointless. Their on-board computer will automatically notify them if their system captures an un-registered plate, or a plate that doesn't match the vehicle wearing it.

A little too Big Brother for my liking.

 

[Jstpssng]

A little too Big Brother for my liking

"But it's for the kids!"

 

[WinterDeere]

What kind of engineering software are you running that would be dedicated to MS os only? Most server OS's are either Linux (Red Hat or other flavors) or UNIX (Mac is unix based). I do engineering work also. I use CAD on a daily basis, although I don't do any 3D modeling, though the packages I run do run on Mac and will do 3D modeling just fine.

Most of my software runs on Linux, as stated in my post, just not Mac OS. This is mostly 3D modeling and electrophysics simulation software, for high frequency, thermal, flomerics, and particle physics. But even stuff as basic as my 3D CAD software (SolidWorks) isn't supported on Mac or Linux.

Of course you can make it run on either with emulation, but without native support for 3D graphics accelleration and GPU functionality, they're too slow for working large models. Likewise with simulation, when a simulation can take hours to days on exceptionally powerful multi-socket PC's with dozens of cores and can bind up dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes of memory, the last thing you want is to be running it on CPU emulation.

 

[WinterDeere]

A little too Big Brother for my liking.

If the functionality is limited to notification of unregistered or illegally transferred (e.g. stolen) plates, and no data is stored for future reference, then I'm fine with that.

But if any location data is kept on captured plates, which might be used to later track owner daily movement, then yeah... not good.

 

[kenmbz]

When developers make items smaller and add layers of color which obfuscate the numbers.
Making widgets etc. smaller.
My eyes can't read a lot of them now. IPhone and Android both guilty, though latest Android UI had to be written by a bunch of 20 year olds who have 20/20 vision

 

[Runner]

When developers make items smaller and add layers of color which obfuscate the numbers.
Making widgets etc. smaller.
My eyes can't read a lot of them now. IPhone and Android both guilty, though latest Android UI had to be written by a bunch of 20 year olds who have 20/20 vision

New microwave is like that. Bunch of little push pad "buttons" with teeny little print on them. Can barely see them. Have to put my readers on and get my face right down there in all the microwaves just to see the unintuitive controls. Just needs a big green "start" and a big red "stop" button.

 

[Oaktree]

When developers make items smaller and add layers of color which obfuscate the numbers.

Or "manuals" for products that are printed with 6p type on a 4x4" "booklet". Can't read some of that even with a magnifying glass. As you noted, weird color combinations don't help either.