Opinionated computers

looksee

Rant rant. Have you noticed how opinionated computers are getting?

C 'We are going to download this nice shiny new update onto your computer'

Me: no, not now I'm busy, and anyway last time you downloaded something it crashed everything

C Well I'm going to do it anyway, please click the 'go ahead' button

Me: Where is the 'don't go ahead' button

C There isn't one

Me: Well I will just click the 'close window' cross *click*

C Ha ha, here I am again, you don't get away that easily!!

Me: aargh, I would do a forced shut down but I haven't saved the work that I now can't get at...

And so on...granted thats a bit of a mish mash of situations, but that kind of stuff seems to happen a lot more than it did. One of the most irritating is the whole ' would you like to link through Facebook?' or six other options that I am not interested in.

No.

Well in that case you are going to have to do an advanced application and sign the official secrets act.

Oh ok, I will do the Facebook bit.

Right, now you have to sign in to Facebook again and give your mother's maiden name and address and what she had for breakfast.

Oh - *abandons website*

Skype really annoyed me when it updated me (without asking, and made a hash of my computer) then cheerily took over my camera, put up a picture of me sitting there looking irritated and asked if I would like to use it as my profile pic. :eek:

More ranting, but that will do for now.

Rubecula

Wonderful post, and it is so true. I am sorry but I couldn't help laughing at it all. :pac:

blackworld

Lols! Funny, me too can't help to laugh.

odds_on

Funny but also true.

And also with adverts that sometimes appear even though the pop-up blocker is on.

And I hate these ads that if you happen to go over them with the mouse that get large and take over the screen. There is one, on Yahoos main site, that has the sound of money falling into a bucket or something - while I'm trying to read the Yahoo news. The only way around this is to turn the sound off. I hate it.

Jellybaby1

That was a hilarious post looksee and I empathise. Been there and done all of that as well. Pain in the b.side. Eventually this will make me turn the contraption off permanently, damn their eyes!!!!!!!!:mad:

tricky D

C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> I'm in the middle of a poker game, go away
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> I'm still in the middle of a poker game, go away
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Are you stupid? I said I'm in the middle of a poker game, go away
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Which bit of go away can you not compute
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Go away
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Ok then fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> P1ss off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
C > Restart Now or Restart Later
Me> Fcuk off
5 mins later
Me busts out of tournament after so much distraction
Me > Fcuk you, I'm getting a Linux box next
C > Your poker site doesn't support Linux
Me > Fcuk you, I'll show you who is boss
C hits ground 4 storeys later, smashing stuff
Me > Better get a new computer

Still no where near as nasty as this bastard

chucken1

Best giggle Ive had all day Looksee :pac::pac::pac:
Sorry

DeVore

Drives me potty.

You know whats worse? UAE, User Acces Control.... its a freakin' nanny. Its like having your mother living in your computer. Its ok if you want to embrace the bomb and live as MS says you should but dear god if you want to do ANYTHING administration wise or against their "suggested solution" it has a freak.

Turning it off meant hacking my own ini files and registries to rip the f*cker out of the heart of my machine so it would do WHAT I BLOODY WELL TOLD IT TO AND YES I *AM* SURE.

Its the computer equivalent of needing a note from your mammy or agreeing to a million disclaimers so you can do what you like with the hardware you bought.


nggggh. Drives me potty. If I brick my own laptop, its my fault, I'm a big boy and I will pay the price but please please please stop asking me if I'm sure or stopping me from doing something you think "might make your system unstable".


</rant>

DeV.

OldGoat

I like to mess with the 'puta's head every now and then and say 1 when I mean 0. They hate that.

I have an old 286 still running on some archaic DOS version crunching numbers (slowly). Does my heart good to negotiate the system without using GUI's, mouse or any webbiness. Green screens and blinking square cursors are soothing.

Nonmonotonic

HAL's Attitude problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUMmNl4hk

Dave's revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE

Love the talking bomb in Dark Star ( greatest scifi film ever ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk

Jellybaby1

HAL was born with a psychotic personality and a superiority complex just like our PC's today, and he/it couldn't sing for nuts!! His attempt at singing 'Daisy' was dismal and I was glad to see the end of him, though I'd just have taken a hammer to him. Just as well he hadn't entered for the X Factor! I laughed, Vincent Price-style, all the way through the clips above. On the other hand, I did have some favourite computers, like Huey, Dewey and Louie in Silent Running and they starred alongside one of my favourite actors of all time, Bruce Dern. I never saw Dark Star, but this clip makes me want to see it. Thanks for putting them up here.