What the heck is this message supposed to tell me?

I recently got myself a G435 headphones from Logitech. For years now I’ve also been using both a wireless mouse and keyboard from Logitech, both of which “require” the G HUB software. For that reason, this software is starting automatically with the system and is always running.

This dialog popped up randomly today, which is several days after I had first connected the new headphones to my computer. I used them with that computer on multiple different days between first connecting them and this dialog popping up, and the computer was rebooted multiple times during that time (it’s my gaming PC, not the Mac). The timing of this message makes no sense, why not show it right after first connecting the new device?

But more importantly: Even if the timing wasn’t so weird, I repeat – what the heck is this message supposed to tell me? Do they hate their own software and are so happy this device doesn’t need it that they just had to tell me? “Huzzah!”? Did you mean to write “Hey there, you might be looking for settings regarding your new G435 headset in the place you’re used to manage all your Logitech gear. For this device there currently are no settings available, so we don’t show it here.”? Don’t you have technical writers?

The headset itself is pretty good. All my other Logitech gear is good. Even the G HUB isn’t the worst software on that gaming PC by a long shot. And for the first few days, the new headset just worked. I connected it and that was it. It did it’s job, I didn’t have to enter my life story into some new account that’s forced on me, didn’t have to install drivers or a kernel extension. How things should be. And then they fuck it up with this stupid dialog. Not a big deal, but I just hate that these kinds of paper-cuts are so normalized these days.

It has been bugging me for quite some time now that Twitter seems to include likes and retweets from profiles I’m not allowed to see in their counts. Sometimes it’s nice to check out who interacted with something to make connections.

I know, Twitter wants to be a glorified feed reader dumpster these days instead of making connections¹, but come on. Use the same SELECT statement for counting as for listing.

Oh, you wanna click that button? – I don’t think so, mate!

Mind-boggling how hard of a concept it seems to be that you should not just move the action target away exactly when the user wants to initiate it. This is Steam in 2022. Even if the action was the same in the end (it’s not, you’re loading the details page instead of playing/adding to library right away) this is still so irritating when it happens.

Ah yes, exactly what I wanted.

Reminds me of when people would post images with a src like file:///C:/Users/KarlHeinz/Screenshot123.jpg in a forum post and didn’t understand why no one else could see their screenshot.

(I know it looks a bit glitchy at some points, but I hope you’ll believe that the video is not edited – it’s just iOS animations being wonky.)

Get sexy new M1 MacBook for new job. Install standard tools for the job. Most popular video conferencing software not updated for M1 after more than a year? Wow.

Oh. Okay. That’s just great. (So far this really was the only thing that needed Rosetta. They actually do have a separate installer for M1, but it’s hidden on the download page which as far as I could tell is only reachable from the very bottom of the homepage and not used in the normal onboarding flow when logging in via a company provided account.)

Apologies for the Boomer¹ “screenshots”, it was a really busy month.

Okay fine, I guess no notifications for me then. Thanks.

The new reactions in Telegram look even worse for me than what the grumpy website showed earlier. I guess it’s my color scheme (which is defined by Telegram, not something custom I cooked up myself, so that’s no excuse at all). In personal conversations the reactions are even less distinct from the message itself than in group chats.

I’ve long said that the easiest way for Apple to improve iMessage would be to pretty much copy the entire UX from Telegram. It’s pretty ironic that now Telegram chose to copy one of the absolute worst features of iMessage instead.

While Telegram’s selection of available reactions is a bit better and larger, it simply should not be limited at all. Let me react with every emoji I could also send as a message. The reactions available in iMessage are all some cringe Boomer stuff that I (and I’m almost a Boomer myself by now!) would only use ironically. Seriously, is there anyone on this planet who would use the “Haha” reaction in a non-sarcastic way and who does not have grandkids already? With my closest of friends I only started using iMessage reactions after we had a conversation about the fact that we all acknowledge their cringe, but ignore it and use the reactions anyway as they sometimes can be quite practical. But even with this shared understanding I’m still hesitant to use them at all. That’s how harmful this limitation to six (!) different reactions is.

New empty contact picture available!

Unsure why Messages insists on replacing an existing image with an empty one.

Not sure how much disk space Safari needs to open a website.

These damn Electron apps draining our battery!

Also running and actively being used:

• Slack
• Visual Studio Code
• Chrome
• 1Password