The Path Of Least Resistance

Content 1 work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no AlexaGoogle Assistant.. - no internet connected thermostats Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

That moment when you're about to rage-quit over Nvidia's RTX 50-series not supporting your precious PhysX games, but then they whisper sweet nothings about the RTX 5070 having "4090-like performance" for half the price. Suddenly, you're reaching for your wallet faster than you can say "my old games weren't that good anyway." The classic tech cycle: complain about missing features → see shiny new specs → financial common sense leaves the chat. We never learn, do we?

The eternal dance between WinRAR and its users! For decades, WinRAR has politely asked users to purchase a license after the 40-day trial expires... and for decades, users have masterfully ignored that request while continuing to extract files without missing a beat. The "Ok" button might as well be labeled "Remind me for the next 15 years." It's the longest-running subscription service that nobody actually subscribes to. The digital equivalent of saying "I'll think about it" to a street vendor and then walking away forever.

Content TIME FOR A GOOD 3 PRODUCTIVE DAY AT THE COMPUTER! EVERYTHING IS BROKEN NOW OH BOY, A SOFTWARE UPDATE! UPDATING

The irony is absolutely delicious. Microsoft, creator of Teams, declares their own remote collaboration tool "inferior" while mandating employees return to office. So the Teams team gets a Teams call about how Teams isn't good enough for the Teams team to use Teams remotely. It's like a chef refusing to eat at their own restaurant because "the food isn't good enough." Nothing says "confidence in your product" quite like telling everyone it doesn't actually work for its intended purpose. Microsoft just pulled the digital equivalent of "do as I say, not as I do" while accidentally creating the most meta workplace paradox possible.

Ah yes, the classic Microsoft experience. A beefy gaming rig that could probably simulate the heat death of the universe, but Windows 11 is like "nah, I'll pass." The real system requirement they don't tell you about is a virgin sacrifice under the full moon while Bill Gates watches through your webcam. That Threadripper could calculate pi to the last digit before your McDonald's order is ready, but Microsoft's TPM requirement says "best I can do is Windows 10."