No matter how much you idiot proof something, life always seems to produce bigger idiots.
People just don’t read. Especially error messages.
The worst is error messages that don’t say anything at all besides oopsie woopsie 🤦
“Something went wrong. If the problem persists contact your administrator.”
My pet peeve is when a system shows these messages to me, but I’m the admin. And there are no further logs to consult.
Computer coughing, exhaling a large puff of magic smoke: What are you, my boss? 😮💨
I AM
GROOT!
I hate those. Even worse are error messages that are clear, descriptive, and wrong (“incorrect username and/or password” when actually the server or your internet is down)
How about “something went wrong, contact your administrator”
Like maybe add a blurb about what software went wrong? And which administrator???
This is especially bad when you are the administrator.
I’m never reachable to myself
My colleague at work (we’re developers) basically never bothers reading error messages. He’ll sit and get ChatGPT to keep generating different solutions until one works or until he asks me to help, but will literally skip past error logs and error messages output to console or screen, and gets angry when I tell him to stop clicking around and read the logs. It’s really, really strange.
At some point you need to employ some tough love. Tell him ChatGPT can’t do his job for him, it’s only for limited and occasional help. Tell him you can no longer help him if he won’t use the tools of the trade (logs and errors, etc.).
I totally get what you’re saying, and I don’t disagree that would be good - but we are a tiny team and I’m his colleague; not his boss. Believe you me, that would be more trouble than it’s worth, unfortunately!
Sometimes it’s okay to be a bit rude. It’s rare, but every now and again, necessary in order to not become a doormat. It is totally normal and human to try to change your environment (including the behaviour of others) to suit yourself and your happiness.
I’m not a doormat mate, but I do know where my bread is buttered, and I do know that if I just say “no”, my project manager, dept head, and the agency owner (who all sit within about 4 feet of me and my colleague, gotta love open plan offices) would not be best pleased.
I just want to get through my days at a shitty agency and pay off my debt, before I quit the industry and find something that isn’t populated by AI-crazed marketers and money-grubbing, dishonest arseholes. If such an industry exists, at this point 😂
Of course. It’s your life, live it how you see fit. I’ve definitely been in similar shoes.
On a friendlier note, may I just say, you have quite a way with words, and your choice of phrase sparks joy in me. I hope you do find a better life after your debts are paid, as much as I hope you have a good rest of the year, with many more to come.
You mean like the “new” BSOD for windows? god that new screen is the worst when troubleshooting.
It’s been so long since I used Windows. What did they do this time?
it’s “new” with windows 11, but they redesigned it, it no longer is blue, its a black screen with white text saying “your system encountered an issue and needs to restart” and then the stop code is a bit smaller light grey that blends in with the background which makes it hard to see.
It’s not all bad though, like it now gives a little more info about what failed if it is able to know, but i just find tiny text on black a pain and I preferred the frown and clear right to the point text.
Do I even want to ask?
For this one it really depends on the context. Many apps are super pushy and don’t give you notice they are even trying to do anything. If I was minding my own business and just happend to open amazon music on my phone to listen to music, I would get super confused about time my watch decided to try and pair itself to the account. Like first off, why are you messaging me, second why are you trying to do something i didn’t ask you to do.
Granted I could tell right off what that message was likely indicating it wanted to do, but thats because I’ve used tech for years now and I understand how code based pairing works. I could defo see someone who wasn’t used to code based account pairing looking at that and saying “what does this mean, why do I need to go to a website and put a code in”
Yeah, even just the assumption that
amazon.com/codeshould automatically parse as a URL for everyone – without even dropping the word “website” – is a bit brave. It could be read asamazon.com / codeor even asamazon. com/code.I also feel like not everyone is going to know what a “code” really is, especially if they’re a non-native speaker, like this person presumably is. And there isn’t even a colon to make it clear that the blue text is the code.
I could definitely see this being interpreted as an error description, because error displays also generally have such weird letters or numbers on them (a.k.a. an error code).Well, and if I’m already nitpicking, the title is confusing, too. Start listening to what? Or even for what? Is the watch just telling you “pay attention”?
The title is also not really visually distinct from the body text, so it looks like a run-on sentence when it’s two sentences. They could’ve totally just made that one sentence and resolved both of those problems: “To start listening, enter the following code…”It may be a simple process, but if your communication of this process isn’t watertight, then you don’t need a fool for it to be misunderstood.
To be honest if I saw that popup I’d think my watch was hacked and not do anything before I figure out what that endpoint is used for.
I think someone else having come to a similar conclusion but having the know how to research what the URL is supposed to do is realistic based on the title. Can’t fault somebody for that.
If it come out of nowhere, hacked/compromised
If the user caused it, stupid beyond repair.It’s not a popup, it’s the message you get when you open the music app.
To quote the OP of that post:
Just to update y’all, I got the 45mm and loving it so far! However I haven’t been able to use Amazon Music on it. I attached a picture of the weird error I get.
If the popup came out of nowhere, or in an unrelated app, I could see how it could be interpreted as a scamming attempt.
The idiot is the person making that watch instruction screen, yeah?
