Am I the only one that noticed that everything's being dumbed down for consumers?

Am I the only one that noticed that everything's being dumbed down for consumers?
>Windows stopped displaying error/crash reasons.
>Google stopped posting error codes on crashed tabs.
>Everything now has much less customization in fear that the user will fuck something up.
REEEEEE.

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Normalfags are retarded and can't handle troubleshooting

They have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Still, I agree that it doesn't mean that they should alienate advanced users.

people are getting dumber. education standards are slipping. it seems "Idiocracy" wasn't a comedy after all.

Nah, it's just that after ~2010 even the kids (the little kids) are now online. Up to that point we had stupid people but not that many.

Also together with the small kids also all the old farts are online nowadays.

Well, it's obvious they don't understand it, but what damage can putting a little error code in the bottom right corner do?
Like "[process] failed on launch", or "ERROR CODE [number]".
Now, Windows still does error codes, but I've noticed that it's no longer everytime you get a crash, sometimes it just says "something went wrong teehee".

something happened
:^(

I hope you are right with that assumption. Windows, as well as everybody else could still display a "More Information" button with error codes though, maybe alongside a "Restart" button.

>everything's being dumbed down for consumers
incorrect, everything is being dumbed down for consumerism
make sure to buy the 24/7 support package for your computer

This actually pisses me off now I think about it. What's the point of even saying it?

>our spyware wasn't able to process your request so you have to do it again -tee hee

It's design to be idiot proof because retards fucking up their device is how companies loses sale and drive up the cost of tech support.

Customer service and tech support is a waste of time if you're a monopoly. Let them eat cake.

I think they must have done some market research that showed them verbose error messages were helpful to a minority of computer literate users while "Oops! Sorry, bud!" made everyone else feel better, not confused and scared.

Even troubleshooting pages are becoming unhelpful.
>Why bother documenting this shit if we're not even going to display error codes, right guys?
Fucking genius.

public static void HideAllPajeetCodeErrors();

I work on the Chrome team. AMA.

tell me my browsing habits and the last porn I watched

t. Jimmy Russell

Not true. Windows still displays error codes, they're just not shown in a dialog box anymore, but directly in the application window (in the immersive control panel, for example).

Groove music shows dialog pop-ups with error codes and messages if it can't read a file.

Etc.

I see you watch hentai on YouTube. May I auto suggest nyaa.si for high quality hentai instead?

why do chromium suck balls playing mp4 video with hardware acceleration on?

As like many of our other products, we need a clear differentiator to entice our users to use Chrome instead of Chromium.

Please switch to Chrome as the search engine implementation will allow us to generate revenue to help make our products better.

Why does VP9 eat CPU time? Especially on older systems...

>C2D 2.53ghz
>no hardware acceleration because old Quadro
>YouTube: entire core is eaten up by it

Used to be, it wasn't this bad.

Here at Google, we are given brand new Macbook Pros upon entering employment. We do not have any "older systems" to test on.

Please purchase a new computer and install Chrome to enjoy your VP9 hentai without issues.

Normies' brains shut off when they see complex error messages.

Why the retarded versioning in Chrome helper?

Chrome helper is our new product spun off from our deep learning AI. You must give this helper time to learn. This is why it is at 100%. It is using as much compute power as it can to learn and help you.

Please be gentle with Google Helper.

You can still find all the error information including stack traces and memory dumps (if enabled), the information just isn't on the error screen itself because it only serves to confuse normalfags (the majority of users). If you are an actual poweruser who can make use of the information it is easily available to you, just out of sight of the typical normalfag.

I'm a software developer and I might be able to explain this.

There is no point tailoring the product to the 0.1%. No-one is paying me to do that. An error message of literally any description is useless to almost everyone. I really do mean useless, and I really do mean almost everyone.

To users, something works or it doesn't. If it doesn't work, it's time to call for help (if they 100% must do that thing) or do something else (if they don't). It doesn't matter how useful or friendly the error message is, they won't read it. They won't even take a screenshot or read it verbatim to tech support. They will click OK/close as fast as possible so that it goes away.

I used to be frustrated about this, but now I just accept it. I make my systems as resilient as possible, and if the fallbacks fail I do just show "something went wrong" or similar. There is no point in doing anything else.

pretty much this.

"power users" are a joke.

Why are chrome releases full increments in the version number instead of a minor increment...?

Why are we on Chrome version 60 instead of 3.60?

Chrome versions follow the pattern: MAJOR.MINOR.BUILD.PATCH.

MAJOR gets updated for any backwards incompatible user data change.

So, when you upgrade Chrome to the next major version, it is not possible to revert some user data (not backwards compatible).

I fucking hate this Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

It looks the fucking same

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I don't work at Google or the FBI :(

>TFW got le trolled again by the mighty larper
Post boipucci nonetheless

Install gentoo

This bothered me too, which is why I use WhoCrashed anytime there's a problem.

>using a fischer price OS and software

Switch to Linux and FOSS my man

>using chrome
>expecting windows to not be shit

Exposing normies to anything other than facebook and instagram upsets and terrifies them

I'm pretty sure this gets mentioned every time someone complains about windows in general

It's pretty strange how you only noticed NOW.
It's been happening since 2007, when apple showed the world that stupid people are more easily parted from their money.

This. I introduced my gf to the botnet; showed her how evil corporations like Google and Facebook are; how they have access to basically everything you do online and she was terrified. I told her not to worry and install an adblocker. Sometimes the truth needs to be hidden from normies. They can't handle it, and we must protect them.

I think the biggest losers here are tech support fags.
As said, just cause error info doesn't show up on the prompt doesn't mean that info doesn't exist, if you know what you're doing you can find it and work from there.
However, what is a user who knows fuck all about the problem supposed to relay to a tech? Isn't hiding an error code or general info just going to make it a bigger pain in the ass to help a user narrow the problem down?

>Apple showed stupid people spend money
Son thats been going on for a long long time, pretty much as long as money has existed.

You really need to understand some context; before 2007, technology was seen as something that smart people purchased and used; there was a assumption of technical competence and general tolerance of quirks.

The technology market was not aimed at stupid people back then.

not to mention the added security garbage that normie users will never need/want/try to understand, demand, break, and complain about

again, was going on long before the iphone

AOL was the internet for stupid people

The fucking Macintosh itself was aimed at people to stupid to use DOS/Windows

Back in the windows 3.1 days there are attempts by various PC makers to create dumbed down interfaces that ran ontop of windows to make the computer easier to use. Packard Bell had one, Im pretty sure Gateway did, IBM did too until they quit making home PCs

You could argue that the general technical competence and tolerance of quirks was greater across the general population, than it is now. But that isnt because the iPhone allows people to be stupid, society does.

>showing your power levels outside of Sup Forums

God she must think you are some kind of foliohat.

Fcuking NORMIES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

This is why GNU/Linux exists.

All the errors you could ever want!
For free!

kek thats true but I dont want Microsofts botnet dildo up my ass everytime I turn on my laptop/pc..

>right click youtube
>stats for geeks
>its just basic info about the video and how its transferring
its literally insulting.

Yes you are the first one to notice. I never thought i'd ever see a post from someone so intelligent. This is an amazingly original ground breaking idea.

HOLY SHIT HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL. HAHAHAHA.

When everything just werks™ nothing does.

>implying they were using them in the first place

Rick and Morty makes everything smarter though

that's because dumb people are annoyed and frightened by something they don't understand
and there are a lot of stupid people out there
and companies need their money

Tech has always been dumbed down. The lowest common denominator is just getting lower as tech becomes more affordable for coloureds.

How does it feel knowing you ruined the internet?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

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