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[–] harcesz@szmer.info 10 points 1 day ago

Microsoft Sharepoint has a Wiki. The Wiki can not generate a table of content.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Full price EA games with F2P-style microtransactions and ads

And this isn't useless, but I can't believe that to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP...

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP

How is that even legal?

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that's true.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry but the same article links to an update that backtracks.
There's just no way this would ever pass without them losing all their business customers, any legality of such disclaimer aside.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I stand corrected. Still though, it shows that they at least wanted to have this happen, which breaks my trust in them.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that despite charging for it, they fill many versions of it with adverts, install without asking bloatware and crap paid for by other companies to shove down your throat, and also sells your personal information to (checks) at least 801 third parties.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

All the free widgets that used to come preinstalled in Android before Google killed them to save the extra $2 of development cost from their yearly interns.

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn't even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I thought SAP was shit until I worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an ERP from alternate 1990s hell dimension. It has a built-in IDE that uses its own language called C/AL (syntactically similar to Pascal). The only source control is developers' ability to lock files they are working on. And the code editor is worse than notepad. Seriously, it does not allow to select or paste multiple lines, and in general, acts as if each line is it's own textbox. Forget about syntax highlighting or anything else other than black text on white background.

And, AFAIK, if your company needs to customize it, you are required to hire a "Microsoft-certified" NAV developer.

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Allow me to regale you with a tale of Sun Identity Manager and XPRESS. A strange mangling of xml and pseudo javascript-esque pile of shit used for identity transformations for disparate systems.

On second thought, let's just not. I'd rather let that PTSD inducing memory slowly fade away, much like SunIDM did after Larry bought them to poach their customer base.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Can concur. We have NAV at work and holy fuck it's awful.

On the plus side it has a 16 colour palate.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

A someone who has used and supported teams, WebEx Skype and crazy shit I don't even remember anymore, Teams is downright reliable and user friendly.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh, you're going to update without notifying me and then not restart?

You truly are the paramount of usefulness, Teams.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 224 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Paid calculator apps.

Not only are many of them paid - but they are subscription as well. Imagine paying a monthly fee for your goddamn calculator.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 98 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I have mixed feelings here. I legitimately paid ($1, once, a decade ago) for a calculator app and feel it was a great value (I still prefer it to this day). But then again the free version was fine too and the one-time payment was essentially a donation to the developer for a great app that unlocked... Themes...

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I paid for PCalc because someone put in effort to make it, and it’s good. Don’t feel bad about that.

But I wouldn’t subscribe to one.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 158 points 3 days ago (15 children)

90% of b2b software. They literally charge thousands of dollars while giving the worse piece of shit software you've ever used.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They always want to charge per user too instead of just charging a monthly fee. They'd rather have no money than not charge per user it's actual crazy. Imagine any other industry turning away paying customers when it doesn't cost them anything to have the customer. Software companies are insane. Can't wait until their funding runs out.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Per user licensing is nothing compared to the ridiculousness of per cpu licensing.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Oof. Yes!

The proprietary cloud crap usually has worse or non-existent documentation, fewer features, and a terrible or non-existent API.

But it comes with a salesperson. So there's that.

But people with cloud server orchestration skills are terrifyingly expensive right now, so self-hosting a better product can be a very hard sell.

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The Salesperson is incredibly important. They take the person responsible for making the purchase decision out to lunch and for rounds of golf, after all!

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The German Dreckstool website (meaning shit tool) hosts a hitlist of shitty tools/software. I don't think it's that popular, but the top/high-scored of the list may be indicative of some of the worst.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Crab Rangoon's. I just don't like them. I mean it's just fried cream cheese.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

THEY ARE GLORIOUS

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 106 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

it's not an entire app but, discord profile decorations.

The fact it costs money isn't surprising, but the amount of money charged is hilarious.

17$ for some graphics that some look like they took about 20 minutes to make. Just to make your profile look different than everyone elses. Then the "discount" given for having nitro for it is even more laughable.

Whats equally insane is that people fall for it. I know some people that have easily spent 60$ on profile decorations. Spending equal or greater than the cost of discord nitro is insane to me, even if the decoration doesn't expire.

[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Also how discord dœs stickers . Like custom emojes , they're tied to discord servers , unless you have nitro then you can use them everywhere . Such BS system , shoulda done them how LINE dœs them : you only need to buy the sticker pack once then you use them anywhere , no shitty subscription needed !

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I recently tried out an "LED banner" (called LED scroller in the google play store) app that lets you scroll text on your screen. Pretty cool, I would totally pay $5 or maybe even $10 for it. In the free version, I don't think I've ever seen that many ads in such a short period of time. The paid version was $15 PER WEEK. That's $780 per year. To scroll some text. It's the only app I've ever bothered to post a review for.

[–] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like a front for either blatant adware or malware with botted reviews/downloads to bring it to the top in search results. I can't image there isn't a free app that does this.

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[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not useless as such but a wallpaper app or something that expects you to pay £5.99 a month to use. Fuck all the way off with that

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Didn’t MKBHD launch some wallpaper app for $12 a month? I heard about it and just figured he was another tech YouTuber who lost touch

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[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The “pro” versions of common social media apps that remove ads or give you a useless check mark.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

I have been creating ad removal patches for 2 apps this week. Revanced is truly amazing

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know you are talking about Xhitter.

But I would Donate my Lemmy Instance go get some funny feature xD.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Custom lolipop emoji to add to your username.

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Our shit setup at work, where I am now using two browsers and two email programs because our Jira and Confluence can't be arsed to decently support web standards/Firefox and because Outlook is shit but Exchange has stuff I need Outlook for.

Today was the first time, after yet again something not working - issues on confluence and Jira ticket can't be closed, endless load on Firefox - where I genuinely felt relieved that a very different website for file transfer simply worked. I could open it, click download, and download the file.

It's absurd that I feel this way.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product. Our Jira and Confluence have plugins, and we pay admin company to integrate more customizations, and it just makes everything worse. The "changes only happen at night" I read from Atlassian is pointless because without notice or announcement stuff breaks anyway, and I have no idea who makes changes and when and what, because nothing is being communicated. Today was the third time we weren't able to add work time to tickets. Let's see when the next time will be.

It's a constant annoyance and stumbling over shit tools.

I have various CSS hacks in place to make Jira and Confluence more usable, but it's still shit. And man their HTML DOM is absolutely horrendous with only generated classes. Most of my CSS hacks use test ID attributes.

Shit Atlassian, shit Jira and Confluence, shit customizations. Annoying Outlook and Exchange.

Man this became a long text and rant lol

Unfortunately, they're not useless but apparently necessary. I don't see us ever moving away from them.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There used to be apps in the iOS app store that were nothing but a big "I'm rich" symbol. They would be listed for some shit like $10,000 in the app store and all they did was,at best, have a button that played a sound to indicate that you were in fact rich lol.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 days ago

Those "I'm rich" apps basically tested the app store price limit which was set to $9,999 (don't know if it's different now). Brilliant idea really.

I put this in the same category as the "Million dollar homepage" where some guy asked for $1 a pixel and hosted a page with the results. Something smart that if it gets enough attention could make someone good money for not a lot of work. And generally something that will only work once as copycats won't be seen to have the same value.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I remember when the iPhone was new and my friend paid money for an app that simulates a mug of beer on the screen so you can pretend to drink it.

That, but the entire genre of those fucking things cuz there are assloads of them now.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Novelty apps were practically the majority of what was out there in the early days of Android and iOS. I remember a lighter app, and an electric shaver app.

My favorite novelty app was that marble maze game on iOS that* used the accelerometer. I got really good at finishing those mazes in seconds, which upset my cousin because it was his phone and I demolished all his best times, lol. Only video game I was ever good at.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 41 points 3 days ago (8 children)

There used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).

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