Does anyone know of any good tactics for reducing and dealing with computer rage?
It seems like I have been constantly fighting every single computer I have ever had, just for it to behave in a basic, functional manner.
Specifically:
- The computer fucking up completely (the hard drive failing or windows becoming corrupt), requiring a full rebuild
- Fucking up partially in unique and creative ways that I then have to invest great time and effort into fixing
- Having clumsy and irritating applications, or applications updating constantly, and restart requests, or things starting to crash because you turned off auto-updates because you couldn't take it anymore
- Being slow in every god damn thing, and things thrashing the hard-drive in the background when the computer should be idle
- Security bullshit. E.g. trying to log on to something, and then being asked to get a security code from an email - only to find that email login requiring a security code from another email.
- More security bullshit. Having to keep a list of passwords due to the arbitrary and irritating, widely-varied password construction policies.
- Internet fucking up, going to slow, dropping out etc.
- In the case of Linux (which I will never ever use again as a personal OS), being obscenely clumsy and opaque, having to engage in bulk google searches and terminal-acrobatics just to make minor, trivial changes. Constantly fucking around and fighting with dependencies. Asking questions which receive answers of "just" do this... incredibly random and complicated thing - which then doesn't work, or "why would you want to do that?".
Does anyone have advice on:
1) How to set up a computing system such that bullshit does not occur. I.e. it runs smoothly, without hickups, without irritations, without any nonsense. Is it a matter of money? Do I have to own a stack of the fastest laptops money can buy, with all my data in the cloud, and throw out laptops as they fuck up? Do I need 3 separate sources of internet for redundancy or something?
2) How should I reduce the resulting computer rage? Especially when I'm trying just to finish something trivial, it is unacceptable to walk away and cool down - I knuckle down and force it through. Only traffic can make my blood boil like this does.
It seems like I have been constantly fighting every single computer I have ever had, just for it to behave in a basic, functional manner.
Specifically:
- The computer fucking up completely (the hard drive failing or windows becoming corrupt), requiring a full rebuild
- Fucking up partially in unique and creative ways that I then have to invest great time and effort into fixing
- Having clumsy and irritating applications, or applications updating constantly, and restart requests, or things starting to crash because you turned off auto-updates because you couldn't take it anymore
- Being slow in every god damn thing, and things thrashing the hard-drive in the background when the computer should be idle
- Security bullshit. E.g. trying to log on to something, and then being asked to get a security code from an email - only to find that email login requiring a security code from another email.
- More security bullshit. Having to keep a list of passwords due to the arbitrary and irritating, widely-varied password construction policies.
- Internet fucking up, going to slow, dropping out etc.
- In the case of Linux (which I will never ever use again as a personal OS), being obscenely clumsy and opaque, having to engage in bulk google searches and terminal-acrobatics just to make minor, trivial changes. Constantly fucking around and fighting with dependencies. Asking questions which receive answers of "just" do this... incredibly random and complicated thing - which then doesn't work, or "why would you want to do that?".
Does anyone have advice on:
1) How to set up a computing system such that bullshit does not occur. I.e. it runs smoothly, without hickups, without irritations, without any nonsense. Is it a matter of money? Do I have to own a stack of the fastest laptops money can buy, with all my data in the cloud, and throw out laptops as they fuck up? Do I need 3 separate sources of internet for redundancy or something?
2) How should I reduce the resulting computer rage? Especially when I'm trying just to finish something trivial, it is unacceptable to walk away and cool down - I knuckle down and force it through. Only traffic can make my blood boil like this does.