My latest pet tech peeves
Include

Computers Defaulting to Foreign Languages

Computers often default to foreign language
While overseas, sometimes you can change
It back to English but sometimes it just
Stays in the foreign language.
Thanks Edge!

Norton flagging everything as suspicious

Norton also has an annoying feature
of occasionally for no reason
flagging sites as suspicious,

making you go to all sorts
of hoops to prove
that the program is legit!

Constant Crashing- Nonresponse Dances

Microsoft constantly crashes
for no particular reason, or warning,
. Just freezes up
Going into the non-response dance
With the spinning blue wheel.

Which lasts from 30 seconds to five minutes
Sometimes ending with a system crash
losing whatever you did not save.

Excell Nonsense -Can't load more fonts"

Once excel gave me an error
Whenever I uploaded non-excel data

Ran out of fonts okay yes/no

No matter which option you click

it would mindlessly repeat the message.
Once I clicked 250 times
before it finally crashed my computer.

Internal search engine is a joke

Microsoft's internal document
search engine is a joke.
90 percent of the time
it presents garbage search results.

While searching for a document
one often encounters a reference
to an open dialogue box.

that you have to close,
the only problem is that
the open dialogue box
is hidden!

Can't Open Documents

Sometimes for reasons
only a computer understands,

my taskbar
where I am supposed
to be able to easily open documents
just quits working.

It often will half-open a document
then crash and kick me out.
Usually takes a few tries,
once it took over 50 tries
before it finally started working.

Sometimes though it randomly
opens a wrong document
or it opens the document
and then does the non-response dance.

Other times I can only open a copy
of the document, and then re-save
it under a new name.

Number lock Lock Up at Random moments

Sometimes the number lock
goes on without warning
and you think you typing,
for example, to jump to the end
and you end up typing numbers.

Or you try typing
and you get numbers instead.
Then you have to hit the num locks
to unlock it.
This appears to just happen randomly.

Haiku-like error messages

The error messages
we receive are often written
in a strange haiku-like code
that does not make sense.

For example, what is
a fatal disk error?

And occasionally
I get the blue screen of death
followed by an ominous warning
that I have no boot disk.

Providing a number to call for help.
But every time that happens,
I reboot, and things are fine
until the next blue screen of death incident.

Sometimes, it flashes when opening
"can't read reference memory"
then crashes.

Rebooting the computer
solves 95% of all computer problems
according to a tech guy
I knew years ago

Netflix needs to always include subtitles

Netflix at least in Korea
has an impressive line of K Drama.
Many of them have a preview
with subtitles

but when you go to the drama
you find it is only in Korea.
At the very least, they are guilty
of bait and switch tactics.

Grammarly program randomly
fixates on a word
and you can't fix it or change it

Grammarly sometimes gets fixated on a word.
You can't get to it
to change it
as it just kicks you back out.

These are just a few
Of my tech pet peeves.