You can tell because of the way it is, and that’s pretty neat.
One of the interfaces I use at work requires regular reauthentication (sidenote: I’d like to thank autocorrect for “correcting” that to “resurgence ovulation”). At sign in, it pops up a usage agreement, which is tedious but NBD.
What annoys me is that (in the UI it offers, obviously one could circumvent this) you have two and only two options: “OK” or “Got it.” No "I don’t accept or “log me out.” I’d even prefer just “OK” over that - it feels like it’s trying, poorly, to railroad me.
I’d bet the default dialog box in the toolkit being used has two buttons, and the programmers don’t know how to make a dialog box with one button, so it’s just two “I accept”
A defense of dubious rationality doesn’t make it less annoying, sadly.
Unfortunately this seems to be most error messages these days. Often it doesn’t even pretend to give a reason.
Some software just silently removes or grays out the button for a failed operation without an error message at all!
I 100000000% blame Windows for this. I used to see actual error messages, but most of the ones i saw once win11 became the norm were things like “💃🤰🤷♀️” especially with Outlook and Word.
I assume its to promote AI tools or to force you to call their help line to be upsold to
It’s been a trend long before win 11 hit the market.
Or “:( something went wrong” instead of a useful error message.
Nowadays most normies see an actual exception and panic like it’s a horror movie and the computer has gained sentience. Management tells programmers to hide the error message, making it harder for literally everybody
Someone didn’t bother to output the inner exception
Double double boil and trouble, let that exception bubble.
Because of failure
