• Lorchedar@reddthat.com
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    15 hours ago

    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!

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      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

    • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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      7 hours ago

      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