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Apple in particular very much has a culture of "errors don't happen" and try to gaslight you when they do. Stuff like having zero insight into sync processed an

Apple in particular very much has a culture of "errors don't happen" and try to gaslight you when they do. Stuff like having zero insight into sync processed and Apple Music just silently skipping to the next song if it fails to stream.

xxpor 5y ago
Microsoft is similar in a way where when errors do happen, they usually log them or give you a pop up, but it'll be some inscrutable thing like error -1002, with nothing resembling a backtrace or other information to figure out where it's coming from. It's the number 1 reason why I hate debugging any problem on windows compared to linux.
- switch007 5y ago
  It’s also super helpful when the error code is negative as this excludes it from search results when you copy paste /s
- zardo 5y ago
  Love to search for the error code and find the decade old MSDN thread exactly describing the problem with a "will not fix" response.
robinson-wall 5y ago
There's another great example of this in maps, where it will refuse to let you favourite your home or work address if it's not in the right format. It won't even tell you that it failed - it doesn't do it and the interface doesn't make it obvious that it didn't do it. So you're out of luck if you want to figure out _why_ it isn't working. In my case I had a country name accidentally put in a region field, but it didn't look out of place because field labels are missing when filled in. Frustratingly, your contact card with that address will show a map preview that when tapped opens maps with a pin in the right place, so there's clearly some logic to "fix" incorrect addresses somewhere.
perryizgr8 5y ago
I got stuck in a loop when trying to install Big Sur on my old Macbook Air. It would pretend to install, then reboot the laptop. When it came back up, nothing would have changed, and no error messages in sight. After several rounds of this I figured out it was failing because there was too less free space on the disk.

xxpor 5y ago

Microsoft is similar in a way where when errors do happen, they usually log them or give you a pop up, but it'll be some inscrutable thing like error -1002, with nothing resembling a backtrace or other information to figure out where it's coming from. It's the number 1 reason why I hate debugging any problem on windows compared to linux.

switch007 5y ago
It’s also super helpful when the error code is negative as this excludes it from search results when you copy paste /s
zardo 5y ago
Love to search for the error code and find the decade old MSDN thread exactly describing the problem with a "will not fix" response.

robinson-wall 5y ago

There's another great example of this in maps, where it will refuse to let you favourite your home or work address if it's not in the right format. It won't even tell you that it failed - it doesn't do it and the interface doesn't make it obvious that it didn't do it. So you're out of luck if you want to figure out _why_ it isn't working. In my case I had a country name accidentally put in a region field, but it didn't look out of place because field labels are missing when filled in. Frustratingly, your contact card with that address will show a map preview that when tapped opens maps with a pin in the right place, so there's clearly some logic to "fix" incorrect addresses somewhere.

perryizgr8 5y ago

I got stuck in a loop when trying to install Big Sur on my old Macbook Air. It would pretend to install, then reboot the laptop. When it came back up, nothing would have changed, and no error messages in sight. After several rounds of this I figured out it was failing because there was too less free space on the disk.