Alright, so as all of you know, I am very mild-mannered individual. I rarely ever get upset about things and staying calm is my number one skill. So I hope you will allow me to indulge in a rarely experienced activity: going on a rant about something I am upset with.
First, let's start with you, Western Digital. You would be the one responsible for making my external hard drive. 1 TB full of space. Beautiful, that is more room than I could ever hope to fill, so I can load as much music, pictures, programs, etc onto it and never worry about running out of space. Well that is if I COULD ACTUALLY ACCESS MY HARD DRIVE WHEN I PLUG IT IN.
What's that? You want to put a password on my external hard drive? Oh that's cool. But what would be even cooler is if I were the one to put the password on! So I don't know what the password is, no big deal. I'll just fill out some information and you can email it to me so I can get to my files. I mean I have the registration code and everything for the hard drive.
Wait, you mean that there is no way to recover a password if you don't remember it? You're joking, right? And if you can't remember your password then you have no way of recovering those files? Yep, that's right. So those files, if I could even remember what exactly I have on there, are gone for good. That's just wonderful. Glad you guys felt the need to make your hard drive more secure than Fort Knox.
Okay, okay, deep breath Pete. Just reset the hard drive, accept your losses and move on. I follow the directions to reset it and when it comes to the last screen, the option of rebooting the hard drive isn't there. Just straight up is not there. Okay, I'll just go to control panel and uninstall the program that operates the hard drive. Except, the program isn't listed. In fact, it is nowhere to be found on my computer.
So I go to check some forums online and it turns out that I am not the first person to have this issue. In fact, many others have and those people are pissed off much like myself. So I don't know the password, I lose the files for good, I can't reboot the hard drive, and I can't find the software on my computer that supposedly runs the hard drive. Hey computer-nerd assholes, you do realize that when creating a product, you try to please the customer, right? Oh, I guess you just missed that part in school because you were too busy playing Dungeons and Dragons. Just trying to help here.
So basically my external hard drive has turned into a paper weight. But it even sucks at that because it is too damn big to be a paper weight. I could find a fucking rock outside that would serve me better. Then I could use the rock to smash the hard drive to bits and pieces and feel even better! Way to make a quality product folks!
And ANOTHER THING: Mark Zuckerburg, I hate you. STOP CHANGING FACEBOOK. Just stop. No wonder they portrayed you as such an asshole in "The Social Network." It is because YOU ARE ONE. Unless you are going to make some significant changes, stop messing around with it. We don't need a new design every few months where nothing really changes. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
Phew, glad I got that off my chest. Thanks for letting me get upset this one time since it happens so infrequently! I am happy you all understand!
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