Shows over go home
some device updated itself overnight and the interface color palette was completely different/ugly when it restarted. of course the settings to fix that are behind several layers of counter-intuitive puzzle boxes, and the settings search feature is bringing up every other setting for "color" or "theme" that doesn't relate to what im looking for.
so i start aearching online, and i swear to god, the first couple of hits with promising page titles seem to have generative content directing me to access menus and settings that don't exist.
yesterday, i was directed to run some content I'd written through an LLM to standardize readability to our organizational recommendation. never used one, so i found the one that wouldn't make me generate my own user account (copilot).
i give it the prompt, it asks for the attachment, i submit, it claims to be done and tells me i can get a downloadable version. that sounds good, because i don't see the full version in the tesponse. i ask for a downloadable version and it says it will give that to me right away. a minute later nothing, i ask how to download it and it tells me to click the download link above. there isn't one. i figure maybe its a security / browser thing with firefox, so i go through this again with edge, so it can all be Microsoft.
exact same thing happens. keeps telling me it has completed the task and referring me to click a download link that does not exist.
after scouring the interface for any possible place it could be, i search that issue and apparently this is a thing copilot and some llms do. they say they did the thing and refer to download links that don't exist.
this is the shittiest technology ever deployed.
hopefully we are contributing to this outcome through badposting