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Some things I could come up with off the top of my head. I wrote down every bug I found in programs for a week or so at one point and the list was way, way longer than I thought it would be. It highlighted that despite my fairly pessimistic view on software there's a lot that went unnoticed because I just don't even expect it to work very well anymore.

I would encourage you to write down bugs when you see/experience them but in all honesty I don't know that it will give you much; it will probably only completely destroy your positive outlook on things that you seem to have retained.

- On YouTube sometimes the interactive elements of a video (quality settings, etc.) will also scroll my page down about 15% when I interact with them. If I click on the settings wheel to change the speed of the video that's 3 clicks and I'll end up ~50% scrolled down from the video I'm watching.

- YouTube randomly resets my settings for inline playback when I disable it. With inline playback "Add to watch later" is not available as a thumbnail hover option.

- When I was running Windows it would randomly set my bluetooth headset volume to close to zero out of nowhere without any changes made on my end, but only on a reconnect, so I would always have to check every time I connected whether it had done it.

- Sometimes when my bluetooth headset connects on Linux I'll just plain have no sound at all despite it saying it's connected. The workaround is to just reconnect.

- During a routine package upgrade for some reason something installed `xdg-desktop-portal-gnome` and this made every application that uses GTK (I think) start about 10 seconds slower. Uninstalling this package solved it.

- Thunderbird will leave an empty e-mail subject line sometimes when I delete an e-mail I've received, but the body it shows when I click it is another e-mail I deleted.

- World of Warcraft will randomly lose connection despite there being zero connection issues and rejoining will immediately work. This happened maybe 3-4 times per week in the 3 week period I played recently.

- Discord sometimes just removes my key binding for toggling push-to-talk.

- Elixir (via `mix`) refuses to compile dependencies sometimes and solutions range from having to remove folders, update deps and all manner of things. There's usually no real rhyme or reason to it and we all just nuke a folder or two and move on.

- Same as above but with `node_modules`.

- We had a package from `npm` that would sporadically not type check with our usage and we could never figure out what it was caused by. Every 20th or so build `tsc` would report a type error where none had existed before. This was with pinned versions.

- When I used VSCode I would regularly end up in a situation where VSCode suddenly started saving files super slowly and took forever to auto-format code. This happened with at least 3 different languages so it was not language or extension-specific. I've also seen it happen live to at least 3 other people.

- Plex will die when playing video files of a certain quality on my TV despite playing them fine for ~15-20 minutes.




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