You know that Family Guy bit where Peter does a local news segment called “What Really Grinds My Gears?” This is basically that, but for computers and videogames.

I’ll give you one example up front: when you go to click a button, but the UI finishes loading just before your input registers and the button moves 20 pixels south so you end up hitting a different button that probably does the opposite of what you wanted. I’m getting angry just thinking about it.

We’ve got more substantial gripes, too. The tech industry keeps telling us that it’s on the verge of inventing artificialsuper intelligence, and yet it can’t invent a business model that doesn’t involve periods of reckless growth followed by staff cuts. I’m sure they’ll do it again whenever their irresponsible promises about AI finally get bodied by reality.

There’s so much to gripe about here in 2025, we ended up planning a week-long airing of grievances. Some of our gripes are smaller than others, some you might even call petty, but sometimes you’ve just got to get it all out, big and small.

This hub will be updated with links to new articles throughout the week. See what’s grinding our gears below…

Monday

Audio driver troubleshooting hell: Why is it still so hard to get things to just work?More gripes to come…

Tuesday

Gripes coming soon…

Wednesday

Gripes coming soon…

Thursday

Gripes coming soon…

Friday

Gripes coming soon…

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