Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish actually the operating system need not change other than improved capabilities and performance. User Interfaces generally don’t need to change other than correcting mistakes. Applications changing the UI obviously either got it wrong the first time or are just trying to justify cost increase for the same functionality.
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@ptoothfish I‘d ask *which* operating system, but, well… ehm…
@GiffordJames i had one in mind but everyone hating on every operating system has been insightful
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@ptoothfish :spittake: God I laughed so hard at this. And then imagined mandatory drill upgrades that moved the power button each time. And then laughed some more.
@virtualbri This sounds like a Hitchhiker’s Guide bit. @ptoothfish
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@virtualbri This sounds like a Hitchhiker’s Guide bit. @ptoothfish
@jacobrealo @virtualbri wouldn't it make drills and impact drivers more fun if forward and reverse were just random?
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish also tesla's
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@jacobrealo @virtualbri wouldn't it make drills and impact drivers more fun if forward and reverse were just random?
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish say drill- and carmakers: "sry, our fault" and buld in obsolescence so they don't last 8+ years
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish this could also be about the EV market.
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish i post something to this effect semi-regularly and i almost always get pushback from people. It boggles me
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@cascheranno @ptoothfish I mean this is pretty much what I *have* done because have you seen cars these days??? My 2009 Pontiac slowly rots on the street while I walk and bike because I am *not* buying one of these rolling enshittifications.
If it wasn't for the fact that I periodically have to drive appx 15-20 miles to see my family around a super busy interstate, I'd consider a golf cart for the times I have too much I can't just walk to the store.
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@ptoothfish i post something to this effect semi-regularly and i almost always get pushback from people. It boggles me
@bri7 a few people have hinted to me that i might mean UI not OS but... it hasn't been too savage
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@bri7 a few people have hinted to me that i might mean UI not OS but... it hasn't been too savage
@ptoothfish they should take it up with the english language authorities who most definitely treat the two words as effectively interchangeable
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish I'm sorry. I HATE that with a white hot hate.
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Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
@ptoothfish At least that ten-year-old camera very much is still fully functional and can still take good pics, particularly if it's a decent SLR.
For example, the Canon EOS 5D II or Sony a900 are nearly 20-year-old SLRs and they're still very much respectable cameras by modern standards, at 21MP and 24.6MP respectively, and being full-frame on top of that.
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