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Re:Scrollbar Blindness by munchbunny on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:35PM (#24299457)
Nothing is hidden on a VCR. There's input connections, a tape, and a big record button. At most there is an additional source button to choose the input source. It's all there, in the open, and not hidden.

Some VCR’s had a timed recording setting. More commonly, and you see this on cars before they got touchscreens, there were settings and options that you had to navigate to by hitting a specific sequence of buttons to get to the appropriate menu.

The core loop was generally fine. It was when you needed anything else that suddenly you needed the manual.

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Re:Scrollbar Blindness by underwater on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:17PM (#24301048)
My new air conditioner control panel suffers from this. It has up/down/left/right buttons where it switches between horizontal navigation plus select/deselect or vertical navigation plus select/deselect randomly. Programming a day takes around 30 key presses. And there is no bulk update functionality.
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