Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by layer8 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:57PM
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It’s all such a waste of human life time, an actual tragedy.
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by vundercind on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:02PM
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I connect this in my head to a shift in presentation of things like big box stores, which look a lot more consistent and marketing-designed these days than they did in, say, the '90s. Hell, fast food chains, too. It's like some time in the '00s marketing departments across the board received a much greater mandate and I've got this funny feeling that only some of that, and maybe not most of it, is really justified by added value in dollar terms.
But then, for as much as we pretend to be data-driven in business and pay lip service to various science-adjacent notions and think we've really got it all figured out, mooooost of it falls apart if you poke at it a little and it all starts to look very fad and social-proof driven. So I guess just add this to the list of weird stuff companies do for maybe-bad reasons.
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by theideaofcoffee on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:08PM
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I feel the same way, I feel despair when I think about all of the time wasted for such trivial bullshit. But then I'm told I'm being dramatic and to get back to my Jira stories. Line must go up, huh?
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by quietbritishjim on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:23PM
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While I do think native controls are the better choice, I disagree that companies even though it's harder. They do it mostly because it's easier: write once in JS, push to web, mobile and electron on desktop and be done with it.
All because the marketing suite can't stand not getting their fingers in something. I want to see the fucking study that says having the buttons on iOS the same shape as the ones on the website adds any number of dollars to the bottom line. C'mon, this is important enough to spend a bunch of money on, slow development, and also make UX worse, must have a good reason for it, right? Surely it's not just an exec who's never done the actual job pushing things for vanity purposes, or a variety of roles padding their portfolios, or needing to market this to toddler-like C-suiters inside the company on some damn powerpoint, right? LOL.