When I have two free hours to turn on the XBOX for the first time in half a year, I want it to turn on right away and play my game. I don't want the box I paid for and have been looking at to figure that it needs an OS update, and a game update, and that the game should now be slower and glitchier than it was the last time I played it.
When I play music on my phone in my car, I don't want to find out that the "Start Mix" button moved, or that showing the upcoming playlist now takes one more swipe, or that the UI won't load because YouTube Music doesn't cache it's UI anymore and when you have a cell network reporting 1 bar but it's actually zero bars, you get a spinner for ten minutes.
The six CD changer in my dashboard has worked exactly the same way since 2006, the discs play when the key turns on, and nothing moves. There's no engagement to be had other than "my music plays when I turn on the car in my driveway which also has spotty cell service". There isn't a KPI to be measured, a PM to be promoted, or anything. It's just a car radio.
Most consumer goods are solved problems. Nothing's changed since 2015. Even tech from 2015 is just a convergence of 2005 tech, like MP3 players, digital cameras, and Blackberries. People don't have radically different problems to solve in their day to day lives. People take pictures, share them, do email and group chat, voice calls, read the news, watch TV, pay for parking, do some banking. Watch a 90s TV show and all of those activites required different physical places and tactile goods. (Hell, that's why screens in Android are called *Activities*.).
When I pay for a product, I expect to be paying for a finished product, not some psychological experiment that's someone else's promo packet.
TLDR:
Some outage causes a meeting with an SVP. SVP preempts the discussion with the following:
“I know that if we get into the details, the reasons will be perfectly reasonable. You'll explain what happened, I'll understand why everyone made the decisions they made, and I'll empathise with you.
Then it'll happen again.
So I don't want the details. I want to know what we're changing.”
About 2/3 in, the sentences got choppier and shorter, and you could tell some context rot was setting in.
When you go "Make longer" the text gets longer.
When you go "Make shorter", the text gets longer still.
You'd think that the original text would be the oracle for shorter(longer(original))?
Last winter I built a Matrix client for it. This time around I want to wrap Akonadi with a DBus shim and consume that model in custom calendar widgets and UX I’m making for a rotary knob ui.
I want to run the same app on an intel atom tablet on the side of my fridge, with a Griffin PowerMate hooked up to it for input.
I made a Matrix chat client for my 2001 BMW infotainment system using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, a Rasbperry Pi, and a custom PCB I designed to plug into the factory wiring harness: https://e39.dev/hmi/Matrix/Matrix.htmlI used Compose MPP cross-compiled to a Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian) to make my own Infotainment system from scratch. It works on the 2001-vintage factory BMW display with a...
There’s a risk with a user base and having a support organization, much like the risk calculation the insurance industry takes.
I buy electronics equipment, computers, furniture, clothes, and cars with the mindset I will be the last owner of them, and they will have no resale value.
“I bought this, and I will assume it’s instantly worthless”
It keeps me from buying the same thing twice and causes me to save up for the thing I really want, and keep it for as long as possible. It also lets me be picky about my preferences and really scope out exactly what I want on a relaxed timeframe.
Perhaps it’s a side effect of growing up with hand me downs, and knowing anything our family owned was one step to junk, but it does keep spending in check now that I am doing okay in my career.
I’d imagine the scale to be: 1. Not Meeting Expectations 2. Meeting Expectations 3. Exceeding expectations
“The best camera is the one you have with you” is common photography advice
Whether or not the author is limited by his perception of iPad’s ability is needless hair-splitting.
“What works for you only works for you, so you might not have discovered that it works for anything else, but only if you were really paying attention.”
Cue oddly specific example of “The Ukraine” and “rocket volley”.
Next, the highlight that informal communities that make their own echo chambers are more popular as distrust in established media is sown.
Finally, a personal anecdote that echo chambers curate more attention-getting articles.
Nothing in this post is especially truthy or falsey, yet it serves up mild “distrust the media” nihilism.
For example, often HN users need to scold their readers into a hair-splitting debate around semantics.
The other one I’ve seen is pretend-gaslighting-as-begging-the-question:
“Can we all stop pretending that object-oriented programming is an efficient way to build software?”
In the professional world, giving feedback with tact and respect for the contributor is what we get paid for and enables a team to contribute to the company’s success.
If someone on the team doesn’t feel like they’re treated with respect, even when their work needs improvement, it doesn’t matter whether the feedback was given with good or bad intentions.