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"You" are not supposed to play those old games. "We" have new games for "you".

> The vast majority of the rest of the world simply doesn't use car seats at all.

I think this apply also outside of "the rest of the world". Nobody bothered to explain that an airbag without a seatbelt can be fatal or that in case of emergency braking the only thing stopping your passenger's movement is the windshield.

> Reading the first half or so made me think, "Wow, they should really fix this."

They don't care. It works like this for copying over a network (i.e. copying speed goes to 0) but then recovers. They rewrote explorer and now it needs twice the clicks to achieve something. Microsoft at its best.

Yes

> Window management (tiling, hot space) is something that could still be improved as noted in the article.

fvwm is available since the 90's.

> to rant about it instead of actually discussing UI design.

But _we are discussing UI design_. Once again: fsck you Scott.

Why do i have to disable the second SIM to send an SMS to a local number ? Why Scott ? Why do the button in messages changes shape. I want to send a text message, Scott, not to give Google a sample of my voice. Why Scott ?

> True revolution in UX will come from making customisation accessible,

just like 20 years ago.

"SW version 2028.01: Look man, i just discovered fire. SW version 2029.05: Look man, i just invented the wheel."

> Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old "windows, icons, menus, pointer" (WIMP) model

Oh, no.

There is already a trend in Open Source for flat interfaces, hidden scrollbars, hamburgers menus without clear ideas what belongs there, gray on gray, UI elements in titlebar with huge padding between the rest of the window.

But anyway, it is good to know a name responsible for everyday crap i have to endure. So a hearthly fsck you Scott Jenson.

> 6,800-year-old Serbian settlement

Going to school helps.

Well, there are good war crimes and bad war crimes. Bad war crimed are prosecuted, good war crimes are downplayed and justified. /s

> Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

But still hasn't fix the bug where evetything is a date by default.

... and trying hard to parse any stream of bits thrown at it. That's why iMessage and Whatsapp zero click ecploits work so well.

It depends on the gcc/llvm version.

Software "engineers" like to abstract things. This doesn't pay well e with reliability.

But they pay well.

Their UI/UX is bad enough.

So they were: Engineerd in USA, made in China. /s

The UI is the same, although i think Word for Windows 1.1a has real scrollbars.

> It's a really strange decision to choose the security council as the forum, given its purpose.

No, it is not. Regards, the CIA /s

> They deliver high-quality sound and give developers access to a range of controls and sensor data, from volume to head movement to biometrics. Built-in microphones and simple controls make it easy to trigger assistants and audio apps.

Fear the Greeks when they give you presents.

But i fear it is too late.

That's why we have Teams. /s

And the best: they often are rendered above the window content (hello Mozilla). They call it: accessibility.

Compared with Teams. Actually, yes.

AI chatbots give wrong answers to < insert anything here > 'most of the time'

> If you try that, you'll see a warning message that says something like "Xcode requires macOS 26 to run".

Ah, the old "This program requires Windows 98 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to run.". Some things never change.

"Is there any X Windows user in the audience tonight ? Put him up against the wall. Is there one in the spotlight, who doesn't want to use Siri ? Put him up against the wall."

> Not needing 5g signal for that would be great.

That's not how it works. It needs Secure Boot, TLS, Remote attestation. And location access. No need to register as john.doe@apple.com because you already have your license there.

That is also my experience. A (G)UI is used to interact with the computer. A U(ser)X(perience) is used to provoke negative experiences to the user. (Compare Win 95 UX with Win 11 UX for example, or any UNIX GUI from 20 years ago with a tablet "UX")

> The desktop interface has remained fundamentally unchanged for over two decades

Whatever you are smoking...

> Industry leaders like Apple and Microsoft are too deeply entrenched in their established ecosystems to risk radical shifts.

... it must be really strong

> This talk reflects my lifetime experience as a UX designer at Apple and Google and how the deepest innovations happen at the most mundane level: richer input, better data flows, and breaking out of our 2d windowing prisons

The deepest inovations: no scrollbars, flat UI, no clear delimitation of UI elements, gray on gray. Buttons which change function depending on context, no bugs fixed, just "features", "we choose the colors for you", "no, cursor blinks only at a fixed rate", "you don't need titlebars and borders", and so on.

Can I have some ?

And the only picture of Battersea Power Station shows the underwear of Lady Gaga. Thanks BBC /s