I fully agree that new is very often worse than old.
I've had to return 3 new iPhones in a row for manufacturing defects and out of box software errors. A TV lasts me maybe 4 years before it's 'broken' and needs to be replaced.' Home appliance longevity is laughable now.. (especially Samsung, my gosh.) I've purchased 5 new cars over the past 15 years or so, only one of which didn't have serious problems from new that had to be dealt with.. or could not be resolved/etc. We're just hitting bottom here, the next 10 years are going to be pretty rough.
I take this stance. Almost always, the new software is worse in some way than the old, either taking away some capability to make room for a new product you would have to buy, or by breaking support with hardware you already own. It's my position that software was almost universally better 20 years ago.
A lot of people think ads before and after videos, or peppered eveyr 3 minutes within an hour long video are no big deal, but many of us have had enough. I pay google around $20 a month to avoid watching ads. I consider this extortion.
This is just another change for change sake in a long list of stupid that does nothing but get in the way of productive people trying to get things done. Spam in start menu. Dumbed down context menus you have to remove before you can get at what you want. Real control panels hidden behind dumbed down ones with incomplete functionality. Calendar gone from bottom right clock app without trying to google how to get it back. Windows randomly opening in background. Windows randomly disappearing. Round corners on all windows broken until apps catch up. Windows snapping all over the screen in dumb ways. Computer randomly bricks due to unauthorized OS or FIRMWARE updates. Never mind all the stupid changes to office and outlook we're enduring. I'm surprised I didn't get fired for rolling out Windows 11 where I work.
So 2 hours to figure out there is no way to disable the news other than turn off the whole widget thing.... my computer is rebooing constantly with intrusive unauthorized updates and even firmware updates... everything is broken. Windows just disappear everywhere... oh there was a glitch sign in again... You know, Windows 7 worked pretty good. I think I'll go back.
I tried to read the article but my HP computer just turned off randomly and installed an unauthorized bios update bricking it. I'm on my phone now and outraged.
This surprises me that rather than the absurd notion of living in a metaverse, that the main concern the author is citing is motion sickness. For what it's worth, and this may not apply to everyone but I've been absolutely unable to play any 3D games since Wolfenstein came out as I get extremely sick and disoriented in under 10 minutes. I've had nothing but a good time with VR however and experience no problems at all even after a couple of hours. That being said I will not be visiting this metaverse.
I think this is a big part of it. I was an early adopter of iTunes, and it simply chokes on the volume of stuff I was putting in there. With streaming platforms, much of your collection is out of sight/out of mind I find.... I've returned to purchasing albums on vinyl and compact disc. Streaming isn't for me.
I really loved clunky twitter when it launched. It felt like a kind of collective consciousness... like you could suddenly be mentally connected at a superficial level with users geographically near-by. When it started being more about influence,famous people and ads that initial excitement wore off but I stuck with it for a while. Then they started blocking third party API access and clients... and that kind of ruined it entirely for me.
Yeah, imagine what it's like when your friends and family make comments like this or wish death on you for wanting to have the freedom to choose if taking something is right for you or not. For the record, I'm vaccinated and donated in Canadian dollars.
I had to sign a letter with my employer stating that I accepted I could be terminated should I not be fully vaccinated by Dec 31, 2021. I feel a line has been crossed, and I fully support the idea that the mandate is bad. Vaccines are great, I voluntarily got it anyway, but I don't feel it's ok to say you deserve to be fired or worse (and I've heard much worse) if you decide the vaccine is not for you. I support the protest. It is not an anti-vax protest. I do not beleive it is about racisim or white supremacy despite what our prime minister says or thinks.
I'm thinking of it like Amazon's mechanical turk.. where you become enslaved to do work and solve tasks in a virtual world for fractions of pennies in the form of credits you can't pay your rent with. Zero point one star.
I see this all the time, with people not understanding where files are or that there is some kind of hierarchical filesystem lurking behind the covers. Thanks for the link.
I think the more 'magic' they bake in to help non-technical users, the more it makes it harder to understand how the thing works for everyone else. As you allude to, cars have some fundamental rules that don't tend to get broken. The steering wheel, accelerator and brakes for example are generally all in the same place and operate the same between models, brands, updates.
I have witnessed this with younger people joining the company I work at. Most of them don't seem to have much of an idea how a computer works, why putting the internet between them and their deadlines might be bad or just can't figure out where their files are. I have to do a lot of hand holding for the first few months anyway.
Not only allow, but forcefully redirect their search input up into the address bar. In my opinion this has been a deliberate and concerted effort by google to get everyone to 'search' instead of go directly to sites and this ux behaviour has been bothering me for a very long time now. I am not at all surprised people are searching for https after all this time.
That being said, there is likely a large number of urls pasted into the search box vs the address bar. (Hardly anyone can tell the difference anymore.)
I agree with this statement. Even for those who know all the IPv4 related acronyms, the author spits out a bunch of new ones without any attempt to explain them. I just closed it, it's not at all readable for small office or home network users.