I don't want to see what any of today's companies would come up with to replace the desktop. Microsoft has tried a few times and they all sucked.
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immibis commented on Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTO... · Posted by u/joelkesler
The computer form factor hasn’t changed since the mainframe: look into a screen for where to give input, select visual icons via a pointer, type text via keyboard into a text entry box, hit an action button, recieve result, repeat
it’s just all gotten miniaturized
Humans have outright rejected all other possible computer form factors presented to them to date including:
Purely NLP with no screen
head worn augmented reality
contact lenses,
head worn virtual reality
implanted touch sensors
etc…
Every other possible form factor gets shit on, on this website and in every other technology newspaper.
This is despite almost a century of a attempts at doing all those and making zero progress in sustained consumer penetration.
Had people liked those form factors they would’ve been invested in them early on, such that they would develop the same way the laptops and iPads and iPhones and desktops have evolved.
However nobody’s even interested at any type of scale in the early days of AR for example.
I have a litany of augmented and virtual reality devices scattered around my home and work that are incredibly compelling technology - but are totally seen as straight up dogshit from the consumer perspective.
Like everything it’s not a machine problem, it’s a human people in society problem
Phone UIs are still screen UIs, but they are not desktop UIs, and that's not because of the shape of the device.
immibis commented on Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTO... · Posted by u/joelkesler
For content consumption sure.
For content creation though, desktop still rules.
Sounds like a dead market. Nobody needs to create content any more now that we have AI.
This also applies to protesting, activism, politics... It's not that you're wrong, it is in fact time that you could've spent playing soccer. But if everyone just turned their back and played soccer, the world would be a much darker place
That did happen and the world is a much darker place.
Wait what? Who is paying what? What service is worse? Car keys?? I genuinely, honestly, have no idea what you're talking about.
Some cars don't come with keys any more - you have to use your phone and the cloud.
Which is good, right? One less thing to lose.
immibis commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
I had the uncommon privilege of attending a year of high school in Japan, and rest assured there is no lack of propaganda in other countries' schools, even if often by omission of truths.
I am not Australian, but I suspect high school textbooks are likely less than entirely forthright about sensitive subjects like Residential Schools and their role in settler-colonialism.
And it was much less than the propaganda on social media, wasn't it?
immibis commented on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers vulpinecitrus.info/blog/g... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I wish there was a public database of corporate ASNs and IPs, so we wouldn't have to rely on Cloudflare or any third-party service to detect that an IP is not from a household.
There is one. It's called the RIRs.
I still don't get why my friends and family think gifting a less liquid form of money is better than just giving cash.
Gift cards are the best proof against the existence of the homo economicus, that's for sure.
Same reason they gift you a book instead of a can of petrol. By giving you a gift card, they're forcing you to buy something sold at a specific store chain, not to buy more petrol.
>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this.
It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/apple_will_pe...
If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards because of the real possibility of account bans.
- Don't give Apple gift cards to family and friends: You're potentially ruining the recipient's digital life if they redeem it.
- Don't buy Apple gift cards: You risk ruining your own digital life.
If you've been given an Apple gc for Christmas -- and you have paranoia of the risks -- don't buy anything online that's tied to your Apple ID. Instead, go to the physical Apple store to redeem it. And don't buy an iPhone with it because that will eventually get assigned to an Apple ID. Instead, get a non-AppleID item such as the $249 ISSEY MIYAKE knit sock.
I have thousands of credit-card reward points that could be traded in for Apple gift cards but I don't do it because Apple's over-aggressive fraud tracking means Apple's store currency is too dangerous to use.
- Don't use Apple. Or Google.
If this were really the case, I'm surprised the US government didn't engage in antitrust action.