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mzmzmzm commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom

jama211 · 3 days ago

Some of these are design decisions, not rough edges. There’s pros and cons. Eg, centralising settings makes it simpler min some ways and more convoluted in others.

That being said clipboard history would be a nice addition. However I never want to see how long until my morning alarm, that’s one thing from android I don’t miss, it would give me immediate anxiety.

Regardless when you’re used to something it often doesn’t feel like “putting up with it”, and when you’re not used to something things that are totally fine can feel like you’re putting up with an annoyance. This works both ways.

Take any iphone user and put an android phone in their hands and within the first two months there will be a lot of things they’ll say “how do android users put up with this stuff” about too.

It’s fine. They’re both fine, it’s about what you’re used to more than anything.

mzmzmzm · 3 days ago

There are some things that are hugely better on the iPhone, like accessibility setting that can be set on a per-app basis. Overall though, I expect the whole UX feeling to differ, but I am surprised that both camps have sort of given up on feature parity. Back in the days when "pull down to refresh" was novel it seems like iOS and Android meticulously copied each other's innovations.

mzmzmzm commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom

fizwidget · 3 days ago

You can assign the action button to run a shortcut, which opens up thousands of possibilities for what it can do.

mzmzmzm · 3 days ago

I find the shortcuts extremely powerful all over different parts of the system, but I wish the contours of what it can and can't do were less opaque. Feels like a lot of time-wasting trial and error to discover what is or isn't possible on an iPhone.

mzmzmzm commented on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android ios-countdown.win/... · Posted by u/ozzyphantom

Liftyee · 3 days ago

As a lifelong Android user (in the EU, where Apple hegemony is not as strong) I always saw Apple as the "pay more for more polished ecosystem UX" option. So it always surprises me when things that are trivial on Android/Linux are sticking points on iOS/macOS. Worse, it seems that proprietary means you can't do anything to fix them yourself.

mzmzmzm · 3 days ago

I recently switched to iPhone for network reasons, and some UI/UX things are really shocking. There is no way to toggle location services without going into settings. The alarms are tricky to set and don't have niceties like telling you the time until your morning alarm. There is no clipboard history. They want you to use swipe gestures so much, the touch targets to exit fullscreen media are barely functional. If you use browser extensions and a browser other than Safari, to change their settings you don't open the app that bundles the extension; you don't look in the menus of your browser or Safari; you dig several layers into Safari's app preferences to find the extension's settings. After such praise, there are so many rough edges I can't believe iOS users just put up with.

mzmzmzm commented on Who owns Rudolph's nose? creativelawcenter.com/cop... · Posted by u/ohjeez

mzmzmzm · a month ago

"Robert L. May died in 1976. But before he did, he established The Rudolph C ompany that holds the rights to Rudolph. Licenses are managed by a professional agency all to the benefit of Mr. May's children and grandchildren.

What makes this a holly-jolly Christmas story for me is knowing that the heirs of someone who would have been an unknown author are still benefiting from copyright protection, properly registered and renewed,"

I'm sorry but this is perverse. It's bad enough that we pretend ordinary property should be heritable, much less intangible knowledge.

mzmzmzm commented on The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity effectiviology.com/napole... · Posted by u/Khaine

mzmzmzm · a month ago

Surely you could have found a source for this concept not entirely generated by an LLM?

mzmzmzm commented on Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons caranddriver.com/news/a69... · Posted by u/stephc_int13

ActorNightly · a month ago

I would never drive a small car in US. The amount of distracted/drunk/high drivers is way too high.

mzmzmzm · a month ago

And so the arms race continues!

mzmzmzm commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue

mzmzmzm · 2 months ago

The featured article today on Wikipedia's Main Page is "Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons," iD's pre-DOOM side-scroller. I like when Wikipedia editors land on subtle topicality with featured articles and images; it makes it more fun to check the page everyday.

mzmzmzm commented on The RSS feed reader landscape lighthouseapp.io/blog/fee... · Posted by u/domysee

mzmzmzm · 4 months ago

One of the "I wish I'd paid for premium sooner" services I use is Newsblur. The UI is not the most modern, but it centralizes, organizes, offlines, etc with enough power features to handle edge cases that I can feel like I "read everything today" the way I used to with Google Reader.

mzmzmzm commented on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account theverge.com/news/793579/... · Posted by u/josephcsible

mzmzmzm · 4 months ago

I've used Win 11 for years and never had an MS account. If you just get the right European/enterprise/education image the first time you don't even have to do anything to skip OOBE. But it feels like the walls are closing in, and the day I finally can't do anything without an MS account, I'll finally daily drive Linux. Hopefully the part of my Steam library that will still need Proton will run smoothly--that's the main thing I'm scared of.

mzmzmzm commented on When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” sebastiano.tronto.net/blo... · Posted by u/sebtron

mzmzmzm · 5 months ago

There's a Group Policy setting in Windows: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File Explorer\Turn off numerical sorting in File Explorer Group Policy has so many essential settings I hurry to change with every isntall. I wish Windows would expose more of them to the user in ordinary settings.