Young people stopped using Facebook a long time ago. Now it's for "old" people. I don't know what the kids use (is Snapchat still a thing?) but it's not Facebook
Forcing messages to be short can have advantadges too. For one it forces people to be succint and get to the point. OTOH it also encourages short and controversial statements, memes, etc.
Anyway if you follow the correct people Twitter can be pretty interesting.
Because we live in an era where UX designers strive to have total control over how the UI looks.
No, you can't have multicolor icons because that actually makes distinguishing them easy and it ruins the look of our design. Better have monochrome icons.
Borders make buttons look bad so you'll have borderless buttons and you'll have to randomly click texts to find out whether they're buttons or just text labels.
Don't make us make two different UIs and so you'll have to use a mess designed for touchscreens with you mouse and keyboard. You can only fit 3 buttons in a 30 inch screen because we made them huge and put way too much blank space around them? Too bad.
Seriously, UIs IMO have regressed 20 years.
I agree that people should be made aware of what Google does with their data but I believe even in that case, that most people would continue to use Google's services if the alternatives were to stop using those services or pay money
Yep. Many people don't think about how many businesses make their money. If they did they wouldn't be surprised about this.
Thinking about that was why I was happy when WhatsApp charged an Euro per year for the service because that was a clear business model and it meant they were less likely (you never know) to sell my data. Also why I don't trust Telegram: It's supposedly financed by one of its founders out of the goodness of their heart. Sure...
Semiofftopic: I'd actually like if those companies offered the chance of not spying on you and instead pay for their services with money. I doubt they'll ever willingly do it if only because that'd give away how much they can get from your data (obviously less than what you'd pay)
Thanks. I really haven't put too much effort into it. I just accepted the default options and got that. I doesn't annoy me that much but the money I paid for the TV should be enough for LG
Lucky you. I have an LG from 2017 (also runs WebOS) and it shows an ad in app selection screen. It fill just a corner of the screen and it's just a picture so it's easy to ignore but even so it shoudln't be there
Yes, I haven't read TFA just the summary but comparing Stadia to Steam is not accurate at all: Stadia is a service for game streaming in Steam you buy the games digitally but you play them locally. They're just very different things.
OTOH since I use my PC for many things besides gaming I don't see myself using a "thin client" and running my apps on the cloud any time soon.
The thing is that updating the software shouldn't need buying new hardware. Software updates in Windows don't require that you buy a new PC. That's a really stupid aspect of owning a smartphone. That's better if you own an iPhone but still the smartphone market feels like it has a lot of programmed obsolescence in it. It's not just a waste of money having to upgrade that often it also generates a huge amount of electronic waste that pollutes the environment
Well, IMO, anything that uses a battery should be possible to have it replaced. The rest would depend and it'd be hard to draw a line but the possibility to replace a battery should definitely be there. Otherwise it's just programmed obsolescence
That's why decided to research if there were any headphones (in-ear earbuds in my case) with replaceable cables. Turns out they do exist. There's the MMCX standard many use and there're other propietary ones.
I ended up buying a pair of MEE audio M6 and I'm happy so far. We'll see if the buds themselves last more than the cable and so the replaceablity is actually useful.
Yep, I agree that making the battery non replaceable is a horrible thing to do. That's the reason I own a LG G5 but yeah nowadays very few phones have user-replaceable batteries. I really don't know what I'm gonna buy when this phone dies.
Yep, the reason they started to write software for Android and iOS was because they recognized their software would become irrelevant if they didn't. The PC is no longer king of computing so staying out of smartphones is suicide. Since Windows Phone never managed to capture any significant marketshare they had to port their software to Android and iOS. So competition turned out to be good.
Alas, they're still very strong on PCs so that allows them to do crappy things to customers in Windows 10 (telemetry, forced install of useless Apps, automatic updates, frankenstein UI...) and still have people "choose" them.
Yeah, very likely Win 7 has a higher penetration in corporate settings and non-gaming home users. Also take into account that Win 7 users got the option of updating to 10 for free.
According to Steam hardware survey 25% of people are still using Windows 7 which is a pretty high number for an OS that old.
Of course, that's helped by Microsoft themselves making a series of stupid changes in newer Windows versions
I guess they're young people for whom being spied 24/7 by Google and Facebook is a normal thing. They may have even not known anything else so they're not used to concepts like privacy and having data locally on your devices or the may even think those things are outdated concepts only missed by "old" people.
It's a Win-win for Microsoft since, on one side, they make money and also give support to people that want to keep using Windows 7. On the other hand the escalating costs are an obvious mechanism to nudge people to Windows 10.
IE is still shipped with Windows 10 as a completely separate browser from Edge so I guess the answer is...just use IE for those sites.
IMO Microsoft's decision of starting from scratch when developing the engine for Edge was the right one. Trying to emulate all the broken IE's behaviours would've been madness.
I don't know who wrote that source but I can tell you that the only common use of "alita" in Spain is as a diminutive of "ala" (wing). Example sentence: "Alita de pollo" (chicken wing).
As for it being a name I haven't ever met anyone named "Alita" or any place for that matter.
Of course, it the source ment to refer to Spanish spekaing countries that might be true in some of them
Tim Cook said it himself: Allowing customers to replace the batteries was part of the problem. The obvious solution is for Apple to refuse to replace them while making new phones even harder to open./s
Seriously, this crap of making electronics purposefully hard to repair is a cancer. They should be built to be easily repairable and to last. Warranties somewhat take care of the latter but there's no law to promote the former. It's not only a matter of money but also of e-waste
I'm under the impression that recently the capacity of SSDs hasn't been limited by the size of a typical 2.5'' enclosure but rather by the cost of the flash memory.
Yes, it's very slow but it's worth it if you're gonna compress once and stream millions of times as it's the case for some of its main proponents' platforms: Netflix, YouTube...
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Young people stopped using Facebook a long time ago. Now it's for "old" people. I don't know what the kids use (is Snapchat still a thing?) but it's not Facebook
Forcing messages to be short can have advantadges too. For one it forces people to be succint and get to the point. OTOH it also encourages short and controversial statements, memes, etc.
Anyway if you follow the correct people Twitter can be pretty interesting.
Because we live in an era where UX designers strive to have total control over how the UI looks.
No, you can't have multicolor icons because that actually makes distinguishing them easy and it ruins the look of our design. Better have monochrome icons.
Borders make buttons look bad so you'll have borderless buttons and you'll have to randomly click texts to find out whether they're buttons or just text labels.
Don't make us make two different UIs and so you'll have to use a mess designed for touchscreens with you mouse and keyboard. You can only fit 3 buttons in a 30 inch screen because we made them huge and put way too much blank space around them? Too bad.
Seriously, UIs IMO have regressed 20 years.
I agree that people should be made aware of what Google does with their data but I believe even in that case, that most people would continue to use Google's services if the alternatives were to stop using those services or pay money
Yep. Many people don't think about how many businesses make their money. If they did they wouldn't be surprised about this.
Thinking about that was why I was happy when WhatsApp charged an Euro per year for the service because that was a clear business model and it meant they were less likely (you never know) to sell my data. Also why I don't trust Telegram: It's supposedly financed by one of its founders out of the goodness of their heart. Sure...
Semiofftopic: I'd actually like if those companies offered the chance of not spying on you and instead pay for their services with money. I doubt they'll ever willingly do it if only because that'd give away how much they can get from your data (obviously less than what you'd pay)
Thanks. I really haven't put too much effort into it. I just accepted the default options and got that. I doesn't annoy me that much but the money I paid for the TV should be enough for LG
Lucky you. I have an LG from 2017 (also runs WebOS) and it shows an ad in app selection screen. It fill just a corner of the screen and it's just a picture so it's easy to ignore but even so it shoudln't be there
Yes, I haven't read TFA just the summary but comparing Stadia to Steam is not accurate at all: Stadia is a service for game streaming in Steam you buy the games digitally but you play them locally. They're just very different things.
OTOH since I use my PC for many things besides gaming I don't see myself using a "thin client" and running my apps on the cloud any time soon.
The thing is that updating the software shouldn't need buying new hardware. Software updates in Windows don't require that you buy a new PC. That's a really stupid aspect of owning a smartphone. That's better if you own an iPhone but still the smartphone market feels like it has a lot of programmed obsolescence in it. It's not just a waste of money having to upgrade that often it also generates a huge amount of electronic waste that pollutes the environment
Well, IMO, anything that uses a battery should be possible to have it replaced. The rest would depend and it'd be hard to draw a line but the possibility to replace a battery should definitely be there. Otherwise it's just programmed obsolescence
That's why decided to research if there were any headphones (in-ear earbuds in my case) with replaceable cables. Turns out they do exist. There's the MMCX standard many use and there're other propietary ones.
I ended up buying a pair of MEE audio M6 and I'm happy so far. We'll see if the buds themselves last more than the cable and so the replaceablity is actually useful.
Yep, I agree that making the battery non replaceable is a horrible thing to do. That's the reason I own a LG G5 but yeah nowadays very few phones have user-replaceable batteries. I really don't know what I'm gonna buy when this phone dies.
Yep, the reason they started to write software for Android and iOS was because they recognized their software would become irrelevant if they didn't. The PC is no longer king of computing so staying out of smartphones is suicide. Since Windows Phone never managed to capture any significant marketshare they had to port their software to Android and iOS. So competition turned out to be good.
Alas, they're still very strong on PCs so that allows them to do crappy things to customers in Windows 10 (telemetry, forced install of useless Apps, automatic updates, frankenstein UI...) and still have people "choose" them.
Yeah, very likely Win 7 has a higher penetration in corporate settings and non-gaming home users. Also take into account that Win 7 users got the option of updating to 10 for free.
According to Steam hardware survey 25% of people are still using Windows 7 which is a pretty high number for an OS that old.
Of course, that's helped by Microsoft themselves making a series of stupid changes in newer Windows versions
I guess they're young people for whom being spied 24/7 by Google and Facebook is a normal thing. They may have even not known anything else so they're not used to concepts like privacy and having data locally on your devices or the may even think those things are outdated concepts only missed by "old" people.
It's a Win-win for Microsoft since, on one side, they make money and also give support to people that want to keep using Windows 7. On the other hand the escalating costs are an obvious mechanism to nudge people to Windows 10.
IE is still shipped with Windows 10 as a completely separate browser from Edge so I guess the answer is...just use IE for those sites.
IMO Microsoft's decision of starting from scratch when developing the engine for Edge was the right one. Trying to emulate all the broken IE's behaviours would've been madness.
I don't know who wrote that source but I can tell you that the only common use of "alita" in Spain is as a diminutive of "ala" (wing). Example sentence: "Alita de pollo" (chicken wing).
As for it being a name I haven't ever met anyone named "Alita" or any place for that matter.
Of course, it the source ment to refer to Spanish spekaing countries that might be true in some of them
Tim Cook said it himself: Allowing customers to replace the batteries was part of the problem. The obvious solution is for Apple to refuse to replace them while making new phones even harder to open./s
Seriously, this crap of making electronics purposefully hard to repair is a cancer. They should be built to be easily repairable and to last. Warranties somewhat take care of the latter but there's no law to promote the former. It's not only a matter of money but also of e-waste
I'm under the impression that recently the capacity of SSDs hasn't been limited by the size of a typical 2.5'' enclosure but rather by the cost of the flash memory.
Yes, it's very slow but it's worth it if you're gonna compress once and stream millions of times as it's the case for some of its main proponents' platforms: Netflix, YouTube...
Thanks for the detailed explanation
Hadn't considered that part