One of the things that made Windows 3 UI so likeable was that the interface actually looked like things people recognized, like buttons. People instantly got it- this thing that looked like a button could be clicked or pushed to do something.
Now everything is a flat fucking rectangle, who knows if it's a label, a status indicator, a button, a decoration, or whatever the fuck else there is.
I mean, why the fuck have a button that doesn't remotely resemble an actual, pushable button?
And don't get me started on the hipster trend of "discoverable" interfaces. Fuck that shit, just give me a goddamn menu and let me get some shit done. I do NOT want to have to "discover" your fucking interface, that's the opposite of good design.
"Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry"
Jesus, please stop with the HuffPost and DailyMail style headlines. FFS, this isn't Romper Room or The Enquirer.
Alternative headlines:
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and It Broke The Internet Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and Cardi B Clapped Back at Them Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and Demi Lovato Showed Off Her Toned Abs Google Chrome's New UI so Ugly that the Queen's Protocol Made Her Do WHAT? What Does Kanye Think About The New Chrome Interface?
Please don't put words in my mouth or throw out strawman 'arguments' like that; it looks dumb and desperate to defend a position that hasn't even been brought up.
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot.
1) It's trivial to waterproof a 3.5mm jack and plug. I've done it dozens of times with nothing more than a little bit of RTV or silicone sealant. So that excuse is pure bullshit.
2) It collects pocket lint or dust? So does a USB-C port, as well as every other connector on the planet. Just use some compressed air to blow it out and it's as good as new.
3) My ancient S5 Active is waterproof- it has an IP67 rating (which is for fresh water only), but also a MIL-STD-810G rating, which includes salt water.
After 50 years, the 3.5mm jack is damn near perfect. There are some potential problems with it, but nothing which is too much of a problem.
A lot of people try to claim that "it can't be made waterproof" or that "it collects dust and lint" or some other bullshit excuse.
1) It's trivial to waterproof a 3.5mm jack and plug. I've done it dozens of times with nothing more than a little bit of RTV or silicone sealant. So that excuse is pure bullshit.
2) It collects pocket lint or dust? OH NOES!!1! But so does a USB-C port, as well as every other connector on the planet. Just use some compressed air to blow it out and it's as good as new.
But noooooooooooooo, we have to buy dongles and/or $75 bluetooth earbuds...now you have more things to lose, more batteries to wear out, more cables to break, etc etc etc.
I can buy dozens of earbuds on Amazon or eBay for $5 ~ $10 and if I lose them it's no big deal. No additional batteries to wear out, no dumbass charging station or gizmo needed.
Also, sound is better over a wire than over Bluetooth. That's a fact. Don't waste my time telling me that the fidelity over Bluetooth is better (or even equal)...I have enough decades of electronics under my belt to know you're mistaken.
Interference? Never really been a problem with wired earbuds unless you're standing next to a major source of EMI like a transformer or sparky motors.
Finally, if my wired earbud falls out, I just put it back in. If your Bluetooth earbud falls out...oh shit. Lets hope you're not in tall grass or over a grate or on a gravel parking lot or a roadway or on an escalator or jogging, etc etc etc. If it's gone, just smile and shell out another $75 for a new pair (since you can't buy them singly as far as I know).
Like the beauty of the 3.5mm jack is that it doesnâ(TM)t fucking break. It rotates if it's an L-shape. USB? It will break off the PCB and since that is also your charging port, you just killed the phone.
^^^^^THIS.
Headphone ports work perfectly well in literally billions of devices going back ~40 years or more. It's an amazing technological success that just works.
Apple's bullshit excuse of "courage" was believed only by suckers and fanbois.
Frightened aren't you? Danger around every corner - the Universe wants to hurt you, and you are plum terrified.
This is the mindset that FOX News and others loooooove to perpetuate to their right-wing/conservative audience- that the world is a dangerous place and everyone is out to get you.
Conservative mindsets eat that shit up, which is why numpties like Hannity and Limbaugh and Jeanine Pirro continue to exist.
"Oh no, brown people! Migrants! Homeless people! Gays! Liberals! Atheists! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!!"
I'd guess at least as often, if not more. It's a different kind of harassment (generally non-sexual) but if you think men get a happy-happy-joy-joy experience on Twitter then you're either woefully misinformed or the proud owner of a serious head injury.
Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
"I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!" -Captain Louis Renault
Seriously, I'm not even into gaming and I saw this coming from about 500 million miles away.
Offer anything of value -money, fame, notoriety, prizes- and people will cheat. Hell, some people will cheat just because they can, no incentive needed.
Administration in that context in the UK is when you've fucked up your company too bad and other people have to come in to liquify your assets etc and pay as much of your debt as possible because you can't be trusted to do it yourself. Dunno who pays them though.
Ahhh, thank you. I figured it was something along those lines but I appreciate the clarification.
It's similar to what the government here is doing to Trump's 'charitable' foundation, which was charitable only to him.
"With specially crafted Google searches, an attacker could find these pages and collect users' email addresses, and in some rare cases, default-generated passwords."
Another fabulous win for WordPress. (sigh)
Seriously, if you run WordPress, at least install the WordFence plugin. It's free and prevents a lot of malicious behavior from occurring. I don't know about this specific exploit, but it has stopped a ton of bot-style attacks on the few WP sites I have some responsibility for.
Install WordFence and look at the logs after a day or two- you'll be astounded (and horrified) at the level of malicious activity it catches and stops.
(And in case you're wondering, no, I have no connection or financial interest whatsoever in WordFence, I'm just a fan).
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Flat interfaces SUCK.
One of the things that made Windows 3 UI so likeable was that the interface actually looked like things people recognized, like buttons. People instantly got it- this thing that looked like a button could be clicked or pushed to do something.
Now everything is a flat fucking rectangle, who knows if it's a label, a status indicator, a button, a decoration, or whatever the fuck else there is.
I mean, why the fuck have a button that doesn't remotely resemble an actual, pushable button?
And don't get me started on the hipster trend of "discoverable" interfaces. Fuck that shit, just give me a goddamn menu and let me get some shit done. I do NOT want to have to "discover" your fucking interface, that's the opposite of good design.
"Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry"
Jesus, please stop with the HuffPost and DailyMail style headlines. FFS, this isn't Romper Room or The Enquirer.
Alternative headlines:
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and It Broke The Internet
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and Cardi B Clapped Back at Them
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly and Demi Lovato Showed Off Her Toned Abs
Google Chrome's New UI so Ugly that the Queen's Protocol Made Her Do WHAT?
What Does Kanye Think About The New Chrome Interface?
Why not tell the idiot who posted it, and not the guy who was quoting him to explain how he was wrong?
Slip of the finger, which I'm sure has never ever happened to you.
I woke up to a text alert warning me that 911 service was down and to call direct local numbers for police and fire.
What people often don't realize about the headphone jack is that it takes power.
Ummm, no. The jack is a passive, unpowered device.
Fiddly little things. When I was a young 'un, headphone plugs were the size of a frankfurter.
Oh yeah, those new-fangled frankfurter jacks. In my day we made do with ceramic bobbins and fabric-woven insulation.
Whoever pretended any such thing? Not me.
Please don't put words in my mouth or throw out strawman 'arguments' like that; it looks dumb and desperate to defend a position that hasn't even been brought up.
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot.
1) It's trivial to waterproof a 3.5mm jack and plug. I've done it dozens of times with nothing more than a little bit of RTV or silicone sealant. So that excuse is pure bullshit.
2) It collects pocket lint or dust? So does a USB-C port, as well as every other connector on the planet. Just use some compressed air to blow it out and it's as good as new.
3) My ancient S5 Active is waterproof- it has an IP67 rating (which is for fresh water only), but also a MIL-STD-810G rating, which includes salt water.
Your argument has no real merit. Try again.
After 50 years, the 3.5mm jack is damn near perfect. There are some potential problems with it, but nothing which is too much of a problem.
A lot of people try to claim that "it can't be made waterproof" or that "it collects dust and lint" or some other bullshit excuse.
1) It's trivial to waterproof a 3.5mm jack and plug. I've done it dozens of times with nothing more than a little bit of RTV or silicone sealant. So that excuse is pure bullshit.
2) It collects pocket lint or dust? OH NOES!!1! But so does a USB-C port, as well as every other connector on the planet. Just use some compressed air to blow it out and it's as good as new.
But noooooooooooooo, we have to buy dongles and/or $75 bluetooth earbuds...now you have more things to lose, more batteries to wear out, more cables to break, etc etc etc.
I can buy dozens of earbuds on Amazon or eBay for $5 ~ $10 and if I lose them it's no big deal. No additional batteries to wear out, no dumbass charging station or gizmo needed.
Also, sound is better over a wire than over Bluetooth. That's a fact. Don't waste my time telling me that the fidelity over Bluetooth is better (or even equal)...I have enough decades of electronics under my belt to know you're mistaken.
Interference? Never really been a problem with wired earbuds unless you're standing next to a major source of EMI like a transformer or sparky motors.
Finally, if my wired earbud falls out, I just put it back in. If your Bluetooth earbud falls out...oh shit. Lets hope you're not in tall grass or over a grate or on a gravel parking lot or a roadway or on an escalator or jogging, etc etc etc. If it's gone, just smile and shell out another $75 for a new pair (since you can't buy them singly as far as I know).
Like the beauty of the 3.5mm jack is that it doesnâ(TM)t fucking break. It rotates if it's an L-shape. USB? It will break off the PCB and since that is also your charging port, you just killed the phone.
^^^^^THIS.
Headphone ports work perfectly well in literally billions of devices going back ~40 years or more. It's an amazing technological success that just works.
Apple's bullshit excuse of "courage" was believed only by suckers and fanbois.
Frightened aren't you? Danger around every corner - the Universe wants to hurt you, and you are plum terrified.
This is the mindset that FOX News and others loooooove to perpetuate to their right-wing/conservative audience- that the world is a dangerous place and everyone is out to get you.
Conservative mindsets eat that shit up, which is why numpties like Hannity and Limbaugh and Jeanine Pirro continue to exist.
"Oh no, brown people! Migrants! Homeless people! Gays! Liberals! Atheists! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU!!!!"
And how often are men abused on Twitter?
I'd guess at least as often, if not more. It's a different kind of harassment (generally non-sexual) but if you think men get a happy-happy-joy-joy experience on Twitter then you're either woefully misinformed or the proud owner of a serious head injury.
Mod parent up, STAT!
Thank goodness I don't ever use Explorer.
"It Just Works"
(unless it doesn't and then it's just like every other shitty, craptastically-overpriced gadget.)
Leftovers? Why not use something like the reverse recipe maker or one of the bazillions of online utilities like it?
Why do you need AI to tell you what you can make from a few miscellaneous ingredients? I'm all for useful applications of AI, but this is just stupid.
Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
"fail-safe insurance strategy"
Lol, that's adorable.
"I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!" -Captain Louis Renault
Seriously, I'm not even into gaming and I saw this coming from about 500 million miles away.
Offer anything of value -money, fame, notoriety, prizes- and people will cheat. Hell, some people will cheat just because they can, no incentive needed.
This is how I did it: I memorized all the answers.
Ummm, that's not cheating. Using a written list would be cheating. Committing the list to memory isn't.
Microsoft Edge, AKA "The Little Browser That Couldn't".
Administration in that context in the UK is when you've fucked up your company too bad and other people have to come in to liquify your assets etc and pay as much of your debt as possible because you can't be trusted to do it yourself. Dunno who pays them though.
Ahhh, thank you. I figured it was something along those lines but I appreciate the clarification.
It's similar to what the government here is doing to Trump's 'charitable' foundation, which was charitable only to him.
"...Collapses Into Administration"
Wat does that mean? Is that similar to bankruptcy or Chapter 11?
Fuck anything written in PHP - it's too much of a risk and there are too many idiots making mistakes (and non-idiots as well).
Thank goodness no one could ever write insecure code in Java, C++, Ruby, Python, ASP, Go, Rust, Haskell, Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript, C#, Elixir, Scala, Objective-C, TypeScript....
"With specially crafted Google searches, an attacker could find these pages and collect users' email addresses, and in some rare cases, default-generated passwords."
Another fabulous win for WordPress. (sigh)
Seriously, if you run WordPress, at least install the WordFence plugin. It's free and prevents a lot of malicious behavior from occurring. I don't know about this specific exploit, but it has stopped a ton of bot-style attacks on the few WP sites I have some responsibility for.
Install WordFence and look at the logs after a day or two- you'll be astounded (and horrified) at the level of malicious activity it catches and stops.
(And in case you're wondering, no, I have no connection or financial interest whatsoever in WordFence, I'm just a fan).
Also most phones have lock screens so this seems pretty secure VS a physical DL.
Like I said, thank goodness phones are never hacked, infected, spoofed, or fall prey to malware.