Every waking day of every waking use of the devices I have, I find myself constantly fighting a lot with the shitty input and recognition of said input. Things I swore I clicked once but having to click twice or sometimes three times. Such lag input between the last time I clicked and to the time the function of whatever I had to click fucking functioned.
With phones it is obviously worse, with finger input being either too sensitive or too dulled to register, inquiring more touches just to get somewhere or to type something, along with the separated frustrations aside trying to type on awful keyboard interfaces.
Edit:
For clarification’s sakes, people are bringing up old computers and how you’ve had to go extra steps to make it work. That’s not what I’m talking about and I thought I had made it clear as possible.
I’m talking about with the way things have been with technology over the past 15 years. You would think with all of the millions and billions that get invested into making things snazzy, crisp and shiny, that they would function similarly. Except, no, things got lots of wrenches thrown into their design phases to make them laggy, drag and otherwise shitty.
Phones, Tablets, Site Interfaces .etc
I say it every day: “Nothing works any more.”
You pay for an item, and you get the absolutely least quality they can get away with. Customer service is disappearing quickly. Now it’s like “Here’s your thing, you got your thing, why are you still here, go away.”
Like my son says: “America is getting dumber and meaner.”
Customer service has been relegated to AI chat prompts, HUBs and automated servicing that don’t cover all of the problems you may have.
It’s just extra steps of extra steps.
We moved fast and broke things.
Nobody came back later and fixed things. We were too busy breaking other things.
I never experienced this in ~46 years of life. Not sure what you mean. Nothing ever worked, I learned how to be a systems administrator because computers have always sucked and don’t just work.
There was a schism where all of a sudden profit became more important than quality. That’s when capitalism started showing it’s purely destructive roots. We rode that train for a while though but now it’s time to get back to being the best we can be, not fucking our brothers and sister up for a token that represents some sort of vague value.
“agile development”, “AI generated code”, “early release”, “corporate greed”.
It’s crazy to me these days how much work I have to do to do such simple things on Windows now. I wanted to auto-hide the task bar the other day and instead of just right clicking on the taskbar like I used to I have to crawl through pages of poorly organized settings in the new ugly fucking block format.
I just buy old shit now. Old TVs, old stereos, old fridges. Anything that doesn’t need modern features doesn’t need to be modern.
There is the aspect not many are talking here.
When previously people released software, there was no easy way to release patch. This means that the first release is the release most of people are going to use forever.
Nowadays you can very easily patch after release, which means that you can be quick to release, and fix later. This means that you can never install anything .0 version, because they are buggy as hell.
You can blame the USA government for setting standards for light bulbs that planned obsolescence became a thing. They recommended to make light bulbs with filament that burns after a certain time of use to prompt more purchases of light bulbs. And that’s where everyone else got the brilliant idea to make things not last as long. As well people didn’t have the funds to buy new appliances all the time, they were still a relative luxury so if you made something that broke in a year and cost $300 back then you might have a mob with shotguns at your door.
My favorite one is when you tap something on a touchscreen, the item highlights/reacts visually showing the device recognized your input, but it doesn’t perform the action you tapped on. (it works just fine the second time you try though)
I presed the button…
You know I pressed the button…
I know you know I pressed the button…
WHY are you not doing the thing??
Once upon a time, wizards pondered their orbs and created technological solutions to satisfy their intellect and quest for progress.
Everything changed when the dollar nation attacked, seizing the orbs and enslaving them to profit.
My Samsung S9+ still works. Original battery, too.
Node and react. Giant frameworks that seem to be the standard nowadays. They’re huge, bloated, and largely overkill for most things. I personally suspect they will be losing popularity soon due to the memory shortages.
thinga can still work … you just have to put a shit ton of effort
Host your own cloud, de-google your phone (Recommend /e/OS) run a piehole … etc
It’s basically a full time job
Privacy fatigue is real. It’s best to have a threat model before implementing countermeasures. I’m absolutely worn out from it, and I still might suck. Additionally, nextDNS, which is one if my privacy tools, seems to have almost forwarded to Googlehosted.com, which it blocked due to my rules, but still. How exhausting!
So how do you feel about e/OS ecosystem? I think I will delete MicroG, and then maybe do that for every update, but other than that it is pretty cool. I still might download Fdroid but too afraid to install more things yet.
Because software is cool so let’s just add more stuff!!
Shit just working doesn’t make money.
*doesn’t make enough money.
Things that mostly work with occasional minor problems that are easily diagnosed and fixed are still profitable… they just don’t maximise profitability.
That’s the problem. Capitalism isn’t happy with making a decent profit. It needs to maximize the profit by cutting everything else.
An answer so simple that you’d think it’d be more obvious, but there it is.
Yep, good old planned obsolence
