asoneth

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by asoneth 1y ago
> Your comment is correct but it's a response to an entirely different and orthogonal point which I did not propose and wouldn't try to. You're right, I was mixing up threads, I apologize. Your original point seems to be t
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by asoneth 1y ago
To be clear, I wasn't arguing that a user is less likely to run into issues on Windows (or Mac). The bigger issue is that when they invariably run into an issue it's significantly easier to get the help they need to return their c
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by asoneth 1y ago
It's better than it was 20+ years ago (jeez I'm old) when I first tried Linux. Back then you needed to be fairly technical to get it running and even to do basic day-to-day tasks, but now you can use a human-friendly GUI most of t
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by asoneth 1y ago
> Point-and-click instructions are limited to only 1 desktop... If a consumer product (computer, phone, TV, microwave, printer, radio, oven, washing machine, etc) requires reading through more than a quick start guide to access the adver
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by asoneth 1y ago
Nontechnical folks are fine using a computer until they're not, at which point they need to find someone with more experience or become someone with more experience. Many Windows or Mac users rely on a combination of paid support and f
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by asoneth 1y ago
> whether requiring them to copy and paste is actually any more secure than allowing click-to-install... Agreed. If your operating system requires that you occasionally search for instructions and copy-and-paste executable strings from t
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by asoneth 1y ago
I think it depends on how you define "easier". Once someone learns how to use the requisite terminal commands and does so frequently enough that they do not forget them, I agree that it is significantly faster and more consistent.
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by asoneth 1y ago
> for a lot of people that is also a complete dealbreaker for whatever reason Seems like a perfectly reasonable dealbreaker to me. Terminal commands are a raw UI that is neither intuitive nor discoverable -- someone must either read docu
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by asoneth 1y ago
I'm not saying local first will help or hinder UI latency, merely that UI latency is indeed a valid evaluation criteria for software.
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by asoneth 1y ago
> Western strain of extreme pacifism While there certainly are some Western hackers who eschew all military applications because of their extreme pacifism, the examples in the article (e.g. pro-Palestinian activists) are not necessarily
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by asoneth 1y ago
> any minivan on the market is going to do an acceptable and safe speed Growing up my folks had an old Winnebago van that took 2+ minutes to hit 60mph which made highway merges a white-knuckle affair, especially uphill. Performance was a
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by asoneth 1y ago
They have renders of what a passenger van variant would look like but my understanding is that this is just aspirational and will not be produced unless the 5-seat truck variant is successful.
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by asoneth 1y ago
I suppose there's no accounting for taste. Personally I find the increasingly large bulbous noses tacked on to the front of US trucks ridiculous. The fact that these "codpieces" are empty on EVs is such a wild metaphor that i
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by asoneth 1y ago
I have never met anyone who preferred to keep the dome light on all night even at the expense of being able to start the car the next day. Similarly, I can't think of a use case for preferring that processes keep running all night on a
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by asoneth 1y ago
> I'm more surprised that any application can prevent sleep _when you close the lid_. Absolutely. If my options are 1) halt the process when the lid closes or 2) let the battery die heating up the inside of my bag and then the proce
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by asoneth 1y ago
I've spent many hours debugging my Macbook's erratic insomnia and the only thing I know is that WindowServer is the culprit and it'll likely require a full OS reinstall, which has been on my todo list for months. The only thi
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by asoneth 1y ago
> It is a genuine concern and should be addressed. No disagreement, but does the comment meaningfully contribute to the discussion about this particular project?
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by asoneth 1y ago
I hear this complaint about designers wanting radical redesigns or chasing trends, but the actual UX designers I've worked with seem to prefer spending time on usability testing, eliminating workflow steps, clarifying hierarchy, making
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by asoneth 1y ago
If only one company offers jobs in your profession or skill set, that company has a labor monopsony. Back when companies provided lifetime job security and pensions, moving to a remote corporate campus might have been a reasonable tradeoff
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by asoneth 1y ago
> Can someone help me understand when this bifurcation happened The distinction is as old as art and design. If I had to pick modern moments that articulated it well I'd go with Arts and Crafts followed by Bauhaus. > solve the ri
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by asoneth 1y ago
> the designer is to dream and your job is to build it You may be thinking of an artist. A designer's job is to understand and solve user problems. (FYI this is coming from a designer, not an engineer.)
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by asoneth 1y ago
Similar to software developers, there's a difference between meeting a user need with with established patterns and exploring novel ones. The vast majority of consumer and enterprise products ought to be done with established design pa
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by asoneth 1y ago
I agree with many of your statements but draw the opposite conclusion. HTML and CSS are expressive, have a vast selection of libraries and tools, and can actually result in shippable code. Designers and front-end devs should learn and use i
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by asoneth 1y ago
> Employers, you can't have it both ways. Exactly. Though you can learn a lot about an employer by how it has conducted layoffs. Did they cut profits and management salaries and attempt to reassign people first? Did they provide gen
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by asoneth 1y ago
> you clearly arent an OS engineer either. Correct, though I do regularly deal with the same class of assumption, where folks suggest that if I just hired a couple people to work on X, Y, or Z that would be well worth the money. The stat
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by asoneth 1y ago
> The rave reviews alone would be free marketing worth well above the money invested in the software engineers. Whether it's worth it depends on how much it costs to improve efficiency, and how many more laptops they need to sell at
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by asoneth 1y ago
Sure, it totally depends on specifics! Only Framework knows how many mainboards they sell per year and can make an educated guess at how many of them end up running Linux. Also, note that Framework already employs at least one person[1] wor
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by asoneth 1y ago
Is it pound foolish, or just a rational business decision? Let's say they ship 100k laptops per year. Let's say they could meaningfully improve battery life with a team of half-dozen excellent software engineers, which would cost
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by asoneth 1y ago
> too much risk to make back on users who actually sign up to your store and buy books vs ones that put the gift in the closet, clearance models, losing to a more popular store I definitely agree that selling hardware at cost (or at a lo
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by asoneth 1y ago
Well the pricest component is the screen, and that's under patent. I think rising consumer expectations soak up a lot of that -- you could make the main board and other components a third the price if you're satisfied with mid-200

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