moondance

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by moondance 2mo ago
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon
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by moondance 4mo ago
In other words: people are entitled to cheap entertainment, but the people who labor to produce that entertainment aren’t entitled to good working conditions. Boo
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by moondance 4mo ago
This really resonates with me. Not to be annoying but I think that the people challenging you in your replies haven’t experienced this as a consistent and problematic pattern in their life in the way that many people with severe ADHD have.
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by moondance 4mo ago
An amusing quip, but since you brought Neil up- his takes on veganism are generally disappointing and facile.
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by moondance 5mo ago
As others have mentioned, “Bump!” did it 15 years ago and it was little more than a novelty, despite its Google acquisition. iOS has also had the tapping-phones-to-connect feature baked in for years (NameDrop) and no one uses it. Curious ho
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by moondance 5mo ago
“Low hum” was the clincher for me. Chatbots just love to talk about things humming.
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by moondance 5mo ago
I have too. You misunderstood me. I find it to be a worthwhile endeavor. I’m not pessimistic, I’m realistic about the ways in which the deck is stacked against seniors in this department. That’s why my UX work is singularly focused in acces
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by moondance 5mo ago
This guy has a flip phone. Seems like that was the last “new” thing he could learn. Its user flows never change and he’s memorized it. The idea that the average old person is so obstinate that they would refuse to learn the new technology i
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by moondance 5mo ago
I don’t think people understand the scale of the issue. Each decade that goes by we welcome a new class of elderly, and each decade that goes by, we continue to write off those elderly users. The failure of the well-intentioned but insuffic
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by moondance 5mo ago
Have you had the pleasure of coaching a technologically illiterate grandparent through the process of learning how to use a smartphone? It’s a never-ending job and disheartening for all parties involved. Modern mobile UX is not designed wit
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by moondance 6mo ago
The irony of your last line. The whole thing of the Neo is that it feels distinctly not glued together—- not true of the $400 “comparables” you have in mind. I’m convinced the people who make these sorts of comments have either never expe
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by moondance 6mo ago
Live gas prices on GMaps is the only feature yet to make it over to Apple Maps, as far as I can tell. Once Apple integrates that one, my phone will finally be free of Google services.
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by moondance 6mo ago
I’ve spent more than enough time writing with LLMs. “Encountering” is actually a very apt description of the “ah-ha moments” of AI assisted writing, so that was the wrong word for the point I was making. The joy of traditional writing is th
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by moondance 6mo ago
Are you Billy Nonates? Or a fan
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by moondance 6mo ago
I can relate to the inclination, but so many new insights and moments of inspiration are necessarily confined to that painstaking iterative line-by-line process of real writing. When you are simply prompting and editing, you will fill the p
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by moondance 7mo ago
What’s it made of? How’s the touchpad feel?
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by moondance 7mo ago
It’s certainly “bad design” if we’re designing specifically with the OS convert who has a grudge against trackpads as the target user. But multitouch and its functionalities has been a fundamental part of macOS for nearly two decades now. F
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by moondance 9y ago
Chromebooks have a fair bit of offline capability in Docs, and some 3rd party apps take advantage of that as well. Still mostly useless without wifi.
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by moondance 9y ago
It seems like the netbook space was unfortunately so plagued by bad hardware that it lost all credibility as a viable alternative to a laptop-- but there are still very few instances in which I prefer a touchscreen to a keyboard. Even a not