It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed si...

[kate@aus.social]

@liamvhogan Feeling all of this with feelings today, as both work-supported computers I use are becoming such a tangle of authentication workarounds and update clashes that I’ve started to fear closing windows.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

The use of computers *for leisure and socialising*, on the other hand, those are unrecognisably changed and the experience is in every way better and more powerful, by magnitudes. Modern gaming would have blown your c.2000 ears straight back. So it’s not that it can’t be done.

[ecoscore@aus.social]

@liamvhogan All your points are valid and yes we’re all paying the price. But it was called the information *revolution* so maybe it will go full circle back to papyrus scrolls

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

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[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan everywhere that computers touched the army was a net negative in my time. To the extent that being out and about with your people and not being at your desk to answer emails became a point of criticism for officers.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 not to be mean about it but the ADF did not notably win many wars in that time either

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan can't blame the computers for that I'm afraid. We hadn't chalked a win for about 65yrs when email got introduced.

[damonism@aus.social]

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[liamvhogan@aus.social]

I have two great big screens now, which is cool, and which beat the hell out of my old 1024x768 CRT for coolness. but it’s not clear that they make my work more productive.

I have a nice clicky mechanical keyboard because I personally am richer than I was in 2000, letting me buy it myself, and because Chinese manufacturing has advanced so far. Again, not clear it makes my work more productive.

[kate@aus.social]

@liamvhogan But wait! Help is coming to us all.

https://www.artisanai.me/index.html

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@kate my goodness that looks shitty

[kate@aus.social]

@liamvhogan see also: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/

[platypus@glammr.us]

@liamvhogan unrelated but I just realized I subscribe to your RSS but didn’t follow you on here? I guess someone linked a blog post directly and I went that way vs a boost.

Also I’ve been reading human-computer frustration research from the early 00s and 2023 today and this all tracks hard with it.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@platypus RSS, it had all the potential and still does

[thermitebegiants@aus.social]

@liamvhogan and even then, Apple introduced video conferencing cameras and software in 2003. Social adoption came much later

[ben_hr@old.mermaid.town]

@Kels_316 @liamvhogan this is a digression, but were UNTAC and INTERFET considered to be successes, in the military's own terms of reference? Not that they were wars.

[kels_316@aus.social]

@ben_hr @liamvhogan very much so. Huge PR wins.

[ben_hr@old.mermaid.town]

@Kels_316 @liamvhogan the only wins that exist any more I guess

[lkngrrr@hachyderm.io]

@liamvhogan Mac MS Word 5.1a was the pinnacle of word processing and I will fight in the parking lot about this

[julian]

@[email protected] said in It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed si...:

But the tech has been impactful largely in the device, not on PCs, where it’s about as productive to use Photoshop as it was two decades ago.

This could've been the time for GIMP to innovate (and probably revamp), but it's stagnated along with Photoshop