The feeling that tech's promise is to make everything easier yet its constant failures and inconsistencies and growing complexity are making everything much, much harder.

rob pike

Or to put it another way, spending far more time trying to make things work than their working will ever save us.

nuxi

@robpike I see this most reflected in my Dad. He's a smart guy, but at 85, is swimming in a world of needless complexity. We took away always-on phones that just take a sequence of digits, and replaced them with ones that need to be charged, muted, unmuted, and rebooted. We replaced TV channels with apps, all with different and constantly shifting UIs. We replaced software with SAAS portals that are never the same from one day to the next, and require separate passwords. *I* can barely keep up.

Eric's Edge

@nuxi @robpike I’m 61, work in IT, AND feel much the same. I can still do most anything and understand what I need to function. Yes, I’m somewhat slower at it. Most of all I don’t want to spend my time constantly reeducating myself. I no longer have the patience and a lot of the changes are just for the sake of change.

Elric

@ericsedge @nuxi @robpike

Yeah, there's a big difference between the goal of "lifelong learning", and the shitshow of having to figure out where some idiot decided to hide key functionality in some tool.

knapjack

If I remember correctly, a couple of smart people once wrote grap|pic|tbl|eqn||troff -mpm while trying to make the tech world a better place.

We don't always follow the yellow brick road, even when it's laid out in front of us.

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Sam Oldman 🐀

@elricofmelnibone @ericsedge @nuxi @robpike Absolutely "where is the button now!?"
The YouTube app recently moved the X from the bottom right side of the title bar up to the upper right corner where it is often the same colour as the video under it.

sans tonsils - in: pain

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