@inthehands I wonder how much the need to keep the dev team busy with visible "features" and trying to be all things to all people drive this MS Word level of feature creep away from a simple tool which does simple things. If there were a more competitive market with 6+ viable phone/tablet OS companies you would have a better chance at finding an OS with an interface that fits your usage, as each fights for a different overlapping set of users with different needs. Duopoly can't produce that.
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(whispers: the original iPhone was in many ways a superior user experience) https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/113162083054623081@inthehands @tehstu While I don't think strict skeumorphism actually makes UX better, the (Jony Ive?) era at Apple where they ripped the graphical design out and replaced it with minimalist flat color, also ripped out a bunch of context on what was an interactive element and what was UI chrome, to the detriment of usability.
To make the UI usable it needs to do less and demand less state tracking by the user, esp when your brain doesn't have a 14-element working-memory
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OK I need to say this out loud to somebody to make sure I am actually saying it:@adrianco @dtauvdiodr I've taken that approach at my site by pushing Ansible pretty hard the last few years. We have a handful of very bespoke systems so scalability isn't a problem, but knowing how to build and maintain them was. Any "why" docs can be put as comments in yaml and Jinja which works great. We know the docs are accurate because we run them.
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My wife says her classmates think she brings very elaborate lunches, instead of like a raw carrot or a cold sandwich or a something.@skinnylatte @faassen that's not wrong, keeping raw veg clean enough of soil bacteria to eat is difficult and that risk is surely reduced by cooking, and many veg aren't digestible unless cooked, like spinach, the cell walls are too touch and you get no nutritional value without cooking
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Let's see if Mastodon reacts better to this than Twitter did.@mattdm huh, never thought to put pb on tomato, ill have to try it sometime
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I serve on my HOA and our President just called me and essentially cussed me out because I'm having a Q&A for people who want to run to be on the board because, in her words, "You could have just told people to come to me" and "You didnt ask for anyone...@gordotango @BlackAzizAnansi that's exactly what an HOA is, a shadow government which doesn't have to achieve the same standards of ethics that the regular government holds itself accountable to. They were created to get around civil rights protections that even a shit government would hold itself accountable to, they are intentionally worse.