Comment on Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It really feels like OS makers fail to accept “this is working just fine for me” and endlessly attempt to shoehorn more in. Every time I get an Android update, my first reaction is “what workflows that had been working am I going to need to relearn?” I can’t even figure out how to get someone I’ve not talked with in four years out of the primary position in Frequently Used on my contacts list.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Every time I get an Android update, my first reaction is “what workflows that had been working am I going to need to relearn?”

    I’ve had some similar comments about Windows in the past. Like, a lot of the lock-in value that Microsoft enjoys isn’t anything special that they’ve done — it’s because people are expert in using their platform. If you make them change their workflow, you throw that out. And people profoundly dislike changing their workflow, once they’ve put the effort in to become accustomed to one.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I loved being a beta tester back in the days of Chicago. But I was also a teenager who hadn’t gotten into calcified workflows at the time. I don’t mind learning new things, but don’t force that on me!

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m in my 40s. I never converted to PowerShell from the command line. I can use a Linux terminal, but I’d really rather not. I was never a pure-play coder, so I just want shit to work while also having full control when need be. Like, totally hypothetically, putting two news sources at each others’ throats to make sure my ex-wife’s water wasn’t shut off.

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My old phone was constantly recommending that I send YouTube videos with spy query parameters to the e-mail address of a dead relative instead of Untracker. It’s like they designed the system to push users towards doing what they want users to do instead of helping users do what users want to do.

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, Android does this to me too. It constantly suggests I want to call my old boss from 13 years ago who I honestly hope I never see again.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, I figured a long press and a context menu would solve the issue, but no. When my dad died last year, I had to completely remove him from my contacts (not wholly unreasonable, given that’s a bit of a useless number). I don’t want to remove this guy from my contacts because, well, life changes, we bonded over a lot of shared interests, and maybe I’ll be in NYC at some point.

      You want that guy in your phone. You don’t want him to be Option 1.

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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seeing as you have a backup of your contacts (don’t you??), why not just delete it…

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