Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?
Yeah. Me neither.
This is a toot about operating systems.
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Stephanie 🎀
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in reply to 🐙ptoothfish🐙 • • •I'd say it's a toot about tech in general...
There's making improvements, and then there's just straight up fixing what isn't broken...
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in reply to 🐙ptoothfish🐙 • • •Not have I wished my drill would take pictures of everything I do, so the manufacturer could merge my designs with others and sell them through “AI”.
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in reply to James Gifford • • •@GiffordJames ok, but I had a similar experience when Ubuntu at some point decided to look like #Windows and I had to change to #Linux Mint Xfce to find a simple UI for a boomer-minded person like me.
It doesn't only happen in the Microsoft world.
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Get an e-bike.Sell your car. 15-20 miles is taxi range. You can do a lot on an ebike.
During the summer we only use the car if we’re going somewhere after dark. Unfortunately part of the year my commute is not bikable due to cold snow and ice.
Zauberlehrling
in reply to SlightlyCyberpunk • • •"Rolling enshitification" is an excellent description.
DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)
in reply to 🐙ptoothfish🐙 • •At least that ten-year-old camera very much is still fully functional and can still take good pics, particularly if it's a decent SLR.
For example, the Canon EOS 5D II and Sony a900 are nearly 20-year-old SLRs and they're still very much respectable cameras by modern standards, at 21MP and 24.6MP respectively, and being full-frame on top of that.
Both are old enough to still use basic CF cards though, so if you're still rocking an SLR that old, you'll both need to source some CF cards and a way to read them.
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in reply to 🐙ptoothfish🐙 • • •Not gonna lie, I did at one point wonder what it'd be like to drive a car with an aircraft-style throttle.
My curiosity was satisfied when I played #EliteDangerous with a throttle-and-stick setup. Ground vehicles in the game work exactly as I had envisioned.
It was okay, but only if the throttle controls torque. If the throttle controls speed (i.e. computer controls torque) then you'll lurch a lot and probably bump into stuff. (The game lets you select either mode.)
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