I posit that app icons serve 2 purposes.

1. Ideally, to convey some aspect of what the app does.

2. To provide a consistent visual for the user to make it easy to find the app on a crowded field of icons.

So, having said that, WHY THE FUCK do companies keep changing the icons of their core apps?? (Looking your way Google)

Are you purposefully trying to hide your products from me and make me hunt for them? 😡

#graphicDesign #UX #Google #Whyyyyyy

HEY LAZYFED!

Who sucks least these days at multi-node wifi?

(Be aware that the answer is NOT, repeat NOT ASUS, due to their "eh, dgaf, diaf" reaction to botnet-enabling security flaws.)

Thanks!

#networking #wifi #wireless #intranet #lan #MeshYouWereTheChosenOne #whyyyyyy

So our printer kicked the bucket a couple of days ago. This makes me sad because I have to get a new one now and I've come to the conclusion that printers are haunted are come directly from hell to punish us for our transgressions, real or imagined (see here: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers).

The thing is, our dear deceased model was a Brother model that worked without any setup on my part for which I was very thankful. I have no idea why it worked or how but it did. I'd really like to replicate this experience as best I can so thus the question I send into the void: Does anyone understand printing on Linux well enough to tell me under which circumstances a printer works without further setup? I'm running Fedora which has certain things preinstalled, I think (hplip and gutenprint but our model isn't listed in the supported printer lists of those packages).
Does it have to do with CUPS? I'd really like to avoid having to mess around with drivers myself.
Any help greatly appreciated. Boosts welcome.

#askfedi #printingOnLinux #askanyone #plshelpme #whyyyyyy

There needs to be a word for "angry, but not, like *really* angry, just roiling with discontent because of the incompetence on display at the clown show I call my job."

#engineering #engineer #jobsecurity #whyyyyyy