@tvaziri Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but if he ran into *ANY* of these niggling, "Pebble In Your Shoe" annoyances, entire departments would get fired...

How many accidental screenshots of his wake-up alarm do you think he would endure before he told Jony Ive, "Fuck Symmetrical Purity!"

How many times would his "Airdrop" show "No People Found" — even after French Kissing each other's devices — before he'd get fed up and demand some kind of brute-force "Broadcast My Presence" button?

And how many times would he be like, "Remind me again why I should 'Reduce Protections' just because I reloaded a freakin' web page?!??"

@Free_Press

The Constitution needs an Emoluments Clause.

(Oh, wait...)

@schlauschlau

Even though, objectively, I was obviously really, *REALLY* lucky, this one still pissed me off:

Wordle 1,657 3/6

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PS: For what it's worth, I don't actually use a Starting Word; my first guess is always the solution to the PREVIOUS day's puzzle... So even though I'm guaranteed to never get it in one, I prefer the chaos / unpredictability of having to come up with different guesses every day. 🤓

@cquest @somedude @pluralistic

Not eWorld, but in 1989 we had Quantum Link (Q-Link) for Commodore users, which offered Club Caribe.

An anecdote: I remember when I was 15, I actually met a girl on Q-Link who was my age and went to school in the same county as me, less than ten miles away... (Looking back, I'm not sure if there was some kind of localized, geographical affinity — like because we dialed into the same bank of Telenet/Tymnet modems or something, we ended up connecting to the same server or whatever — but it seemed *VERY* unlikely at the time that you'd be in a chat room with somebody who lived so close, physically. «shrug»)

Anyway, I'm also not sure where to draw the line between "IRL" and "virtual" because neither of us could drive, but we would talk on the phone for literally HOURS every day. And once I got my license, we still only ever met _In Person_ like twice before she and her mom moved to another state four years later — so yes, she really *WAS* my age, and really *DID* exist! (Catfishing wasn't really a Thing yet when so few people had modems, and they topped out at 2400 baud...)

In retrospect, however, perhaps that was a blessing; she would have been *WAY* out of my league otherwise! 🤓

@danbelascorogers

All the more reason to insert them randomly! 🛼

@nixCraft
It all started with "Flat UI"... Why should I spend an extra thousand dollars on something that I could draw in PowerPoint?

(And remember the vaunted Human Interface Guidelines? Discoverability, Consistency, Fitt's Law, and all that? Pffft!! Now I can't even shut off my alarm in the morning without accidentally taking a screenshot... «sigh»)

@ann3nova

[Apologies: Every time I see a ThinkPad, it triggers my "pie in the sky" computer keyboard fantasies...]

The only thing that would make the ThinkPad more perfect, IMHO, is if they moved the JoyNub to between the N–J–M rather than the G–B–H...

(I get that it's cheaper for them to manufacture a single, ambidextrous model, which is "equally inconvenient" for everyone, but I can dream, can't I? «grin»)

Actually, what the heck... You might as well go ahead and put a second joystick between the C–F–V, as well! Then you could map it in software to, e.g., pan/swipe, or "nudge" the pointer one pixel at a time, or something — and left-handed people could swap them as they see fit...

PS: And while I'm at it, how 'bout a Scroll Wheel between the I–K–O (and E–D–R?) I don't need colored keycaps and all that "glitz", but actually USEFUL innovations would be a welcome change. 🤓