Post #1164776
2026-04-13 01:28 UTC
@TechConnectify's term "user-hostile" is the perfect description for automakers doing dumb things like burying the odometer in a touchscreen menu -- and not a new phenomenon, like when Ford and various others moved the horn button to the end of the turn signal stalk in the 1970s. Sometimes "because we've always done it that way" is a perfectly reasonable explanation of why not to change a critical user function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhEWdBgZYo
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@Conqy@jorts.horse 2026-04-13 01:33
@vwestlife@mastodon.social every day my decision to never buy a car made after 2012 becomes more vindicated.
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@dressupgeekout@bsd.network 2026-04-13 22:17
@vwestlife@mastodon.social Most manufacturers seem to have gotten the idea lodged in their head that to produce a new product means to make all those sorts of pointless changes, as if they're asking themselves, "What would be the differentiating factor, otherwise?" I wish I could tell them, "People don't usually buy things for the new bells and whistles; frequently, we buy new purely because we want something newly assembled."
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@yalek0391@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 04:44
@vwestlife@mastodon.social @TechConnectify@mas.to I just want my analog rollback odometer back again!!!!