Post #148008
2026-01-21 19:25 UTC
Replies (40)
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@cascheranno@hachyderm.io 2026-01-21 20:50
@ptoothfish 💯 - if we did cars like tech does software, folks would have given ‘em up and gone back to walking.
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@BenjaminKlein@mastodon.nu 2026-01-21 20:57
@ptoothfish that is exactly what happened to modern cars... https://youtu.be/HauQtcj7UTM
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@BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-21 20:59
@ptoothfish *looks at my pickup truck* I want an AI program to drive this thing into oncoming traffic and stop in an intersection, all while locking me inside and preparing to blow it up! 😃 *side eyes Waymo and Tesla*
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@pavsmith@theblower.au 2026-01-21 21:33
@ptoothfish you mean the UN*X shell? first experience in 1985. suspect i'd be okay today.
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@Soozcat@vmst.io 2026-01-21 21:33
@ptoothfish THIS. It's a colossal waste of time and productivity to have to relearn everything you had gotten so comfortable with, it was down to muscle memory. But no, some code weenies have to justify their jobs by making everything new and different.
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com 2026-01-21 21:46
@ptoothfish @vertigo this reminds me of people who are on 1-3yr auto leases, and phone upgrades every 6-24mo. There are folks who live in utter chaos at all times with everything changing all the time like it's just normal and ... (yeah I can't fathom it).
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@croyle@wandering.shop 2026-01-21 21:57
@ptoothfish ^^^ THIS!
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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 2026-01-21 22:23
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz its not a toot about openbsd or alpine linux tho 🙂
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@rainynight65@aus.social 2026-01-21 22:24
@ptoothfish It was bad enough when I had a rental car recently and the indicator was on the other side of the steering wheel, where decades of muscle memory expect the window wipers to be.
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social 2026-01-21 22:30
@ptoothfish My linux setup is still about as close to the 2006 version as you can get, plus an early Mac style dock. If it works...
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@tanquist@masto.ai 2026-01-21 22:34
@ptoothfish How timely. After weeks of tearing my hair out trying to deal with confusing and non-functonal aspects of the new Outlook, my supervisor asked me why I don't just use Outlook (classic). I replaced my shortcuts today and it's going much better. Windows 11 still sucks, though.
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@Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk 2026-01-21 22:49
@ptoothfish But if they didn't periodically resize the keyboard buttons on touchscreens and round off the corners to minimise the chances of your hitting the letters cleanly there'd be no opportunity for the mandatory AI autofill to tell your doctor you want a repeat prescription for a Palaeozoic armoured fish.
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@zgryphon@gweep.cat 2026-01-21 22:56
@ptoothfish I have in fact thought that about a car, but in that case I started so thinking within a few days of acquiring the car and spent the entire 8 to 10 years continuing to think it.
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@60sRefugee@spacey.space 2026-01-21 23:03
@ptoothfish I've imagined a "Twilight Zone"-esque short about a man who every day wakes up in an alternate timeline where everything's almost the same except that all devices have completely different (often absurd) controls which he has to relearn every day. He ends up living in the Canadian wilderness in a log cabin he built himself.
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@maikek@fedifreu.de 2026-01-21 23:07
@ptoothfish That's just to keep you alert 😉 My brothers once tried to establish a system, where the F1 key would alternately trigger HELP or Format C:
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@Howitzer105mm@pdx.social 2026-01-21 23:19
@ptoothfish I have a 2024 Snodgras Rapier and a 2024 Snodgras Defender and it would be so nice if the steering wheel controls were identical, the dash controls were identical, the dashboard instrument placement were identical, and so on. Sadly the Snodgras Motor Company has no concept of uniformity in controls. It also doesn't seem to believe there is value in building common parts in bulk.
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@nicelady@theforkiverse.com 2026-01-21 23:28
@ptoothfish I always think about how much "cleaner" the car would look if, for example, there was just one pedal which opened a series of menus hiding functions like "brake"
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@virtualbri@mastodon.online 2026-01-21 23:28
@ptoothfish :spittake: God I laughed so hard at this. And then imagined mandatory drill upgrades that moved the power button each time. And then laughed some more.
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@eedly@mindly.social 2026-01-21 23:40
@ptoothfish Yes, all the time, but I'm left-handed and chronically cranky and I prefer motorcycles.
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2026-01-22 00:03
@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”. @Szescstopni
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@GiffordJames@mas.to 2026-01-22 00:36
@ptoothfish I‘d ask *which* operating system, but, well… ehm…
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@pauldotm@aus.social 2026-01-22 01:05
@ptoothfish actually the operating system need not change other than improved capabilities and performance. User Interfaces generally don’t need to change other than correcting mistakes. Applications changing the UI obviously either got it wrong the first time or are just trying to justify cost increase for the same functionality.
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@pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz 2026-01-22 02:16
@ptoothfish also tesla's
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@Odradek@chaos.social 2026-01-22 02:33
@ptoothfish say drill- and carmakers: "sry, our fault" and buld in obsolescence so they don't last 8+ years
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@david@theblower.au 2026-01-22 03:05
@ptoothfish this could also be about the EV market.
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems 2026-01-22 03:11
@ptoothfish i post something to this effect semi-regularly and i almost always get pushback from people. It boggles me
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@dfx4509b@friendica.world 2026-01-22 03:53
@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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@jbaert@mastodon.social 2026-01-22 03:58
@ptoothfish 90% of my tech troubleshooting is old people who get confused because the latest crapware phone update shuffled everything around again
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-22 04:03
@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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@pifster@mindly.social 2026-01-22 04:32
@ptoothfish I hear you loud and clear. But sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. Our developer sadly passed away, and I had to use AI to rewrite our charity's front-end from scratch. It's different, but the same. Sometimes there's a reason for change?
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-22 04:36
@ptoothfish It could be worse. Those buttons and levers could slide around and expand and contract and disappear and reappear while you use them.
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@0ptimist@troet.cafe 2026-01-22 05:07
@ptoothfish 😂👍
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@mihamarkic@mastodon.social 2026-01-22 08:36
@ptoothfish And if one look at cars, there is also a wish to make those buttons not physical, but on screen.
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@semitones@tiny.tilde.website 2026-01-22 13:26
@ptoothfish maybe I can't fully relate to this, because during my formative computer years, every time I got to use a new OS at school or at home or wherever, seemingly ever 2 years or so, it was way better than the old one. Apple 2, Mac 7-8-9-X, dos,win 95-98-XP-7... So when a plasma 6 comes out or whatever I'm all about seeing what it can do. Cars though, shit those peaked with when one car could play tapes, CDs, aux, AND Bluetooth all in the same car.
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@datenhalde@nrw.social 2026-01-22 13:33
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz "don't make me think", revisited, time and time again
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@GinevraCat@toot.community 2026-01-22 13:37
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz Wish me luck. My iPad wants to update tonight. Going from version 18 to 26. something. Eeeeep!!!
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@datacyclist@swiss.social 2026-01-22 13:49
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz Looking at you, BMW Australia.
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@acm_redfox@jawns.club 2026-01-22 15:52
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz I feel like there's some pressure on designers to show that they've made enough visible changes to justify their existence, even if there are only a few functional tweaks. torment your most experienced users for fun and profit!!
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@digitalstefan@fosstodon.org 2026-01-23 17:17
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz I've done a thing I said I would never do and it was partially driven by Microsofts undeniable continuous enshittification of Windows. I have today ordered a MacBook. I was recently sent one as a work laptop (work want to standardise their laptop fleet) and I found the learning curve wasn't as awful as first feared. Took me 5 days to get comfy with some of the odd paradigms.
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@nicksalt@mas.to 2026-01-23 17:33
@ptoothfish@mastodon.nz yup. Give me Workbench 3 or System 7 with all the new tech developments behind the interface.