Post #2571012

2026-05-10 12:30 UTC

@datenwolf@chaos.social @tokyo_0@mas.to 1/2 You can still have the close button on the other side. In the days of 90MHz Pentiums I remember the long wait for a browser or other program to open. Click to minimise before you have done anything, close the window by accident and you would often have to wait a while to get the program back up and running. Not much fun when working on a high pressure help desk with a queue of dissatisfied customers on the phone and you have just closed the program you needed.

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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 12:32

@datenwolf@chaos.social @tokyo_0@mas.to 2/2 And warning dialogues are notorious for being clicked away automatically/ignored in other ways as users are in a rush. Or just oblivious to the fact that the dialogue contains information that they should really read and digest before clicking further.

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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2026-05-10 12:40

@the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Back in the 486DX2 / Pentium-1 days the main limit was available memory; swap space a band aid just so you could actually run software. Back in those days you actually had to terminate programs just to free up resources if you wanted to do something else. Even today I maintain the opinion, that programs should be developed with a mindset, that starting them should be nearly instantanuos. 1/

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