Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?

[dfx4509b@friendica.world]

@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.

[jbaert@mastodon.social]

@ptoothfish 90% of my tech troubleshooting is old people who get confused because the latest crapware phone update shuffled everything around again

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@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.)

[pifster@mindly.social]

@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?

[dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz]

@ptoothfish It could be worse. Those buttons and levers could slide around and expand and contract and disappear and reappear while you use them.

[0ptimist@troet.cafe]

@ptoothfish

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@pifster @ptoothfish So now you have no idea how it works and no basis for thinking it does what you want, and you're oddly okay with that.

Cool, carry on.

[ra_negm@mastodon.social]

@cascheranno @ptoothfish Das glaube ich nicht. Auch wenn man die Knöpfe da lässt, wo sie sind, bleiben Autos im Privateigentum die mit Abstand teuerste, ineffizienteste, gefährlichste, unsozialste und klimaschädlichste Art der Fortbewegung, unzuverlässiger als jeder Zug oder jedes Flugzeug – und das will was heißen.

Dennoch geben die Menschen ein halbes Vermögen für Autos aus. Das hat offenkundig rein emotionale Gründe. Menschliche Verstandestätigkeit ist jedenfalls nicht zu erkennen.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@ptoothfish @bri7 did you get accused of harassing those UI developers? That send to be the trend these days

[s1m0n4@ohai.social]

@GiffordJames @ptoothfish ok, but I had a similar experience when Ubuntu at some point decided to look like #Windows and I had to change to #Linux Mint Xfce to find a simple UI for a boomer-minded person like me.

It doesn't only happen in the Microsoft world.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@dpiponi @ptoothfish "Contract and disappear" - absolutely this.

It would be like the steering wheel disappearing into the dashboard when the car was driving in a straight line.

Scroll bars that fade in and out as the window you are using does not have focus or you are reading the content.

Then applications implementing their own take on scroll bar style.

GTK desktops under Linux used to be a paragon of consistency around Ubuntu 16.04/18.04.

It has been downhill ever since.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@ptoothfish And if one look at cars, there is also a wish to make those buttons not physical, but on screen.