My old person trait is holding up traffic by driving at 40 mph on winding country roads until I get behind a tractor and then pull over to let the cars behind me pass.
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I just want people to use their turn indicators when they drive.
Ideally before they start turning, and possibly also before they hit the brakes.
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my old person trait is that I think I should be able to afford college, a car, and a home, on a part time job, like our grandparents could.
Mine is that I want to pay cash. For almost everything
My old person trait is that I believe fire is made out of magic and it scares me.
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my old person trait is wanting to overthrow capitalism and give everyone basic necessities
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Cars should have buttons and knobs. Not complicated menus and touchscreens. That’s not a “I don’t like change” thing, it’s a safety thing.
Hell yes I should own it if I pay for it.
Event tickets shouldn’t cost a month’s pay or more, fuck middleman businesses that do nothing except price gouge you as a “service.”
Exactly, I've railed on this exact topic.
a screen offers no tactile feedback.
You can learn what buttons feel like, and where they are (and the same for knobs) so yo ucan operate your vehicle without having to take your eyes off the road.
Tablets are sleek and shiny, and fundamentally horrible as a car interface.
I don’t necessarily have an issue with the screens. The problems are:
Commonly accessed features like choosing a media source, setting environmental controls, or even lighting, are buried several “clicks” deep. These need to be surface-level and need zero distraction from driving to interact with.
The “touch” part of touch-screen often sucks. Every car I’ve driven with touch interface requires too long of a press and/or doesn’t pick up the press. So you have to look away from driving to repeatedly mash a touch control. That’s not safe.
The touch area is often too small, such as arrow buttons to raise or lower volume, skip a song, or change temperature. Not only do they not register the touch, they’re too small. Double whammy for distraction.
and theres no tactile feed back. you have no idea where your finger is on the screen, So you have to take your eyes off the road to futz with a stupid menu in a stupid interface.
a button/knob? You can just reach, feel, and operate without ever taking your eyes or attention off the road.
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My old person trait is wishing my neighbors would stay out of my yard and stop breaking noise ordinance.
Lol 30 minutes on hold is nothing
Companies are incentivized to not help you. It is cheaper to run a low head count foreign call center with long wait times, and it also means some folks will give up which is cheaper than actually fixing their problems.
Unusually high call volume is no longer unusual but the norm and it will only get worse unless it is legislated against.
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Wow, they’ve already got you good, huh?
I read an article I’ve been trying to refine ever since, about how companies have bastardized the internet and every technological advancement to further insulate themselves from the customer. The the article stated that companies figured out how to use the internet backwards, but I’d argue that all of capitalism is built on this idea. Every “advancement” has benefitted companies at the expense of people. And technology is only used to increase profits while squeezing employees harder and giving customers less recourse.
I can’t imagine ever advocating for that.
I'm not advocating for long wait times, I'm just saying, 30 minutes is nothing compared to what some companies will do to you. Some people are on hold for hours, slowly going insane.
Does it count as being on hold for multiple days if you're in hold for 8 hours, the line shuts down, hangs up, and everyone working there goes home, you have to call back the next day, and you have to repeat that for three or four days until you finally reach someone or does that count as multiple incidents because
Insane how people immediately misread your statement and jumped on the down vote button lmao
None of these are actually old person traits. These are just things that should be happening automatically.
That's exactly what an old person would say!
My old person trait is that UI shouldn't change unexpectedly when you are trying to click or touch something.
it should not change unexpectedly, period.
I don't want to install an update and have the ui completely change on me because some dev wanted to pad out his resume by starting a new project on the fresh-framework-of-the-day.
Of course it shouldn't, that's one of the core principles of UI design, but these days it does anyway so it is an old person trait now
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Yes.
Pointless UI changes are a fucking atrocity, cause they are always more complicated and more informational overload than the previous design, while being more resource intensive and slower.
KISS is a motto for a reason. Unfortunately its the stupid people that seem to make the decisions and don't register that they are the ones KISS is directed at.
Right? I wait for everything to load and snap into place and then I touch my screen. SIKE! it's got one more button to put under my finger that instant.
I feel like this is a product of a lack of UX team or outsourcing it. When engineers are left to make a UI... they make what works (barely), not what is easy to use...
As a developer I need to be reigned in when it comes to design. I don’t know shit and have learnt that there are conventions for a reason.
Especially when you're given a deadline where you know that you can't afford to spend 10-20% of the time designing the interface lol