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   Chris Martin (chris__martin@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 05:06:09 JST Chris Martin

   The notion that people choose to use computer applications because they are useful at accomplishing tasks is extremely outdated. The vast majority of software use is not voluntary.

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     Chris Martin (chris__martin@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 20:48:34 JST Chris Martin

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     We choose or are required to engage with a person, organization, business, government. They dictate what software to use for the interaction based on what is most convenient and advantageous to them.

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     Chris Martin (chris__martin@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 20:48:34 JST Chris Martin

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     I have been thinking about this ever since years ago Julie explained to me that the reason she dislikes graphical user interfaces is they feel like prisons because to a much larger extent they are an experience fully orchestrated by somebody else.

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     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 07:25:18 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

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     @chris__martin
     I have a child in school and they use Chromebook.... My stomach churns because I was part of the introduction of Chromebook to education and it was not supposed to end up this way.

     It seems criminal that with all the open source UX tooling that we impose a brittle UX intended e-commerce and office automation.