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   mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 04:36:17 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

   A lot of people - myself included, at times - deride "not invented here", and snark that "some people can't understand systems they haven't built themselves, but...

   Look at this: https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

   Just... look at it. Look at the contortions involved. Hours of effort, by somebody deep enough in the guts of this specific stack to know Regedit and the utilman/cmd trick, just so they could log into a machine with a full drive.

   How do you trust systems, or ecosystems, like this? How?

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 04:36:17 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

     in reply to

     • Cat Hicks

     How do you build a mental model of a system where "Wrong PIN" means "Your computer's hard drive is full because you bought a phone?"

     How can _anyone_ be expected to navigate a world like this?

     My friend @grimalkina wrote this a few weeks ago: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/

     ... and you should read it, but I have to believe that she is, as she always is, being far too kind.

     Maybe "being technical" just means, "I'm willing to act like this bullshit is normal and acceptable."