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   Anon Opin (anon_opin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 21:22:20 JST Anon Opin

   Changing the user interface on phones and other computers every few months doesn't really help anyone. We need laws to keep user interfaces stable for at least 10 years at a time.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 21:22:17 JST Rich Felker

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     • Hein Ragas

     @heinragas @anon_opin No, this is just false. Some trend chasers and "techie" dorks want that. Most users are not even users by choice and just don't want their lives disrupted by somebody else's whims.

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     Hein Ragas (heinragas@mublog.nl)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 21:22:19 JST Hein Ragas

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     @anon_opin Users want new things and better features, but also that everything stays just as it is. Both of those things can't be true at the same time.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 22:06:53 JST Rich Felker

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     • Hein Ragas

     @heinragas @anon_opin That is NOT "wanting new things and better features". It's exactly what I said: not wanting tech industry shitheads disrupting their lives. There is no excuse for new PDFs not being compatible. There is no excuse for security fixes changing your UI. There is not even an excuse for software being architected such that security fixes are needed.

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     Hein Ragas (heinragas@mublog.nl)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 22:06:54 JST Hein Ragas

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @anon_opin I'm not saying that every user wants every new feature. But your phone is not an island, and the world keeps moving.

     Want security updates? The PDF format is changing, do you want to keep reading PDFs on your phone? Browser technology advances, do you want to be able to use every website?
     Those are all changes, and users want them -- or at least should care about the security updates at the minimum.