Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)

@AzulCrescent Lol, I am a native speaker and this one still throws me sometimes.

UI designers: please please please please please please please please please please please please give us a way to enter a number exactly instead of only a slider that can't be precise.

I know a difference of one seems unimportant to you, but I literally have to hold my breath unable to even breath right until I get it right. I know I'm not the only one out there. I don't want a value that is "close enough."

Just make the value text a box instead of a label.

This might be an #ActuallyAutistic thing, I don't know. Regardless, it's super simple to just make it a box I can manually edit.

This is even worse on mobile where taking your finger off the screen can move the bar.

And I KNOW I'm not the only one who feels this way.

#UI #UX #OCD #UXDesign #UIDesign

@joby @futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender Yeah, there are a lot of little scenarios where it can actually be useful and that's one of them. The best thing about that is it merely stimulates you to create on your own and you can just keep starting over and retrying until you have a pretty good pre-defined case in your head to start from with the real person.

As long as one doesn't forget that things may go wildly differently IRL, it can help build up towards a better version of what might otherwise be a tough conversation.

@futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender Summaries aren't reliable either.

There are indeed use-cases. But every single one of them comes with caveats. And, I mean, to be fair, most "quick" methods of doing anything come with caveats. It's just that people forget those caveats.

@dalias @sarahjamielewis Which functions are you referring to? I must admit I haven't needed them, so hadn't noticed.

@sarahjamielewis What is your opinion on LibreWolf? It has a lot of the same sorts of things, just sans the TOR networking. They even have most of the stuff for connections to Mozilla disabled or removed and some nice anti-fingerprinting stuff.

Though, long term, I'm holding out hopes for Servo to be a thing and give us an option that isn't beholden to any corporations.

@nixCraft I don't know. I had a pretty interesting experience a while back where an older system stopped working entirely with apt-get but worked fine with apt. It was like they handled databases differently and apt handled the newer stuff more correctly or something because apt-get couldn't do any upgrades anymore on that system.

@catsalad @ari That's honestly actually a little bit evil...

You really are four cats in a human suit aren't you?

@mcc I mean, if you think about it, we're already-

*Is hooked off the stage.*

@skinnylatte I imagined your cat just sitting calmly and then you start to take a bite and her head just swerves instantly locking eyes like a scene out of a horror movie.

Be safe!

@nixCraft MS Paint.

@RickiTarr Truth is stranger than fiction, right?

Or, lately, I see a lot of people saying "real life is a The Onion article."

@futurebird @justafrog @clayote I used to use AliExpress a lot back in the day when I actually bought stuff. I prefer Amazon for anything I may potentially have to send back (which lately is a lot since I'm down to more essentials only) but other than the really long wait time on AliExpress and the fact sometimes USPS would require a signature (which means if I'm not standing at the door when they drive up they mark it as not deliverable and I have to go in to the post office in person to get it) I couldn't say they ever gave me any troubles (not entirely their fault, but I did wish they wouldn't mark them as requiring a signature...)

They never did any identity theft or anything. I don't even think they sold my email address, though it's hard to be sure.

@Polychrome So... very... many... cats...

I LOVE THIS!

@kaia @Error I think it gets a more direct route to the CPU than some other PCI-E devices if I'm not mistaken. The directional arrow might be a bit misleading too.

@Laukidh YES! Thank you!

At least until recently you could override their "ignore what the user typed and search something else instead" behavior by using quotes, but lately even that is slipping...

@tek @catsalad I didn't actually say "never" 😁

I'm not saying you can't game on one at all, but it's definitely not built for gaming and in numerous ways will be a problem if you want to do gaming. And that's not even getting into issues like the lack of decent GPU (big no-no for serious gaming) and the nearly negative upgradeability path. (If I need a new GPU I don't have to buy a whole computer. I buy a GPU. I'll admit some components can be trickier -- new CPU can sometimes mean MB and RAM too -- but, it's still not a whole computer.)

@catsalad @tek Apple and. "Gaming PC" can't go in the same sentence.

@tek I've been messing around with a few options as a gamer myself. It's tricky. Nothing is quite 100%. For the best results I recommend something Arch based. I've gone back and forth and among the *buntu distros I'd recommend Mint for stability but for gaming with all the bells and whistles actually working, something Arch-based seems like the best way to go.

I liked Manjaro best as a good starter to learn the ins and outs. It has a lot of Just Works(tm) going for it right out of the box. Wayland and everything Just Works. I don't quite 100% trust the company and it sounds like they're leaning towards doing opt-out telemetry soon (or already?) which is a Very Bad Sign(tm). But it's a good start to learn Arch and then, from there, just go to Arch itself once you know it well.

@cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird 99.999% sure it is.

Synthetic training ultimately results in a breakdown of a model in a generation or two. They need non-synthetic input. And what better way than to mass deploy a system where users identify the outputs so they don't have to.

Except it's still pretty synthetic. We're being fed some pretty poorly made results and we don't understand our instructions. (Should I click this one? Will it count against me if I click it?) And of course they're low resolution too, which makes it that much harder for us to even determine what they are even supposed to be.

So I guess the good news is we're giving it at least some bad data. 😁