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Re: I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

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Post by marcusjt »

komali2 wrote: post #188
sholladay wrote: post #168

I used to visit the iGrill website every couple of days and stress test my product there during development. I worked for Ai Squared on an app named Sitecues, which was a SaaS product that companies would add to their website to improve their accessibility for low vision users. We ran into a vast number of edge cases when trying to make our JavaScript library compatible with all of our customers' websites, many of wh…

How'd the company turned out? I'm pretty interested in accessible web dev and have toyed with the idea of working on profiling tools, or maybe something to show abled users just how shitty their site is to use with various access tools.

There's enough accessibility guidance and testing tools in the world, especially now that Deque have added premium features to AXE. The problem is product teams/squads not actually using the guidance and tools available to create fully accessible user experiences, the root causes of which are many.

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Post by habosa »

hnick wrote: post #95
9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #83

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> the absolute inability to override the order of items in the sharing panel As an extra F.U., it also changes the list of contacts after a second. So I try to tap on my wife, only to have it substituted with the plumber who came once half a year ago... and this of course gets logged by the AI, ensuring the plumber continues to hold pride of place in my contacts.

Is there an agreed upon name for this, where a website or app loads elements piecemeal so we click the wrong thing by mistake? I know it exists as an intentional dark pattern (so we just think that's what happened). But it also seems so common now across computing and it pisses me off every time.

Someone once told me this is called being "matador-ed" because it's just like pulling the cape away from the charging bull.

I love that term and the Android share dialog has always been my top example.

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Post by lostlogin »

swiley wrote: post #56
monadic2 wrote: post #31

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> Automatic on and off of various devices and removal of crap proprietary controllers and apps has made many things much better Off-hand I'd think for things like a grill I'd want this to be handled at the power strip level. Normally a grill, like a weber grill, is just a piece of metal and will last until you wear it out (even then it's mostly the flimsy legs that fail). If you add internet connectivity, the expecte…

The annoying thing is that I can’t ever seem to find power strips with individually addressable outlets. Not even being picky and sticking with an open protocol like ptpp but any kind of internet controllable power strip. All I can find are single outlets at ~$25 a piece.

I have had good success with TPlinks plugs. I use the single, the single with power monitoring and a multi plug with individually addressable outlets (not sure if it’s 4 or 6).

It plays nicely with Home Assistant. https://www.kasasmart.com/us/products/smart-plugs/kasa-smart...

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Post by swiley »

lostlogin wrote: post #224
swiley wrote: post #56

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The annoying thing is that I can’t ever seem to find power strips with individually addressable outlets. Not even being picky and sticking with an open protocol like ptpp but any kind of internet controllable power strip. All I can find are single outlets at ~$25 a piece.

I have had good success with TPlinks plugs. I use the single, the single with power monitoring and a multi plug with individually addressable outlets (not sure if it’s 4 or 6). It plays nicely with Home Assistant. https://www.kasasmart.com/us/products/smart-plugs/kasa-smart...

Thank you!

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Post by benbristow »

cubedrone wrote: post #132
hnick wrote: post #95

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Is there an agreed upon name for this, where a website or app loads elements piecemeal so we click the wrong thing by mistake? I know it exists as an intentional dark pattern (so we just think that's what happened). But it also seems so common now across computing and it pisses me off every time.

In my opinion, Windows search is the absolute most infuriating example of this, compounded by how slow it is. Let's name it so we can shame it

Runs fine for me. Are you using a SSD or a hard drive?

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Post by InitialLastName »

kroltan wrote: post #184
ethbro wrote: post #165

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My only explanation is that the Windows 10 search rewrite metadata was outsourced to a team that didn't actually know how Windows works. It seems like they stripped all metadata, including visual names of items themselves , and instead substituted random words. The result is like playing a text-based adventure game without a list of the verbs the game supports. Per memory, 7 and even 98 had a perfectly reasonable and…

Yes! For example, opening Visual Studio Code: If I type VS... Visual Studio Code! Cool. (wonder why it did not suggest Visual Studio itself which I also have installed, buy hey I got what I wanted) If I type VSC... ??? config files and some random XMLs from the deep realms of AppData If I type vscode... No results, try a web search! If I type Visual Studio... THE Visual Studio shows, but no Code in sight If I type Vi…

When I start typing "solidworks" it alternates (with lag) between the Solidworks core software and Solidworks Explorer. I only get the right one ~half the time, since it seems like it will open the one that would have loaded rather than the one that is at the top of the list when you hit enter.

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Post by InitialLastName »

Avery3R wrote: post #187
HeWhoLurksLate wrote: post #145

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Trying to get to the network devies page is equally infuriating- it's under network adapters and options in Control Panel, and may or may not actually be accessible from the new Settings app- I don't remember.

Win+R -> ncpa.cpl

How could I have forgotten?

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Post by ethbro »

InitialLastName wrote: post #227
kroltan wrote: post #184

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Yes! For example, opening Visual Studio Code: If I type VS... Visual Studio Code! Cool. (wonder why it did not suggest Visual Studio itself which I also have installed, buy hey I got what I wanted) If I type VSC... ??? config files and some random XMLs from the deep realms of AppData If I type vscode... No results, try a web search! If I type Visual Studio... THE Visual Studio shows, but no Code in sight If I type Vi…

When I start typing "solidworks" it alternates (with lag) between the Solidworks core software and Solidworks Explorer. I only get the right one ~half the time, since it seems like it will open the one that would have loaded rather than the one that is at the top of the list when you hit enter.

I definitely feel there's some poor-UX lazy loading of results.

But literally mystified why there isn't a prebuilt index table that instantly loads the top results.

All Windows apps / panels + last 250 files opened shouldn't be hard.

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Post by dreamcompiler »

crazygringo wrote: post #26
beervirus wrote: post #7

What a crock of shit that grills are now IoT devices. The less of my life that’s accessible on the Internet, the better.

I saw from another thread that this is actually for the temperature of a meat thermometer, that you can constantly monitor and without having to open the grill (which is undesirable). So actually not a crock of shit, and pretty useful if you're grilling/smoking over long periods of time before/during a big party or something. Not all grilling is quick searing. Sometimes new features aren't just gimmicks, you know?

I don't have one of these grills, but I'm willing to bet that you cannot monitor the grill temperature without a connection to the Internet. Because even though it's trivial to set up a wifi LAN-only connection, Internet-of-shit products never, ever work that way.
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