People expect technology to suck because it sucks
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Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#2Upvoted for the headline before I even read the post; and in full agreement after reading. I'm somewhat inspired to keep a similar diary of techno-suck moments... but there would be so many!
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#3Hi,
I never stopped to think about how much time I spend on this kind of request, just to get what I'm trying to obtain. Then, if we are worried about using our time wisely, what to do?
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#4This might sound like a flippant question, but it's not.
Isn't the point of tech to tinker? When did problems become problems that you shouldn't try to solve, instead of a reason to learn about the tech?
I've really been down about technology lately, after working with 6-12th graders. They just don't get how anything works, if it doesn't immediately work for them. They don't want to take it apart and figure it out.
This blog piece just seems like more of that. Why bother with figuring out how things work when you can just throw them away?
Now get off my lawn, I guess.
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#5This might sound like a flippant question, but it's not. Isn't the point of tech to tinker? When did problems become problems that you shouldn't try to solve, instead of a reason to learn about the tech? I've really been down about technology lately, after working with 6-12th graders. They just don't get how anything works, if it doesn't immediately work for them. They don't want to take it apart and figure it out. T…
.. sure, until you have to do something for realsies and the tech is the only way to do it. Then it's just fucking your life over.
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#6I'll point out that many of these annoyances don't have equivalents on the command-line. And the annoyances I do have on the command line I can mostly work around with wrapping things in shell scripts, aliases, or functions.
It's nice to have a simple interface and high extensibility on top of it.
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#7This might sound like a flippant question, but it's not. Isn't the point of tech to tinker? When did problems become problems that you shouldn't try to solve, instead of a reason to learn about the tech? I've really been down about technology lately, after working with 6-12th graders. They just don't get how anything works, if it doesn't immediately work for them. They don't want to take it apart and figure it out. T…
.. sure, until you have to do something for realsies and the tech is the only way to do it. Then it's just fucking your life over.
Explain further, please. I don't think I'm following you.
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#8As Douglas Adams famously said, "Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet".
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. sure, until you have to do something for realsies and the tech is the only way to do it. Then it's just fucking your life over.
Explain further, please. I don't think I'm following you.
It's one thing to tinker with Linux to learn how the OS works and another thin to troubleshoot it just as you are about to give a presentation.
Re: People expect technology to suck because it sucks
#10This might sound like a flippant question, but it's not. Isn't the point of tech to tinker? When did problems become problems that you shouldn't try to solve, instead of a reason to learn about the tech? I've really been down about technology lately, after working with 6-12th graders. They just don't get how anything works, if it doesn't immediately work for them. They don't want to take it apart and figure it out. T…
People want to drive cars, not all of them want to be mechanics.
People want their phones and software to just work. Or at the very least not get bricked every friggin update.