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If you just tap anywhere without pressing the play button all of that UI goes away and you get back to the pure video, just paused...
Can’t tap on a console connected to a living room TV.
Wow, 44 times a day, on average! That's about once every 20 minutes for the entire day. I can't imagine why anyone would need to access the fridge that often. It's almost like they don't understand what the fridge is for. Anyway, if you don't want this, don't buy it. They either wired their fridge into their network or gave it access to their wifi. What, exactly, did they expect? The guy even keeps saying "it's just…
When you have kids you will understand - open the door - looks at the contents - frowns and then closes it again repeated several times during the day. "I was looking for something nice". Explaining that we shop once a week and that the fridge won't magically fill with popsicles before that does not seem to make a difference.
(I'm not saying it should be internet connected for that purpose though.)
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It seems most "UX" tends to be less about the user and more about exposing the product. One example is the pause screens in Netflix and other streaming services. I sometimes want to pause the screen to read a letter or examine easter eggs left by the movie producers. I can't do that, as Netflix has a semi-transparent overlay with lots of unnecessary graphics and voting buttons. Half the screen is also covered with th…
Absolutely! The top issue with model universally terrible UX is precisely trying to bring attention to itself rather than simply being the most efficient means to an end: interacting with the software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser#Ubiquitous_computi...
Ubiquitous computing and calm technology
Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.
— Mark Weiser
During one of his talks, Weiser outlined a set of principles describing ubiquitous computing:
- The purpose of a computer is to help you do something else.
- The best computer is a quiet, invisible servant.
- The more you can do by intuition the smarter you are; the computer should extend your unconscious.
- Technology should create calm.
In Designing Calm Technology, Weiser and John Seely Brown describe calm technology as "that which informs but doesn't demand our focus or attention."
1996 Computer Science Challenges for the Next 10 Years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jwLWosmmjE
Designing Calm Technology:
https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm-technolo...
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What about... turning it upside down and let graivity do its job?
That could be something the fridge can suggest, in email+notification+display on the outside [in flashing red]! You're on to something here! Maybe the slapping hand (that warns you you've opened the fridge enough for the day) can be used to slap the back of the Ketchup bottle as well.
The iHeinz can then send a notification to the manufacturer who then passes it to the Ketchup Police.
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Vacuums from Dreame and Roborock can be rooted with some effort and be used completely offline with Valetudo. It's getting harder and harder though.
Why do they invest effort in making this harder? They could just make it easy for at least a single model they keep producing and capture the whole niche of customers (and also get free advertisement by "the word of mouth" on HN and alike places) with no additional investment.
Less charitable: they don't want you to root it for various corporate reasons
I recently bought a 32" 4K monitor. Two different models were at at that point inexpensive enough to tempt me. A smart one, and different brand, dumb one for $50 more. I bought the latter. I'm happy. The market decides, right? What is actually happening here? 1. Most people actually like this overdone gimmickry? 2. Most people think they will like it, buy it and then get sick of it? Thus people like me, who seek out…
Could you please share a link to the dumb one you ended up purchasing?
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What about... turning it upside down and let graivity do its job?
Maybe the bottle can include a time crystal that could advance the time by an hour so you don't have to wait for gravity. I'd honestly rather buy ketchup in a refill bag for my plastic bottle than a glass bottle.
Also works well on honey bottles
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Maybe the bottle can include a time crystal that could advance the time by an hour so you don't have to wait for gravity. I'd honestly rather buy ketchup in a refill bag for my plastic bottle than a glass bottle.
The secret is to store the bottle upside down in your fridge. Also works well on honey bottles
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What about... turning it upside down and let graivity do its job?
Maybe the bottle can include a time crystal that could advance the time by an hour so you don't have to wait for gravity. I'd honestly rather buy ketchup in a refill bag for my plastic bottle than a glass bottle.
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Oh man, I absolutely hate the touch buttons on my stove. A simple action like turning the heat up or down takes 2 actions and five minutes – you have to touch for a duration before the action registers.
And yet I still manage to accidentally press them when I don’t mean to. The other day I wished out loud that my stove had a button to turn on the buttons so the buttons would work when I want and not work when I don’t. Maybe the next gen model will have a Button Button^TM and we will have reached peak absurdity.
Please, make it a switch. A touch button will never work there.