Designs you hate.

MattX

Solarmass They want to know if I'm a robot. Of course I am, the one with two flapping dildos for the hands. Exterminate!

Harvey If Apple would make an innovation in a toilet for example it turns into a hole in the floor with brushed aluminum ring around it and a little round trap on a hinge with cute backlighted Apple logo in it. Have a good poop.

brent

MattX They want to know if I'm a robot. Of course I am, the one with two flapping dildos for the hands. Exterminate!

I think they really hate you when they force you through six captchas. Just get that feeling..

Brucehankins

jppelt I really want to try one with Plasma Mobile. My concern with these is app availability. Most things are available via web apps, but I really do use my mobile for a lot, especially contactless payments.

I'm really watching the Pine phone, Purism, Fair phone, and even Hauweii with their ASOP fork. The fact that most aren't ready for general consumers still doesn't take away from my excitement about the possibility of a more diverse and exciting mobile ecosystem.

MattX

Brucehankins Big tablets with Linux may get some popularity. 12" tablet with Gnome 3 or 4 would be awesome.

elfprince

In my opinion, which nobody asked, a phone should be a device used to make calls and text messages. Period. Anything else is craziness. Want to play games, send/receive images/graphics and do browsing? Use a decent size tablet. EOF.

jppelt

elfprince Agree but reality complicates things. And now they are putting Driver IDs on phones. I make it a point to use my Pine on the weekends to get away from all the craziness but as @Brucehankins states, things like authy, contactless payment...makes it hard to go to Pine full time. I'm trying.

Staudey

elfprince I dunno, man. I like having the whole power of the internet at my disposal in a pocket-sized device. Can't put a tablet in my pockets.
I don't use my phone for extended periods of time, but for a quick Wikipedia search or similar when something comes up while I'm somewhere without a computer, I wouldn't want to miss it.
I might be in the market for some kind of foldable tablet or similar though, if they ever get the technology just right.

brent

elfprince Open source hardware is an exciting new foss direction and I want to start collecting bits and pieces (the only affordable way) for a future build I hope

elfprince a phone should be a device used to make calls and text messages. Period.

100% in agreement. "Smart" phone my arse-----they can keep it. Only a moneybags person can afford to pay for internet twice (home and phone). Seems such a scam. I am not moneybags. *But I wish I was!

elfprince

jppelt First thing, the eyes get damaged even more, trying to see and read. Second, the keyboard is not meant for typing on by a human hand. I understand what you are saying. 😀 For my part, I will keep resisting. Desktop is my most used device, and after that the tablet for light browsing/facebook etc. Resistance is NOT futile.

jppelt

elfprince I'm trying my best to get ride of mobile computing. I am 100% on my desktop at home. I'm trying to find alternate ways. I do use my Pine phone on weekends - battery life is miserable. SXMO is SUPER cool.

I agree. These phones have WAY too much information at their disposal and Apple has no more interest in your privacy than any big tech. As much as I can I go open source and try to keep everything distributed - minimize cloud, etc...

It is tough. At least I have Solus Budgie to look forward to when I sit down in the office. It's the little things, right? <smile>

elfprince

jppelt I am going fully open source, once big tech gets too big. 😁

elfprince

Staudey That is the only downside for me, needing an extra large pocket or a purse to carry a tablet in. 😆

niobleoum

well there is a lot of that.

DRM, cmon guys it was proved thousand times that its useless against piracy and only frustrate legitimate owners ironically encouraging piracy
everything that tech giants like google, apple & MS are doing. all of it is of questionable quality, overpriced and barely can fulfill the purpose it was designed for since iTs JuSt WoRkS and to top all of that they milk it with ads and selling your data, like its not enough that you paid for it already.
corporate art style.. seriously stop it, its atracious. also ultra minimalist art style, there is a line that you dont want to cross or it will simply look ugly, windows 8+ are good examples of that.
designs that sacrifice all the ergonomics for the sake of "aesthetics" or simply unergonomic designs overall like who the hell thought that designing arrow keys on most contemporary laptops the way they are makes sense.
people who dont care about clarity and cohesion principle while designing software, mageia's urpmi is a good example of it, I get it they wanted to be unique.. but its not a good thing for that matter (eopkg for instance is clear and neat).
most of social media, they were a mistake and now I see it
obligatory f#ck Nvidia
low quality and viariety of materials used for contemporary hardware, for most its just cheap plastic and some metal elements.. and thats all.
excessive usage of LEDs and cosmetics overall.
bland, cookie cutter designs of most of "gaming" gear. yeah guys everything needs sharp edges with neon hued details and of course finish it with LEDs why not, no one has done it before.
internet providers, why every single one of them has to treat their clients the worst way possible?

MattX

niobleoum designs that sacrifice all the ergonomics for the sake of "aesthetics" or simply unergonomic designs overall like who the hell thought that designing arrow keys on most contemporary laptops the way they are makes sense.

This is very important point. Like Apple accesories for iMac. They may look nice on a table or those dumb stock images for websites, but they are made for people with retarded hands with a brain parasite called manbuns on on the top of their heads that sucks all the common sense from their brains.

niobleoum bland, cookie cutter designs of most of "gaming" gear. yeah guys everything needs sharp edges with neon hued details and of course finish it with LEDs why not, no one has done it before.

Even if I like some gaming accesories design (big mice that are comfortable or some mechanical/membrane keyboards) but some of them look like something that fell out from xenomorph's a**. And the LED backlighted elements may look nice but in many cases they are annoying like those PC master race computer cases and mainboards full of lights. They even put RGB LEDs on freaking RAMs nowadays.

WetGeek

brent for a future build I hope

Just hope that they aren't mostly obsolete by the time you get around to that build. 🙄

MattX

brent I got enough of clicking at buses, airplanes, trains, trucks and traffic lights. I feel like a retard.

elfprince

MattX I really don't like those things.

MattX

elfprince No, no purse. At first it's only a purse, then you get a long beard and english moustache, scarf, your younger sister's pants, manbun, vegan diet and you are sitting at Starbucks with a macbook drinking soy latte posting photos of every weird stuff you order on facebook.

brent

WetGeek I realized at my sloth-like pace at projects that this is probably quite likely!

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