The IP Address thing drives me crazy too!
On 4/21/2020 11:51 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
Drives me nuts too.
I've already clicked a spot, and the object I just tried to click
moved at the last moment.
Also I start typing a URL and halfway through the cursor automatically
moves to the Google search box.
Also I start typing a URL and the browser wants to auto complete
something unrelated. Especially with IP addresses. I type in the
address bar "10.1.5.15" and the bastard fills it in as "10.1.5.154"
which I visited on another day. I press enter after typing the "15"
and I get 154 instead.
Also picture icons. I've gotten used to settings being either gears
or a hamburger, but everything else seems like the pictures are
unrelated to the function. I'm sure it makes localization easier to
have no fracking words. It's illegible to /everyone/ this way. Very
equal and fair.
I have no solutions. When I'm old and my mind is fraying I'll just go
sit in the rocking chair with a book and not use any of this technical
garbage. None of it works properly any damn way. I'll forget what
the book said and read it again next week like it was brand new.
It'll be amazing.
On 4/21/2020 12:37 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
<Curmudgeon mode>
It seems like I've noticed an uptick recently of slow loading dynamic
content. Like the web page will load, then like a second later,
everything rearranges on the page as more items decide to pop up. I
don't remember it being this bad before. I've had to use the FedEx
site recently, it's really bad about this.
The Youtube app on my phone now had Ad's that are bigger than half
the screen, so it will push a playing video 1/2 off the top of the
screen so it can show the entire ad below it while the video is playing.
I've been trying to explain over the phone to an older relative how
to use an Amazon FireTV box I've given her so she can watch her
church services. She has never used a computer, and barely used a
VCR. She does not inherently know what Icons on the remote mean
(play/pause, etc). Her fingers to not operate independent of her
Eyes, so she has to look at her fingers as they are doing something
(why she's never been able to figure out how to use a mouse, gets
cursor lined up, looks at hand to push mouse button, cursor moves,
click does nothing). She watches TV by typing in the channel
number. So the instructions need to be like 'Push the button with a
house, then Push the bottom of the big circle down 2 times, then push
the middle of the big circle' But this never works, as
Amazon/youtube will always re-order the icons, and Since she's not
looking at the screen, she doesn't see the 'selected' icon is
changing as she is pushing buttons. (any tips on helpful
explanations for this would be appreciated)
My FireTV at home has also been pulling re-arranging the Icons after
it's started up. Just the amount of time for you to select the app
you want, and as you're clicking, they all re-arrange and you've
opened the wrong thing.
I think bottom line is I'm starting to get to old for all these
new-fangled Technogizmos. I can't imagine it getting better, only
worse from here on, as every content developer under the sun want's
to have their own interface for their content.
</Curmudgeon Mode>
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