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I trace the downfall of technology to the day a computer first started trying to spell words wrong for me against my will and without even asking. 
What I really want from technology these days is passivity. Physical buttons, and PASSIVITY.
No guessing, no anticipating, no predicting.
No autofill, no autocorrect, no autodrive and PLEASE God no autoplay.
Just be inert until acted upon!
@_L1vY_ But then it would be harder to spy on you and steal your data? How could we sell functionality that is useless at best ?
@_L1vY_ or at least the option to turn these things off
@_L1vY_ "just be inert until acted upon"
Yes please!!
This is part of why I'm so thankful I got a used 2014 economy car lol. I'm gonna run it into the ground before I get something new.
@_L1vY_ I feel this toot in my bones. Technology nowadays is like trying to balance on 30 wood logs layered onto each other
@_L1vY_ You are so right. Especially in cars. Who was the creep who removed the Volume knob?
I like forks. Not a lot of twistiness or guile.
Forks do what they need to do, only when you grab 'em, poke morsels, and load food into the eating hole.
@_L1vY_ I wrote a post about Muammar Gaddafi 
and auto correct changed it to Ground Squirrel. 
The post still made sense so I left it. 
@_L1vY_ somebody in my circle recently made the passing claim that automated sinks and toilets might be the worst invention of the past hundred years. I never thought of it, but once I heard it, I can’t stop noticing and agreeing.
Anticipatory engineering is the absolute worst.
Like some corporate creep constantly interrupting to ‘finish’ one’s sentences, or a frotteur in the subway grabbing and humping away from behind like a sick monkey.
@clockwooork
Have we not shared and enjoyed with you? Organic lifeforms have no sense of fun!
@_L1vY_ @PeterLG
Hear, hear!
@_L1vY_ YES PLEASE
@_L1vY_ "Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter" 
@_L1vY_ @riotnrrd That is the very essence of the seventh of Shneiderman’s “Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design” (https://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/goldenrules.html), of course (and you might already be familiar with this, too):
“Keep users in control.”
Apple, Google, and Microsoft have ignored this for years now, but thankfully plenty of Indie coders still take it to heart. (As a long-time Mac-head, it makes me furious that Apple has adopted this #UX crap for macOS, too.) (1/2)
Here’s the verbatim text of that fundamental design principle whose original dates back to the mid-Eighties:
7. Keep users in control.
Experienced users strongly desire the sense that they are in charge of the interface and that the interface responds to their actions. They don’t want surprises or changes in familiar behavior, and they are annoyed by tedious data-entry sequences, difficulty in obtaining necessary information, and inability to produce their desired result. (2/2)
@_L1vY_ I don't contain any touchscreens.
And with that, we may get the return of buttons that DO SOMETHING on the FIRST PRESS.
@_L1vY_ HOW ABOUT SOME FLASHING ADS?
WOULD YOU LIKE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS FROM OUR MARKETING TEAM EVERY 15 MINUTES?
... Sorry. This is my backwards way of saying, "amen"
@_L1vY_@mstdn.social I have come to the conclusion that I want a very analog steam punk clothes washer, nothing automatic, just toggle switches to start the next function.
@_L1vY_ Crying in the void.
@_L1vY_ I've been saying this ever since VCRs started automatically playing tapes when you inserted them if the write-protect tab was removed.
@_L1vY_ I cannot put into words how much I agree! 
@_L1vY_ So much this!
Autocorrect on my phone frequently now offers me the choice of three words I don't want, when I just want to capitalise or decapitalise the word I wrote.
Eveline Sulman 
@_L1vY_ Also with everything else. I wanted a doll for my daughter that just "Be's a doll". No beeps, not voice, no other functions - just be the doll.
@_L1vY_ "We opted them in by default because no one would voluntarily opt in" vibes
@_L1vY_ Simplest is bestest 
Especially in cars. Touchscreen tech in cares are the work of Satan, and inherently unsafe. But, wow, is it cheap though; sadly, that means it is everywhere.
@_L1vY_ The touchscreen was a huge mistake.
@_L1vY_
Remember that it's always possible to turn these thiings off, as I do (except perhaps for the physical buttons 
)
But I won't ask you how you feel about ChatGPT........... 
@_L1vY_ And no secretly phoning home every couple of seconds.
@_L1vY_ no “not now”, no “maybe later”
@L1vY@mstdn.social @theresmiling and also no subscription features!
HAS MOVED @_L1vY_ Aside from other things this might help with, such as security and power saving, a good physical switch is just so statisfyingly tactile.
@_L1vY_ "calm technology," as Mark Weiser called it. Weiser died untimely young, and his colleagues sometimes say they're glad he didn't live to see what has been done with his ideas.
https://calmtech.com/papers/computer-for-the-21st-century
@_L1vY_ The thing I heard most when I first started using computers as a kid in the 80s was "garbage in, garbage out".
Now the computers won't even wait for my garbage! They supply crowd-sourced garbage all on their own, without my consent!
@ryanrandall
Even when they get great input - the quality uncut shit... they go ahead and hallucinate garbage.
@_L1vY_ @PeterLG