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> The second one is most software contains bugs. Users that expect to get things done simply choose workflows to avoid the worst consequence of those bugs very quickly.

I feel like a substantial source of everyday irritation are bugs like this in bad software. It’s frustrating that devs just don’t care.

You could make software that doesn’t require your users to work around its shortcomings.

Summarize it with an LLM.

Farming is not done for profit?

Even the smaller subreddits tend to have lots of groupthink. There’s usually a prevailing viewpoint on any given sub and anything contrary is downvoted to oblivion.

Maybe I’m not looking at the right subreddits though, who knows.

Context and nuance? On Reddit? Usually I think it lacks both.

Makes sense for Samsung. :(

> you can stop and resume on smaller units of time

You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.

100% agree, and it’s ironic given that the blog is for/about design …

> I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year.

This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was easy/free everyone would be growing all their own food.

Legal research services (access to dockets, case text, etc.) tend to be extremely expensive. I think making that more widely available is a good thing for people with limited resources. It's kind of nuts how impenetrable the legal system is if you don't have any resources.

> I immediately notified Austin's police (APD) as I could see where it was going.

Was the tracking good enough to reasonably narrow it down to a single person?

I think people expect too much of the police with a lot of these tracking devices/services. I don't have any experience with AirTags, but I know Apple's Find My can narrow down the location of e.g. a lost phone to a street corner. But if you're in a city there's a decent chance that there's more than one person on that street corner. The police can't/shouldn't stop everyone there and search them. Tracking a stolen item to a house is even harder (need a warrant). And an apartment is probably impossible because I doubt the tracking is good enough to narrow it down to a particular unit.

Yeah, but wires are also a subpar user experience, period. Rolling them up to store them, untangling them to use them, getting caught on things, routing them to the device, etc. There's a reason bluetooth headphones are still popular despite the downsides.

> Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions priced at less than $0.99. Why not? What if I had a product that i wanted to sell for $0.50 a month?

I’d pay $0.50 more.

I just had the unpleasant experience of canceling a non-Apple controlled service. It sucked. Pages and pages of “are you sure you want to cancel” dark patterns.

You guys did this to yourselves with absolutely shitty customer experience. Could not care less if Apple makes things harder for you. Do not care if I pay more.

Is this a dark pattern? I'm ok with shadow bans if they're reserved for those egregiously abusive users who ruin the community for everyone else. Let them shout into the void.