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"When I was young, I remember watching my grandfather deteriorate from a powerful, intelligent figure to a frail wisp of a man, who could barely make his own way home."

— Picard in TNG episode Night Terrors

My mother 66 never got comfortable with using computers but loves her iPad.

She reaches out to touch my MacBook display every so often when I show her stuff.

This is the lowest common denominator that Apple is designing for lately.

It's ergonomically terrible.

It doesn't work.

Steve Jobs said this in October 2010 during Apple's "Back to the Mac" special event, where the company was previewing Mac OS X Lion.

Everything is going down the drain right in front of our eyes.

I can't make sense of any counterargument as anything but copium.

Great, what about watching porn?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We came from CLI with white text on black. Now dark mode is all the rage for the last couple of years.

I know OLED and all but interfaces feel just like fashion now, to hell with affordances and improving how things actually work let's just make things pretty for that micro dopamine drip and change it up just for the sake of it because jazz hands looks new makes $$

"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky."

— Ojibwe proverb

You can if you store the energy somehow.

This I leave to your imagination.

I specifically remember having 420 MiB, dunno anything else.

Flashback to TabWorks.

Compaq Presario 486 1994, I was 10.

And yes, played Myst on it.

Tempus fugit…

I'm not piling on, just an honest question.

Do you consider Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro as mediocre?

Silicon Valley suffers an utter lack of respect for the user, it's user-hostile.

I remember that comment, it's perfect.