Farid @ abfarid @startrek.website

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You're not wrong, as it's your personal subjective experience, which can't be wrong.
But the fact that it pisses you off implies that you don't understand the reason behind it.
We used to have information-dense UIs before because:

• devices used to have only large screens with lower resolution.
• devices were used primarily be specialists for productivity.

Which means programs had to fit a lot of stuff in very few pixels. Nowadays, vast majority of users are casual, the people of the land, fatfingering their tiny displays. They don't need a ton of buttons and sliders. In fact, a common user would get overwhelmed by all that, even on the desktop. And while a small amount of people would benefit from a denser UI for the same casual apps, it's usually not with the effort designing and implementing them.

Thanks, I hate it.

Btw, that Nathan Fillion gif is from Castle and not Firefly.

Is it short for Wartholomeow?

That Windows XP Merlin though.

I accidentally responded to your other comment in a different thread.

Depends on what you use to emulate and how much you want to hurt the device.
I usually emulate using RetroArch and it got all the CRT shaders you might want. Unless you get really into it. Look for CRT shaders with words "hylian glow", geom and royale. There even exist some advanced shaders for high refresh rate monitors that try to emulate CRT beam.

You can also check out Retro Crisis on YouTube to get started.

That's not just scaliness but a full-on CRT shader with phosphor glow and stuff 👌

Not to brag, but I have comments with, like, 11+ upvotes.

Allosaurus?

Oh right, didn't pay enough attention. But it was the first thing I saw in the morning.

Shouldn't 7/10" actually be 7/20"?

I had a class about fork() on my Operating Systems course yesterday. I was going to look up the fork bomb, that the teacher didn't even tell us about >:( , but it somehow found me instead.

It's a Lemmy award.

What happens if you put powdered milk into milk? Milk²?

points at butterfly
Is this ADHD?

I didn't know that it's possible to collapse the post body, that's good to know. In that case, it would be great if it there was an option to have it collapsed by default because vast majority of posts are images or links, and they are already visible on the left side, so opening a post just shows the content twice.

Alexandrite in shambles.

And it would be immensely better if there was an option to automatically scroll down to comments.

But the post is about censorship and controlling the narrative. WhatsApp doesn't do that. If we are talking about corpo apps that do any sort of communication, then the list should be much longer.

Why is WhatsApp on the list? Is it used as a social network?