subhuman@xgtx wrote:I dislike the overall user interface/web design move towards flat design. Everything everywhere looks the same. Having less visual hints gets to a point where it starts becoming counterproductive, and the excessive use of white on white (alas Windows 10 Appx/Explorer) is exhausting for people like me who have to cope with myodesopsia.
Sorry! I love 256 color icons and 3d shaded menus too much.
I agree, I've heard people talk about how much they enjoy the way applications and the web look now, i wouldn't want to completely remove that option for people if they really enjoyed it that much, but i would at least like an option for everyone, including those 256 colors and 3d menus that i adore. Not sure how difficult this would be on developers but hey i can dream.
leileilol wrote:I hate how 'skinned apps' look when they come from commercial software. More often than not those particular ones don't respect custom color schemes that do white over black text and accessibility....
i.e. everything since 2000
Ah, yes, i believe I've used some of those applications, luckily though i think they had options to switch to the system scheme, whenever they didn't though, they would stick out like a sore thumb among all your other applications.
DosDaddy wrote:For Doom mappers a lot of things have changed. Personally I was and still am very satisfied with WadAuthor. It's clean, fast, powerful and intuitive. Sure it has it's very own way of doing things, but I don't recall ever hitting a wall for vanilla maps, and I never had it crash on me either. Unfortunately this beautiful piece of software was abandoned many moons ago.
Surely Doom Builder (the long established de facto Doom map editor) wasn't the first one to get a 3d editing mode, but that kind of takes away from the overall experience and thrill of watching an abstract 2d idea come to 3d life one step at a time. Ultimately, though, that's a personal preference, but I like the way it was done before.
As for resource editors, WinTex, also dead and gone, was the last one that did what it was supposed to do and did it well, and it's got a classic win31-ish GUI, which makes it all the more likeable if you appreciate that kind of aesthetics.
I've always been one to like simplicity in programs, also the idea of building something in a 2D plane and watching it come to life in 3D seems appealing, too.
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:The latest Samsung Android phone I bought:
(1) doesn't allow me to move applications to SD card.
(2) always sneakily installs ap […]
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The latest Samsung Android phone I bought:
(1) doesn't allow me to move applications to SD card.
(2) always sneakily installs application updates whenever I am connected to a wi-fi network, and regardless of my settings.
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So, to address the OP, I miss the day when we the users still had full control over the electronics we bought.
I have experienced the same issues, although i try to be very careful with the storage in my current phone, i still get a very big chunk of space taken away by stuff that i don't really use but i can't uninstall, well, easily anyway.
Not to mention whenever a friend or family comes to me asking me why their phone is already full, i seem to always struggle with the interface to have some things erased/moved.
nforce4max wrote:Firefox used to be pretty decent on old hardware until recent years where even modern computers are now struggling to run it should you have more than a couple of tabs open, eats up ram like nothing else.
I've had to deal with this issue because a friend's computer was starting to slow down pretty badly, turns out Firefox was using up most of the RAM they had on their machine (it was a pretty old laptop) and was starting to use swap and getting very slow, although i could say the same about most of the common browsers, at least in my experience, since i tried to install a variety of other options in the same laptop and there were very small differences, but they all still used quite a lot of RAM imho.
640K!enough wrote:I have three main things that bother me about the direction in which the industry has been going:
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I personally think Apple's hardware and software have been in decline too, although i know plenty that tells me that things are just fine, don't know why.
In regards to the web development and security, i agree, another example is the injection of Cryptocurrency miners into advertisement and just sites in general, like you explained, and i agree with, the point should be to have less access and control, not more, the problem is that so many places now rely on these features that if any one browser were to decide to completely axe them it would put them at risk, because their specific browser would be unable to visit many popular sites.
As for data collection, there are some cases where i'm OK with some data being collected, if it's for say, bug reporting, crash reporting, stuff that would supposedly help improve the software, however i dislike when stuff that's not really relevant to such a thing is piled together with the data that's supposedly being collected for the specific purpose of "bug/crash reporting".