We just don’t make tech for old people the way we should.

My mother in law says things like “Wow, your son is just so good with computers.” She was impressed at how “tech savvy” he was because he was able to change the brightness on her phone for her so she could show him a picture better.

A lot of our UIs are built for absolute no-thinking usability. How would you propose changing the brightness on a phone that would make it more “old people friendly”. It’s not a matter of difficulty. She just doesnt remember these things, and a different flow may not necessarily be remembered either.

And I’m not saying its her fault or that she’s bad because of it. She was raised learning how to do and remember things a certain way and that has necessarily changed over the years.

A phone can do a lot of things, so unless you want to have 100 apps on your home screen, you’ll have to group some together. For instance, putting WiFi into a Settings app. Having every individual setting just available on the home screen potentially complicates things even worse by being overwhelming.

Genuinely curious how you think things like this could be redesigned to be more old people friendly.

I’m so impressed by what the jellyfin roku team has come up with over the years.

Nano… Like… The one that has all the keybinds permanently shown at the bottom of the screen?

Hydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!

Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.

The entire joke is that every organ has a purpose, and the purpose of your brain is to make bad decisions.

Also starship hasn’t started its operational lifespan. These are test articles still. They should absolutely be treating them with respect and due diligence since they are launching, but this is just highly public testing on a reusable rocket. Success not guaranteed and that’s why they aren’t flying real payloads (even of their own).

Also, pretty sure Apollo 1 was a great example of Saturn rockets not being flawless.

Counter point… Both are generating perfectly valid JSON, so who cares?

Python 3.13.2 (main, Feb  5 2025, 08:05:21) [GCC 14.2.1 20250128]
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 9.0.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
Tip: IPython 9.0+ have hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.

In [1]: import json

In [2]: json.loads('{"x": 1e-05}')
Out[2]: {'x': 1e-05}

In [3]: json.loads('{"x":0.00001}')
Out[3]: {'x': 1e-05}

Welcome to Node.js v20.3.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> JSON.parse('{"x":0.00001}')
{ x: 0.00001 }
> JSON.parse('{"x": 1e-05}')
{ x: 0.00001 }

Javascript and Python both happily accept either format from the string and convert it into a float they are happy with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

even if you can figure out specifically WHAT a function does, it’s not always clear WHY a function does, and honestly, if this function wasnt labeled in the code, no way in hell would I know what it does.

It has an entire wiki page dedicated to explaining it, and it involves enough math that most people wouldn’t be able to follow along.

Nothing this atrocious lives in any current codebases I work on… but if you work at an old enough company, some of the load-bearing code will be tricky to figure out what is calling it, but also it was written in a time where little hacks were needed to eke out performance.

You only have to experience it once for it to be a memorable enough thing that you will cite it for the rest of your days.

Or more realistically, it IS comprehensible, but the level of effort necessary to comprehend it is not worth it. So you leave it as “undecipherable” and move on.

Based on the states I know, some of the surprising rural areas are where state universities are.

I would never buy Jade. I always buy snsv laptops

Correct.

For the hemotoxin, you aren’t going to “just wait for the effects to wear off.” The toxin will kill you.

For the neurotoxin, you can just wait out the effects by countering the symptoms. Can’t breathe? Respirator can save your life.

The hemotoxin itself is doing terrible damage, but the neurotoxin itself doesn’t do any “damage” other than disabling systems.

Getting bit by a venomous snake in Australia and you’re blood starts to disassemble itself. The only counter is antivenom or die. Your blood breaking down is what kills you. And there is no way to separate the bite from that.

Being able to counter the venom in such a simple way is what makes it different. You can logically break it down into steps that are separable.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/beyond1lte/

I just recently got rid of my oneplus 5 because the volume button stopped working. So I understand the motivation. But LineageOS has Android 14 running on the S10 and its very possible that when they release an Android 15 version, they also support the S10

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as a Gull, is in fact, Sea/Gull, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Sea plus Gull. Gull is not an categorization unto itself, but rather another component of a full identity made useful by the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species components comprising a full identification as defined by its scientific classification.

This would drive teenage me crazy, fr fr on god.

It isn’t just about ungoogling things though. Having a monoculture in the browser space means that if Google makes a push to favor ads, say by removing certain extension support from their browser engine that everyone uses, then the entire internet suffers. It is effectively a monopoly.

Mozilla tries really hard sometimes to be unappealing, but there is value in not just letting Google have full control over the internet.

Because otherwise if you have too many small letters in a row it stops looking like a plural and more like a misspelled word. Because capitalization differences you can make more sense of As but not so much as.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

You’re not wrong, but a lot of time those webpages aren’t overengineered because the developer wanted it to be, but because the client kept making more and more demands.