Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”

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  • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah thanks, so a slop article that barely belongs in the community here. Got it.

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    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Come on dude, please use your own brain. The article is not AI slop - it is an informed rant about an UI topic from someone who knows what they are talking about. Please read the fucking article before accusing it of being AI slop - I mean, your whole post is kind slop. Just writing “TL;DR” and then spitting wild accusations after reading a misleading one-sentence summary is sloppy as fuck. You can do better, dude!

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      • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Who’s talking about AI? And there is no article, not even a summary. It’s just a link dump.

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    • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean… it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.

      <old man shakes fist at cloud> I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.

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      • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well the guy who came up with this crap design did leave Apple. So maybe if enough people shake their fist at the cloud, something finally happens.

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Looking back, I think it was a freak accident that the ARCTG crowd ended up calling the shots originally. Computer design was considered janitorial/secretarial style work by powerful people in the beginning, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that the “get rich quick by taking advantage of others” crowd realized there was a lot of money to be made:

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I initially thought it was slop, and then I looked at who wrote it. This is someone I have a lot of respect for.

      Personally, I’ve used every Mac UI from the original Twiggy interface, and prefer the UI of Mac OS 7.6.1 with Greg’s Browser, OtherMenu and DragThing. If I could get a macOS back-end with that user interface on the front end, I feel I could get stuff done faster with less frustration.

      There was nothing wrong with the original Xerox PARC or Apple HIG documents; their findings still hold true today.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If only there was an alternative.

    Oh well

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• TechnoCat@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is a summary at the bottom of the article.

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  • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah thanks again, now this would have been handy to include inside the body of the post to begin with.

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    • TechnoCat@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s true. And at the top of the article instead of the bottom.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  MacOS’s UI is shit as always.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not at all the tl;dr!

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

  Bad ui

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve yet to actually see anything like that on Tahoe. This is most likely just an app that isn’t updated yet. It’s a bad example.

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• theTarrasque@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crazy how >1000 words needs a summary.

  how could one manage living an adult life like that?

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