Captain_Shakespeare
@Captain_Shakespeare@reddthat.com
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
Wanted to clarify that, while colors and spacing are customizable, I didn’t create or extensively modify the launcher apps, only the layout. It’s not rainmeter levels of remixing or anything. In particular, I don’t have as much control of the widgets as I’d like, and would probably tone down the calendar or picture gallery if I could.
Though its not to diminish your read of it, I’m happy to explain my particular choices! You’re right that this layout is not visitor-friendly, but like you said, it’s a phone. Not really for sharing. That said, there IS a hierarchy of sorts, just not an obvious one - I’m left-handed, so anything I use with quick, one-handed input is in an arc from the bottom left (calculator, macronutrient tracker, checkbook). From there, apps in frequent or varied use, or with inline notifications, are larger. This way I can read a summary of a message or alert without opening the app or Notification Shade. From there, web browsing and social media is at the bottom for lots of thumb typing, while the morning routine (news, weather, traffic) is at the top for use on a desk.
With a UI for general use, having to explain in such detail would be a sign of failure - I would indeed settle on a simpler rubric if it was a company tablet. But I love the little eccentric choices I can make with this launcher to make it just for me. Hope that proves interesting!
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
If it helps, I’m left-handed, so it’s grouped in a sort of arc from the bottom left corner - apps for quick one-handed use are inside the arc, and the rest is either informational or the start point for a more involved activity like web browsing. It looks ‘cluttered’ because I didn’t really lay it out as a generic or intuitive interface, but specifically to match my needs and habits. I think a home screen should be utilitarian - ‘pretty’ is for lock screens. Hope I didn’t send you down too deep a rabbit hole - Although sometimes that can be fun, so good luck!
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
- Comment on People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays 1 year ago:
I swear sometimes it feels like a superpower to have grown up in the 90s and learned the ground rules for multiple OSes, search tools, and file systems - the descendants of which are nearly all still in use today.
I defer of course to any oldheads who can still bang out a long .bat file or compile and configure Linux; I just mean it’s a very useful quirk of the era that skills learned on windows 3.1 or OSX are still broadly applicable, even in fields where ‘using the computer’ is a minor task of one’s workday.
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
That’s ok lol, it’s just a phone! My goal is to treat it as a tool, and this is more configurable than the standard Android grid. I don’t think anyone is being mean, but the extreme range of opinions is pretty funny!
- Comment on Missed my windows phone, so I tried some android launcher replacements! 1 year ago:
It’s definitely not for everyone! I like being able to group functions by size and position, vs just a bunch of app bubbles, and the cubist look is oddly satisfying.
It’s useful for me to get the whole picture, or whip open a productivity app, in one tap or swipe, so I can get back to whatever else is happening. So, on a 6.2in, everything is very readable.
- Comment on Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown 1 year ago:
OK, sure, except that Netflix is incentivized to say as much, regardless of public sentiment.
I’m sure the hit they took to subscribers is worth it in terms of their balance sheets, else we would see a retraction, but there’s no real way for them to know what the subscriber base would look like in the absence of anti-consumer policies (or their increasingly unsatisfying content production policies), based solely on historical subscriber data.
Users who got sick of it left, but we can only leave once, and Netflix wasn’t going to try and retain us unless the exodus was unprecedented. I’d argue the real proof of customer dissatisfaction will be the piracy numbers on their various shows. Customers who want their content, but not their costs or policy restrictions, represent actual money left on the table.
As for their labor practices, well - like Adam Conover said, strikes are more effective than boycotts, and there are several ongoing. Won’t do much for the user experience, but maybe the long term consequence is fewer, better shows with actual completed stories.
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