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[paulz at ieee.org]

 Early on, kitchen appliances tended to have buttons labeled "clock set".  Not so the typical VCR.  And the manual, assuming you could find it, was often not well written, at least for English readers.
The industry has come a long way in making better user interfaces.


    On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 03:56:21 AM PDT, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:  
 
 On 11Mar2024 01:10pm (-0600), Akkana Peck wrote:
> But maybe a lot of people never question defaults.

In the 80s and 90s, we used to call this "the flashing 12:00 problem".

Some of that was the inaccessibility of configuration tools, but there was another dimension: setting a digital clock on some non-clock device created a level of cognitive load over and on top of the frustration of having to work out the arcane pattern of keypresses on a limited number of buttons.  Some folks would find it important enough to set the clock on a kitchen appliance, but wouldn't bother with a VCR even if they could work out how to do it.

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