[conspire] Flashing twelves (was: Twitter successors)

[Les Faby]

The cheapest interface is the owner's smart phone running a simple app. You
have got a bigger touch screen, etc


On Wed, Mar 13, 2024, 2:15 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Paul Zander (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.
>
> The inevitable race to the bottom on cost stands in the way, because
> although the electronics to support decent user interfaces has long been
> part of the baseline "chip with enough grunt to control a clock-radio"
> spec, it's always tempting to omit the physical buttons and panel
> markings to provide a clear UI, not to mention likewise not-free
> designer time and effort.
>
> So, the "set the time" UI gets shoehorned onto already-needed controls
> overloaded with little "H" and "M" notations to indicate "if switched
> into a specific mode, your volume control can adjust minutes, and your
> tuning knob can adjust hours".
>
> The resulting puzzle is typically not brain surgery, yet a very large
> fraction of the public cannot be bothered.  Whether there's a manual and
> whether it makes sense is immaterial, to them.
>
>
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