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It’s embedded from Giphy in a neighbour comment here. Just need to get the correct image url.

Idk what’s anyone’s problem with Giphy, but Catbox certifiedly doesn’t open for many, even via tor.

USians are so poor, they can’t even get a name of its own for their country.

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Ironically, YouTube is one case that’s much better with personalized recommendations. I even open links from social media in incognito tabs so as to not pollute my recommendations accidentally.

Any time I happen to open Youtube’s main page in an incognito tab, it’s filled with complete trash that’s offered to my region by default. It’s not even my usual snobbery talking — the content is like wall-to-wall Jerry Springer Show.

That’s what’s often missing from stories about patents: big companies churn out patents in case they ever need to use them in patent warfare against competitors. For the sole reason that the competitors are doing the same thing.

However, I doubt it that BMW would ever have a chance to use this particular patent on a competitor.

I’ve seen stuff on r/embroidery that’s difficult to believe. E.g.:

‘Well, I have finished my new embroidery, now you can admire it’

‘I can finally reveal my latest embroidery project’

‘I tell my gran I’m into embroidery and she casually drops she used to be a master’

‘Kiwi based on old online illustration’

‘Embroidery or cake’

‘Kimberly the tortoise’

FrontPage was initially created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies, Incorporated, evidence of which can be easily spotted in file names and directories prefixed _vti_ in web sites created using FrontPage. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft in January 1996 specifically so that Microsoft could add FrontPage to its product line-up, allowing them to gain an advantage in the browser wars, as FrontPage was designed to create web pages for their own browser, Internet Explorer.

I just think that most UX designers share the UI design responsibility, so it’s not that distinct of a job.

Your initial comment above came off as hostile to UX designers, which is why I felt the need to reply. Afaiu UX design as a discipline, particularly in software, appeared around the nineties to early two-thousands, likely influenced by industrial design (namely Don Norman himself) — so it’s not quite an ‘emerging’ discipline, but it’s surely vague.

if those deciding the design are making it

This kinda depends. User stories document the typical goals and workflow of the users with the app, and thus should come from the target users or at least the client like a manager. The designer is not qualified to make the user stories since they don’t know the business domain, as it’s called. But they know how to organize the UI for any particular goals.

UI design existed for forty years at least. The problem, of course, is that few people understand what a designer actually does, unless they’ve met a really good designer.

By the way, @[email protected], I brought up user stories in particular because they should be initially written or at least verbalized by either the target users or clients like managers. Neither designers nor programmers can know exactly what the target user’s needs are, or they may think they know but be mistaken — because they don’t have what’s called the domain knowledge, i.e. expertise of the target users.

Of course, another major tool in a designer’s workflow is testing with target users before release, including with rough mockups — so any misunderstanding of users’ goals and workflow can be caught in time.

For the context, I’m a dev who mostly does backend. But understanding design is interesting and helpful.

Caffeine jacks up my muscle tone so the shoulders are cranked all kinds of ways. Afaik it also raises blood pressure, and is a diuretic. Ah, and of course it speeds up gut motility too.

I mean, I wrote bash scripts for this on Mac, and Automate workflows on the phone. The scripts are pretty short and simple. The custom touchbar buttons were added with MTMR.

In Windows, I can’t connect/disconnect Bluetooth devices via PowerShell without a UAC dialog appearing (or whatever dialogs those are). And the free third-party option for control of devices from the command-line is a binary from a site last updated ten years ago or so.

In Linux, I’m perpetually mourning the absence of an app like Hammerspoon, that is scriptable with Lua (or a similar language), has tons of APIs for desktop automation, and a built-in http server for requests from the phone. Proprietary Unified Remote might be the closest thing, but its workflow is different.

6.14, Mint. Disconnections don’t seem to happen anymore, but I’m planning to look into whether Bluetooth power can be adjusted in Linux, or if congestion somehow gotten particularly bad lately by coincidence.

The matter of wonder is that I never needed this ‘auth’ thing or the ‘trust’ thing in Windows, Mac, or Android, and never had recurring disconnection problems, before this experience. I just paired a device and then clicked ‘connect’ or ‘disconnect’ and went about my business. In fact, I was baffled by how people seem to always have some issues, devices connecting randomly, etc.

Even Bluetooth range seems to have dropped compared to other platforms. My phone can reach the headphones over a large apartment, while laptop loses them if I walk behind a wall.

I’m guessing that the design documents might’ve been something in the vein of ‘user stories’ (if I correctly recall their name), which describe what some typical users would want to do with the app, so that the actual UI design would focus on these features being available front and center. This is a very legitimate design technique, and a good designer should always question why any elements must be present in the UI and whether they solve the user’s goals.

This Blueman thing would definitely benefit from such approach, because right now it exposes a lot of technical details about which I don’t care, while simultaneously making my everyday operations with it inconvenient.

This bastard of an app manages to expose too much of the underlying processes and logic, of which I don’t care, in the utterly uninformative format. The OP forgot to mention that upon first pairing my headphones, I have to fend off three different notifications about ‘auth requests’, that provide me with no explanation what happens if I do or don’t satisfy said requests. These also reappear after the headphones disconnect for some inexplicable reason, until I give up on learning further details and click ‘always auth’. Which seems to help with the disconnections. Apparently some audio profiles are also occasionally unavailable unless I appease the blue fucker with ‘always auth’.

Sometimes the headphones fail to connect, and all I get is some cryptic error message, with the only understandable word being ‘timeout’.

The tray menu has a shitload of items which I never need, and then always lists devices to which I can reconnect, even when they’re already connected and have separate (and dynamic) menu items to disconnect from them. Plus each device is listed like they have titles of nobility, something like ‘audio and input profiles on HeadphonesModel’.

On Mac, I had one touchbar button that connected/disconnected the headphones and another that handed them over to the phone or from the phone to the laptop. Plus commands in Alfred that did the same. And same on the phone in the dropdown menu.

As an outsider, I’m impressed that the NFL somehow managed to troll people with the show for two years in a row. It would be super easy to choose someone inoffensive. Didn’t expect the handegg organization, of all people, to be leftist in any way (by US standards).