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Can we go back to chunky tech that looks like a spaceship off a '70s sci-fi book cover, please.
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I appreciate a lot of what modern tech has done, but I feel some mistakes have been made.
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I recently got a wireless speaker, and it is really good, *however* it has a single button to control both playback and skipping. To say it's awkward to use is an understatement.
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I can't even imagine which one I'd prefer: tap is play/pause and long hold is skip, or tap is skip and long hold is play/pause. Either way seems like I'd find some really annoying use cases.
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Long hold would actually make more sense. In this case, you have to double tap. Doesn't help that the button is barely there, which makes it difficult to do.
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I saw the last two posts for this first and thought you were describing a message in Morse Code or something.
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Ugh. I have to physically tap the body of my wireless earbuds to work them. My favourite is 1 tap to pause, 2 taps to make it quieter and 3 taps to make it louderβ€”I’m targeting something I can’t see, so the music keeps pausing and getting quieter when I try to increase volume πŸ˜†
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Also, can we pass a law that car climate control needs to be managed by knobs and physical buttons and not the touchscreen?
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YES PLEASE. (And no sneaky "this is a dial but really it's just a glorified mousewheel" either.)
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I blame LCARS πŸ˜‚
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I give Trek some grief, but Wars is the one where Natalie Portman had a magic button on the dashboard of her fancy starship that literally did whatever the hell they wanted to do right then and there. πŸ˜‰