A few things.
30 Nov 2018 13:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerMy niece in Anchorage is safe after the earthquake. Phew. Always scary, earthquakes.
Man, two weeks without dh and I've slipped back to old nightowl patterns. Without him going to bed at about 11pm, I just naturally stay up later and later. I was technically in bed at 1am, but I read until about 2. This is not good. I've been getting up at 6am, still, so not enough sleep, and then reading in bed for a few hours, 3/4 asleep. Not asleep enough to get real rest, awake enough to follow a fun novel, but not the non-fiction books I'm reading on my Kindle. So yeah. Must re-set. Dh'll back next week, phew.
One response that I absolutely fucking hate is when sites change a UI or a program, and when you really don't like it, they bleet in such a condescending manner "We know change is hard!" or "People don't like change!" I like change plenty when it's an improvement, but not change for the sake of change, making a UI, for example, less functional so that it works better on phones, but ruining it for the web. Right now, I'm looking at Outlook. The new version works, once you've made the gazillion changes to make it look at much as possible like the old version (getting rid of the stupid marbles was the first thing), but one thing that I cannot fix, and that has me pissed beyond belief is that they changed the spacing so that I can see about half as many messages on the screen. There is SO much room around each line of text, it's ridiculous. As in, above and below EACH line of text there is blank space that is larger than the text... and each message has this:
This is not progress, this is just making less information available and abusing my precious screen real estate!
Change, to me, is a problem when it truly does not make a product more functional, or when it makes it so complex that it becomes unwieldy. I like things streamlined, and programs/aps that do what they need to do, without any half zillion "extra features" which add visual clutter and won't be used 90% of the time. I dread the day my Fitbt Flex dies. I don't want a heart rate monitor, or, really, anything more than a simple pedometer. I don't even like the fact that it tries to track my sleep. I just want to know how many steps I've taken. Stop trying to estimate my calories burned (ha! I wish your data was correct!), don't effing remind me to get up and move, get the fuck away from my texts and email, and if I want a heartrate monitor, I'll get one. Just... make sure a basic, discrete AND discreet pedometer is still available for those of us who want one. I mean, I ditched Android for my beloved Windows Phone (sob! best platform ever) because Android become so fucking full of crap stuff that it lost functionality and things became complex to use when I just want simple and efficient.
Ah well.
Man, two weeks without dh and I've slipped back to old nightowl patterns. Without him going to bed at about 11pm, I just naturally stay up later and later. I was technically in bed at 1am, but I read until about 2. This is not good. I've been getting up at 6am, still, so not enough sleep, and then reading in bed for a few hours, 3/4 asleep. Not asleep enough to get real rest, awake enough to follow a fun novel, but not the non-fiction books I'm reading on my Kindle. So yeah. Must re-set. Dh'll back next week, phew.
One response that I absolutely fucking hate is when sites change a UI or a program, and when you really don't like it, they bleet in such a condescending manner "We know change is hard!" or "People don't like change!" I like change plenty when it's an improvement, but not change for the sake of change, making a UI, for example, less functional so that it works better on phones, but ruining it for the web. Right now, I'm looking at Outlook. The new version works, once you've made the gazillion changes to make it look at much as possible like the old version (getting rid of the stupid marbles was the first thing), but one thing that I cannot fix, and that has me pissed beyond belief is that they changed the spacing so that I can see about half as many messages on the screen. There is SO much room around each line of text, it's ridiculous. As in, above and below EACH line of text there is blank space that is larger than the text... and each message has this:
This is not progress, this is just making less information available and abusing my precious screen real estate!
Change, to me, is a problem when it truly does not make a product more functional, or when it makes it so complex that it becomes unwieldy. I like things streamlined, and programs/aps that do what they need to do, without any half zillion "extra features" which add visual clutter and won't be used 90% of the time. I dread the day my Fitbt Flex dies. I don't want a heart rate monitor, or, really, anything more than a simple pedometer. I don't even like the fact that it tries to track my sleep. I just want to know how many steps I've taken. Stop trying to estimate my calories burned (ha! I wish your data was correct!), don't effing remind me to get up and move, get the fuck away from my texts and email, and if I want a heartrate monitor, I'll get one. Just... make sure a basic, discrete AND discreet pedometer is still available for those of us who want one. I mean, I ditched Android for my beloved Windows Phone (sob! best platform ever) because Android become so fucking full of crap stuff that it lost functionality and things became complex to use when I just want simple and efficient.
Ah well.
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