mycodesucks

The Jaunt

Terry Pratchett vibes in the best way.

Oh, I didn't say anything about getting emotional. I am emotional about this. I hate this technology, have terrible experiences with it, and I won't apologize for that. But as an adult, I can target my anger at the thing I'm angry at. I didn't decide to turn it into personal attacks on YOU because your experience was different. That's a path YOU took, and after this message, you're taking it alone. Once again - have a good one.

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Could be! Could also be that turning the legitimate experiential issues with a technology you seem to have a deep attachment to into a personal attack on the one who made them might ALSO be a skill issue. At least I can say it's consistent with the design philosophy of these OSs.

But seeing as how you've apparently got personal vested interest in this to the point where you're going to resort to insulting me rather than making any real points, I'm just going to bow out of this one. You have a good one, sir.

The search bar is an absolute disaster that not only searches your phone, it also sends your search to Google, and if you have, like me, a 128 Gb microSD card, it's also going to SLOWLY search through the unindexed million files on THERE, chugging along and MAYBE finishing in 2 or 3 minutes.

"files" is an unnavigatable crapshoot, offering "suggested" recent files that didn't populate because the last 10 most recent files didn't even get picked up by the scanning service yet, reordering any list of files bigger than 10 things takes FOREVER, half the directories are aliased in 12 places so you're navigating a loop, and even if you FIND the file there's no guarantee you can OPEN it because the directory might be protected.

Downloads is a complete freaking mess. If you have a flash card, your stupid Android phone will duplicate all the user directories on it and half your apps will download to the card and the other half to your system memory, and Google's useless scanning service that's supposed to keep track of recent downloads goes off on magical adventures for hours at a time so you can locate your downloaded file TOMORROW if it gets around to it.

You're right... The fact that I can fight with the stupid thing for 20 minutes to get to my file doesn't mean it's literally "impossible". It just means it's broken, barely usable crap that I refuse to tolerate because I like products that WORK.

It's impossible to figure out where your PDF downloaded on Android. And then if I miraculously DO find it, whoops - my reader crashed because it doesn't have permissions to read from that folder. All modern mobile OS tech is a disaster.

You are absolutely right, but let's be clear here... it's not so much the lack of keyboard and mouse that's the problem... it's that these touchscreen devices don't let you actually DO anything. The devices you can use a keyboard and mouse on ALLOW you to play, customize, make mistakes, and learn. There's no reason a touchscreen device couldn't provide that too, but iOS and Android specifically forbid you from learning anything - that's a recipe for security holes! And THAT's the real skill they lack. Real competence means bending the endless possibilities to your will - not just being given 5 of the most common ones and being locked out of the rest.

At least we could get the fax machine to do things. The touch screen is so many layers of abstraction away from any raw functionality it's like the pull string on a See and Say.