Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May  ·  3 months ago
Sarah O'Connor has coined a new word:

Qualitynesia = forgetting something was better in the past when it objectively was

[her example: recorded sound quality - spotify's compressed sound files carry less info than old CDs & as such have worse sound]

However, fellow Masto-folk, I'm sure you'll have you own candidates for 'Qualitynesia'...

see also @pluralistic 'Enshitification'.

#technology #enshitification

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Klongeiger
Klongeiger  ·  3 months ago
@dm319 @ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic modern car UIs are even worse than I thought. Realizing that some form of feedback is required, they created auditive cues. Touch the screen and you hear a sound. However, that sound plays whenever you touch the screen, regardless of whether you are touching a button or just some empty space. So not only are you missing an easy to process feedback, like a knob, you also get feedback that suggests you accomplished your goal even if that is not the case at all.
Phil Nolan
Phil Nolan  ·  3 months ago
@klongeiger @dm319 @ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic the continual demands to agree to things is the biggest problem imo.
Our Kia eNiro requires me to confirm I will obey the laws of the land before it will allow me to move.
It then demands I read, then agree to new terms and conditions (which allows them to sell our driving data to third parties) - but only after we’ve been moving for about a minute. And then tells me I have to stop the vehicle to read them.
TerryB
TerryB  ·  3 months ago
@ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic In my younger days this would have been dismissed as just rose tinted thinking. But "enshittification" has made this objectively true. I know that websites used to be usable without barrelloads of ad blockers, search engines actually gave us what we searched for not what advertisers want us to see. Politicians caught wrong doing resigned. Companies tried to provide a decent product for a decent profit, instead of trying to grab maximum cash for minimum product And so on