say what you like about scary, unfriendly old text terminal interfaces, their behavior was fucking deterministic, they didn't constantly just randomly drop your input because they decided you didn't mean it or they were too busy jerking themselves off about window corner rounding
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Yeah but sometimes flies would get into the vacuum tubes, right gramps?
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Seriously though I agree, GUI's were a mistake.
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i unironically agree with "we've let users remain stupid by assuming they are stupid." i am stunned when people can't navigate an interface just via the obvious solution of trial and error--searching around!--but if by default one wasn't assumed to be an idiot, less would be
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and, like, have you ever spoken to an absolute normie who's learned the weird sequences of function keys that make their Unisys-ass system work? they're *happy*. their mastery gives them deep satisfaction
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