Unless it’s a service animal, I don’t like when dogs are in public buildings. Tired of trying to buy food at the grocery store but having to dodge dogs and avoid stepping over their leashes. This anger is mostly directed at their owners as I’m skittish around dogs I don’t know.
Forcing people to do uncompensated labor, such using smart phones or the internet to make medical appointments and fill out a ton of forms, make payments, and/or self-check out is bad.
Touch screens in cars are bad.
The internet (especially mobile internet since about 2012ish) is bad.
Most modern software sucks, usability has gone backwards. I blame Apple (and Microsoft following them). I use Linux, have for years, Libre Office needs some serious front end fixing, it's been bad since it was star office.
Give me back my MTV.
So hard to find a car without a touchscreen nowadays as they are so much cheaper to build.
Mazdas, they have a screen but it's all controlled through a tactile knob
Iirc most German cars had no touch screens as recently as 2017 but then people wanted Apple Airplay and Android Auto so all the players switched over.
I blame young people always needing their smartphones.
Not that smartphone connectivity isn't useful though...
The only thing I use smartphone connectivity for in my car is to connect to my remote Plex server for audio and for weather updates/alerts when driving long distances.
I never text/phone while driving, and I rarely if ever use map apps.
Looking at the new VW bus coming out, but it has a big center screen as well :(
https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/id-buzz-microbus
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PlexAMP is a feature if you pay for it.
It is like WinAMP was back in the day.
Apple Airplay and Android Auto are the alright type of touchscreen. It can be much worse (Tesla).
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:this: It's just as bad as using a smartphone and takes attention away from the road. Tesla sucks especially with this, because with the Model 3 they just took away all controls, buttons, and dials, and threw in an expensive, shitty, unergonomic touchscreen instead.
Key word is forcing. Often these things are far faster and more convenient than talking to a person, even if it might technically count as doing free labor. However, replacing humans entirely with these things is awful and invalidates any degree of convenience gained. If the online/mobile/self-serve system works, it's a time and energy saver. The moment there's any friction, I better be able to talk to a human being who can solve the problem.
The ideal mix, imo, is to have a self-serve solution that works in 95% of situations, with an actual human available to handle the other 5%. If I have the option of talking to a human then I'm not mad at the idea of self-service. The general attitude lately, though, seems to be that if you can service 95% of situations with a self-serve solution then the other 5% don't matter, and those people can eat shit.
I swear online scheduling is completely fucked. Trying to get dental consultations online put me a month out at two different places. Called them up and had appointments within the week. So protip, call for that if you're mentally able to.
Yea, but you only got that opportunity because most people will go through the internet.
And people who need more urgent help tend to call more often, so in a way it's actually advantageous.
I made an appointment online and it was in more than a month, but internet info said I should somewhat-urgently get medical attention (not yet emergency) and was in great pain. So I called and told them and they had a spot in 2 days. So worked as intended and when I don't need the emergency attention I'm often fine with waiting a month.
inserting horizontal lines is so fucky
:jesse-wtf: how do you expect to make appointments and payments if you don’t… make appointments and payments
Schedule via a phone call, fill out the paperwork at the office, go to exclusively to Aldi and let them check me out because they are so freakin awesome, etc.