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  1. Yesterday I had the great pleasure to attend a documentary screening and panel session where Prof. #FredericoFaggin was the guest of honour. This was organised by the #Italian Luxembourg Chamber of Commmerce and introduced by the Italian Ambassador to #Luxembourg. #Faggin invented the #microprocessor and designed the #4004 #8008 #8080 #z80 and later on via #synaptics #touchscreens and #touchpads .He is a true #pioneer
    #retrocomputing #hci #inventors
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  2. Yesterday I had the great pleasure to attend a documentary screening and panel session where Prof. #FredericoFaggin was the guest of honour. This was organised by the #Italian Luxembourg Chamber of Commmerce and introduced by the Italian Ambassador to #Luxembourg. #Faggin invented the #microprocessor and designed the #4004 #8008 #8080 #z80 and later on via #synaptics #touchscreens and #touchpads .He is a true #pioneer
    #retrocomputing #hci #inventors
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  3. 🚗 Mercedes-Benz, in a groundbreaking move, ditches sleek #touchscreens for the ancient tech of *gasp* physical buttons! In other news: horse-drawn carriages poised for a comeback, and vinyl records still not extinct. 😂👴 #InnovationRewind
    drive.com.au/news/mercedes-ben #MercedesBenz #PhysicalButtons #InnovationRewind #AutomotiveTrends #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🚗 Mercedes-Benz, in a groundbreaking move, ditches sleek #touchscreens for the ancient tech of *gasp* physical buttons! In other news: horse-drawn carriages poised for a comeback, and vinyl records still not extinct. 😂👴 #InnovationRewind
    drive.com.au/news/mercedes-ben #MercedesBenz #PhysicalButtons #InnovationRewind #AutomotiveTrends #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🚗 Mercedes-Benz, in a groundbreaking move, ditches sleek #touchscreens for the ancient tech of *gasp* physical buttons! In other news: horse-drawn carriages poised for a comeback, and vinyl records still not extinct. 😂👴 #InnovationRewind
    drive.com.au/news/mercedes-ben #MercedesBenz #PhysicalButtons #InnovationRewind #AutomotiveTrends #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🚗 Mercedes-Benz, in a groundbreaking move, ditches sleek #touchscreens for the ancient tech of *gasp* physical buttons! In other news: horse-drawn carriages poised for a comeback, and vinyl records still not extinct. 😂👴 #InnovationRewind
    drive.com.au/news/mercedes-ben #MercedesBenz #PhysicalButtons #InnovationRewind #AutomotiveTrends #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🚗 Mercedes-Benz, in a groundbreaking move, ditches sleek #touchscreens for the ancient tech of *gasp* physical buttons! In other news: horse-drawn carriages poised for a comeback, and vinyl records still not extinct. 😂👴 #InnovationRewind
    drive.com.au/news/mercedes-ben #MercedesBenz #PhysicalButtons #InnovationRewind #AutomotiveTrends #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated

  8. I genuinely can’t properly express how much I hate #touchscreens in #cars.

    If your car doesn’t have physical buttons and knobs for every function (and also doesn’t have
    #CarPlay), I’m not even going to consider it the next time that I have to buy a new one.

    This is a hill that I will die on, and not because I had to take my eyes off of the road to adjust the rear defrost and swerved into a knoll.

  9. I genuinely can’t properly express how much I hate #touchscreens in #cars.

    If your car doesn’t have physical buttons and knobs for every function (and also doesn’t have
    #CarPlay), I’m not even going to consider it the next time that I have to buy a new one.

    This is a hill that I will die on, and not because I had to take my eyes off of the road to adjust the rear defrost and swerved into a knoll.

  10. Volkswagen 👴 finally realizes that #touchscreens are about as popular as socks with sandals and decides to resurrect physical buttons. Because who doesn't love mashing buttons like it's 1999 while driving? 🚗💥 Please, VW, what's next? A comeback for the cassette player? 🎶
    caranddriver.com/news/a6991669 #Volkswagen #PhysicalButtons #Nostalgia #DrivingInnovation #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  11. Volkswagen 👴 finally realizes that #touchscreens are about as popular as socks with sandals and decides to resurrect physical buttons. Because who doesn't love mashing buttons like it's 1999 while driving? 🚗💥 Please, VW, what's next? A comeback for the cassette player? 🎶
    caranddriver.com/news/a6991669 #Volkswagen #PhysicalButtons #Nostalgia #DrivingInnovation #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  12. Volkswagen 👴 finally realizes that #touchscreens are about as popular as socks with sandals and decides to resurrect physical buttons. Because who doesn't love mashing buttons like it's 1999 while driving? 🚗💥 Please, VW, what's next? A comeback for the cassette player? 🎶
    caranddriver.com/news/a6991669 #Volkswagen #PhysicalButtons #Nostalgia #DrivingInnovation #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  13. Volkswagen 👴 finally realizes that #touchscreens are about as popular as socks with sandals and decides to resurrect physical buttons. Because who doesn't love mashing buttons like it's 1999 while driving? 🚗💥 Please, VW, what's next? A comeback for the cassette player? 🎶
    caranddriver.com/news/a6991669 #Volkswagen #PhysicalButtons #Nostalgia #DrivingInnovation #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  14. I've installed the old #Oxygen style on #bazzite via rpm-ostree:

    rpm-ostree install oxygen-cursor-themes oxygen-sounds plasma-oxygen-qt5 plasma-oxygen-qt6 oxygen-fonts oxygen-icon-theme oxygen-mono-fonts oxygen-sans-fonts plasma-oxygen

    It's way better to use then Breeze for #touchscreens - i also use it on #SteamOS on my #SteamDeck

    I also switched for #konsole, #okular and #gwenview to #Fedora packages. This works much better for remote volumes than the #flatpak versions:

    flatpak remove okular gwenview konsole; rpm-ostree install okular gwenview konsole

    #skeumorphism #screenshot #FedoraKinoite #hints #unixporn

  15. Heute ist #Sehbehindertentag!

    Der @DBSV thematisiert #Touchscreens

    Oft sind sie der einzige Weg, um an #Informationen und #Dienstleistungen zu gelangen. Es ist deshalb wichtig, dass Touchscreens auch von Menschen mit #Seheinschränkung #barrierefrei genutzt werden können.

    Ein #sehenswertes #Video des #DBSV gibt es dazu (bisher leider) nur auf YouTube:

    youtube.com/watch?v=SVCmMV0Y4d

    #a11y #Inklusion #digitaleTeilhabe

  16. 🚗 Oh, #Volkswagen, in an age of #touchscreens and AI assistants, you're bringing back... knobs? 🤔 Because nothing says "cutting-edge" like a good old-fashioned button. Welcome to the #future, circa 1995! 😂
    autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-car #Knobs #Retro #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 🚗 Oh, #Volkswagen, in an age of #touchscreens and AI assistants, you're bringing back... knobs? 🤔 Because nothing says "cutting-edge" like a good old-fashioned button. Welcome to the #future, circa 1995! 😂
    autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-car #Knobs #Retro #CarTech #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Pretty sure I'm on my last smartphone. (And I've never had a tablet.) Capacitive touchscreens have always been terrible for me, but at this point any phone or tablet I touch considers me an inanimate object four times out of five. I think I'm done hoping the technology will come around.

    #touchscreens #smartphones

  19. Pretty sure I'm on my last smartphone. (And I've never had a tablet.) Capacitive touchscreens have always been terrible for me, but at this point any phone or tablet I touch considers me an inanimate object four times out of five. I think I'm done hoping the technology will come around.

    #touchscreens #smartphones

  20. Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

    Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat & sleek

    15 years of watching designers & engineers cram touchscreens & capacitive buttons down our throats, only to be outflanked by a new generation of thinkers who recognize that true luxury is the considered weight of a dial, the reassuring click of a physical key.

    By @mimsical

    🎁 🔗:
    wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tou

    #Buttons #TouchScreens #Controls #Tech

  21. Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

    Product designers are embracing how users actually feel after years of pushing flat & sleek

    15 years of watching designers & engineers cram touchscreens & capacitive buttons down our throats, only to be outflanked by a new generation of thinkers who recognize that true luxury is the considered weight of a dial, the reassuring click of a physical key.

    By @mimsical

    🎁 🔗:
    wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tou

    #Buttons #TouchScreens #Controls #Tech

  22. It was obvious to tech types like myself why #Tesla went with a touchscreen for their interiors: #Touchscreens are WAY cheaper than gauges, buttons, & knobs.

    Tesla spent their R&D dollars in their powertrains, and they became rightfully famous for it, but they spent virtually zero on the vehicle interiors and instead touted the bland interiors as minimalist design ethos…and it worked.

    And instead of staying the course, the industry followed, and now people are mad.

    youtu.be/QbN2KT6TObk?si=uddVwe

  23. It was obvious to tech types why went with a touchscreen interface for their interiors: are WAY cheaper than gauges, buttons, & knobs.

    Tesla spent their R&D dollars in their powertrains, and they became rightfully famous for it, but they spent virtually zero on the vehicle interiors and instead touted the bland interiors as minimalist design ethos…and it worked.

    And instead of staying the course, the industry followed, and now people are mad.

    youtu.be/QbN2KT6TObk?si=uddVwe

  24. It was obvious to tech types why #Tesla went with a touchscreen interface for their interiors: #Touchscreens are WAY cheaper than gauges, buttons, & knobs.

    Tesla spent their R&D dollars in their powertrains, and they became rightfully famous for it, but they spent virtually zero on the vehicle interiors and instead touted the bland interiors as minimalist design ethos…and it worked.

    And instead of staying the course, the industry followed, and now people are mad.

    youtu.be/QbN2KT6TObk?si=uddVwe

  25. @zkrisher @esther

    I have enough trouble with #touchscreens, and I'm sighted. I can't imagine how difficult it is for you.

    Where I am, #retail locations are replacing their older POS #payment terminals with newer-generation ones that ditch the #keypad for a touchscreen. The pads of my fingers are thick and dry and don't activate them well; it takes 3 or 4 tries to activate each "button" press.

    How on earth are the blind supposed to use these?

    #UI designers need to meet real #users.

  26. @zkrisher @esther

    I have enough trouble with #touchscreens, and I'm sighted. I can't imagine how difficult it is for you.

    Where I am, #retail locations are replacing their older POS #payment terminals with newer-generation ones that ditch the #keypad for a touchscreen. The pads of my fingers are thick and dry and don't activate them well; it takes 3 or 4 tries to activate each "button" press.

    How on earth are the blind supposed to use these?

    #UI designers need to meet real #users.

  27. I thought #touchscreens in cars for ancillary controls like ventilation and radio were enough of a usability nightmare so *I actually gasped out loud* on reading the first sentence of this article:

    theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091043

    "Car makers in Europe are being encouraged to stop using touchscreens for basic functions like turn signals and wipers"

    which suggests at least some manufacturers are using touchscreens for indicators and wipers, which is *bonkers*.

    Buttons, stalks, and dials, people.

  28. I thought #touchscreens in cars for ancillary controls like ventilation and radio were enough of a usability nightmare so *I actually gasped out loud* on reading the first sentence of this article:

    theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091043

    "Car makers in Europe are being encouraged to stop using touchscreens for basic functions like turn signals and wipers"

    which suggests at least some manufacturers are using touchscreens for indicators and wipers, which is *bonkers*.

    Buttons, stalks, and dials, people.

  29. #Touchscreens sind shice wenns darum geht Dinge #blind bzw. aus dem #Gedächnis zu bedienen!!!

    Deswegen gibt's dedizierte Knöpfe, Hebel und Schalter in Land- wie Wasserfahrzeugen sowie Flugzeugen und deshalb werden auch bei digitalen Anzeigen weiterhin analoge Instrumente dargestellt:

    Weil diese intuitiver ablesbar und weil intuitive Reaktionsfähigkeit wichtiger ist.

    futurezone.at/produkte/vw-volk

  30. @GossiTheDog This is espechally a problem since #Accessibility for #MobilePhones is way worse than for #Landlines - and don't even get me started on #Touchscreens and #TTS!

    Whereas I'm convinced most #blind people that use phones can dial emergency services on a regular Touchtone keypad and even abled people can do it...

    I mean those boxes are like €50 and a desktop GSM phone is like €100 with battery for WEEKS (!!!) of standby and DAYS of calling time...