Palacegalleryratio [he/him]

Yeah unfortunately Keir only has eyes for whatever the right wing press will approve of, so he will be ignoring Bendy Bananas Europe and leaning into DOGE pilled America.

I can’t speak for Krita - I’ve not used it. But as someone who has designed a lot of software I agree with you fully here. Making software intuitive is the hardest and also most important part of my job. When I test with users the first time it soon becomes clear how stuff that me and my team thought made sense is totally opaque to the end users or just doesn’t fit into the real world workflow. It’s all well and good expecting users to learn the software - there has to be an element of that - but if you force thought, cause confusion or waste time every time you do that you add friction to the product. That friction ruins the users experience of the product and can ruin productivity.

There is a balance to be made, complexity where it allows for power is fine, if you have dedicated frequent users. E.g. my favourite editor is Vim - very complicated and (initially) opaque but also extremely powerful and logical once you know it. But complexity that adds no power or complexity in software where you don’t expect users to be using the software frequently enough to be expert in it is not ok.

Mr Sumlenny said German post-war thinking plays a role too. “They were designed by a generation of German manufacturers that hadn’t seen war, and so tended to overcomplicate the system. “Older systems, designed in the 1960s by those who actually saw war, are far more useful on the battlefield but have weaker armour.”

Yeah but Rheinmetall can’t charge the government megabucks for a simple system can it? They have to justify bumping another 0 on the end of the price somehow, an increase in complexity is the perfect way to do this.

The perfect living space doesn’t exi….

Haha hilarious name, but no, no I would not.

I find the concept of a man child creating a isolated male ‘safe space’ where they can play with their toys, watch football and drink beer away from their families quite depressing. Talk to your children Mike, spend time with your wife! Why is the rest of the house incapable of housing your unique requirements? Your wife manages, she doesn’t have a woman cave where she can hide from her ‘loved ones’ and family responsibilities.

I guess this example may not be a designated manex, but instead could just be the families themed cinema / games room, which is fine I guess, ostentatious display of wealth aside.

Rich Star Wars nerd eh? In what is otherwise a pretty restrained house it’s unusual to go full Star Wars in what I sickeningly term a “man cave”

Cowards

I guess for thousands of years we’ve been looking at our dogs and thinking ‘that’s kinda neat, I would like more things to remind me of you’.

Yeah horses for courses right?

I don’t mind numpads per say - on a desktop keyboard it’s fine, I guess. Even I personally won’t be using them, at least they don’t get too much in the way. I can touch type numbers just fine on the top row. I don’t like to move my hands from the home row if I can help it, least of all for numeric input. And I also hate offset typing, feels like driving a car with the pedals off to one side of your seat, bad ergo.

But I guess if numpads on laptops are your thing, it’s great for you.

Why do so many of their laptops have numpads? I don’t want to type with my hands offset to the left I want to type straight on, no numpad, centralised letters.