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All you need to know about Google's new side-loading restrictions for Android is that:

Even after being pressured into providing an escape hatch, somehow they failed to add "the 24-hour wait can be skipped during initial setup on a new device." This reveals that none of the decision makers understand or care about our use-cases.

The fact that they had to be pressured into it is a warning sign that the current solution is liable to be too much last-minute improv and not enough science-backed, evidence-based scam protection.

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WHY DID TUNBLR CHANGE THE UI AGAIN?!?!?!?

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hi i just want to say i stumbled on your blog and i dont know about vintage computers but i feel quite passionately about Internet and tech without knowing all that much honestly so im thankful to your blog being an exciting place of exploration. i love your website too and i look forward to seeing more of your projects. i also wanted to ask because i found your blog from a post about windows ui, do u have more resources on that that u recommend? thank you so much <3

Thank you! I try to expose folks to the cool aspects of the hobby where I can, and show how much more faceted it is than one might see on the surface. The aesthetic is cool and all, but there's so much more to appreciate if you take the time to explore.

Apart from The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design, not really. I'm more of an enthusiast with opinions™ about things. I think there's an early one about Mac OS UI development prior to OSX that's worth its salt too, but I'm not an Apple fan.

However, I'm sure a few folks in the mix may have some recommendations. Suggestions are welcome!

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LT Serif Font

https://www.behance.net/gallery/196257949/LT-Serif-Modern-Serif-Font

LT Serif presents a modern, minimalist, and elegantly crafted serif font, featuring distinctive alternatives for select capital letters with stems. This versatile typeface is inclusive of uppercase, lowercase, symbols, alternates, numbers, and supports multilingual characters.

I guess a lot of my skepticism regarding user-focused design stems from working in tech support and witnessing first hand that user interfaces can only guide people to perform a task in a particular way if the method you have in mind is already very close to their prior assumptions about how the task ought to be performed.

If the way your UI thinks the task ought to be carried out and the way the user thinks the task ought to be carried out are very different, nine times out of ten what happens is that the user will Rube Goldberg together some bizarre workaround that’s ten times as complicated, takes ten times as long, and fights against the interface every step of the way, but preserves their prior assumptions, then become emotionally committed to their workaround and respond to any effort to demonstrate a more straightforward approach with extreme and disproportionate anger.

Critically, there doesn’t seem to be any way to avoid this scenario using pure design, because different people will have mutually exclusive prior assumptions about how the task ought to be performed, and you can’t possibly accommodate all of them. Conscientious design practices can supplement explaining shit in words, but they can’t replace it.

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