I know this will never come to pass, but I sorta day dream all the time of a parallel universe I could go live in where UI and UX and UEX and whatever else you want to call it would actually get real respect, and places that flubbed it would really feel the pain e.g. financially. Like how eBay is such a horrid evil crappy experience, for both sellers and buyers.

I fail to see how the Dollar Store type things survive. I bought some packing tape and it was, of course, the absolute worst stuff ever. Utterly impossible to use, ripping, tearing, just throw in the garbage type junk. Which means I have now been trained to never bother to buy anything there ever again.

I guess maybe it is like Trader Joes or something where you have to know what to stay away from e.g. the cheese, but you get enough other good things e.g. the brown sugar, that you don't entirely give up.

But I haven't ever really gotten enough stuff at dollar stores to be hooked, so I am pretty sure I just utterly dislike them at this point.

After a million years of evolution, you'd think humanity would be able to get the UX of printing right. But noooooo.

The back button is a lie. I mean not just on Android where it is an utter train wreck, I also mean in web browsers.

Happy poopy holidays. It seems to me that more often than not, computer related things are not actually constructed from electrons or gallium arsenide, rather they are made out of pure excrement. Go read The Futurological Congress: at some point I wish the scales/drugs would fall from peoples' eyes so they could admit just how bad things really are. Not that it would cause anything to be fixed.

For example, gThumb is confused because the directory it used to be looking at is no more, and so it crashes when I try to start it, and I can't get it running long enough for me to point it at another directory.

Dave Bowman: "My God! It's full of [excrement]!"

So then I go wonder if I can start it from the command line with an argument that is a path to a real directory. The help from gThumb is like an ouroboros of usability vomit.

x@superlap4300:~/Media/20161124$ gthumb --help
 Usage:
  gthumb [OPTION...] - Image browser and viewer

Help Options:
  -h, --help                        Show help options
  --help-all                        Show all help options
  --help-gtk                        Show GTK+ Options
  --help-gst                        Show GStreamer Options

Application Options:
  -n, --new-window                  Open a new window
  -f, --fullscreen                  Start in fullscreen mode
  -s, --slideshow                   Automatically start a slideshow
  -i, --import-photos               Automatically import digital camera photos
  -v, --version                     Show version
  --display=DISPLAY                 X display to use

x@superlap4300:~/Media/20161124$ gthumb -help-all
Usage:
  gthumb [OPTION...] - Image browser and viewer

Help Options:
  -h, --help                        Show help options
  --help-all                        Show all help options
  --help-gtk                        Show GTK+ Options
  --help-gst                        Show GStreamer Options

Application Options:
  -n, --new-window                  Open a new window
  -f, --fullscreen                  Start in fullscreen mode
  -s, --slideshow                   Automatically start a slideshow
  -i, --import-photos               Automatically import digital camera photos
  -v, --version                     Show version
  --display=DISPLAY                 X display to use

x@superlap4300:~/Media/20161124$ gthumb -help-gtk
Usage:
  gthumb [OPTION...] - Image browser and viewer

Help Options:
  -h, --help                        Show help options
  --help-all                        Show all help options
  --help-gtk                        Show GTK+ Options
  --help-gst                        Show GStreamer Options

Application Options:
  -n, --new-window                  Open a new window
  -f, --fullscreen                  Start in fullscreen mode
  -s, --slideshow                   Automatically start a slideshow
  -i, --import-photos               Automatically import digital camera photos
  -v, --version                     Show version
  --display=DISPLAY                 X display to use



Even though the app purports to have different, extensive, help it turns out that in fact it only has one answer it can give. And it doesn't include the ability to be given a starting path.

Utter excrement.

I, for one, do not welcome our new (well, ok, not so new) masters:
https://standtallforamerica.com/petition/stop-mass-hacking/e

3D is a cess pool when it comes to any sort of usability. I mean, if you ask me.

• file format hell.
• progress bars that restart (yes, like Office Space) and so you don't know how long anything will really take.
• uis that don't manipulate 3d objects in good ways e.g. lock the model to not being able to be rotated upside-down, and also not giving me a way to flip the whole model.
• not showing thumbnails of things.
• and a zillion other nicks, cuts, slings, and arrows of ux pooch screwing.