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[–] 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

And that's how I ended up moving from software that "knew better than me" and chose for me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    all software does stuff for you, that's almost the definition

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Depends on the definition of "doing stuff for me".

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I can practically guarantee you never want to use an application which has no conditions or branching in it whatsoever

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That is implied when talking about an application.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Ok, so we agree, it is implied that using an application means it chooses things for you, contrary to the statement of the above poster's desires. I'm being extremely pedantic of course, but the point is it's not actually easy to determine which things software should decide automatically and which things it shouldn't for optimal UX, it's different for every user, and just making everything configurable isn't a sufficient answer because complicated configuration is itself bad UX.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    complicated configuration is itself bad UX.

    So have defaults that work to do what it says in the tin and have settings to change whatever the user wants. Can even have an advanced toggle or something if you want to have simplified settings for people that don't care as much. These are solved problems. Removing settings to have a simple UX is just devs being lazy.

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