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Cake day: February 26th, 2026
  • Cris_Citrus@piefed.ziptoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•The Next (De)GenerationEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I have never been good about seeding because my old laptop sucked and I rarely torrent stuff and dont really underestand what the ettiquite is or what seeding actually entails. I always kinda worried it’d keep my computer awake all the time and like use battery, or consume computational resources while I’m trying to use it

    Anyone wanna give me the lowdown on seeding, etiquette, and what to expect? I’d like to be better about it, but I don’t have anyone to really learn this stuff from 😅

  • Cris_Citrus@piefed.ziptoDull Men's Club@lemmy.world•I Changed A Car BatteryEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I think that’s a pretty big assumption, I think if you asked most engineers what ux research says about most design patterns they wouldn’t know, and theyd have to go and research stuff most designers could tell you off the batt

    The three mile island catastrophe was largely a UI design problem that happened because they failed to consider a human had to operate and respond to the problems presented by the control room’s interface. Engineers were involved in the project, I don’t believe designers were.

    At the end of the day we both want the same thing. But I feel user hostile design patterns are as much implemented by engineers chasing costs as demanded by management as they are by designers making things shiner for marketing (like massive car touch screens, which are much cheaper to manufacture than proper physical controls, and literally any designer could tell you as soon as proposed that thats gonna kill people), and I guarantee you, both would jump at the chance to make something they think is actually just a good thing without someone over them ruining everything about it

    No one goes to school excited to produce a return on investment to shareholders, be it engineering school or design school

    Regardless, I hope you have a nice day :) hopefully we get our not-shitty car someday, and if not I’m just buying an old car

  • Cris_Citrus@piefed.ziptoDull Men's Club@lemmy.world•I Changed A Car BatteryEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I mean designers would also be important in that equation, the problem is just that design has been cannibalized by marketing and branding

    But like, where an engineer solves physics problems (and software developers solve logic problems), designers solve human problems. So ergonomics, intuitive controls, a design that has useful features for basic tasks and makes sense for daily life, that communicates saftey information in an effective and clear way, and accessibility, are all things a designer would be more suited to than an engineer

    Unfortunately companies are increasingly corrupting the role of designers from “being the advocate of the end user” to being another bs marketing person who does whatever will look shiny and sell more units, while ignoring stuff that actually matters.

    But design is also deeply important to building a thing that is well considered and doesnt suck