dan

I’m looking at Ubiquiti’s UniFi doorbell. It’s not cheap, nor really intended for home installation (it’s more like office grade stuff), but I already use their networking kit and run their software.

I wish my car’s interface was more minimal.

I don’t mean removing knobs, knobs are good. Hiding things in 5 level deep touchscreen menus is not minimal.

I mean.. removing visual noise. Removing unnecessary lights. Streamlining controls. Taking away indicators that aren’t important.

My dashboard dials are now a screen, why can’t I have an option just to display the speed and nothing else? Why do I need to see 4 dials, two driving modes, and some other crap all the time?

There’s a separate screen for the satnav, why does it need to have permanent menus displayed on it? Or visible buttons? Road names? Status indicators for various settings? I want an oled with a black pixels-off background, roads in gray, and my route in white. Nothing else. Not using the satnav, turn the screen off.

Why do I need a perpetually scrolling display showing the name of the current song? Like sure I want an interface to choose music, but I don’t need to see it all the damn time.

CarPlay is better than most native infotainment systems but it’s far from perfect in this regard.

That’s a fantastic feature.

Pretty sure they’re just gambling that this’ll give them a bump in installs/logins with their mobile app that they can use to boost their figures for IPO.

There's a osu-ish purple blob appearing bottom right (colours are limited this year so no pink)

Lmao the header image on their modnews post about it appears to have a pixelated dumpster fire.

10000% a play to get people to install their mobile app. They don’t care that it’s just so they can contribute one pixel to a giant “fuck spez” banner, all that matters is their app metrics will grow a bit.

That site has some nasty adblocker-blocker, so I guess I’m not reading that article…

What a pathetic, desperate move.

If you ever needed evidence that Spez is completely incompetent, or that Reddit are totally willing to milk users for every cent with zero remorse, this is it.

Well that effectively and succinctly summed up my general distaste for Twitter and Twitter-alikes.

                                 has entered the chat.

They renamed wefwef?

Edit: They renamed wefwef.