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the inability to be able to rent it at a profit usually. If they don’t think they can get money out of it, they won’t want to. If the economy hits a point where the housing market collapses, chances are they aren’t going to want to risk the buy in knowing that they likely won’t be able to sell for equal amount.

Or the much faster method: the “scary” government regulating it

hard agree. I never have learned anything from a video in terms of software development… now working on my car on the other hand… many times over

now with #ADS, please tap the x to continue changing your GPS.

I think I agree. I would be fine with an infotainment system that:

1. doesn’t cripple the car when broken
2. isn’t integrated with non-screen controls like climate
3. still has functional buttons on the steering wheel

My malibu meets 2 and 3, but the fact that if the infotainment system breaks it cripples the entire car, puts me on edge. This would be mitigated if actual functionality was outside of it, and that the touch screen was just a control layer.

thank god. I hope this trend migrates to other countries. The amount of effort/distraction for touch screens combined with the additional cost of having to replace full on infotainment systems is annoying.

Yea, not many sites bother but, the action makes it so much better, especially if the main content was supposed to be something that the user is supposed to digest such as a recipe or wiki site.

The @media print css at-rule makes it super easy as well. just hide everything but what you want to show, and adjust the margins how you like it.

omg point 2 makes me want to leave the site.

So many sites do this with “trending” or “new” content. Like youtube used to repeat your shorts every 3 or 4 rows of video to try and convince you to watch shorts. Drove me crazy at the time because I have no interest in them.

Which is dumb because CSS allows you to change the design based off screen size, so it’s 100% developer laziness.

Cookies should also have an immediate one-click reject-all button

I’m actually fairly certain that to be GDPR compliant they are supposed to have that. At the very least it isn’t supposed to default to “accept all” either.

Browser incompatibilities.

I use Firefox, Firefox is not a niche/unused browser. There is ZERO excuse for your web forms or pages to not work correctly because I’m using it. At the very least, all sites should be compatible with the latest form of Edge (gross), Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Those are considered Mainstream browsers. If your site fails to work on them properly, that’s one of the easiest ways to make me disappear off the site.

Another big UI thing is infinite load pages. I don’t care about the next article in line, give the user a sidebar or bottom container that contains related content, then I as a user can decide to click it or not.

And one last thing that many don’t take into consideration. Have a functional print layout of the page. So many sites don’t bother making a print layout but, as a user if I see something that I like, I might save it to a PDF, or print it out to show the family. When I do that I don’t need the headers(except maybe the title box?), banners, footers, splash screen, ad boxes, comments etc. I only really need the main body content. The print layout will show the URL if enabled, so I can always find my way back to the page without it. A lot of times if I am doing this, it’s because it’s significantly easier to show my family then having to somehow get them to visit the page.

I want to add, as someone who was in charge of reprovisioning high school laptops during training. Please only sticker bomb computers you actually own if it’s a system that you’ve been lent from a school district or employer please leave the stickers elsewhere. It looks cute and cuddly, but I assure you the next person in line is not going to be impressed with the permanent sticker marks from where the stickers had been on which had unequal fading

It’s perfectly legal to own any type of lock picking tool in all of the states in the US, as long as you are not using it for malicious purpose. But there are four states that have increased scrutiny on if you are caught out in public with them: Ohio Nevada Virginia and Mississippi, but it’s completely legal to have lock picking as a hobby(although some states require registration to do it professionally)

I was on board with your post until the last line.

However in the majority of the US it’s perfectly legal to own lock picking tools as long as you’re not using it for malicious intent, there’s only four states in the US that has restrictions on them similar to what you describe, those states are Mississippi where if it’s concealed / you don’t tell them that you have the pick and they find it on their own, you have to provide counter evidence in court of why it wasn’t you; and Nevada, Ohio and Virginia which states you must provide evidence directly countering the claim.

All states have it legal to own and use the tools, it just those four states have increased regulations on the tools that make it harder to defend in court if you’re caught out in public near a crime with them

I’m amazed people want “experienced” workers. Like trying to untrained an “incorrectly” trained worker is a pain in the ass. Like fresh out of college at least you have a base standard, once they have experience in the field you never know what you are going to get.