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#PetPeeve: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in #MacOS X 10.0, #WinNT, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every #desktop uses this default: #Windows, #Mac, #FreeDesktop environments (#GNOME, #KDE), are there any exceptions? Like the #DesktopMetaphor itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.

#GUI #UserInterface #Legacy #OldManYellsAtCloud
#UnreasonableExpectations

ap-components

I want to share some information about a repository we just published. ap-components is a set of Web Components for building interfaces for the ActivityPub API. I built it as I was making a sample application for handling the acct: URI scheme. I found myself making more and more components for the UI, and realised that they would probably be useful for other applications, too. The library is available on npm at @socialwebfoundation/ap-components. It currently covers some of the simplest […]

socialwebfoundation.org/2025/0

Social Web Foundation · ap-components
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Another complete screw-up by EventBrite.

Last week I tried to reserve a ticket at an event and the "Reserve a place" button never showed up in either Firefox or Chrome on Linux.

It did in Chrome on Android on my phone.

Now I've tried to reserve a ticket for another event run by another organisation and I've had exactly the same symptoms.

EventBrite has one reason to exist, and they are complete screw-ups.

If you want reliable ticket and event management ...

Don't use EventBrite.

If you don't care about your users ... fine, do what you want.

#UserInterface #BadSoftware #Ticket #Software #Warning

PS: Yes, I'm angry.

This is a very confusing password check message!

I use 1password to manage my passwords.

As usual, I used it to generate a password to sign up this service, but the new password was flagged. I thought the website was telling me that the check was failing because my password did not have a special character like a space, "<" or ">". It was actually the opposite.

It can be easily rephrased to say "Should not contain spaces, < or >".

:eyeroll:

The #touchpad acceleration on Chromebooks is absolutely ATROCIOUS. It's jerky movements, especially when changing the speed of the cursor mid-movement. It suddenly jumps, or pauses! This does not happen on normal X11 #Linux distros, it only happens on #Google 's #ChromeOS. It's really distracting and I'd never buy a #Chromebook exactly because of that reason. Might also explain why ChromeOS's mouse does not work well under #virtualization. Buggy, or bad design.

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So I would (maybe press a button and) say "Open Podcast App."
And the the Phone would say:" ok, Podcast App Open; there are 5 new episodes.
And I would say: "Play the newest episode of Podcast x" .
And the phone would play it.

I am sure this is absolutely possible.

An the fact that, until now, I dont know how to make this work thells a lot about me (abled and all) I guess.
#a11y , but also just #userInterface