Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction 11%–20% of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. The researchers behind the study therefore find that there are major gains to be achieved for society by rethinking the systems and involving users more in their development.
  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Do they include “fighting with anti patterns and dark patterns” as broken? It’s pretty insane how much misalignment there is between what most people want their computers to do and what the companies want people to do, which seems to largely be “look at ads literally everywhere”.

  • Chessmasterrex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    At least 10 percent of my time sitting in a classroom in college was waiting for the prof to get the projector to work with their laptop.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    How about everyone who has zero skills with these problems, do they count is 0% spent on them as they outsource it or do they count as 100% since the smallest problem incapacitates their computer usage?

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    How much time do we waste on car problems? Neighbor problems? Political problems? Grocery problems?

      • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Really? Because I updated and my wine prefix just broke. That was yesterday.

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        This is so not true unless you are using some super stable old Debian release and aren’t doing complex work.

        Most DEs are super buggy, especially the darling child kde, which right off the bat makes things not super stable.

        Additionally some of the most loved distros are rolling release and inherently unstable.

        Hell, I use multiple distros daily, fedora and slackware, I also use windows for work, windows is by and large more stable in my experience.

        Slackware has kernel panics monthly, kde crashes on fedora, Wayland has too many problems to count, meaning I have to switch to x sessions all the time.

        Most GUI software I use has tons of visual glitches.

        Yes it’s tolerable, that’s why I still use it, but I wouldn’t exactly say it ‘just works’

        I would estimate I restart my fedora computer about 4-5 times more often than than the windows computer, and usually I have to restart fedora because of serious hard crashes (e.g. kde crashes so hard that I can’t even switch to a tty, meaning I need to hard reset)

        • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I use KDE on my Linux machine, which means that I cannot develop anything involving the GPU.

          The moment I experiment a little with the API or give it wrong parameters, not only my program crashes, but the whole system freezes and I have to manually press the “power off” button.

          It does happen in windows too, however it’s 100x less unlikely.

          I also had a problem not long ago that crashing my program would not free the RAM, so every time I ran the program (and it crashed), I had 2-3GiB less of RAM. So I had to restart the computer every 10 runs or so.

          Operating systems are supposed to isolate programs and manage their resources. A program crashing under no circumstances should affect any other program. I don’t understand how it can happen.

      • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I mean, that’s fine, but as a Linux user I’ve fucked around a lot and spent a lot of time fixing mistakes that I did not need to make.

        I think I’m a pretty average Linux user. Who needs something that “just works” when you can break it by trying to add something you don’t need?

  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is 100% due to Microsoft, google and Apple. If you dont understand, I’m not defending my position, or explaining further.

    • maxinstuff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Tangent: what’s this trend all about where people will make a statement and then firmly state that they will not answer questions or explain themselves afterwards?

      I’m seeing it everywhere.