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Berni:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on November 12, 2021, 06:55:50 am ---1 key reason I will never buy a Tesla.

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The problem is that other car manufacturers also look at Tesla and copy the idea.

Dad has a more modern 2020 Volvo and it also went to the big touchscreen and minimal physical buttons. For example the only way to adjust the climate control is using the touchscreen. Same for heated seats. I think among the things that have a physical button is the hazzard lights, window defroster, volume up/down and play pause, along with a home button (that puts you into the main menu similar to a iphone). Yet they dedicate significant surface area down lower on the center console for a silly start button that you actually turn 1/8 turn to start rather than just push and some fancy large scroll wheel for selecting the drive mode between eco/normal/sport (That also takes up the whole center console screen with a menu when you spin it, has a fixed timeout before it hides, and always defaults to normal drive mode on start rather that remembering the setting.

A minor detail is also that heated seats default to off when starting the car. While in my one generation older Volvo has a dedicated soft button for heated seats. Not only does it remember what setting you left it on, but also upon a cold start the seats are set to max power for 1 minute to get them up to temperature, then reduces down to the actual setting. So i just set it to the minimum 1/3 power and i leave it there for the whole winter, getting my seat nicely up to temperature when i get in without me having to do anything other than just start the car.

This sort of stupid form over function keeps becoming more prevalent these days. Both in cars and modern software more effort is put into making it look sleek and less effort put into making the features actually useful. Win 8, Win 10 and upwards are breaking Microsofts own UI design rules that they established back in Win 3.1 and ware followed all the way to Win 7. All just to make Win 10 look more modern and sleek while confusing older windows users.

IDEngineer:
Run Win7 everywhere. Problem solved.

madires:
But that implies that you have either paid support (just a short term solution) or don't connect that PC to any network with internet access.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: madires on November 12, 2021, 04:27:49 pm ---But that implies that you have either paid support (just a short term solution) or don't connect that PC to any network with internet access.

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Oh really.

james_s:

--- Quote from: madires on November 12, 2021, 04:27:49 pm ---But that implies that you have either paid support (just a short term solution) or don't connect that PC to any network with internet access.

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Support? I've never used it. I turned Windows update of completely back around 2015 and never looked back. It's connected to the internet and I use it every day, I've ignored all of the "sky is falling" Chicken Littles for years and so far so good. I have an old XP system that I use occasionally for stuff that needs it, also connected to the internet. I'm pretty careful about what I do, my whole network is behind a firewall/NAT and I keep a pretty close eye on traffic. I know a lot of people with fully modern updated systems who have been infected by things despite being up to date, and I firmly believe that it is mostly down to user behavior, you can't patch the user. When the behavior of modern software is virtually indistinguishable from that of malware and viruses I'll take my chances.

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