Re: which PC

Ron Hunter <rphun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I sincerely hope I NEVER have to use an OS that will protect me from
myself.


If this applies to products other than an OS, perhaps you'll open your
eyes and see just in how many ways your "freedoms" are already being
curtailed.

There's pharmaceuticals that you're not allowed to buy, for example.

And if you own a car, the odds are around 95% that it understeers (not
neutral, not oversteer). This is an element of design that is now
specifically present "to protect you from yourself". But I'll bet
that you'll give up driving a car.


YMMV, but I know that I'm subject to human errors. As such, a system
that is designed to be forgiving of faults is a more desirable
characteristic than one that waits for me to screw up and then mets
out a severe punishment. Who here would be willing to let their
keyboard be rewired to have 50,000 volts so that the first typo they
make result in a lethal shock?

Yes, this is a bit Reductio Ad Absurdium, but there are elements to
design for how to interface with forgiveness instead of
intolerance...and with your political comment (deleted), you're trying
to be one of the intolerant types, so perhaps a dose of your own
medicine is in order.


Suppose the designers decide I shouldn't be able to do
something I NEED to do, or just WANT to do.

Such as perhaps elements of DRM? It doesn't sound like that bad of a
thing if the DRM's purpose was perhaps to restrict the ability of
others to steal your copyrighted photos, doesn't it?


There's always more than one side to any story. Deal with it.



-hh



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