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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Hear hear!

    When you bust your ass all year for that great review and much needed raise…only to go in for your evaluation and be told, “Great job! Unfortunately due to budget cuts and corporate policy, we can only give you a 1.5% raise, but you’re welcome!”

    Don’t tell them, but remember that.

    Remember that regardless of the work you give them, they’re only paying you 1.5% more. And that’s not even factoring in information inflation.

    At the most generous, you should only give them 1.5% more productivity than it takes to not get fired. If you look at it based on value…the value of your time and experience and productivity against the purchasing power of your take home pay… you’re getting a pay cut vs inflation as their way of thanking you.

    As such, cut your productivity, attention to detail, reliability, and shits given by the same amount as the purchasing power you’re earning.

    They call it quiet quitting, but in reality it’s the market economy working both ways. If they’re buying less from you, give them less.


  • I mean, it’s all very subjective, so “too much” for you seems to be what is a good amount for everyone else…but realistically, I don’t think this is a legitimate complaint since you still need to be able to make all these adjustments anyway… it’s just a matter of the way the adjustments are being made.

    All a touch screen changes is that it can play host to multiple functions depending on context…but it loses much of the visual recognition and almost all the tactile feedback of a physical control.

    And while vehicles keep getting more and more complex for sure, I feel like when I’m riding in a more touchscreen heavy vehicle, that screen is displaying the same static set of controls 99% of the time…and at that point, the flexibility it offers is largely irrelevant, and the tradeoffs mean giving up a lot to get very little in exchange.



  • Disagree.

    Personally, I feel the problem is absolutely touchscreens.

    I’ve only got five senses, and taste and smell aren’t helpful in a driving situation.

    Of the 3 left, sight is the most important for the most important task: driving.

    For other tasks, sound is best used to alert or remind about something, and is frequently diminished as a driving aid by music.

    That leaves touch and sight for all remaining tasks.

    Touchscreens are, despite the name, effectively 100% reliant on sight, since there’s no real tactile feedback to enable the user to make eyes-free adjustments. To use a touchscreen, you have to take your eyes off the road to see what the screen says and make your selections.

    While some are better than others, I also feel like touchscreens are still embarrassingly and frustratingly prone to errors, missed touches, and generally not doing the things the user intended, requiring even more eyes off the road to undo whatever actually happened, get the interface back to the place you want it, and try again, hoping that this time it’ll work.

    My mid-teens vehicle has a mix of a medium sized touch screen for the entertainment unit but physical controls for climate, driving, and a few of the entertainment adjustments, and while I was all about the advanced new touchscreen when I bought it, I find it’s my least favorite part of the controls this far along in ownership.