Somehow this kind of writing irritates me a lot. Maybe it is because they present their view as ideal for everyone's use cases? Then again, I am also quilty on the same thing. As I curse the modern design, when it hides technical information.
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Operating systems and boot messages. Why these need to be hidden? It does not require any user action, but provides valuable information when things go bad.
And those freaking spinning progress indicators, that do not tell if the progress is actually happening or working thread has crashed or got locked.
Everything is connected to some company's server and dark patterns are everywhere.
And it feels like all the sites are designed for showing no actual information only full hd carousels with stock images.
I was excited, until I found out how much it costs..
For some time I have been looking a small screen that would be used for displaying various information. However, I don't want to build the hardware myself as I feel that the result might not be safe for 24/7 usage.
I've been checking digital photo frames, but have not found any solution which would allow updating the image directly and without requiring reverse engineering of an app or the device itself.
This got me thinking, how easy is it to find a replacement?