No it’s absolutely fine. I have an iPhone with a basic Bluetooth connection to the car. I have a stalk for audio control and I use Siri to tell it to do stuff. The audio is entirely hands free. You just get in the car and it works. You don’t need to touch or handle it for navigation either.
Every day I see people still doing it though here in London. There is no excuse. Not one.
Actually two weeks ago there was a huge Jewsons truck blocking an entire junction while driver was on his phone. The driver in front of me who was blocked confronted him and he told her to fuck off and what was she going to do about it. She used her phone to take a photo of him on his. I hope something is done. Some people are so arrogant and thoughtless.
My father used to import clone PC stuff from Taiwan. The guys running these ops were surprisingly small usually. Some of the original ISA graphics cards including the weird CEG (anti aliasing ones) had 3 guys running the entire outfit. The guy writing the software was stuffing boxes in his lunch break and there were no managers. Even the case design companies were one man outfits with all the actionable stuff contracted out. It was remarkable.
I suspect it’s easier knowing that they aren’t coming back than having to explain that you don’t know when they will come back and what mood they will be in when they do get back. This was my ex wife for several years until I kicked her ass on the street. I’ve got three kids and they’re doing fine now she’s gone but the emotional damage of uncertainty is possibly worse than absolutes.
It’s really cheap when you add the risks. Apple replaced the battery in my 6s about three years back and it didn’t work afterwards. If this was an independent phone shop they’d give it back and make an excuse or try and sell you another hooky handset. Apple gave me a brand new untouched 6s handset instead.
This is the joy of working for a large company. I was there a number of years ago. I just started ignoring people and doing what I think is right. No one appeared to notice. I suspect this was because everyone was chasing useless metrics or doesn’t want to challenge the timesheet in case the one apparent source of truth is discovered to be universe crushingly fallible.
I banked the experience and learnings and moved to a company which wasn’t in the fatal decline stage of development.
Got to be honest I tended to use the distribution packages for Perl back in the day. That would have been Debian or FreeBSD ports back then. If the module was missing I would shrug it and make do. This cultural approach came from a place I work which was airgapped so we had a local package mirror server which was loaded from Debian CDs.
Also no distracting internet or Google and you had only the man pages to work off.
I really don’t like the culture of ”download any old shit off the internet, ram it in a container and throw it into production”. It keeps me awake. One day the whole thing will come crashing down and instantly spawn a costly magic enterprise solution which will cost a fortune just to mitigate that risk which doesn’t actually mitigate it all just allow the box to be ticked on a compliance form.
Pretty simple.