The Age of Snarky UI

td12

I understand the smart watch complained, and the "guess your not using notifications" But i think the car thing is valid. People driving tired is way more common. iirc, around 20% of car accident happen due to drowsy driving. So actively suggesting to stop driving is imo the correct thing to do.

windows2020

Windows 11 decides to update and says, "You're x% there." Later, the computer jumps from 30% to nothing. "You might want to plug in your PC." Then the next morning Copilot appears. Too many cooks in the kitchen it seems.

techteach00

These small annoyances just keep adding up. The result, a less happy population which most likely correlates with a lower life expectancy. It's also just less and less human agency. My cars software is going to monitor and manage my behavior? Seems maddening.

mx7zysuj4xew

Somewhere in the mid 2010s software developers stopped respecting its users. Instead of giving terse, succinct messages it was assumed the user was lazy with an iq below 80 and and needed to have friendly, patronizing responses