Ephera

I don't know about most painful, but my dad bought a phone many months ago and last week, he wanted to know how to turn on the flashlight on it. I was ready to edit the notification dropdown or give a five step explainer or whatever.

Turns out, nope, you just pull down the notification bar and there's a pretty obvious flashlight button right there. The problem is, you see, he did not know you could drag down the notification bar. There were dozens of notifications there.

I really cannot blame him either. I don't know what UX designer came up with just putting a bar at the top and expecting users to know that you can drag on it. But yeah, still, ouch.

Well, I don't know what we're counting here. Generally, if FOSS apps have notifications which one might perceive as annoying, they'll have a checkbox in the in-app settings, so I don't need to *block* them.
There is one scenario, where I've blocked notifications, which is when an app wants to run in the background, then it has to put up a permanent notification. I hadn't counted that, since that's an Android requirement.

Aside from that, IMHO it's pretty clear-cut whether notifications are either necessary or subjective or not a good idea, so apps with user interests in mind can get that right quite well.

I only use FOSS apps, so never had to block any apps from sending notifications.

Well, lots of webpages apply CSS, either disabling the history coloring entirely or at least choosing different colors. It does still happen with blue and purple, but it's not nearly as obvious anymore that these specific two colors refer to that.

Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that's kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).

Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.

I do sometimes wonder, how much video games influenced my socialization. I also do the thing where I barely say anything and just expect others to be saying things to me, like I'm a silent protagonist.

My impression is that it is certainly a lot worse in the US than here in Germany. I imagine the abundance of guns means that being a cop is fucking dangerous, which means they will get uneasy in conflicts quite logically, but also that it's not exactly a job you go for, if you have aspirations in life. I mean, why would anyone voluntarily become a cop in the US, if not to abuse your power?

Yeah, particularly bad SPAs. All these things can be solved correctly, but implementing an SPA means you suddenly have to solve these problems, which just don't exist with traditional document-like webpages.

There's a local store, where you can bring your glass jars and they fill you up with all kinds of dry foods. Since I've started buying there, I'll look in normal stores specifically for products that come in decent-looking jars. 🙃

I think, this is the first time I'm reading the French country names for most of these. They are great. 🙃