Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Contents of file changed while application is reading it Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 18:47:26 +0100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <5q8vcjxgqm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <9TPLL.243396$Ldj8.162746@fx47.iad> <7PoML.919200$gGD7.379067@fx11.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net b8YATSKKypSUM8sCSIqOFAa7koYpYIyl407a0AgBlkFj64VPJA Cancel-Lock: sha1:PgPRzTp0iT2Yv8gqpRKBZ7G0yxg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <7PoML.919200$gGD7.379067@fx11.iad> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37387 On 2023-03-03 16:58, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2023-03-03, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> Typically, these type of tools make easy things to be real easy, >> but hard things become impossible. > > I've noticed that more and more software is written this way. > Apple has been the spearhead in this movement, but it's becoming > quite widespread. As long as you stay in the playpen (i.e. only > do the things that are pre-ordained) the system is very easy > to use. But the moment you climb out of the playpen you hit a > brick wall. If it's not in the menus you're out of luck, and > keyboard-based alternatives are discouraged. I'd much rather > have a system that's a bit harder to learn but contains more > flexibility; in the long run, it's actually easier to use. > (Note to designers: ease of learning and ease of use are > not the same thing.) But depends on intended usage and by whom, too. > > As an opportunity for thread drift, it's always been a hallmark > of the User from Hell to complain in a way that's terse to the > point of uselessness, i.e. "It doesn't work!" Alas, this mindset > is infecting modern software developers. When an error occurs > nowadays, more and more apps are display a message like > "Something went wrong", without any explanation or error > codes which could help the user - or developer - track down > the problem. Grrrrr... Yak. New camera can, among many other possibilities, "connect to computer via router wifi". Nice. So camera finds SSID, tell password, wait... nothing. Camera tries then gives up, no error message. Grrr indeed. Suspicion is it wants to find a published shared directory (on samba). Or maybe not, camera doesn't know workgroup name or password. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.