Where are we now?


In the old times manuals actually existed, they had the function to explain how to use the things.

Now are just piece of papers with an arrow pointing to a wall plug, an arrow pointing to the power button, and 13 pages with font size 2 paragraphs, explaining all the possible ways how the device could make you die, and all the reasons why you can't get refunded if it's broken.

So true there was not any detail in my phone manual in how to use it. Apparantly nowadays people just have to guess functionality, most is probably just missed and therefor never used.


I remember a game on the pandora I think it was one of these crayon drawing game that I could not find a menu or a close button or anything. I gave it to my then 7 year old cousin and she emidiatly started swiping around not knowingly but did manage to find a menu. I'm getting to old... I need hints.
 
So true there was not any detail in my phone manual in how to use it. Apparantly nowadays people just have to guess functionality, most is probably just missed and therefor never used.

I guess this is normal design. After all, in a phone design, the human is the peripheral and the phone is the controlling device.
I haven't read so many manuals written for the peripherals to read. I guess the lawyers insist that, peripheral or not, the buyer
who pays must get some text explaining his/her obligations and disclaimed rights, otherwise there would be no phone manuals at all.

You have a phone so that your boss can ask you something at inconvenient times, your friends can bore you with their frenzies and your family can attach you to your family chores.
Naturally the intermediaries work hard to build the hardware, oses, apps and services that allow all that and in exchage
get to track you and sell away that info, tell you what you should think and how little you should think,
keep you flush with information overload to condition you to react irreflexively and sell you whatever to ease the induced stress.
After all that, they won't trust you any more to read manuals. You'd better read advertisements, trending topics or whatever those
software or wetware bots posing as your peers will send you. That's a better use of your little time in between your Dopamine doses.

I wonder what film would Pink Floyd make today about The (Facebook) Wall...

In that sense, yes, the Pyra needs an Owner Manual, if only to explain to the human, that he/she is the owner.
And what he can do so that the Pyra does what he/she will. And maybe come around here if he/she doesn't want to make it alone.
 
I guess this is normal design. After all, in a phone design, the human is the peripheral and the phone is the controlling device.
I haven't read so many manuals written for the peripherals to read. I guess the lawyers insist that, peripheral or not, the buyer
who pays must get some text explaining his/her obligations and disclaimed rights, otherwise there would be no phone manuals at all.

You have a phone so that your boss can ask you something at inconvenient times, your friends can bore you with their frenzies and your family can attach you to your family chores.
Naturally the intermediaries work hard to build the hardware, oses, apps and services that allow all that and in exchage
get to track you and sell away that info, tell you what you should think and how little you should think,
keep you flush with information overload to condition you to react irreflexively and sell you whatever to ease the induced stress.
After all that, they won't trust you any more to read manuals. You'd better read advertisements, trending topics or whatever those
software or wetware bots posing as your peers will send you. That's a better use of your little time in between your Dopamine doses.

I wonder what film would Pink Floyd make today about The (Facebook) Wall...

In that sense, yes, the Pyra needs an Owner Manual, if only to explain to the human, that he/she is the owner.
And what he can do so that the Pyra does what he/she will. And maybe come around here if he/she doesn't want to make it alone.
Isn’t that 1984?
 
Isn’t that 1984?

Er... Well, it was supposed to in that white paper... But you know, small delays in projects are unavoidable, so it too was delivered some 2 months later. ;)

Actually, I read 1984 ages ago. I don't remember it so well any more, but wasn't it more about a government control machine ? In 1984 at least there was something you could revolt against, even if you couldn't win.
I put The Wall there because it has resulted maybe in a more social failure. In fact governments are puppets of the machine, more than puppeteers. Maybe.

More to the topic. Thank you ED, good luck, and take care. I hope it's going well with the coating company and all the rest.
The color is not important, but I guess if the cases are already produced the coating will be the same color. Whatever.
 
In fact governments are puppets of the machine, more than puppeteers. Maybe.
Indeed. It's funny that people think that voting really matters. Multiple countries work like this (possibly most) but let's take for example the USA. The real owners of the USA are not interested in votes or voters; instead they want to keep their power no matter what the herd thinks. And when they have to step down due to old age then they do not want the herd to decide who will succeed them. So to keep the herd distracted they use puppets like Trum and Hilary and let the herd vote on them. Trump and Hilary are just actors both working for the same boss.

I'm not American but my country has a similar system. That's why I do not vote. It's like voting between McFries and McHamburgers in that both are bad for me and both choices benefit the same corrupt worthless organisation.
 
If cars taught me anything : make it white instead of black so it runs cooler

It makes sense if you are using it under sun, but I think mostly we would use Pyra no under sun on hot station. On other side, would it better a more reflective, like mirror, color? The problem would be a more reflective color would be more slippery, I suppose.

Prior to that: white is not a discreet color in a phone/pocket computer. Black is very discreet and neutral.

If initially there will be only one color (later you could be other cases with other colors as accessories), I think it must be a color most of use can use, even if it isn't the color of our choice.

PD: I hope someday there be an aluminum case :) In Pandora it was near.
 
Obligatory "it was a joke" warning aside, you do have a point.
I'm not much into white, and an old "beige box" off-white might look great only to a few.

If maybe a little industrial-looking, a nice brushed aluminium, slightly reflective, would be a stunner. But then there'd be no use for having the 4G model.

Edit : Hey, how about PS1 gray ?
 
Obligatory "it was a joke" warning aside, you do have a point.
I'm not much into white, and an old "beige box" off-white might look great only to a few.

If maybe a little industrial-looking, a nice brushed aluminium, slightly reflective, would be a stunner. But then there'd be no use for having the 4G model.

Edit : Hey, how about PS1 gray ?
When we can make our own cases, I’ll see about 3D printing one in PS1 grey, white and safety/aerospace orange in a zebra-stripe camouflage xD
 
Good to hear that it is almost here. Strange though that the developers have so little time, I would imagine that working at home saves travel time, saves unnecessary smalltalk with collegues, many distractions so quicker in a focusbubble so a daily job can be done in less than half time from normal.

Oh and black is fine by me! Nice and unsuspicious looking.

For me, both my wife and I are trying to work and take care of a 1 year old since all daycares are closed.
 
Parents taking care of their own kids used to be the norm! Better just load those bastards off to some stranger and focus on things that really matter: jobs!
 
Indeed. It's funny that people think that voting really matters. [...] That's why I do not vote.

Sorry for the off topic, but I'd rather not be misinterpreted. I do vote. Always. Even if some country I didn't know in the other side of the planet one day decided I had the right to vote for their Parliament, I would research which of their parties wanted to remove my right to vote for them and possibly vote it. I might not vote if I thought the voting system was so faulty and ridded that even if everybody voted A, B would rule or something, But I would have to be convinced that the effect of a vote was much smaller than advertised. And a single vote is already advertised as quite insignificant, so it should be very blatant...

I think governments may be puppets, but that does not mean that all puppets are equal, and voting (at least here) isn't a big effort, so I vote. For me having the right to vote and not voting is not like protesting, it's like voting for the winning party.

Sometimes I even vote parties that get some MPs. And when the party I vote gets no MPs it's no drama either. I didn't love them so much to begin with, and anyway it's not my fault, it's the fault of all the others that didn't vote them. And they don't have to agree with me, so I shrug it off easily.

I don't think voting is the wrong part of the system. The system is wrong, and voting is not the solution. But voting is not the problem either. It could be debate, mass media, social value systems, corruption, inequalities, many many things, but in an ideal system, I suppose we would still vote, so it's a right I don't want to abandon.

I do respect your "clausure", Dr. λ, you have the right not to vote if you don't want to. I don't want to stand against you in any way or even debate this here (because it would be offtopic). I just didn't want my silence to be taken as ACK.
 
that kind of apathy allows the worst puppets to rise to power.
You blame me for bad people raising to power because I did NOT vote on those people? What's the logic behind that?

Besides, I'm not apathetic—I am picky. I do not vote for any bad candidate and thus if all candidates are bad then I do not vote at all. Apathetic people do not care enough to be this picky.
 
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