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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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There has to be a better system than windows and tabs for doing work on a computer. I don't know what it is, but there has to be something. I always end up with fifteen windows with 30 tabs each over two or three virtual desktops, and then can't find anything. Maybe the bad idea wasn't AI; maybe the bad idea was multi-tasking operating systems. Wouldn't life be better if all of our computers were single-user and single-threaded? No more losing windows and tabs! No more background notifications interrupting us every seven seconds! Just sit down, start a task, finish the task, then do something else. The human brain can only effectively do one task at a time. So we should force our computers to work the same way.
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Pratik Patel @ppatel@mstdn.social
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@fastfinge Isn't that what the mobile experience is like pretty much all the time? yes. I know the edge cases and tabs and such. But, for the most part, we end up working on a single screen.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel Accept that the notification spam is endless. And often your phone decides to do god knows what in the background, and now your battery is unexpectedly dead.
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Pratik Patel @ppatel@mstdn.social
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@fastfinge Putting the phone in do not disturb mode usually solves the notification problem.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel Accept that it doesn't, because the rest of society expects you to answer every message you receive within five minutes. The problem with instant notifications is that they exist and are expected. So everyone has to have them on. Opting out isn't a choice your boss, co-workers, or family will permit.
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Pratik Patel @ppatel@mstdn.social
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@fastfinge Meh. I don't usually respond to messages when I have do not disturb on. Unless I am doing something related to the message/s coming in, they can wait.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel Must be nice. Whereas I got an email from someone I have to deal with angry that he'd sent me a message at 2:37 AM, and it had been an hour with no answer from me. Yes, we were in the same timezone. And no, this is not a one-off; there are multiple people who do this sort of thing multiple times in my life. And based on the people I know, everyone else has people like this, too.
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Pratik Patel @ppatel@mstdn.social
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@fastfinge Oh I have people in my life like that. I won't deny it. But I've trained them to not expect replies from me immediately. 24-48 hours is what they get.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel That works if you don't depend on them for income/livelyhood, I guess.
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Pratik Patel @ppatel@mstdn.social
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@fastfinge In some cases, I've relied on them for income in the past.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel I doubt you could re-train them today, then. I'm increasingly convinced that the thing that'll destroy civilization isn't climate change, or AI. It's the expectation that everyone is always available at all times, and that we can all multi-task everything all at once. Notifications and multi-tasking are the sickness that's going to kill us all.
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@fastfinge @ppatel If I got fired for not responding to an email at 2:37AM, I think I'd be okay with that. Yes I know, incredibly privileged view. So much so in fact that my phone autocompleted privileged after only three letters.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @ppatel I'd agree if it was "get fired". But usually it's "Get yelled at. Get no promotion. Get put on a performence improvement plan. Don't get the raise. Get called not a team player." If companies would just fire people for that it'd be way easier to fight in court. But they don't.
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Tara Owton @oasisfan@mastodon.social
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@fastfinge @jscholes @ppatel How about suing them for unreasonable working conditions? I work freelance, and if one of my EFL students did that to me, they simply wouldn’t get an answer at 2.37 in the morning. Trouble is not enough people stand up to this crap.
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