Hi everyone !
Please let me know if you find it appropriate / relevant. I stumbled upon this article in a press review (Framasoft, free software related). It is pretty long but easy to read. It deals with the loss of understanding of the technologies we, skillfully, use, and its corresponding loss of control and how Google / Apple accompany and encourage this trend.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Makes me even happier of joining the Mudita community.
It’s a brilliant article. Being a guy who experienced the times when all web servers in Europe could be presented in a single map and a list of addresses … when there was no guide or course for writing web pages, but you could do it with just a text editor and learning from others… This hits hard.
And yes, Mudita Kompakt should offer a more complete software package, but I am so grateful for the possibility to tinker with it, which definitely outweighs the downsides.
@bidinou I love this! Many people today approach technology like this:
If it doesn’t work immediately, the product is broken.
NOT “Let me understand how this works.”
And that’s because over the last 15–20 years, companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft shifted the design philosophy of their devices to remove friction, remove complexity, remove responsibility.
The GREAT thing is that Mudita Kompakt users are often closer to the old-school power user mindset than modern smartphone users.
Because choosing a minimalist device like Kompakt requires:
A long time ago, someone once told me that the path of least resistance is rarely worth it.
I never understood that as a kid, but I do now that I work at Mudita 