<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Still have one in my drawer.</p><p>Haven’t powered it on in years, but I still like to hold it sometimes to remind myself how comfortable iPhones used to be.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.lol/@jaydot" class="u-url mention">@<span>jaydot</span></a></span> or repasting a 13” MBP. God.</p>

<p>I just found a random iPhone 5S in an iPhone 6S box in my parents house and I do not know the origin of either of these devices and I’m very confused. Was this my phone?!</p>

<p>&quot;We don&#39;t abandon projects because they are hard, we abandon them cause they were 90% done and we lost interest!&quot;</p>

<p>In a way, you can see the passkeys community pushing *against* this trend, trying to acknowledge this need, developing resources like <a href="https://webauthn.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">webauthn.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to allow users and developers to cultivate a structured understanding of the technology as a whole, decoupled from vendor-specific solutions. But the ingrained product development habits from every vendor undermine this.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@nami" class="u-url mention">@<span>nami</span></a></span> спасибо! Просто интересно стало :-)</p>

<p>I can&#39;t blame companies; users really do reflexively avoid learning, and have been conditioned to see their primary feedback mechanism as switching apps. If your app requires learning, you&#39;ll see massive churn and be harshly punished for that. I definitely can&#39;t blame users, who avoid learning because developing deep expertise with modern apps is rewarded by having your brains scrambled with constant A/B tests of everything being reshuffled to suit the users who *don&#39;t* put in effort.</p>

<p>People need to develop sophisticated strategies and think deeply about their values and goals when using social media, but the only response that social media companies have to this is to introduce features or to constantly tweak their recommendation algorithms. Disinformation? Oh, that&#39;s okay, we&#39;ll block the word &quot;suicide&quot; so now everyone starts saying &quot;unalive yourself in minecraft&quot;, great, teen mental health is solved. No need to have a difficult conversation about norms and pedagogy.</p>

<p>Almost every communication technology is like this. Email is bad so we *still* keep getting new email clients that try to &quot;solve&quot; email (or chat apps; remember when slack was going to &quot;solve&quot; email?). Don&#39;t worry, don&#39;t change your habits, you don&#39;t need to learn anything, just click this button. We made a &quot;promotions&quot; tab, and an &quot;important&quot; tab for you, so now you won&#39;t be overloaded. Just consume product, don&#39;t learn to be a better communicator. Here are some suggested AI replies.</p>