Sometimes, the old ways are best.

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08/11/2019 at 13:01 • Filed to: None

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Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2019 at 13:18

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I’m sick of touch screens. Unless you are giving your entire attention to them, they suck.


Kinja'd!!! facw > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2019 at 13:32

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Fun fact, the Navy has been experimenting with using an xbox controller to operate the periscope on its new submarines. Cheap, easily o btainable, trivial to replace, and familiar to new sailors:

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Kinja'd!!! Urambo Tauro > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2019 at 14:08

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Excellent choice! Maybe now, non-touchscreen controls will start to  trickle down from military applications to the re st of us.


Kinja'd!!! Nauraushaun > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2019 at 14:22

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Best is subjective. Touch screens are good at some things not others.

Physical buttons are better at feedback and usable without having to look which makes them reliable . But they’re completely inflexible.


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
08/11/2019 at 14:38

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Definitely worse than dedicated buttons/switches  for many applications.


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > facw
08/11/2019 at 14:39

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Happy to see the wire here. 


Kinja'd!!! Svend > facw
08/11/2019 at 15:49

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Apparently your DoD were buying $8,000 a time controllers from a defence manufacturer until one seaman noticed they were the same units you bought at any computer store.

It was one of the last Qi's with Stephen Fry. 


Kinja'd!!! facw > Svend
08/11/2019 at 15:58

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Sounds about right...


Kinja'd!!! TorqueToYield > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
08/11/2019 at 15:58

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I like switches and sliders on some stuff, super intuitive and quick to change. Like I desperately miss physical eq sliders in car stereos. It was so easy to change up the bass/treble with a slider song to song or station to station. Good luck doing it quickly and not dangerously buried 4 layers deep in a touch screen.

But having a physical switch for everything trivial is insane. Touchscreens give you so much flexibility.


Kinja'd!!! MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > TorqueToYield
08/13/2019 at 15:31

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Which is why you design physical controls for critical items and use the touchscreen for non-critical things. Steering and propulsion are certainly on the “critical items” list. This is a case of being to smart for your own good.