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![]() 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.
![]() 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:
![]() 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.
![]() 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.
![]() 08/11/2019 at 14:38 |
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Definitely worse than dedicated buttons/switches for many applications.
![]() 08/11/2019 at 14:39 |
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Happy to see the wire here.
![]() 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.
![]() 08/11/2019 at 15:58 |
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Sounds about right...
![]() 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.
![]() 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.