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  • Because they are expensive. More importantly, how often does the function of a button is changed? Top right corner button on android is usually a back button (arrow/ x) or a profile icon. How often does a bottom navigation in an app change? Dashboard is an app that rarely changes.

    I will do you one better. The screen in the button goes out. If the button changes the display based on the context, what does the button do? Is software responsible to recognize it cannot display an action and do something? What does it do? Should the user be responsible to remember what does the button do based on the context? This article is about return to physical buttons because they are reliable. Do you see any button on your cars dashboard that is unlabeled? Do you remember looking up in a manual what a weirdly iconed button does? On any piece of hardware.

    This is from users perspecrtive alone.

    Lets do the manufacturer. Imagine that screen buttons have SKUs. Dashboards have SKUs. Screen buttons have versioned drivers. Screen buttons need power delivery. Data lanes on pcbs. And fuck else.

    Now imagine that you have a physical button. It costs cents. It closes one lane. Maybe needs power for a led.

    Who the fuck wants screen buttons?

    Finally. What the fuck multiple screen buttons solve that a single screen that can be any number of any buttons couldnt?

    Because sure as fuck they wont solve for context, clarity and reliablity.












  • In practice USSR was fascist since Stalin came to power. Argue all you want here, but the only difference was social hierarchy. On paper. As sold to common folk. In practice, since Stalin, a rigid hierarchy was established and enforced. It had a name, Nomenclature.

    USSR was authoritarian - one guy run the show since Stalin.

    Ultranationalist- soviet vs rest of the world. Argue till you are blue, but soviets its just a different name for the nation concept.

    Centralized autocracy. People did not rule jack shit.

    Militarism - they sure do love their parades.

    Forcible suppression of opposition.

    Belief in natural social hierarchy. Nomenclature is one thing and the same as current day oligarchy. People were trained to uphold it.

    Hell, equality in USSR was also worth jack shit. In the 90s russia opened archives. Guess what, georgian soviets were sent first to the meat grinder. Prime example Battle of Berlin.

    And for fuck sake. USSR forced other countries into their system. Suppressed culture, enforce russian language. That is ultranationalism.

    Also, hello. We as a group of people have a mortal enemy. That mortal enemy is ever present, weak, but always encroaching. Ever endangering us.

    If I have to spell it out, it is a staple of fascism.