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Make it significantly longer and bright orange. Print the word "REMOVE" in large black letters on it. If that doesn't work, put a static-sticker right on the s
by chaosmachine 17y ago
Make it significantly longer and bright orange. Print the word "REMOVE" in large black letters on it.
If that doesn't work, put a static-sticker right on the screen that says "REMOVE ORANGE TAG ON BACK BEFORE USING" with a little diagram.
Can I get a job as a Lonovo designer now? :)
- houseabsolute 17y agoAh, the scorched earth tactic.
- jrockway 17y agoNot really. It's just an effective way to bring people's attention to something that they need to do, but might not know that they need to do. Yeah, a base that doesn't need the pin might solve the problem... but do you want to pay $10 extra per monitor because an orange pin is inelegant? I don't.
- houseabsolute 17y agoI wasn't disparaging it, I'm just pointing out that it's the bluntest possible instrument. And sometimes that's what you need to get the job done.
- blasdel 17y agoThen that text has to be localized. The real trick would be to have a very long piece of wide bright orange polypropylene ribbon attached to the pull-ring on the pin. Long enough that you'd want instinctively to pull it out so that it won't be in your way, long enough that you can't just tuck it in anywhere and pretend that it's supposed to be there. Just out-ugly the idiots.
- awa 17y agoI would imagine they would be localizing the manuals a bit (OSD usually are not that simple), adding one more line there shouldn't hurt.