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Re: Dials. I HATE, HATE, HATE the way more and more cars are doing away with the dial. Dials are awesome. Especially in cars. I can operate the dial while d
by georgemcbay 15y ago
Re: Dials.
I HATE, HATE, HATE the way more and more cars are doing away with the dial. Dials are awesome. Especially in cars.
I can operate the dial while driving and not risk killing someone. Replacing dial controls with flush push buttons, or worse consolidated touchscreens that control virtually everything means either I don't get any control of my radio/AC/etc when I am moving or I risk running someone down because I'm too preoccupied dealing with the shitty no-affordance monstrosity of a UI you replaced a perfectly great thing with.
- Too 15y agoSame on laptops, if i'm in a coffeshop and forgot to turn the volume down and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume, i want to be able to quickly turn down a physical dial to zero, that would take me under 0.1 seconds. Not press fn+F11 ten times which takes almost a second.
- cmurphycode 15y agoIn general, I agree, but that is the use case for the mute button.
- jamesgeck0 15y agoWhich is also digital! Fumble for the fn and esc keys as music blasts out of your laptop and people turn around to look at you. Bonus points if the software the receives fn key presses don't work instantly, and there's a half second lag, during which you mash the keys again and negate the mute.
- gdilla 15y agoalthough, i do think that buttons on the steering wheel, which you learn to use without looking are a big big enhancement to anything on the console.