I'm not a designer either, but that flesh tone has got to go.
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I have no idea of the feasibility of locking down some piece of user data such that the OS can display it for privileged access, but random apps cannot, but this seems like a reasonable solution. Include some user selected word or picture in the title bar of the settings dialog so that users know its the real one.
1. You can't change your master password without changing every other password (upon refresh - looks like others mentioned that already)
2. You can't modify the output of your deterministic password algorithm to adhere to sites with weird password requirements
I mean, it feels like satire, but who knows...
It's like when you turn on a camera and people can see themselves on a TV. A lot of people can't help but make faces at it.
Really helped out a young kid figure out how to write autoexec.bat/config.sys files so that his games could run. Being able to write menus so I could customize my setup for each game was so amazing.
With the advent of the internet the quality of on-system help documentation has stagnated.
[1] https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
You could still game it by aiming for the average, but really the average is the expectation. And in a world where subject matter difficulty can scale with a child irrespective of the skill level of peers their age, getting an average result on a test is ok.
And yet, our work is completely the opposite. Your boss doesn't care how much effort it took you to do that thing, only that it got done.
Parents inevitably take this approach at home as well. An A is an A is an A. Good marks are what we look for, and are a mental shortcut to know if your child is doing their work at school. But we see this can backfire, as children learn that getting all the answers right on a test are all that matters. Maybe instead our school system needs to instead evaluate relative performance, not absolute performance. A grade should say "Sally improved by 50% this term", and parents can praise that result. The tests that a child takes should adjust to take into account that child's proficiency, to ensure that child is always being challenged.
Aside: Getting all the answers right on a test is also a poor signal - you're essentially clipping the measurement of a child's performance. Kids should be used to failure, and learning how to take on new challenges. Why not give a test where the expected mark is 50%?
"Disciplined" may be a better word - it requires a high amount of willpower to pull this off, but it's part of what you signed up for.
I certainly do - most commonly when merging into a congested lane from a side street, stopping and making eye contact helps understand if everybody is paying attention (the merger can move forward and the merged is leaving a space open for them).
Motorcyclists also have a pretty large vocabulary (I'm not sure how many of these are actually used in practice): http://www.abate-il.org/Backroads/signals.html
But if $500 gets you 90% of the way there, is that last $500 really worth it? Same with shoes - I regularly spend less than $100 on my shoes and find that they are perfectly comfortable, last a long time, and fit all my needs. 0 complaints. Spending another $100 might give me a better experience (at the very least it might make me feel happier when I put them on the first time), but the returns are so low that it isn't worth it.
These days, the money bar for a "good enough" smartphone is very very low.
I would imagine that a touch scroll pad like in the linked video would be a useful thing to have on the left hand side of a keyboard. I could use it to navigate through a document quickly and use the mouse to pick my target.