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bitbandit··on Italy’s rarest pasta
Sardo is about as close to Latin as Italian, Castilian, and Catalan.

BTW Sardo is actually not one language, but a set of languages spoken in the island.

bitbandit··on Not enough naming consistency in Linux UI
Calling an executable "Software Manager" is legal, but it's also inconsistent with other executables.

In this case the executable is "mintinstall" and it could have been called software-manager or softwaremanager.

You are right, the human readable name is generally different from the internal name, but the internal name should be invisible to a GUI user.

Here the problem is that the name of the executable has made its way to the GUI.

bitbandit··on Linux needs usability maniacs
What icon do you get on Windows? an iPod or some generic USB device icon?
bitbandit··on Linux needs usability maniacs
This is perhaps why these things don't get fixed. A Linux user does not see this as a problem.

This is a problem for someone who is not a Linux user.

Most users will not actually see the problem. They will just find the system clunky to use. They will not be able to point at what makes it clunky, let alone fix it themselves.

bitbandit··on Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change
This means that if I break a finger playing volleyball, I will need to go through extra verification steps to access an app.
bitbandit··on PaintCode 2.1 adds support for Swift
The home page does not even say anywhere that this is a mac-only product.
bitbandit··on How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?
Join your university ultimate frisbee team.
bitbandit··on 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?
IMO we are seeing that form sells more than function. MAC and Win 8 are a prime suspect.

I am seeing UIs that look nice but are difficult to use for a fully able user, let alone a user with some kind of disability.

bitbandit··on 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?
I am guessing that 14% = color blind + users with cataract + various other visual impairments.

You usually can't have a design that makes all of them happy at once.

For example, high contrast UI themes often leave large white areas on the screen that users with glaucoma find blinding, but other users like a lot.