Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

  • zefiax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    Do you actually get anxiety from a curved corner or was that just hyperbole?

    • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I do lol. I got used to it on my phone because they’re so tiny and it’s a taller screen than 16:9, so it doesn’t cut into videos and such. But on a PC screen I wouldn’t stand it.

      I also can’t stand the rounded squares buttons that are now “standard” in Android. I keep a lot of apps out of date just because the newer versions changed circles to that abomination. I even asked the dev of Infinity for Lemmy to bring the option for circle button, and they did! 😃

      Nobody understands my suffering lol.

      • zefiax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Lol I really don’t. I am trying to figure out what condition would lead to actual anxiety for something like this.

        • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          I think I hate it mostly because 1) it needlessly ruins a good thing, 2) of the general implications of “we are changing something fundamental like a rectangle, and make it standard, and you can’t do anything about it”.

          And also the general corporatisation of design. Everything has to be lifeless and smooth and just enough friendly and appealing to everyone. So what we get? A mix between a circle and rectangle. My artsy soul is crying.

          So, it’s dumb and pointless, it ruins a good thing, it offends me, I hate it, and yet I’m somehow supposed to accept it as the new standard? Fucking 1984 this is.

          • zefiax@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know if this is satire or serious.

            Of serious, I envy your life. I wish my lifewas privileged enough that I could focus on hating rounded corners as much as you. Lol

            • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Are you on the internet? Then you are probably not a starving child in some Somalian village. You privilege.

                • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  Maybe I’m not such a twat so people like me more and I can afford it. You should try it.

                  • zefiax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    LOL. Compares round corners to 1984 and then claims to not be a twat. Maybe get out of your moms basement for once and go face the real world.