Foone🏳️⚧️
we need metacomputers.
one of the big features of computers and how they improved productivity was how they let us automate a lot of things that we had to do by hand before.
well, most of the things I have to do by hand these days involve badly designed software.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@GabeMoralesVR been there, done that, wrote both the macro program and the program to align the windows
Foone🏳️⚧️
like you know how there's a lot of programs that are just basically fancy UIs around commandline tools like ffmpeg?
that, but instead of wrapping commandline tools, we're wrapping GUI tools
GabeMoralesVR
@foone tfw when you use macro programs to click on GUI elements then need to hunt down a program to automatically align windows in the precise location so the event clicks land on the right ui buttons
Foone🏳️⚧️
this isn't about "the cloud" or virtualization or even AI.
it's about using UIs to do Your Task that do the thing you want, rather than whatever the person who made the program wanted.
Foone🏳️⚧️
I don't want to use computers anymore.
I want to use metacomputers that use computers for me
Foone🏳️⚧️
@EMR only if they let me manage robots, not humans. I have less than zero interest in telling humans what to do and will avoid it if at all possible.
EamonnMR
@foone I believe this is called getting promoted into management
Foone🏳️⚧️
@niconiconi If AutoHotkey is a knife, I want an A-10 Warthog or an aircraft carrier.
niconiconi
@foone@digipres.club It's called AutoHotkey
Foone🏳️⚧️
@blami that sounds like a wonderful idea
blami
@foone I had this abandoned project to build a simple GUI toolkit for my toy OS where everything user can somehow interact with has public API so that also script or program can interact with it in sane way without external tools.
abrasive
@foone oh my lord this is such a glorious idea - since apparently we will never solve criminally bad UI/UX :'(
the thing is I'd still use it even if it took me way longer to configure and debug than the time it would have taken to do by hand! apparently that is more acceptable to my adhd's frustration limits
Foone🏳️⚧️
@abrasive yeah exactly! ADHD just makes this worse because it's infinitely better to spend hours and hours building automation than to spend minutes doing it manually
Kevin Riggle
@foone arguably you already are (APIs). Clearly the answer is another level of abstraction
Foone🏳️⚧️
@kevinriggle You can solve every problem in computer science by adding a layer of abstraction!
except for the problem of having too many layers of abstraction, of course
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