![]() ![]() Poor Online Experience with Cookie Consent This has to change and we need a better platform that focuses more on the user’s objectives & experiences. We lost so much precious time and attention to the annoying “I Accept” pop-ups. The web has changed from simplicity to endless accept cookie rules and pop-over advising content. GDPR compliance with a good intention didn’t drive optimal user experience. Overrated personalization has powered so much advertising and cookie tracking in the browser. Taking control of my own attention in this noisy digital world Apple eventually understands that form factors superseded user experience and functionality is not an optimal decision. ![]() Unfortunately, the butterfly keyboard was way off the expectation of what good could look like. 2016 Macbook 12 inch with butterfly keyboard ![]() The computing power was good enough for general software development. When Apple first introduced the MacBook 12”, it was eye-opening for me as the perfect device for portability. We cannot ignore how much impact a good keyboard can offer to the user. We spend so much time with the keyboard to produce creative work. All in all, it was probably one of the best note-taking devices at a time. It was not able to provide enough computational power nor innovative interactions with the small screen. However, the software and operating systems were not built for the performance, the storage was still using spinning disks, 2 hours battery implied carrying a large charger. I owned an HP Mini 5101 at the time which is a medium spec 10-inch netbook for professionals. I was at the time looking for portable Linux netbooks. Portability and maintain the daily needĭoes anyone remember the age of Netbooks between 2008-2010? The device market was offering sub-optimal powered portable laptops with a small size footprint. I would love to appreciate these historical events that drive me to look for an alternative habit. To change our habit, it requires frustrations and initial drive to leap of faith. This was almost one decade of looking for different ways of working with the device. Here is the story about how I managed to live in a computer-less world. The reality is, as of 2020, I have not been working directly on a standard computer the past three years. Even if we make such statement to ourself today in 2020, some of us could still be quite hesitated. I wish I can time travel 25 years backwards and kindly present to myself, “one day you may not need a computer”, I would not know how I could react to this ‘warning’. One of the photo was showing me installing a software on a CRT monitor computer in the 1990s, probably the internet was still using dial-ups modems.īack then, we had to wait for 30 minutes for downloading a couple of megabyte we had to hope that modems can maintain the connection we had to hope that there would not be any incoming phone calls as it could interfere the modem phone line ICQ was still one of the must have software in our inventory School homework TXT files were stored in floppy disks that barely reliably worked. I was intrigued and having so much flashback memories. While we were chatting away with my parents about all sort of things happened when I was a kid, they digged out some old family photos. In early 2018, I was on a trip visiting home in Shanghai. ![]()
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