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Originally Posted by Antoinekamel
[S]implicity and happiness are deeply connected.
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For some of us,
apparent complexity and happiness spoon like anatomically grotesque pretzels within our blissed-out skulls.
The other day, I happened to see someone I know in the pantry using a coffee machine that spits a three-line readout of everything it's doing and at what temperature. "I hate seeing all that," my friend said.
She is such a compulsive Apple user that she has never used a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop that ran anything but OSX or iOS. Even her router is by Apple. She is not only a believer in the simple UI; she is actively intolerant of everything else.
"I actually
love seeing all that," I said, pointing to the coffee maker's screen. "It's fun to know about the things around us and the depth of their operations."
(She gave me narrowed sideeye, of course.)
That's one reason we install rockbox and various ingenous hacks on our many devices. A factory-fresh Clip Zip is fun, but the rockboxed version feeds you options and details as baroque and layered as miniature hors d'oeuvre.
I love that, which is why readout-intensive widgets on my S4 are allowed to chew on its battery.