this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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The touch pad control shit just sends me “yah, let’s get rid of these cheap, easily manufactured and implemented dials and knobs that can be easily operated without looking and replace them with an expensive touch screen that you need to look away from the road to use, that’s truly the way of the future; Unnecessarily expensive, more difficult to use, and reliant on software that will probably get bricked in 3 years when the executives lay off the team maintaining it so they can give them selves a pay raise.”
also, the disrespect for software that powers the fucking touchscreen is insane (as a non-biased software developer)
the part that worries me is that planes with touchscreens are coming