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Ironically, when Russia was joining the World Trade Organization in early 2010s, one requirement was for them to do something about pirate sites, namely torrent-sharing ones. So iirc the domain torrents.ru was taken away from what is now called RuTracker, and they blocked many other sites, which stay blocked to this day.

Not sure how this says anything about Russian copyright laws or Russian government.

KDE on the other hand… I am glad it exists but I wish it were better. I feel like it literally wants to be windows.

KDE’s approach was ‘Windows, but with even more dialogs and crammed lists’ for at least twenty years. And it also felt clunky way back then. People on Lemmy keep saying that Plasma is good now, but I read the complaints and it’s like nothing changed.

I just think that most UX designers share the UI design responsibility, so it’s not that distinct of a job.

Your initial comment above came off as hostile to UX designers, which is why I felt the need to reply. Afaiu UX design as a discipline, particularly in software, appeared around the nineties to early two-thousands, likely influenced by industrial design (namely Don Norman himself) — so it’s not quite an ‘emerging’ discipline, but it’s surely vague.

UI design existed for forty years at least. The problem, of course, is that few people understand what a designer actually does, unless they’ve met a really good designer.

I mean, I wrote bash scripts for this on Mac, and Automate workflows on the phone. The scripts are pretty short and simple. The custom touchbar buttons were added with MTMR.

In Windows, I can’t connect/disconnect Bluetooth devices via PowerShell without a UAC dialog appearing (or whatever dialogs those are). And the free third-party option for control of devices from the command-line is a binary from a site last updated ten years ago or so.

In Linux, I’m perpetually mourning the absence of an app like Hammerspoon, that is scriptable with Lua (or a similar language), has tons of APIs for desktop automation, and a built-in http server for requests from the phone. Proprietary Unified Remote might be the closest thing, but its workflow is different.

I’m guessing that the design documents might’ve been something in the vein of ‘user stories’ (if I correctly recall their name), which describe what some typical users would want to do with the app, so that the actual UI design would focus on these features being available front and center. This is a very legitimate design technique, and a good designer should always question why any elements must be present in the UI and whether they solve the user’s goals.

This Blueman thing would definitely benefit from such approach, because right now it exposes a lot of technical details about which I don’t care, while simultaneously making my everyday operations with it inconvenient.

On Mac, I had one touchbar button that connected/disconnected the headphones and another that handed them over to the phone or from the phone to the laptop. Plus commands in Alfred that did the same. And same on the phone in the dropdown menu.

Learn to RTFM, noob.

If a programmer needs a whole ‘standard’ to figure out that two orthogonal tools are all they need, it’s not a good sign.

Pyenv and venv are independent and don’t do any ‘same thing’, so you must be really talented to mess them up or be confused by them.

I also don’t know what’s difficult about understanding why the system-wide installation exists or how to add local modules to the path (which venv does for you anyway).