Paco (2026: New) Hope@paco@infosec.exchange
I don’t think people today have enough experiences with toasters. Or maybe they have smart toasters and that’s why they don’t get this analogy.
A toaster couldn’t be much simpler. Bread goes in, toast comes out. Incredibly predictable. Incredibly reliable. Totally understandable. When you make technology that is THAT kind of reliable and intuitive, you have made a huge accomplishment.
Too much today we are left wondering. Why did it do that? Did I cause that? Did “they” update it and make it do something new? Will it happen again or is this just a transient error? Can I get it to go back to how it was?
And it’s been this way a while. A lot of people are used to it and don’t know there’s a different way for technology to be.
Paco (2026: New) Hope@paco@infosec.exchange
This was vaguebooking something that happened to my 93-year old mother last night. #iOS updated. When she opened her phone today it was insisting she set a passcode. (She never sets one and has no need to) it confused her to no end. She thought it was asking her to enter one. She’s never set one, so how could it be prompting for one?
We figured it out. She had set one and then didn’t know how to turn it back off. Thank goodness she remembered what numbers she typed in. The way she said it to me was “I just put in some numbers and it worked.” I thought “oh shit. If she doesn’t know what she typed this is gonna be a disaster.” But it wasn’t that bad.