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Cake day: July 18th, 2020

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  • I tried their demo. It didn’t let me input my postal code because it’s 7 characters. It would have been even worse if the field only accepted numbers like the author implies it should. I obviously didn’t expect it to auto fill, but the fact that I can’t even input my postal code at all is the same annoyance I’ve had with almost every American service. The fact that there’s even a field for “country” in the demo is a joke. If you’re going to make your form for the US only, why bother including a country field? If it is international, country goes first, I don’t know why that’s even a concession at the end of the article, it should be the foundation.

    Also the suggestion to auto fill the country based on IP has problems but I would go out on a limb and say most people are not travelling or using a VPN so I’ll let this slide.


  • I always love the responses to these videos because it’s invariably a bunch of skilled Linux people showing their entire ass trying to justify why the average user would somehow have had a magically better experience and the OP is uniquely bad at computers. Get fucking real. Sit down, shut up, and take notes. It’s never going to be the year of the Linux desktop if you ignore the issues encountered by new Linux users.