Original question text by @[email protected]

What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    The option is called “relative date” (as opposed to absolute date). On macos you can switch it off:

    • open Finder, go to list view
    • select very first item in hierarchy
    • click on the little triangle next to the (folder-)icon to expand but press the option key wihle doing so
    • hit “cmd” + “J” - a settings panel will open
    • there is a tick box that says “relative date” that needs to be disabled (unticked)
    • if you want to apply this settings as the new default setting for all finder windows, press the “apply as standard”-button at the bottom. All dates will show now the actual date instead of “today”, “yesterday” and such.