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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

this was the peak of product design in the early 00s. "look, we added a brightly colored button whose only purpose is to open up our unoptimized crapware that no one will ever intentionally use. that counts as a feature, and therefore a reason to purchase our product instead of the competitor's on next shelf"

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

Remember when Radio Shack tried to make cat-shaped barcode readers a thing?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Ngl there's something charming about these weird aborted versions of stuff that we figured out later, like this one is just "QR codes but stupider"

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

The guy who invented that thing also invented some "proprietary technology" to find bamboo fibers in ballots to prove that the 2020 election was stolen by China.

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