“Saving” a file should already be obsolete.
Filesystems should automatically retain history, so whenever you edit something it’s already saved, with the ability to go back to any previous state.
Oh hell no… You want the computer to decide where your files live??? Autosaving and saving are different things, you do need both
And version control on a filesystem is neat, but you’d still have to save it to a place. Perhaps you save it to a version controlled place, so you’re not version controlling things that don’t need to be tracked and filling up your entire disc when steam games update
It’s your responsibility as the human to make decisions like this. It can be made easier with tools and clean workflows, but if you let the computer do it automatically you’re giving up control and understanding
No, please. I NEVER want a computer to take a decision for me (like save or discard changes). I turned off auto saving on Microsoft Office on my work computer after I unknowingly made some changes in a presentation from another team I was just looking at, and it saved those changes without my knowledge nor consent.
I work with several screens, have several windows of different programs open and, unfortunately, sometimes a keystroke doesn’t go where I thought I was sending it (I’m probably getting old). Also sometimes windows from a different program come to focus unannounced and capture whatever you were typing or clicking.
re: keystroke focus - you’re not just getting old, programs are getting shittier about pulling focus when they shouldn’t
I work on several screens on several tasks at once typically as well, and it’s infuriating when one program pulls focus as I’m typing a sentence into something else, and worse when it does so and accepts the input of my rapid keystrokes to do whatever the fuck all those hotkeys are on the thing that pulled focus
“Saving” a file should already be obsolete.
Filesystems should automatically retain history, so whenever you edit something it’s already saved, with the ability to go back to any previous state.
Oh hell no… You want the computer to decide where your files live??? Autosaving and saving are different things, you do need both
And version control on a filesystem is neat, but you’d still have to save it to a place. Perhaps you save it to a version controlled place, so you’re not version controlling things that don’t need to be tracked and filling up your entire disc when steam games update
It’s your responsibility as the human to make decisions like this. It can be made easier with tools and clean workflows, but if you let the computer do it automatically you’re giving up control and understanding
It’s how we lose tech literacy
No, please. I NEVER want a computer to take a decision for me (like save or discard changes). I turned off auto saving on Microsoft Office on my work computer after I unknowingly made some changes in a presentation from another team I was just looking at, and it saved those changes without my knowledge nor consent.
I work with several screens, have several windows of different programs open and, unfortunately, sometimes a keystroke doesn’t go where I thought I was sending it (I’m probably getting old). Also sometimes windows from a different program come to focus unannounced and capture whatever you were typing or clicking.
re: keystroke focus - you’re not just getting old, programs are getting shittier about pulling focus when they shouldn’t
I work on several screens on several tasks at once typically as well, and it’s infuriating when one program pulls focus as I’m typing a sentence into something else, and worse when it does so and accepts the input of my rapid keystrokes to do whatever the fuck all those hotkeys are on the thing that pulled focus
Wouldn’t that take a huge amount of space?
yes