From the other side, there have been brief tutorials for many years about how to ask useful questions in a technical forum. Making hundreds of other people fish for details about your case is poor form.
Part of art is the process of creating it. It’s not just the physical artifact, nor even just the completion of the final product. The inspiration, subject matter, the consideration of form, the initial concepts, the redesigns, the meaning or emotion the artist tries to impart, the beauty of the thing, the skills employed and further developed during the process, the choice of materials, the use of perspective, and how the work is presented are all part of the art.
I get these all the time. The most fun was probably when I was given and building layout, door at which to arrive, schedule, and security information to get into a pro sports arena for a game as an employee of some vendor. The least fun was probably when I ended up talking to some drug company’s general counsel about why it’s not okay to send information about a discount program for a specific drug that treats one specific disorder with a bunch of personal information about the patient to an unverified email address. I went on to explain how their tech staff could prevent that, and remind them of the fines and possible jail time involved with HIPAA and HITECH violations.
What a designer might call nostalgia an actual user of an OS might call standard, or maybe even intuitive. The point of an operating system is to be used. If it’s pretty, that’s a bonus. Usability by the target audience is the primary concern.
My mac opens Music for func + enter. Sometimes I accidentally have the function button held down as I hit enter. Then whatever app I’m trying to use to type loses its focus to this app I never use.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-ask-good-technical-... is a pretty good example.
Going back more than two decades is ESR’s “How to Ask Smart Questions”. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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