There is nothing more frustrating than wanting to do something with your own computer, phone, tablet or whatever, and find out that you can't do that simply because you can't do that.
For example, I used to have a Razer Megalodon headset which came with in-built noise reduction provided by the firmware. Could I disable it? No. Did the noise cancellation work as intended? No.
Would it have solved every problem I have with this headset if I could just *disable* the noise reduction and any other automatic crap that involves something else than picking up what I am saying and transmitting it?
YES!
You could set the "sensitivity" to 0, but that does not help.
Make a disable button somewhere! I'm even willing to install your bloatware as long as it has a disable button.
There are three reasons I should be able to disable features like this:
1) If I don't need it, I don't need it. So I want to turn it off.
2) If I need it, but it doesn't work as intended, then disabling it might be an acceptable workaround.
3) I paid for it!
Learn from Skype: Skype's automatic volume adjustment is completely useless also, but it comes with a disable function, so I don't care. You can never be 100 % sure you got it right anyway, so to be safe, let me, for the love of the internet, disable it.
Learn from the Linux world: Writing 'sudo' in front of a command will prompt for a password. If this password is correct, your wish is now the computer's command.
I would also like to always:
- Begin a download even though you think I'm going to be out of disk space. Give me a warning and I'll start moving some files in the meanwhile. And certainly also give me the option to save the thing to another disk. It will take three hours before it becomes a problem, so let's work concurrently here.
- Be able to keep something *always on*
- Be able to turn everything off in case it causes a problem
Give us disable functionality.
For example, I used to have a Razer Megalodon headset which came with in-built noise reduction provided by the firmware. Could I disable it? No. Did the noise cancellation work as intended? No.
Would it have solved every problem I have with this headset if I could just *disable* the noise reduction and any other automatic crap that involves something else than picking up what I am saying and transmitting it?
YES!
You could set the "sensitivity" to 0, but that does not help.
Make a disable button somewhere! I'm even willing to install your bloatware as long as it has a disable button.
There are three reasons I should be able to disable features like this:
1) If I don't need it, I don't need it. So I want to turn it off.
2) If I need it, but it doesn't work as intended, then disabling it might be an acceptable workaround.
3) I paid for it!
Learn from Skype: Skype's automatic volume adjustment is completely useless also, but it comes with a disable function, so I don't care. You can never be 100 % sure you got it right anyway, so to be safe, let me, for the love of the internet, disable it.
Learn from the Linux world: Writing 'sudo' in front of a command will prompt for a password. If this password is correct, your wish is now the computer's command.
I would also like to always:
- Begin a download even though you think I'm going to be out of disk space. Give me a warning and I'll start moving some files in the meanwhile. And certainly also give me the option to save the thing to another disk. It will take three hours before it becomes a problem, so let's work concurrently here.
- Be able to keep something *always on*
- Be able to turn everything off in case it causes a problem
Give us disable functionality.
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