Tinkering
There are 2 types of digital products (devices and apps) - the designer's and engineer's.
Designer's products make you feel good to use them.
They solve your problems quietly, reduce your mental efforts.
The designers have thought about it for you.
It may not do the things you like, but it works and is neat.
“It just works”.
But maybe you like it too much for how it looks and feels.
While the engineering-minded would think designer's products are too hand-holding.
The engineer's products give you freedom, max amount of customisation, dot files, configs, more themes.
Tinkering with the tools becomes a job in itself.
When people like their tool too much, they don't refer to their tool e.g. a hammer as a hammer, they call it by its technical name XYZ-2000-mark2.
You can find them from a simple search on YouTube.
If you start talking about your stuff by its technical name… nothing wrong with it.
It is just a hammer.
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