Most likely because an engineer designs it, or it's designed by committee. Let's see, how can we sell this same microwave that cost us $30 to make, for twice the money? Oh let's add "features" such as a 'popcorn button' that makes popcorn, or a 'defrost tbone steak' that perfectly defrosts...
Yeah, imagine my surprise when I saw that google was working on those hand gestures radar things and then my disappointment when i realized that I can't do any of those gestures because of peripheral neuropathy. My thumb on my right hand has limited mobility, so hopefully it will be able to pick up my half-assed attempts to mimic the movements or i'll be screwed.
Considering that they don't have a job, and thus have more free time to contribute shouldn't make them look bad. I have a job, I do my job, I go home. Occasionally (like on my birthday) I donate some of my spare time to projects that I care about, and you'll see contributions for a while then I get back to regular stuff which isn't open source. If that looks bad to a potential employer then that's not the kind of employer that I want.
Yeah, usually on or around my birthday I'll donate some of my personal time to improving open source projects, I certainly don't want that looking bad for me just because I try to help.
1. Don't try to boil the ocean. You can't change the whole world at once, you can only affect your sphere of influence. You first need to expand your sphere of influence.
2. The easiest way to do that is money. (ex: Bill Gates, Elon Musk) Barring that, you need to write an awesome book, or have something published (Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein), or get elected (Barack Obama). Chances are, those will lead to increased wealth also.
3. Use that to introduce the change you want in the world.
The thing is, the most difficult part is expanding that sphere. You're one person of 7 billion. That's not even a one in a million chance of impacting the world. The odds are against you. That said, you can make a change in your community, maybe even your city. The key is, you have to start right where you are and impact what you can.
If Albert Einstein had asked 'should I become a patent clerk if I want to make an actual impact on the world?' people would have flat out said NO. The thing is, it did give him steady income and time to think, and thinking is what he did best.
Now of course you can shortcut those steps by being a martyr for whatever cause you want (Nathan Hale, Mahatma Gandhi), but then if you have to ask, you're already doing it wrong.
He doesn't even need the bookmarks, a 'history sorted by access date' would work just fine. IE 11 has the history explorer bar which you can choose 'today' and 'view by order visited today'.
In any case, he could use Sleipnir 6. It's got your hundreds of tabs open market cornered.
http://www.joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/?215934307460273100...