I want back my Dumb TVs!! I dont want everything to be connected!
The sensation of physically holding and reading a book made from dead trees.
Yes they take up space, yes I use my phone as an e reader when at sea or travelling. No I will not give up physical books at home.
There’s also not the same feeling of discovery or finding less well-known titles when finding an e-book online as there is just going to the library and looking at the books on the shelves.
I love a manual shift car, feels so much better to drive than automatic. Make bread from just flour, water, and salt, sourdough is an older method than dry yeast but it works better for me.
I also love radio, literal airwaves, works when the wifi goes down, battery radios can work during emergencies but also I just love the tech it is so old and so cool. And getting music curated by humans (we have a local community station) is great.
Community radio is so good. I just discovered it earlier this year but it is truly a breath of fresh air from the repetitive top charts being played on most public radio.
Would love to pay a mortgage instead of paying rent
Ordering at Subway. I used to be involved in the entire process of making my sub. More jalapenos! More olives! Now, I have to punch in my order on a screen, I don’t even know when they’re making my sub, and if I go up and police their every move, I’m a jerk. Not to mention for whatever fucking inane reason, all Subways in Korea have removed yellow mustard from their menu. The only sauces that remain are sweet or mayo. Fuck!
You have automated machines? Here in Canada the only place i’ve seen those is mcdonald’s.
Subway still tastes good but holy shit the price bumps the last couple of years, I just can’t justify it
what the fuck? I haven’t been to sbubby in a few years, but if they are doing this shit, i won’t be returning ever.
coffee. specifically, preparation of the drink. simple mechanical devices for grinding the coffee beans by hand, boiling a kettle of water and pouring over the grounds, or preparing in a press, or a moka, or a turkish coffee pot thing. This new keurig pod / nespresso bullshit sucks.
I got a metal filter pour over and an electric kettle where the water never touches plastic, only stainless steel. The taste difference is notable.
The only problem is now I struggle to get my daily dose of micro plastics.
I want a phone where I am reach the top and the bottom of the screen without shifting my grip. Also being able to comfortably store in a pocket would be nice
Yes! Make smaller phones! Why do they all have to be getting bigger and bigger?
i’m actually this close to just going back to a dumb phone.
Buy one
Driving manual (stick). I have an automatic now only because the model/trim I wanted doesn’t come any other way but if I could have got it in manual I would have. This car has less personality than my last one because I operate it rather than driving it. I literally have less of a connection with it.
Playing music on a record player. The ritual of removing the record from the sleeve, placing it on the deck, cleaning it, landing the needle. Listening to an album.
Cooking on gas instead of a halogen hob. Sure halogen is great and super easy to clean but gas is visceral and ‘real’. I also like to cook over charcoal or, even better, wood.
I’m the opposite for cooking. I have a gas stove and would love an induction one. So much waste heat unnecessary pollutants with gas.
Ngl cook however you want but honestly fuck gas stoves.
Takes ages to heat up water, half the fucking endrgy goes into just heating the kitchen. And it also contributes to higher chance of cancer.
I’ll stick with induction.
Compeltely agree on the manual car though.
Most of your stuff im eh but man if wood fire is just not amazing.
It grinds my gears that programs are called ‘apps’ now. On phones it was normalized immediately, so, sure. Computers run programs, though, god dammit.
Microsoft have been calling discrete computer programs “applications” since at least the Windows 95 era, when Program Manager was replaced with the start menu. They’ve been inconsistently kinda-sorta doing so since even Windows 3.x, maybe even more, but nobody was closely paying attention back then.
It didn’t become the current situation of monkey-see-monkey-do until Apple started using the terminology heavily with the iPhone, as you have observed. But they actually cribbed it from good old M$, much as they’ve cribbed basically everything else they’ve done in the modern era from someone else and simply painted it glossy white.
I feel this.
Why? What is the functional difference between an application and a program?
Program is such a funny word when you remember it’s an analogy from radio and TV. Radio and TV are just delivery mechanisms for programs, which are the content and point of the medium.
You could define a podcast as an internet-delivered audio program.
In the UK, “programme” is used for events, TV shows, and schedules, while “program” is specifically used in computing contexts.
Something like 20 years ago, i assumed that every generation that comes after mine, will be so much better with computers, because they grow up with it. So that’s not true at all as it turns out. I remember working with 20is year old guys together and they they mostly had iphones. They told me that they are also into computers, gaming and stuff like that. The more i talked to them the more i realised that they have no idea what i was talking about. I explained one of them how to do a thing on his phone and he was super lost. It was worse thN explaining my mom something. He kept asking where he finds the app i’m talking about and i kept telling him that it’s not an app, it’s something you do on the phone. Yeah i get that, but i don’t have the app for that.
Dating, though i have met my partner online too. Not dating app but a forum.
Data, i LOVE PHYSICAL STUFF. TRY TO TAKE THAT AWAY STREAMING SERVICES!
And politics. Used to actually be honorable and people across the board worked together for the good of their country.
I get you on the last. As lowleek mentioned there was scummy politicians but damn it was nice when they tried to hide it and were ashamed (or at least aped shame) and most had pride in their position and thier institution. I miss the days when senators were senators before republicans/democrats and judges were judges first and the congress would put their own parties president to task for overstepping.
I wasnt talking about american politics but there too. Though that defenetly has been more corrupt than what i am talking about: german politics. Helmust Schmidt was the last real chancler who cared
Not so sure about the last one as it reeks of nostalgia. Corrupts politicians have existed in the past, honorable politicians still exist. The biggest change imo is how easily the corrupt people can influence their voters and how they get away with everything.
Yeah politics has always been a cluster fuck. They didn’t just work together harmoniously to end slavery, people died for that. Likewise Eisenhower enforced the desegregation of schools at gunpoint with the 101st airborne.
Literally anything involving AI bullshit.
Physically possessing the music that you bought, having the actual vinyl records (or later, CDs and DVDs of shows). That you don’t have to keep renewing subscriptions for to continue being able to listen to (or watch), that you can lend out or pass down to your kids or sell to a used record store, where you can buy the ones someone else sold to them. Those were the days.
I want mobile phones with actual keyboards back. I hate touch screen keyboards with the passion of a thousand suns and I swear they’re getting worse.
Give me an LG enV2 with Android and I’ll be happy.
Buying stuff online using a phone or app. I still feel safer and more secure on a desktop browser with uBO.
Big purchase, big screen. Dems the rules.
Good news: Firefox on Android supports extensions, including uBlockOrigin
Though Im in the same camp, much prefer desktop over mobile for big purchases, banking, or anything that feels important
I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
Don’t get me started on those fucking digital handbrakes
Those fucked me up so much when learning to drive. Ah yes let’s try starting uphill with the handbrake. Could not do it because I had no fucking clue when it was going to release.
First time I had to do it in my dad’s car which has a normal handbrake I had zero issues.
It’s actually safer to have tactile buttons, too.
My old civic is so nice.
One of the many reasons I’ll hang onto my 2012 Toyota Corolla until I drive it into the ground. It has a touch screen for just the radio and Bluetooth, but it must be some sort of gen one prototype because it’s pretty awful. Thankfully, everything else is tactile. I can’t imagine giving it up.
My 2004 F150 just works, no guessing what button does what, twist the fucking knob.
