What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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Lack of third places has been a real thorn in society, especially third places that you aren't expected to spend money.
Absolutely. Good point.
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What was "the old way we did things" before social media?
I'd like to shout from the mountaintop that I do not care what you and your boring family did over the holidays.
I don't remember the last time I logged into any real social media account so I guess I'm kind of living as though it doesn't exist anyway.
Tangentially, I preferred old Reddit.
Not sure how it got so shitty, but eeeeuuuuggghhh.
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As a software and electrical engineer who has worked in life system critical projects as well as foundational financial systems with strict uptime and performance requirements....
My home is as basic as humanly possible, no automation, manual systems for everything. Anything that must be digital is untrusted, isolated, and has a backup. A cabin in the woods off grid is the only way I feel comfortable
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Paper boarding tickets and having someone who works for an airline actually be able to help you directly when something goes wrong.
Print the qr code and take it with me as a backup. I get funny looks, but if my phone dies I can still take my trip.
Funny story, my phone died while traveling last year....
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This is kind of niche, but I mix concerts for a living and newer consoles and shows are all scene based, every song has a scene, and most of the time every verse and chorus in the song has a sub scene. It is a breath of fresh air to be able to mix with no scenes and have to rely on pure skill and intuition. Those shows tend to have a better feel and be more energetic, albeit less polished. They are also more fun, and a little bit more stressful.
It is 1000 times more enjoyable to actually mix a concert than just click to the next scene.
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Anything to do with the internet. I'd go back to 2010 in a heartbeat.
Bro, I had dial up in the early nineties...
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I am the complete opposite. My notes were terrible in college, such a mess.
I bought a laptop for grad school and took all my notes in outline form. Changed everything. School was easy now. I was super organized and studying was trivial. No crap in the margins, no weird arrows pointing around because the prof added some comments to earlier info.
Just wonderful,clean neat notes.
Also, others wanted copies so I would sell them, wasnt a lot of money, but it kept me in donuts.
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Agreed. I have ADHD and need that tactile feedback to commit things to memory.
The only downside is that I can type so much faster than I can write by Hans.
Tell Hans to pick up the pace, your education/job is at stake
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I daily drive a clapped out 80s sports car with no AC and a broken radio. The true connection you can feel to a classically engineered machine when there's zero distraction or convenience is hard to describe. You learn every noise, every smell, every quirk of handling and weight transfer, gain intuition about how the chassis will react to every abnormality in the road surface, have the shifter and clutch become subconscious muscle memory where you don't even realize you're doing it, etc. There's a variety of reasons the average person should drive a newer car but I personally love an old hooptie.
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Agreed. I have ADHD and need that tactile feedback to commit things to memory.
The only downside is that I can type so much faster than I can write by Hans.
I've basically developed a system of shorthand-ish where I shorten a lot of common words into a few letters or even symbols and threw grammar out the window lol. I never compared it with my type speed but it works for me
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I don’t like electric can openers. I strongly prefer to just use a manual one. I just see an appliance that has but one use and requires electricity to be tremendous waste.
Not to mention they’re kind of hard to clean! Electric can openers are the worst. When the top pops off, they often send the contents of the can all over, too.
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Catsup and ketchup are two different things.
You might be confused by the fact that there are many catsups, beyond the sweet tomato kind that's so popular American children. Both spellings are correct, and both are, in fact, fairly old. It's just that when Heinz 57 ketchup became ascendant, most other styles (and spellings) fell out of fashion.
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We were well into the internet in 2010...
Hell, we were well into the internet in 2000
Yeah, I was there for pre-2000 internet. It was cool back then too. I just remember 2010 as the last era where the internet still felt fun. That's all gone now.
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I don’t like electric can openers. I strongly prefer to just use a manual one. I just see an appliance that has but one use and requires electricity to be tremendous waste.
I didn't even know electric can openers were a thing
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I don’t like electric can openers. I strongly prefer to just use a manual one. I just see an appliance that has but one use and requires electricity to be tremendous waste.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I love my P-38 can opener. It was made 80 years ago and it's still opening cans like tin foil.
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Paying for things.
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Using Windows - before onedrive, online integration, new control panel, telemetry.
Using the internet - before tracking, bloated sites, paywalls, cookie boxes and ai garbage.
Using my car - before telemetry, beep, driver "aid" systems. -
I love my P-38 can opener. It was made 80 years ago and it's still opening cans like tin foil.
Came here to rep the P38. What a boss of a can opener.
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I didn't even know electric can openers were a thing
Making things electric was the "adding AI" of 20 years ago. Make something that works more complex and difficult to use, but the future!
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The only commercial technological advancement from the last ~30 years I think I would miss if it were all to revert to how it was before then would be GPS navigation. I don’t like the prevalence of technology in classrooms, dating, shopping, and vehicles today.
I would have liked discovering music, film, and events by word of mouth or just playing a tape I borrowed/rented even though a lot of people would probably defend the convenience of having it all readily available today.
