What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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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.
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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.
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We were well into the internet in 2010...
Hell, we were well into the internet in 2000
I was deep into 4chan in 2003-2004…
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I don't think anyone mowed grass with a scythe. At least for me mow suggests ornamental grass.
English is my second language, but my understanding was that nobody mowed their lawn with a scythe, but tall grass and wheat is something that you would absolutely have cut with a scythe.
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English is my second language, but my understanding was that nobody mowed their lawn with a scythe, but tall grass and wheat is something that you would absolutely have cut with a scythe.
Certainly but you said mowing grass with a scythe instead of a mower. Nobody mows grass with a scythe and no one harvests wheat with a mower.
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No this is LITERALLY the same argument made hundreds/thousands of years ago against writing and books. Its the same argument the amish use. It IS the luddit pinnicle argument.
That's right, the anti AI people are making literally the same arguments about why writing is bad. I am so smart.
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mail ! I mean, email is great, but mail is fantastic. It doesn't make a bunch of sense in this isntantaneous world of ours, but if you just slow down a little, and write letters, and WAIT for a reply, you find yourself more attuned to your own pace, if that makes any sense
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Yes! Make smaller phones! Why do they all have to be getting bigger and bigger?
I think we all know the answer to that one.
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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 mean, you're still completely free to do that
I use a hand-grinder and pour-over for my daily brew. No space for any superfluous gadgets in my little kitchen - even if I wanted them. -
Yes! Make smaller phones! Why do they all have to be getting bigger and bigger?
I like the bigger phones (at least however big a pixel 6 is -- that seems about a perfect balance to me). Good to view web pages and videos as well as to use as the nav for my motorbike and still fits in the pocket. I find the smaller phones just too cramped.
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Japan mostly skipped PCs (outside of offices). Since their phones were ahead of the curve, a lot of stuff was designed for them. That means that a bunch of stuff is either exclusively done through some shitty mobile app, fax, or in person. There was a brief phase where PC versions did exist, but those are almost all being neglected or decommissioned now. I much prefer to do things on a PC with a nice, clear, big screen, especially if I need to use some translation tool since the text tends to expand (learning thousands of kanji for stuff like legal and taxes is hard).
I do miss physically owning media. A lot of physical media still decays, though, so not a panacea.
Software programs that were much more tested and completed before release.
Software development where we think things through, define requirements, define states, etc. before any code is committed. I do think PoCs are fine to throw something against a wall but, if it works, the proper version should go through those design phases before anyone writes a line of code. Cheap components and fast machines and networks have made people lazy which makes software worse in a number of ways quite often. No vibecoding. No AI/LLM shoved into everything. I think they can have uses in certain contexts (rephrasing questions, generating examples/docs in projects with bad/no docs, etc.), but hate how they are being shoved into everything.
An internet not run by corporations. I think a lot of people do see it through rose-tinted glasses (we still had trolls on BBS, UseNet, IRC, etc. and other bad actors), but a lot of things were much better.
Third spaces. Places where people of different backgrounds would interact in some common way. Sure, some were echo chambers just like online communities today, but many were not and let people interact together rather than just being othered to the point of fear and reviling.
I much prefer AD&D 2.5 rules to anything around today (and TSR still existing, but that ship has sailed).
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Uh oh. The ice carvers are complaining about the evils of refrigeration again...
You do not understand what quality code is if you think the current or previous generations produce anything but shit when it's not a 1-1 copy of someone's project it digested.
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mail ! I mean, email is great, but mail is fantastic. It doesn't make a bunch of sense in this isntantaneous world of ours, but if you just slow down a little, and write letters, and WAIT for a reply, you find yourself more attuned to your own pace, if that makes any sense
wrote last edited by [email protected]I learned about postcrossing (.com?) off Lemmy - you might want to take a look!
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mail ! I mean, email is great, but mail is fantastic. It doesn't make a bunch of sense in this isntantaneous world of ours, but if you just slow down a little, and write letters, and WAIT for a reply, you find yourself more attuned to your own pace, if that makes any sense
Okay yes, but only if it could implement the 'unsubscribe' feature from email.
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Modern tabletop miniature painting is dominated by contrast paints and airbrushes. This is especially true of small time commission painters.
I personally only use my airbrush for priming, and only use contrast paints for intensely limited purposes like glazing. For the vast majority of my painting I use methods taught in the 80s and 90s.
I personally like the results, and I like to think my methods give my pieces a "voice" that helps me stand out from other local commission painters which deliver interchangeable looking results.
I don't dislike airbrushes (which I know were used by certain niche painters back in the day, but weren't in common use generally) or contrast paints. I know some people take the time to get good results with them, however I think the majority of people applying them do it in a sloppy manner and the effort it would take to prep or clean up the results to a standard I would accept seems like more work than just doing it traditionally.
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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 was given a manual one a few weeks ago with no instructions, check out this horror show:
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I do miss physically owning media. A lot of physical media still decays, though, so not a panacea.
I prefer digital media that is locally stored. Many complaints I see about digital media revolves around DRM or a service's ability to remove media that you think you "own".
I think locally stored media solves that without taking us back to the days of a shelf of hundreds of DVDs.
I do own some physical media like certain very old PC games but only because there is no good digital option available that's more convenient.
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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.Long live Clippy!
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That's a great idea!
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Subway still tastes good but holy shit the price bumps the last couple of years, I just can't justify it
I used to really like Subway, until we tried going with my son who had a food allergy. In hindsight it was a stupid idea that they could control cross-contamination. However they were unwilling to provide the legally required allergen info ….so I haven’t been to one in 19 years
