What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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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.
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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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Dating. It's hard to manufacture that initial spark in an app.
It's like fishing. You throw a bunch of hooks in the water, see what happens. I did very well with online dating, until I found my forever girl.
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
My 2004 F150 just works, no guessing what button does what, twist the fucking knob.
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No.... this is me
:::spoiler it's me
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Making things electric was the "adding AI" of 20 years ago. Make something that works more complex and difficult to use, but the future!
More like 40 years!
That said, I loved my electric opener from 92'.
There was a knack to it, but I could be done opening a can before someone even started with a manual opener.
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- Mowing grass with a scythe instead of a mower
- Splitting wood with an axe instead of an electrical splitter
They both are quieter and calming to the mind and soul, meditative even. And you kind of feel like an NPC in Anno 1602.
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- I prefer to operate the clutch and shifting on my truck myself.
- I'll rather do manual labor than any work that involves sitting on a computer.
- I'm chronically online but without a smartphone addiction.
- I prefer long-form media.
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Software engineering.
Back in my day(
), it was an engineering role, where science reigned. Anyone even attempting "vibe coding" would've been rightfully laughed out of the room.It's a task that should take concerted effort, with specific goals and performance metrics in mind. Just getting the task done wasn't and shouldn't be good enough.
Uh oh. The ice carvers are complaining about the evils of refrigeration again...
