What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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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
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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...
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Buying stuff online using a phone or app. I still feel safer and more secure on a desktop browser with uBO.
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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.
3000% honesty, you are right. It is a waste, using a good manual can opener is far more satisfying. Like the electricity needed for the electric one is miniscule at best but its still wasted since it rakes 10 seconds to open one with a manual. I get people who are differently abled and need these, but the average person gets no real value from an electric one.
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I didn't even know electric can openers were a thing
Never seen back to the future? One in the opening scene.
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It's still done this way in many communities but the progression of courtship to the families meeting up and giving their approval to marriage to sex to children. I know people will often have sex right after courtship but it's the fact that the other steps still have to be followed and the acknowledgement that this is not just for hedonistic pursuits but for deeper connections and purposes that's sorely missing nowadays (particularly in the West, ofc).
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Uh oh. The ice carvers are complaining about the evils of refrigeration again...
Uh oh, the bad faith AI bros are conflating luddites with anyone that disagrees with them again....
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
Don't get me started on those fucking digital handbrakes
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Literally anything involving AI bullshit.
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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.
