What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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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.
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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!
Subway still tastes good but holy shit the price bumps the last couple of years, I just can't justify it
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want back my Dumb TVs!! I dont want everything to be connected!
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I want a phone where I am able to 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?
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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
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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.
