What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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Anything to do with the internet. I'd go back to 2010 in a heartbeat.
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TV.
I hate the smart-TV workflow, its a terrible user experience: Turn the TV on... wait for the smart-TV OS to load... land on an app menu... navigate around and choose an app... wait for the app to load... select a profile... wait for the list of shows to load... scroll almost endlessly through shows... choose a show, finally... wait for the video to load...
I miss when you turned the TV on and it was just instantly playing whatever channel you last had on, with one single interaction. I miss not having to make the conscious choice of what to watch and feel overwhelmed by so many options. I miss TV programs being a common experience, like an event, that everyone would be talking about together the next day, instead of everyone watching their own thing on their own schedule.
It was truly exciting to look forward to a weekly show on TV.
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TV.
I hate the smart-TV workflow, its a terrible user experience: Turn the TV on... wait for the smart-TV OS to load... land on an app menu... navigate around and choose an app... wait for the app to load... select a profile... wait for the list of shows to load... scroll almost endlessly through shows... choose a show, finally... wait for the video to load...
I miss when you turned the TV on and it was just instantly playing whatever channel you last had on, with one single interaction. I miss not having to make the conscious choice of what to watch and feel overwhelmed by so many options. I miss TV programs being a common experience, like an event, that everyone would be talking about together the next day, instead of everyone watching their own thing on their own schedule.
You can still do that by paying for cable.
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I like old timey radio (dramas like Twilight Zone, etc...Bob Dylan had a cool modern retro show, also stuff like Coast to Coast with Art Bell) but never listen to modern radio basically ever. Used to be much more magical.
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You can still do that by paying for cable.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You're not wrong, although I think I'd still have to wait for the smart-TV OS to load and navigate the menu to select the Cable input.
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Dumb phones. I've grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.
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Anything to do with the internet. I'd go back to 2010 in a heartbeat.
We were well into the internet in 2010...
Hell, we were well into the internet in 2000
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We were well into the internet in 2010...
Hell, we were well into the internet in 2000
I'd argue people were really starting to discover the Internet at about the smart phone boom and housing crash of 07/08. I was talking about Wikipedia with someone then and they stopped taking to me for a while. They thought I was saying something like Wiccan-pedo.
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You can still do that by paying for cable.
I have cable. It doesn't really work like that anymore. I used to be able to click through ALL the basic cable channels, catching a frame or two of every single channel, with zero delay between channels, all within like under a minute. These days every channel change or menu selection has a built-in delay of at least a second or two. Channel surfing just doesn't vibe the same anymore. That form of TV is mostly if not entirely dead.
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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.
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
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It was truly exciting to look forward to a weekly show on TV.
Except when you couldn't know in advance when your show skipped a week and they had to play some crappy rerun of a completely different show.
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I prefer D&D 3.5e over all revisions.
Shadowrun 3E is so much better in so many ways, not least of which is that the "Wireless World" additions make hacking so boring and easy compared to how it worked prior. Don't even need a party
Physical controls are better than touch sensitive controls.
Wireless controllers last way longer when you can turn off the vibration, speakers, microphones, lights and other things that don't NEED to be there to control something (but I do like adaptive triggers when not just used as a secondary vibration motor; clicky tension feedback for shooting guns feels awesome tho).
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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.
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Dating. It's hard to manufacture that initial spark in an app.
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
It's actually safer to have tactile buttons, too.
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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.
Cool. I had no idea this was a thing.
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Dumb phones. I've grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.
Every app is harvesting my "data", and every website is bloated to shit.
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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.
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TV.
I hate the smart-TV workflow, its a terrible user experience: Turn the TV on... wait for the smart-TV OS to load... land on an app menu... navigate around and choose an app... wait for the app to load... select a profile... wait for the list of shows to load... scroll almost endlessly through shows... choose a show, finally... wait for the video to load...
I miss when you turned the TV on and it was just instantly playing whatever channel you last had on, with one single interaction. I miss not having to make the conscious choice of what to watch and feel overwhelmed by so many options. I miss TV programs being a common experience, like an event, that everyone would be talking about together the next day, instead of everyone watching their own thing on their own schedule.
On the plus side people with jobs other than 9-5 can now be included in the experience.
