What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?
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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.
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Dumb phones. I've grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.
You can honestly use a smartphone pretty similarly to a dumbphone.
It's your choice to use apps that aren't email, text messaging, phone, or gps. Nobody is forcing you to use them.
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spelling it as "catsup" — the other way looks so juvenile, like "nite lite" instead of night light
Catsup and ketchup are two different things.
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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.
If you haven't used free Over-the-air TV these days you might be surprised that most cities have a few dozen channels of live TV right now. If your in a large metro area get the simplest of cheapest TV antennas, plug it into your TV, and do a channel scan. You'll be surprised how many channels there are now.
If you're in suburbs or rural, you'll still likely have quite a few but may need a more substantial antenna.
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I've never brought a computer/laptop to class in uni except when I needed to do a presentation. I vastly prefer to take notes by hand because I find that I retain info much better. And I'm a massive doodler. I'm pretty pen and paper playing ttrpgs as well.
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
One of the many reasons I'll hang onto my 2012 Toyota Corolla until I drive it into the ground. It has a touch screen for just the radio and Bluetooth, but it must be some sort of gen one prototype because it's pretty awful. Thankfully, everything else is tactile. I can't imagine giving it up.
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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.
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Anything to do with the internet. I'd go back to 2010 in a heartbeat.
I'd prefer to go back to an internet pre-YouTube where the Internet started to become corporate.
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If you haven't used free Over-the-air TV these days you might be surprised that most cities have a few dozen channels of live TV right now. If your in a large metro area get the simplest of cheapest TV antennas, plug it into your TV, and do a channel scan. You'll be surprised how many channels there are now.
If you're in suburbs or rural, you'll still likely have quite a few but may need a more substantial antenna.
I do have an antenna and get some decent channels with it
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I prefer pressing buttons and turning nobs in the car.
My old civic is so nice.
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Dating. It's hard to manufacture that initial spark in an app.
Lack of third places has been a real thorn in society, especially third places that you aren't expected to spend money.
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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.
The closest I've found is sound booth theature and the dungeon crawler Karl series. So good.
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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.
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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.
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Lack of third places has been a real thorn in society, especially third places that you aren't expected to spend money.
Absolutely. Good point.
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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.
Tangentially, I preferred old Reddit.
Not sure how it got so shitty, but eeeeuuuuggghhh.
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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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Paper boarding tickets and having someone who works for an airline actually be able to help you directly when something goes wrong.
Print the qr code and take it with me as a backup. I get funny looks, but if my phone dies I can still take my trip.
Funny story, my phone died while traveling last year....
