IMO stuff that's offline. Not everything needs to connect to an app or a remote server. I mean both physical gadgets but also a lot of apps that could just work offline.
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this 100%...we've digitized too too much...QR menus at restaurants are the fkng worst
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yes, or I prefer no menu at all, open kitchen - seeing as ordering
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restaurants are in-person experiences...don't make me stare at a screen again while im there! Do that enough already...
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Exactly, I like going to restaurants where elderly locals go, everything is still the old-times way - menus most likely hanging on the walls or no menu at all, handwritten orders, small conversations in between, and the chefs being proud of their food! hahaha
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Electronic menus mean they can increase prices daily without needing to reprint.
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That's the answer. Sticky prices aren't a big problem in a stable monetary regime. However, in a highly inflationary period, it's important to be able to adjust prices frequently without constantly printing new menus.
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Open source is great for that, I've swapped all my apps for OS ones that work offline only, on GrapheneOS. It's great.
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Remember how people bought a new CD every month or every few months? How bout a new roll of film for every set of 32 photos? Life was objectively worse back then - but it wasn't necessarily less happy
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Pen and paper in the classroom. Education after COVID has become so digitized, but it is really bad for low willpower kids who end up just goofing off on their devices
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Honestly, even high willpower kids have a hard time with it. I know so many kids for whom the covid lockdown insanity was a complete disaster, in so many ways - emotional, social, physical.
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big facts
unfortunately the next generation's probably gonna be in some metaverse school nonsense
cautiously optimistic this trend will somehow flip into a positive thing
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Some people doodled their way through school, before tablets. At the end of the day public school is the same, but the tech might be a bit more advanced. But end of the day its a public school and destroys souls
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The Bat Utility Belt. Complete with Bat Shark Repellent Spray.
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This
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record music player.
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still got one :)
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records and turntables have been coming back for a while now lol
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Oldtimers like the Triumph 4
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Guillotine for politicians
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Don't forget the bankers
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Careful what you wish for... Towards the end of the Reign of Terror some of the original revolutionaries became victim of their own machine.
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Freedom
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The Concorde airplane.
If you don't know about it, you can read here
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Google Hermeus Corp. outside Atlanta, GA
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There is a strong argument to say that was the high point of human engineering using paper and slide rules.
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  • Gaming Consoles that don't have updateable OS or games. (Think PS2 and earlier generations).
  • Media that you can physically own (software, movies, music, etc) instead of paying a subscription to it. OK, if you need mp3s, then Winamp, because it really whips the llama's ass!
  • Devices that simply work by connecting them to the electricity grid. No Internet required to use it.
  • Real Photographs. Now with the Pixel 8 and others we are starting to see AI edited photos in the mainstream. This means that you will be usually seeing photos of events that never happened in real life. For example, group photo where one blinked, the phone grabs another photo to swap the face, or simply generates some open eyes there. That event never happened yet you are looking at a photo of it. Huge issues in the future for this. We only had a few decades of photo evidence being truth.
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websites that dont require downloading 200mb of shit to show you two paragraphs of text
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What the hell does bitcoinizing the N64 mean
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Loll work LN into old N64 games. Let me stack sats with it. One can dream ser https://www.sm128c.com/media/n64/sm64/collect-star.jpg
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Sats per hit in smash bros on N64? Hell you I'll join the fight!
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Walkman by Sony. Old school type music on the go.
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Well, the electric chair. There is no point in having capital punishment if you are just going to use an injection that makes it like going to sleep. It defeats the whole purpose.
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Only if it comes with the game Blast Corp…
Personally I’d like 8-track tapes to make a come back.
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I am buying LPs. Does that count since it is kind of back?
Oh and cursive in the schools. How the hell we educating people that can't read the U. S. Constitution in original script?!!!
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Def still counts I'd say.
And well, that's because they dont want people to be able to read it..
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free electromagnetic energy
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Sony ericsson Nokia
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Microsoft Excel 2010
Everything after that, is just brutal unnecessary re-writes and designed-for-SaaS-features.
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Fuck Microsoft
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Typescript is nice. Github is nice. Kubernetes is nice.
Microsoft is one of the biggest supporters of open source software in the world. But it has only been this way since around 2017, when Bill Gates and Ballmer screwed off.
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Yah, pretty much. But, day-jobs are going to day-job. And employers tend to like maintaining supportable software.
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I enjoy excel too🫡
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Agreed! Excel, truly functional dataflow programming, is a paradigm that is lost to many today.
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Tesla free energy
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Coal-fired powerplants lol
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Dreamcast was ahead of its time with online gaming
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Bitcoinise the N64, hmmm, how could I do that?
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I really enjoyed CD's. Unfortunately most that I owned got damaged. So, I like the size and overall sound quality, but the disc material sucks.
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Physical media in general. VINYL for albums REAL PROJECTION FILM CINEMA THEATRES WITHOUT 1000 SEATS, GOOD SOUND, FILM PROJECTORS, REAL FILM-STOCK SHOT FILM WITH KODACHROME COLORING & TECHNICOLOR plzzzzz
There are actually people who have built on-chain video game functionality with an emulator of sorts using reverse transcriptions of some kind, with ordinals. I was talking to the guy in a Twitter spaces, I'll post his info in here when I get back.
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Installing new software by methods other than curl $URL | sudo sh
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I recently installed Batocera Linux on an old mini PC. It's basically a retro gaming distro that comes pre-installed with dozens of emulators. I didn't want my kids to grow up without experiencing Goldeneye on N64.
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Cars that do not feel like you are flying an aircraft with all the screens and buttons. Just keep it simple.
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Fax. I believe Japan knows.
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zoo tycoon from a frosted flakes box was ELIETE
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roller coaster was better
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oh yes i remember the hype
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The Frosties one was the best. I had go google it but it was called Mission Nutrition. Legendary.
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