It's actually safer to have tactile buttons, too.

My old civic is so nice.

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.

My 2004 F150 just works, no guessing what button does what, twist the fucking knob.

Something like 20 years ago, i assumed that every generation that comes after mine, will be so much better with computers, because they grow up with it. So that's not true at all as it turns out. I remember working with 20is year old guys together and they they mostly had iphones. They told me that they are also into computers, gaming and stuff like that. The more i talked to them the more i realised that they have no idea what i was talking about. I explained one of them how to do a thing on his phone and he was super lost. It was worse thN explaining my mom something. He kept asking where he finds the app i'm talking about and i kept telling him that it's not an app, it's something you do on the phone. Yeah i get that, but i don't have the app for that.

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.

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.

I feel this.

Why? What is the functional difference between an application and a program?

Greetings program!!!

It is 1000 times more enjoyable to actually mix a concert than just click to the next scene.

Cool. I had no idea this was a thing.

Yes! Make smaller phones! Why do they all have to be getting bigger and bigger?

And less weight and no camera cluster sticking out making the phone not lay flat when put down would be nice

i'm actually this close to just going back to a dumb phone.

Buy one

I love my P-38 can opener. It was made 80 years ago and it's still opening cans like tin foil.

Wow I have never had an electric can opener, are they common in home kitchens?

Not to mention they’re kind of hard to clean! Electric can openers are the worst. When the top pops off, they often send the contents of the can all over, too.

I didn't even know electric can openers were a thing

I was given a manual one a few weeks ago with no instructions, check out this horror show:

I like leaving the last 2 or so cm of lid attached so the can and lid stay together. Can't do that automatically (well, I could, but that juice isn't worth the squeeze).

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.

Im going to disagree but its a bit situational for me. I used manual but I have a dog that requires this prescription canned dog food and when its that often the electric makes a difference. Its funny because the cans have pull tabe but it leaves a lip and I like to get the whole mass out like the crappy jello like cranberry sauce.

It was truly exciting to look forward to a weekly show on TV.

On the plus side people with jobs other than 9-5 can now be included in the experience.

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.

You can still do that by paying for cable.

True

This you?

I liked automation until the end of the aughts but software has gotten dystopic. Its still possible with open source but im a bit to lazy now honestly. There are so many things where the benefit just is not worth it. Why would I want any of my appliances on the grid or my thermostat. I mean if I had a robot to load the dishwasher then automation would be great. Same with cooking. Still would not want the fridge and thermostat automated. Lights make a bit of sense benefit wise but its not a huge benefit.

Lack of third places has been a real thorn in society, especially third places that you aren't expected to spend money.

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.

I am the complete opposite. My notes were terrible in college, such a mess.

I bought a laptop for grad school and took all my notes in outline form. Changed everything. School was easy now. I was super organized and studying was trivial. No crap in the margins, no weird arrows pointing around because the prof added some comments to earlier info.

Just wonderful,clean neat notes.

Also, others wanted copies so I would sell them, wasnt a lot of money, but it kept me in donuts.

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.

I do miss physically owning media. A lot of physical media still decays, though, so not a panacea.

I prefer digital media that is locally stored. Many complaints I see about digital media revolves around DRM or a service's ability to remove media that you think you "own".

I think locally stored media solves that without taking us back to the days of a shelf of hundreds of DVDs.

I do own some physical media like certain very old PC games but only because there is no good digital option available that's more convenient.

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.