Even when you get to the actual website results you now have to wade through the AI slop sites

For that matter, it felt like a peak for the rest of the internet, and everybody loved silicon valley and wanted to be Steve Jobs. Then the enshittification started.

Oh god, yes.
I could type in a question ten years ago and could usually get an answer in the first page or so.

I asked a question yesterday (about floor tiling) and got "Tiles? You want tiles? We've got tiles! Get your tiles here!"

"No, I want an answer about flooring."
"FLOORING? You want flooring? We've got flooring! Get your flooring here!"

"Ok, fucking hell. Ok how do I join 2 types of substrate together..."
"MUTHERFUCKING, substrate? You want substrate? We've got..."

Then I gave up looking. Maybe it was always like this and I used to be more tenacious looking for answers.

I'd still have wires IF MY PHONE HAD A PLACE TO PLUG THEM IN.

I could NOT be bothered with charging headphones daily.

Bluetooth isn't the technology that's come a long way, it's still the same shit it was decades ago. It's batteries.

2015 still feels like a date from the future to me

Even 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.

10 years ago was 2015. I went to buy a laptop from Dell in 2014, and they didn't have any models with a disc drive. I looked.

I can say the same about my ipod. I used it everyday for the longest time until I realized I can put a 126gb micro sd card in my phone which is more than double what my ipod had. Now it's sitting in a box somewhere in my closet. Probably still works too.

True yeah.. Garmin devices were so revolutionary for driving when they came out. Then phones with Google maps came along and that was easier

I have an old garmin gps in my car. Use it all the time combined with a phone. The garmin doesn’t need cell signal so it works everywhere. Funny when going places where the street didn’t exist back then, but it’s kind of cool to see how the city grows. We mainly use it as a backup. It’s also louder than the phone talking and easier to understand.

Which makes me frustrated that all the manufacturers have gotten too cheap to toss a miniscule DAC and headphone jack in phones anymore.

The functions of this player have not been subsumed into a phone.

I hate with a burning passion QR code scan menus.

For PC gaming and any sort of production/studio environment they're still ubiquitous. Although yeah, not a daily driver for the public nowadays.

We class this as breakage and an indication of products to avoid until the product line is fixed.

Adding onto this: 3D TVs

Plasma TV

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time...

There's a payphone by one of the elementary schools here. I wonder if it's more likely that a kid without a cellphone is more likely to use it?

I recently got a tablet so I could take handwritten notes during meetings. I thought I'd use it for a bunch of other stuff but I do not.

Not to mention, the OCR handwriting recognition my handwriting is really bad.

I like my tablet for ancestry research and not much else. But I think maybe still good for artists?

I see them often used in universities, maybe not as much elsewhere as ten years ago but still a regular occurrence

all the hundreds of gadgets that our smart phones replaced

In 2015, at least in Canada, smart phones were already ubiquitous.

Interesting point about the grinders, I'm just realising I haven't seen any in forever.

Oh yeah, coffee grinders in grocery stores. I rarely see those anymore, but they used to be everywhere.

I'll die before I let go of my 5 USB drives (yes I use them all)

• In 2015, UK consumers spent approximately £1.5 billion on physical entertainment media, including DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs.

• By 2025, that figure has plummeted to under £400 million, with DVDs and Blu-rays now representing less than 10% of total video spend.

• In 2015, streaming was growing but still secondary. Netflix had around 5 million UK subscribers, and Spotify Premium was under 2 million.

• By 2025, streaming dominates:

  • Over 90% of UK households subscribe to at least one video streaming service
  • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ collectively exceed 40 million UK subscriptions
  • Music streaming accounts for over 85% of music revenue, with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music leading

2015: Physical Media ~£1.5 billion, Streaming ~£500 million 2025: Physical Media <£400 million, Streaming >£2.5 billion https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/media-nations/2025/media-nations-2025-uk-report.pdf
https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/tmt/research/digital-consumer-trends.html