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Favorite quirk in tech you would like to see again
| Those weird ball mouses, so cool, so useless, so underrated
| Also:
inb4 floppy disks
| Antennas. Headsets with antennas, weird portable radios. Any new age tech that created a highly untraceable and free to the people communication network like the Ham radio
| Every set of technology has specific sounds it makes, after working so long with a certain program, system, or machine, I always end up missing the old sounds they made (harddrive noise specifically)
| Those colorful clam shell shaped computers apple used to make.
| Text only operating systems :)
| A new version of that one Sony phone with a physical gamepad
| Floppy disks
| >>125415
My school's it lab had about 25 machines who's drives were audibly near death
I miss that noise in particular
Not really a quirk but you don't get those sounds with SSD
| I'm not sure if commodore64 was an actual quirk, but I remember that when I was a kid I was fascinated by their animations and graphics at the stores, but we always only had Windows machines. Last week I even considered installing CommodoreOS in my laptop.
I wonder if I can modify my actual Linux to make it use a pixel art theme, but with less saturated colors.
| >>125438
My $700 Dell I bought not too long ago makes this airplane start up loud scream when turning up or working hard
| Physical PC key locks
| >>126980 cool so they're still used, sadly the only unhackable machines are the ones that have no network connection and can't be reprogrammed locally
| p3 phosphor CRT's for all text based terminals
| Walkmans! The best part of them was when they ran out of batteries
| > I miss machine sounds
that's what I thought at first but these days I keep hearing them at night even with my pc shut down so they quite literally haunt me and I wish all device would be completely silent as soon as possible.
especially printers. they are noisy as fucc
| The windows+tab cycling/flipping animation between windows, I managed to make some kids at my old primary school think I'd done wizardry on the computer (windows 7) in my brothers class by opening up powershell, running a tree command, then discretely holding windows+tab, I want more random and useless but flashy stuff like that xD
| Removable batteries in cellphones. I hate this new trick of phonemakers to force you buy a new phone after 2 years when your current phone completely works and suits your needs and only needs a new batery. My Nokia E71 still works perfectly and I use it everyday, I have changed its battery 4 times already and it can be done within 10 seconds max.
| Moving android apps to the SD card, why they removed something so important
| portable pocket full linux pc like ntc pocket chip
| Hard clicks from buttons and switches. It's such a small thing, but there's no satisfaction in a soft switch or button.
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| E-ink qwerty keyboards like on samsung alias series