I don’t miss dial-up internet, I just don’t. I don’t even like the sound because it’s just digital screeches and it’s a sound that makes me cringe a little upon hearing it. Because I remember the times when I’d be listening to music with headphones with volume high and then that fucking digital screech just blares into my ears.
I don’t miss waiting 30 minutes to load a page. I don’t miss a bit of it.
- darkfiremp3 ( @darkfiremp3@beehaw.org ) 70•8 days ago
People smoking everywhere
- Catoblepas ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 37•8 days ago
The children of today have no idea what it was like to go into a McDonald’s and see used ashtrays on the tables. And good for them. But holy shit, how did anyone ever have an appetite?
- Tolookah ( @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ) 31•8 days ago
Ugh, and the restaurants with the low half wall to separate the smoking and non smoking sections?
- darkfiremp3 ( @darkfiremp3@beehaw.org ) 23•8 days ago
You are lucky if you get a half wall!
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 15•8 days ago
I miss that. You would go to someone’s indoor wedding, and one half of the room just would not be visible.
It gave the disco lights way more flair when passing through a high smoke cloud. Yes, we have fog machines now, but they’re typically more to your knees, it’s a different effect.
Plus you could tell which tables were discussing the heavy politics based on the thickness of the smoke above the table. The weakass smoke-free tables was where the dull-minded sat, saying nothing of consequence.
- dan1101 ( @dan1101@lemm.ee ) 45•8 days ago
I don’t miss only having 3 channels to watch and having to be home at a particular time to watch something.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 days ago
It was a shared experience, and! and! the quality was better! Don’t believe me? Find any freesat channel right now and compare it to any streaming service.
Streaming services have to serve millions of different customers different content on-demand, and as a result the signal is compressed and dithered to the point of unviewabaility (says me, my family are apparently unaffected by the fuzzy black dots…) even on 4K streams.
Broadcast content? Its just chucked out there over the waves for anyone to catch, and the bitrate and quality are fantastic in comparison.
- vithigar ( @vithigar@lemmy.ca ) 3•6 days ago
the quality was better
This very much depends on when you’re taking about. Over the air television when I was young was absolutely not better quality than any streaming service now. 480i delivered by an analog interference-prone signal definitely does not compare favourably to streaming.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 days ago
I guess I’m talking about now. Yeah it’s interference prone, but when the signal is good, ota amazing
- colourlessidea ( @colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ) English11•8 days ago
This is definitely a hot take. I’m yet to see broadcast content that comes close to streaming content in quality.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 days ago
Paid streaming, sure - you get the nice bitrate.
Free streaming (or Netflix bottom tier) vs Free Broadcast? Broadcast wins hands down in quality
I’ve seen silky smooth 60fps 720p streams coming over the air, compared to what I was getting with Netflix through cable.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English4•8 days ago
Just pirate the 4k versions if you want to be a video snob.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 days ago
HD piracy on demand is not that easy. Even popcorn time at its peak would suffer buffering if the media wasn’t popular enough
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English2•8 days ago
Pirate it ten minutes before demand.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 4•7 days ago
you’re asking me for a level of foresight that is simply not possible
- SeekPie ( @SeekPie@lemm.ee ) 2•7 days ago
Stremio+debrid-link is pretty great, although it isn’t free.
- anti-idpol action ( @pkill@programming.dev ) 3•8 days ago
Also the ‘cultural exchange’ you’d get if you lived in border regions!
- Daemon Silverstein ( @dsilverz@thelemmy.club ) 28•8 days ago
The school bullying.
- zephorah ( @zephorah@lemm.ee ) 25•8 days ago
Smoking.
Do you know why all the wall paint and curtains of the 70s and 80s never included pristine white? Yes, that’s why. I’m convinced the choices of golds, oranges, and browns were just giving in to the inescapable film of nicotine tinge on everything, everywhere.
To this day, when I see “cream”, “ecru”, “chiffon” or any other creative name for not-quite-white, I think of nicotine stains.
Restaurant smoking was the worst.
I’ve never, and this is likely why. Growing up in that acrid awfulness was a great deterrent.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 days ago
When I was doing some interior work and searching paints, Ralph Loren paints had a Nicotene stain to apply over colours or wallpaper to give it that smoke era feel. LOL
- zephorah ( @zephorah@lemm.ee ) 2•7 days ago
It’s a film of goo. If you’re in a kitchen of a smokers house and a tea kettle or boiling pot goes for a bit, rusty drips will form on the ceiling and down the walls. There’s a filmy goo to it if you get it on your hands. It’s a piece of what needs to be cleaned then painted over, sometimes multiple times, to lock it away.
I guess if there’s no context for it, then it’s a mere sepia tone or some such.
I could not find a listing for this paint of yours.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 days ago
Yeah, should have been more descriptive. I have purchased smokers homes. Getting walls and ceiling clean was a nightmare. The Ralph Lauren paints was part of their antiquing collection?? I believe. It had various types like heavy smoke, light smoke and nicotene. They were sort of a translucent after finish you applied. They would not give the stickiness of nicotene tar, but give the yellowed over layer. You could paint on thick, but it looked like many used the spray on and dab off, to get either smoke or nicotene accumulation at corners and have general wall the chosen colour. It found it hilarious that people would be spending top dollar on Ralph Lauren with purpose of making your wallpaper or painted wall look dirty. But maybe it got used to remodel heritage homes or movie sets to get the era right.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 days ago
Might have been this product line https://trash2treasure.wordpress.com/tag/ralph-lauren-smoke-glaze/
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 20•8 days ago
VHS tapes, and having to rewind them.
Although the ability to record almost anything on a cheap VHS tape was nice, now everything has copy protection.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 4•8 days ago
VHS could copy the subtitles and teletex info too, even if it wasn’t displayed, which is nuts
- ramble81 ( @ramble81@lemm.ee ) 2•8 days ago
Please be kind, rewind.
- molave ( @mo_lave@reddthat.com ) 18•8 days ago
Leaded gas
- Viri4thus ( @Viri4thus@feddit.org ) 6•7 days ago
Anonimity, privacy, and the dream that the world was full of intelligent kind people.
- pH3ra ( @pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 12•8 days ago
As trivial as it sounds, pornography.
Imagine having to pull out the trench from the winter drawer and drive to another town’s smutt shop, so they don’t recognize you, every time you feel like wanking- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 days ago
For a long time, I thought porno mags in bushes at parks was a ruse invented by the previous generation to confound the current
- Nexy ( @Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 9•8 days ago
I actually miss that all the things take a wile to start or function. Im not happy with this fast life were all its instantly. That only give me anxiety.
- Nasan ( @Nasan@sopuli.xyz ) 8•8 days ago
Changing CDs just to listen to a few songs from a different album. Also carrying around CDs.
I’m conflicted. I enjoy being able to listen to anything anywhere but it makes me not listen to full albums anymore, possibly missing out on good music.
- Nasan ( @Nasan@sopuli.xyz ) 3•8 days ago
Same, I tend to reserve full album listens for working and long car/plane/train rides. With the current standard of streaming services over mobile, I find myself mostly listening to previously downloaded stuff because of inconsistent US mobile data service in my area occasionally. I’ve also gone the route of upgrading my old iPod with more storage (160GB -> 1TB) and battery life and just carry all of my music with me.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English2•8 days ago
You can set most music apps to go by album
Thank you Mr obvious. The point is that streaming platforms are changing the mentality and behavior to listen to random titles of different artists instead of full albums and that is also why albums don’t have a „story“ anymore. It’s too easy to click away to something different, skip a title (was already easy with CDs), be distracted. I personally own a vinyl player to combat this for myself.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English3•8 days ago
You have free will and can make your own choices about how to consume music. And drag wants you to use that free will to not misgender drag as “mister”.
- I'm_All_NEET:3 ( @SpaceFox@lemmy.ml ) English8•8 days ago
Vaporwave… It was cool for like 2 minutes in 2015 but it got old very quick. Just get any 80s song and slow it down on some free audio software. In a lot of ways it could be seen as a precursor to other trash like nightcore or breakcore.
- Cenotaph ( @Cenotaph@mander.xyz ) English8•8 days ago
Nightcore way predates 2015
- I'm_All_NEET:3 ( @SpaceFox@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 days ago
I remember those old Alvin and the chipmunks versions of songs you used to get on YouTube. They were similar
- Baguette ( @Baguette@lemm.ee ) 4•8 days ago
Nightcore existed since like early 2000s. Huge scene when youtube just became a thing. Vaporwave came at the very least in 2010s, when lofi experienced a burst of popularity
- undefined ( @undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ) 5•8 days ago
I wish it stayed cool longer only because I didn’t care for it at first but then really got into it around 2020, but by then the genre was already dead.
- oldfart ( @oldfart@lemm.ee ) 1•7 days ago
About the timeline, i attended breakcore parties in the 2000s, vaporware may be related but as a far descendant, not a precursor
- I'm_All_NEET:3 ( @SpaceFox@lemmy.ml ) English1•7 days ago
‘Breakcore parties’ sounds like the worst thing ever. I’ll rather go to a P. Diddy party
- oldfart ( @oldfart@lemm.ee ) 1•7 days ago
Well it certainly wasn’t an event to attend while sober.
- callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English6•8 days ago
My childhood. I don’t understand people who do. Mine was mostly loneliness, confusion, trauma, emotional neglect, guilt, shame, some abandonment, some physical abuse, etc. Every day has been a step towards better than the previous. I don’t want to or miss anything going backwards.
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English5•8 days ago
Having to do yard work or setting up holiday decorations outside. Ever since moving from a house to an apartment, I’ve had zero yard work outside of picking up dog shit when walking my brother’s dogs and the closest I’ve come to holiday decorating is setting up a fake indoor Christmas tree and decorating it.
Used to have to do a lot of leaf picking up and weed pulling growing up. Never liked it and still don’t because of how long it’d take and how I don’t like getting dirt dirty. Also, I was never a massive fan of decorating outside, specifically just Halloween and Christmas, because my family used to have a ton of decorations and my mom always wanted them a certain way, even if that meant taking a few down and moving them. Lots of work over a weekend. Looked good afterwards, but I can’t say I’ve missed putting stuff up. I’ll leave that to other people like the people near me who for some reason still have Halloween decorations up.
- BartyDeCanter ( @BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•8 days ago
Cars that would vapor lock when driving in the mountains.
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 3•8 days ago
As flatlander: I need some clarification. Why was this, why is it no longer something?
- BartyDeCanter ( @BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•8 days ago
Vapor locking is an interplay between a mechanical vacuum based fuel pump and carburetors that causes the engine to get starved of gas and stall out. It’s made worse at high altitude and particularly when ascending rapidly like driving up a high altitude pass such as Wolf Creek. If you’ve even needed to pop your ears several times while driving you’ve been in a situation where it could have happened.
Back in the day, the fix when it happened was to stop the engine and wait for air pressure to equalize through the system, which generally took about 30 minutes. Of course, this was on the side of a narrow twisty mountain road and people would sometimes get impatient or not know what was going on and flood their engine in a panic.
It’s pretty rare now due to electric fuels pumps and fuel injection.
- PraiseTheSoup ( @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ) 3•7 days ago
I work at a place that pumps several million pounds of liquid a day. As such, I know all about vapor locking. However, as a flatlander, I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks for the TIL.
- undefined ( @undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ) 2•8 days ago
I’ve never heard of this but I didn’t grow up near mountains. I did however grow up in the Midwest and couldn’t stand anti-lock brakes — one time I hit a car because instead of allowing me to control the sliding the car refused and just went straight into the car ahead of me.
These days I live nowhere near snow (unless I choose to drive into the mountains) so I’m not sure what the situation is with modern cars. I did go up into the mountains last years when the temperature dropped to 39°F overnight and my car freaked about tire pressure — that wasn’t a fun lesson to learn.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 days ago
oh wow. I just completely forgot that was a thing
- jol ( @jol@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•8 days ago
Gay jokes on TV. You know the kind. “it’s funny because it’s gay”, very prevalent on series like Friends. Friends is a great show even today, but I do not miss the gay jokes.
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 days ago
I watched ace Ventura the other day and I cringed so hard at the transphobia and I remember laughing at it in the theaters too when it was new.
- jol ( @jol@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•8 days ago
My internalised homophobia definitely thought homophobia was comedy gold back in the day…
- NevelioKrejall ( @Krejall@ttrpg.network ) 1•7 days ago
I love monty python’s flying circus, but they had multiple sketches across several different episodes where the punchline was a gay person getting murdered. Kinda hard to watch some of them now.