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User friendly and logically designed interfaces. The crap that is designed now is stupidly designed and I've seriously lost my enjoyment of using electronics.

Windows 7. no ads, no sudden candy crush, no cloud data stealing.

Top-spec flagship mobile phones having headphone jacks, swappable batteries, and upgradeable storage.

These still exist on some phones, but are usually coupled with inferior touchscreens, build quality, and/or cameras.

I know I'm not the only one but I'll say it anyway:

Altoids Sours.

Buttons.

Have you ever used an apple TV remote?

You can't even navigate without swiping on a little touch pad.

Modern Samsung remotes have changed to a toggle sort button where you move it up and down and then depress for mute.

Good compromise but difficult for the elderly.

Almost every tv has gone to a digital number interface. Remotes do not have numbers on them unless you're using an antiquated cable reciever with a dedicated remote. Alternatively you can buy third party remotes but with the digital interfaces it will only work on some models.

Think the best modern compromise are the Samsung universals and the LG magic remote. Superfluous wii remote esque arrow navigation so replacements cost $50. However, perfect hybrid of modern design and function.

Thank you for coming to my television remote Ted talk.

It is not necessarily a niche opinion here on lemmy, but the direction tech design is going is overengineered for a problem that never existed.

My ex wife.

That’s sarcasm. But when I was in college, there used to be Popeye’s all-you-can-eat buffet locations and also a “Super Popeyes” that sold liquor and fajitas when you were flush and had $20 bills. I don’t want to eat unlimited fast food today but I wish young people today could have the experience of being lit and eating all the Popeyes.

I don't know how to explain it, but classic Pizza Hut. Going to Pizza Hut with the family was always great sir down experience and there was usual a small arcade. The pizza was way better than the comparatively tasteless junk they serve now.

Also, arcades. I'm not talking about the "arcades" now we're you tap a card so you can spend a few bucks for some shit experience. It'd be really cool if there was like a millionaire out there that was just an nostalgic and open up a classic arcade, with actual quarter machines. Probably wouldn't make money (probably would be a loss) but it would be an experience I think many would welcome back and would be brand new to a whole new generation of people.

Adding in some things as some people have made recommendations

• Cidercade - Texas (multiple locations). Pizza is described as divine!
• Galloping Ghost Arcade - Chicago (see photos below). 972 games!
• Pinball Hall of Fame - Vegas, 358 different machines!

Proper Compact phones. Think Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact or iphone mini size. Screen size of less than 5", none of this phablet sized monstrocity. Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S24 or the Zenfone 8 - 10 exist (I'm typing this on a Zenfone 8), but I personally bo not consider them compact in any way.

Rant over. :p

Frutiger Aero design

The modern trend for flatness and shape-y icons and such was cool for a bit, but I'm officially tired of it.

I'm just about ready to go back to skeuomorphic pre-rendered 3D models as icons and gradients & textures & transparencies everywhere

Especially since computers have only gotten better at drawing this stuff. A modern PC would be able to render the "Impossible" looks of those old Windows Longhorn Concept Videos without breaking a sweat.

Also -- FUCKING BEZELS.

The current trend with -- Mobile devices in general. Phones and Tablets, is to have the entire front of the device be screen. To the point that people hiss at seeing even the little dot for the front camera (or the notch, w/e)

I find this tremendously stupid, leaves you with far less ways and places to grip your phone, and makes the "I was using my phone in bed and dropped it straight into my nose" scenario straight up inevitable, since you can't grip the thing tightly without accidentally activating something on the touch sensitive screen. Just give me a border of plastic that I'm safe to put my fingers on, dammit.

3D TV. It was so cool. Games actually had heads up displays. Movies were especially immersive. So much potential for development. But people didn't like wearing glasses to use it :(

I found Blue Nehi exactly one time in my life! It was at a little convenience store tucked away in a neighborhood in like 2006 lol

It was one of the most delicious sodas I ever tried, but I never found it again anywhere else...

One thing I really miss is old wood console CRT televisions. The kind that looked more like a piece of furniture than an appliance. Aside from just looking cool, I just miss how the picture looked on those old TV's too! The one we had when I was a kid had a big warning on the back to call a repair technician if anything wasn't working right, and to adjust the picture you had to stick a butter knife into a hole in the back lol

A show called Almost Human.

I wish Microsoft would come back in the ways in how they developed Windows XP and 7. You know, when they cared. Ever since 8/8.1 it's been nothing but Microsoft telling themselves "hold my beer" as they took as many shots as possible, to water Windows down to where it is today.

I think Microsoft is catering to the wrong audience that Microsoft thinks all of their Windows users are - casual, middle-aged users. It really shows because of how stupid simple the settings are in Windows now. What was wrong with Windows XP? It had a good balance, you could treat it casually or treat it in advanced. It felt even better with Win7.

But anytime you express an opinion about old OSes and how good they were. All that anybody ever responds with is "DUH SECURITY! THINK OF THE SECURITY! WHY WULD U USE AN OLD OS?! U JUST WUNT BE ABLE TO USE IT WITH ALL OF THE UPDATES!1" and some shit. Well, guess what this "Security" have gotten us? Where we are now with Windows. Go pat yourself on the back for that, idiot.

TIL they still make Nehi at all! Gotta get me some now, been too long. Need a grape Nehi to cosplay as Radar O'Reilley.

"Orange juice sirs? Freshly squozen."

I was a huge "1000 Blank White Cards" fan in college and I maintained a drinking deck and a sober deck and we played all the time. Everything got lost when I moved home so I never played again and I've never even heard of anyone else playing.

The final seasons of Colony. It was getting intense then the show was cancelled

Lemon Lime Slice. Starry is kind of close though.

This isn't gone quite yet but Macy's closing stores is really sad for me. It has the best clothing deals ever, you could come out with several bags worth of stuff for only a few hundred dollars and it's all very good quality and often brand names. I saved a bundle shopping there and I'm terrified the one closest to me will close.

Potato cakes at Arby's

Marvel Heroes Omega for me, and City of Heroes for the homies.

The cartoon class of 3000.

Every episode has the standard problem in beginning and resolution at end kind of story, but it did something that I've seen no other cartoon do before. Each episode had a different song that played, and the were pretty much all different genres. You had blues with Richer Shade of Blue, (watered down kids) rap with All We Want Is Your Soul, and jazz with My Mentor, and others as well.

Closest I've seen are cartoons like Phineas and Ferb who do songs in the middle of an episode, but it's not the same since the genre is usually more pop like.