this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
61 points (100.0% liked)

chat

8242 readers
218 users here now

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net
Sulvor@hexbear.net
PaX@hexbear.net
61
Remember those click wheels those really old iPods had? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Those were something, weren't they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.

And in hindsight... Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn't it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.

While I'm here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.

I guess just in general I don't like touch screens and it'll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don't actually need them. I'm out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

E-readers with physical buttons still exist, but the companies price gouge for the privilege, since they're only on the top end models. I'd take the old style with only buttons if they still made them. E-Ink shows fingerprints worse than LCD's so it's kinda dumb to have a touch screens.