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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Anyone else remember then being the cool new thing instead of a mandatory one?

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And I realize everyone probably has a “things were better back then, shakes fist” opinion

At some point, we have to start admitting that things were just better before. A lot of technology/software peaked ~15 years ago. Before it started sliding into the fucking mess we have these days.

[–] msage@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some yes, many no.

Linux drivers? Nowadays you can plug almost anything in and it just works. 15 years ago it may have not been possible to make it work.

The amount of self-hostable open-source software now beats everything from 15 years ago.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the self-hosted and FOSS side of things will forever be improving, but corporate shit just gets worse in terms of UX. I mean even FOSS projects have awful UX sometimes as they try copying corpos and their web apps.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

I am not using corpo software for about 6 years now, with Jira/Confluence being the only exception at work, but Windows was never very user friendly. People joke about Linux not being friendly, but it was mostly that those people were used to Windows. But even in Win95, while being better than anything before, and most things after, it wasn't a bastion of UX.