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submitted 6 days ago by Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 6 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.

Not that gasoline cars are gone (unfortunately) but I personally won’t ever go back to it. Electric cars are just so much better in any way except range and charge time. But those are honestly overblown topics that you won’t think much about in your daily life once you got used to it.

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

Anonimity, privacy, and the dream that the world was full of intelligent kind people.

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

You like being exposed and surrounded by idiots? Because the post asked what you weren't nostalgic for.

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

are you not nostalgic for it?

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[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

H0w ppl usd 2 r8 in da 2000s

And the extremely crass culture that came with it.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 6 days ago

collecting wood for heating.

[-] BartyDeCanter 7 points 6 days ago

Cars that would vapor lock when driving in the mountains.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 6 days ago

As flatlander: I need some clarification. Why was this, why is it no longer something?

[-] BartyDeCanter 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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@lemm.ee 3 points 5 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@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 6 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.

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[-] pkill@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Netbooks. Jfc that performance of a mid-tier smartphone whereby they'd become unusable in a few years for anything heavier than lxqt or some tiling wm, a simple music player like audacious, vim and static websites (accessed only using something lightweight like Netsurf, Badwolf or Palemoon as well). I don't remember what happened to mine but I'm pretty sure that even mpv with no scripts would drop frames like crazy on FHD x265 matroska videos. I'm so glad that ultrabooks started to become more affordable and nowadays I'd be able to buy an i7 t440s for the price of my acer aspire one back in 2011.

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[-] comradegreetingcard@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago
[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I very much enjoy online shopping and am not nostalgic for driving all over town to find a part or thing only to settle for something that's a partial match for what I want and much more than I wanted to spend. If a local retailer happens to have what I am looking for, I'm more than happy to purchase it in store, but almost always know exactly where it is in the store and how many are in stock.

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Non-shitty affordable gaming. No Internet required, no updates, no game breaking bugs if you bought it on day one. Just bring your Game Boy Colour in the back seat of the car on vacation, bring a shitload of AA's and finish Pokémon Blue 3 times in a few weeks.

[-] kayazere@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

Get a Steam Deck, load it with emulators and indie games.

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[-] Truffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Big family gatherings. I did not particularly enjoyed them growing up (I come from big extended families) but when I became a parent they were unbereable so I just stopped attending. I couldn't fathom to subject my child to all that nonsense. Best decision ever! While cousins fight over who brings what side dish for Christmas I will be relaxing in a hammock by the beach, thank you very much.

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