washington, here come the transes >:)
(edit: accidental formatting)
psychonova
joined 4 months ago
i know this is a trope at this point, but i really miss the pre-Android/iPhone of handheld devices. Palm & Handspring did some cool shit, and they were fun to use and not yet obnoxious... Symbian and Maemo devices that walked a fine line. we need a DIY reboot of PDAs and handhelds that aren't smartphones that doesn't mistakenly try to focus on being a smartphone.
but...i like floor drugs??
IT's TOO CUTE T_T
i actually just finished another re-read of For The Win, and yeah, that's gotta be more relevant now than ever before ._.
it's not exactly a new thing, but yes. they've been trying to bus people as far as they can get away with.
you can't just give shiny new names like "reflection period" or "medical assessment by doctors" to old tricks like "real life experience" and "panel of judges and one doctor" and hope that people won't notice. it doesn't actually work.
things i never thought i'd agree with lmao
can i ask how old is considered too old for that? just something i was considering too
i'll admit to almost spitting out my energy drink snorting
so that's why it's always clogged
partly it's not about what it can do that a smartphone can't, but exactly the opposite. there are lots, and lots, and lots of things smartphones can do that PDAs can't. and i neither want to do any of them, nor have constant notifications and advertisements trying to get me to do them.
but the big thing for me is that they were designed local-first. my data lives on the device. i sync it to my other devices. i can't accidentally lose access, get suspended, have my account closed due to a change in ToS, get my account locked out because i accidentally visited from a VPN or used a VoIP number -- all of which, now, are at best massive inconveniences and at worst result in major data loss for no reason. it didn't need connectivity to do it's job.
when i can refuse to connect my smartphone to an IP network and still have it do everything i need it to do, i will back off :p
i have an android phone here that i've slowly been trying to make behave more and more that way, looking to tools like SyncThing and DECSync and anything that's designed similar. it's close, but it still causes enough annoyances that i'd rather just have a PDA.