Logitech MX Revolution mouse. I’ve tried their subsequent mice but none of them feel quite the same.
The gaming mice are pretty nice, but like you said, they are not the same.
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#512I miss variety in smartphone design.
Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.
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#513Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!
Move to Tokyo!
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#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…
I forgot to list magsafe as one of those awesome things that was lost. I could take or leave the power indicator but it was kind of cool. It's such a no brainer that I'm surprised it's not been copied. Apple must have patented it too well.
It's been copied. My Dell XPS has it :)
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#515Simple, ad/tracking-free websites as the gold standard for the web.
Basic HTML, maybe a little bit of CSS and some rudimentary JS for forms and such. Hell, even good old frames. The frontier days of personal web pages, with questionable design choices, full of personally chosen content. Anything relevant to whatever interests, from Amiga graphics to ornithology.
I miss the simple web of the 90s, where you could have an open contact form (or even your personal email address) and a guestbook on your webpage, without it getting instantly spammed to hell.
Maybe I should get around to making my own retro-style webpage, hand-coded for old times' sake.
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#516Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
I was going to say Google Reader too but have just reconsidered. I do miss it, and the idea that this was a popular way to consume news / content etc. However I can still use RSS on feedly, inoreader and a bunch of self-hosted alternatives. By moving away from Google I am also escaping their all-seeing eye, albeit to some minor extent. In the time since Google retired Reader I have begun to see them as a negative pre…
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#517Adobe Fireworks. Easy, intuitive vector-based editor with bitmap support. Ideal for creating/editing images for UIs. It worked the way I expected an image editing tool to work. The complete opposite of Photoshop and Gimp (I don't understand the mental model there). Sketch is a decent replacement—although there are some UI decisions I don't agree with—and I believe Figma is also very similar.
I miss Fireworks too, but Affinity Designer has become my go-to for all things vector design.
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#518I miss variety in smartphone design. Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.
This ++, I massively miss my Nokia E71, there's been no decent replacement for it. Ok maybe the n900. But since then they're all the largely the same.
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#519Surprised nobody mentioned them yet: Borland and their approach to UI development. I know some of their products live on, but I am nostalgic towards the wysiwyg days of old without being forced to use MS. I of course am aware of modern equivalents, but sadly the market/users moved.
We still exist. Look up Embarcadero: Delphi and C++Builder live on. We see increasing interest - I think there is some disillusion with some other dev tools.
There's a new version coming out soon.
-- David. (I work there.)
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#520Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
Agreed. I'm sure there were many reasons it died, but my theory is that Google strategically wanted to kill it because the User was in control of the data-sources and the algorithm. Google wanted people to migrate to Google+, News, etc. where they control what you see. This is what Facebook and Twitter did. Their feeds used to be a simple chrono sort of sources you determined, but then they slowly took control. In my…
I can't figure out what I've read up to on Twitter anymore since it shuffles tweets around and inserts random "your follower also follows this person" tweets which I didn't ask for