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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try FitBit Versa, apart from the always-on screen, it has everything you're looking for. The battery life averages 4-5 days depending on usage. I personally own it and it's the best purchase I have made. Drastically improved my life.

Fitbit bought Pebble just to kill it. I will never buy a fitbit.

Pebble went out of business and some of the assets were sold to Fitbit.

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Grooveshark had a better interface for managing "currently playing" than anything I've used before or since. Most apps don't even track what's currently playing in an intelligent fashion. Similarly, rockbox was really great mp3 player firmware, when I used to use one of those. It had a funny feature I've never seen elsewhere: multi-lingual article-ignoring sort. I had German band "Die Prinzen" on that mp3 player, and…

I miss grooveshark, don't forget that semicolon. There wasnt a good replacement afterwards. Just a bunch of people playing shitty songs from games pretending to DJ

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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The original Motorola RAZR flip phone. And in general, phones with actual buttons you can feel.

It boggles my mind we've been suffering with virtual keyboards for over a decade now. Surely someone will remove this pain? Anyone? Hello?

there will be a new interface for controlling your phones and future devices that doesn't require typing. I would hold out for that :D

Look at Neuralink

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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I used to use an old Linux file manager called DFM back in 2002 to 2006 or so. Doesn't seem to be online any longer, but this looks like a copy of the original website sans graphics: http://distro.ibiblio.org/amigolinux/download/DeskTop/IconMg... I have the source code saved somewhere. This file manager had one nice feature that I haven't seen again: the use of a plain text config file to set which commands are used…

You can use Ranger ( https://github.com/ranger/ranger ) which is available on most Linux distros nowadays. It is fully hackable (written in Python). You can change the file association (which command to open which file) by editing ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf. More details here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ranger#File_association

Thanks, I was hoping someone would be able to point me towards a similar file manager!

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Come next March, I'm going to be missing Google Inbox. Completely changed how I use email for the better. I'm dreading going back to the tradition email workflow and hope to God that somebody builds something to replace Inbox in my life. I also miss StumebleUpon from years ago. I don't even know if the site still exists, but for me it died when it forced me to pick interests. The great thing about that site was that…

Stumble Upon really died when clickbate took over the world. It went from like maybe a few per stream of sites to pretty much nothing but listicals.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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3d Doritos. There was something about their packaging (some aerated black plastic) was bad for the environment but they were really good and they could find some other way to package them

They still sell them in Mexico, and you can buy them on eBay
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