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Not quite the same but I hated the removal of the headphone jack. I now own mostly Bluetooth headphones and use an adapter in the rare cases otherwise, I generally don't even notice that it isn't there.
I only recently discovered why bluetooth isn't a particularly good option. I'd paired my good headphones with my phone, but all of a sudden wanted headphones for other devices, and having one set of earphones paired with multiple devices is a deeply flawed experience. First, you can only connect to one or two, second, mine kept telling me it was disconnecting and reconnecting to the other device while I was walking a…
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I still hate the removal of the headphone jack. Bluetooth is overrated.
My Samsung Galaxy A22 has headphone jack (which gets used all the time), dual SIM, dedicated SD card slot, NFC, all day battery, and 5G support. It came out this year — there are plenty of sane manufacturers releasing phones with features that people want out there. Use cases for 3.5mm jack that Bluetooth can't handle: * Never having to worry about headphones running out of charge * Zero added latency - critical for…
It’s better. But still not great.
https://9to5google.com/2021/03/05/google-android-audio-laten...
I miss the physicality of floppy disks. Picking up a caddy of disks, thumbing through reading the labels, sliding them into the drive and hearing the motor whirr. Nowadays, my caddy has been replaced with a small plastic bag full of chips and thumbdrives. Even though my small bag can easily hold millions of times more data, the little chips aren't a joy to use. None of them have labels telling their contents. All of…
Couldn't we make a floppy disk sized and shaped thing, which can store much data than the usual floppy disk? Then one would have the same feel.
Nothing in modern computing compares to the audible and kinesthetic satisfaction of the ka-chunk of a 3.5 inch floppy being inserted into a drive.
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And nothing makes your heart sink faster than the rhythmic sound of trying over and over to read the same bad disk.
ddrescue trying to read a scratched DVD from a public library comes close. Horrifying sounds as you contemplate your drive wearing itself down, copy progress ETA 47:32:13
How about a floppy to USB/flash/SSD adapter. Do we need to make the physical thing still?
I still have thousands of old 5.25 floppies. I've transferred or tossed most of the 3.5, since I was able to get a drive for that.