That’s true, might not have gotten into Metroid later without playing this one. Good point!

Super Smash Bros (every incarnation). Never got the hype

Can’t imagine applying to work for an ad company in the first place.

Ubuntu at home (with sway), and unfortunately macOS for work (with its badly-broken and nonsensical window management)

No question, removing swappable batteries was pretty brazenly consumer-hostile.

One of the main reasons I’m 100% on board with stuff like the Pinephone, at least in theory (just wish Linux phones were actually ready to be used as phones… maybe in another couple of years).

I’m on a Sony Xperia 10 IV now. Amazing battery life, decent for one-handed use, has a headphone jack, SD slot, and meh camera. Mostly solid overall- agree the situation’s getting worse and worse every year

I’ve been voting with my wallet on this one for years- no headphone jack, no purchase

I’d vote for Windows 2000, but the point stands. All it needed (in hindsight) was virtual desktops

The only exceptions I can think of are streaming services that simply couldn’t exist as standalone one-off products (Spotify, Netflix etc). But yeah, there’s no logical reason something like Photoshop should ever require more than one transaction.

Technically I’m not, but fair point

True, or maybe I’ve actually gone too far back to the pre-boomer era with this one

Alcohol is toxic, carcinogenic garbage and we’d be noticeably better off if everyone voluntarily stopped drinking it.

Same here (even though I own bluetooth headphones). No reason phones can’t support both

Don’t think anything can actually replace the power and expressiveness of keyboards and text interfaces- that’s always going to be the bottom layer for a productive setup (i.e., you need to actually be able to write code, write shell scripts etc to control your machine, etc).

Guess what I really want is just some kind of Unix machine that hums along 24/7 in the background, with many different paradigms for interacting with it when you don’t have (or want) a standard keyboard and display. Putting a display over my face feels like a giant leap in the wrong direction

That’s why we need something open-source and self-hosted.

I don’t see any downside at all if it’s layered on top of some other (very capable) keyboard-driven UI that can do all the same things.

No. The future of tech should be about getting more capabilities out of fewer (and/or less intrusive) screens. Would love to see more advances in e-ink displays and open-source, ‘ambient’ voice-controlled UIs.

The tech and engineering that went into this looks really impressive. That said, as a ‘vision’ of the future it’s 100% repugnant IMO.

At least, what I want is tech that will improve over the status quo while also getting rid of as much screen time as possible, and/or replace many existing screens (e.g. for smartphones) with less intrusive alternatives like e-ink (once we can get refresh rates higher). Can’t say I’m at all interested in handing control of my consciousness over to a megacorp.

Any distro where I can easily replace the default with sway.

Mastodon around four years ago. Couldn’t get into it then (or again more recently when Twitter really started disintegrating), and I think it’s because Twitter-style microblogging just feels conceptually broken for me.

Lemmy solves all the problems I had with both Reddit and Mastodon- just need to spread the word for the next couple of months and hit some kind of critical mass with adoption.