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shovelbum posted:Ok Google, call Mom Kill the witch!
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 17:39 |
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Vic got me, it's masterful.
GRINDCORE MEGGIDO has a new favorite as of 17:48 on Feb 11, 2018 |
# ? Feb 11, 2018 17:39 |
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Vic posted:My mother can't make a call without glasses and you're strawmannig the poo poo out of this.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 17:50 |
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carry on then posted:Buy the loving blackberry and stop trying to mandate that everyone must use a phone designed to your personal specifications you dense motherfucker I think I found a windows 8 incarnate.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 18:26 |
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shovelbum posted:Ok Google, call Mom Call MOM 'OK, here are the results for Calm On'
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 19:32 |
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Vic posted:My mother can't make a call without glasses and you're strawmannig the poo poo out of this. 1) Squeeze phone gently. 2) Say, "Call mom." 3) Listen as my house phone rings, because my mother's in convenient powder form on the mantelpiece in the cat-shaped urn. OR 1) Raise watch to face. 2) Say, "Call mom." 3) As above. OR 1) Say, in any room of the house, "Hey, Google, call mom." 2) As 3, above. OR 1) Touch biometric unlock sensor. 2) Tap 'home' button. 3) Tap 'phone' icon. 4) Tap big 'House' box that calls the home phone. 5) As 3, in the first example. You're making a huge deal out of something that isn't, purely because large corporations want to sell things to people that aren't you. You'd like a device that resembles most closely one of the old Professional Walkman designs, carrying a huge battery and with buttons and switches all over it to replicate in hardware functionality that is so trivial to access that literal children don't need training on its use.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 19:44 |
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Vic posted:I think I found a windows 8 incarnate. See, you're not satisfied that an alternative exists. You need everyone to want what you want, to validate your preferences as the only logical ones.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 19:46 |
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Jesus Christ just get your Mom and yourself a loving Jitterbug and shut the gently caress up.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 20:06 |
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 20:10 |
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that zero tho
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 20:18 |
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*Hits 0* HELP!
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 20:41 |
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Vic posted:My mother can't make a call without glasses and you're strawmannig the poo poo out of this. I'm the token black guy on the 0 button.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 21:56 |
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Haptic feedback is cool and good
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 22:06 |
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I can’t believe I’m engaging with this but there’s actual emergency call functionality on iPhones just for this kind of situation. Unlock phone, press home button to bring up PIN screen, hit Emergency, enter number, press call button. Done.
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 22:17 |
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shovelbum posted:Ok Google, call Mom
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 22:26 |
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I guess I need to say it, most of the world doesn't speak english and voice recognition isn't great even if you do. I'll need to repeat myself in that i want a smartphone with one or two extra buttons. My mom isn't retarded she just doesn't speak english so insisting you can overcome cumbersome UI via voice is dumb on two levels, the first of which is it's easier to use voice recognition to replace hardware shortcuts. That's not an alternative for many reasons and I'm pretty sure you can understand why, but chose to be incredulous about the whole concept of button. Let us contemplate while people around the globe fight with poo poo UI screaming OK GOOGLE in bad accent into their phones trying to call their loved ones.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 00:47 |
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Ya just can't, like, drop anything, can you.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 00:55 |
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Vic posted:more button propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZDMepVwGg
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 00:58 |
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Now imagine the box was a touchscreen
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 01:07 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Ya just can't, like, drop anything, can you. Just turn around and walk away. If you pay attention to it, it will notice and attack again.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 01:56 |
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Enough please.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 02:50 |
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Vic posted:Now imagine the box was a touchscreen Screen overlay detected. Would you like to open App Settings? Ooops, sorry. Have some obsolete tech, the video floppy disk. I came across it randomly and had never seen it before. A whole 25 frames can be stored. TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Zippers on jeans are obsolete and failed. Those fuckers loved to break and having what is essentially a meat mincer near your junk is just a bad idea overall. I love what we have now.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 03:45 |
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Wait, what do we have now? All my pants have zippers and buttons are an older technology. What strange 21st century fasteners do your jeans have?
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 03:59 |
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I think we've already established that Vic likes buttons.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 04:02 |
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you know what would solve this problem pretty much entirely? phone cases with little slide-out keyboards that connect through either bluetooth or a microUSB passthrough then you can have your nice fancy phone with all the relevant features, and also be able to type like a human being e: I really don't care about all the other stuff from button/keyboard phones, I just loving hate touchscreen keyboards with the fury of ten billion suns WeedlordGoku69 has a new favorite as of 04:05 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Vavrek posted:Wait, what do we have now? All my pants have zippers and buttons are an older technology. What strange 21st century fasteners do your jeans have? The only pants I've seen with buttons instead of zippers are military uniforms, and even then the Army uses zippers now
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 04:12 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:you know what would solve this problem pretty much entirely? Yup that's a really good idea. Pretty much the optimal solution to what I was talking about. Like if the OS would recognize the slide out as an unlock, shortcuts and all that good stuff, that would be heaven. For content remember CD video? I never heard of it until techmoan made a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2j1Q8uCgQ It's basically a cd with an audio track and an analogue video track. Highlights include a guy talking about the advantages of CD video, recorded on CD video and you can barely make out what he's saying. Vic has a new favorite as of 04:17 on Feb 12, 2018 |
# ? Feb 12, 2018 04:14 |
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RIP last CFL bulb that was still fighting the good fight in an out of the way corner of my house. You were fine.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 04:20 |
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My favorite little bit of corner of the room tech that impressed me: CD+G. Do you like music with badly dithered 'graphics' that would make a Master System palette look divine? Then we have something for you, weird Karaoke guy. I recall it really was supposed to be some kind of Karaoke compatible format, but at the time I think that was one of the few applications Laserdisc could handle well.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 04:46 |
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It's still around and being used, I have karaoke songs in CD+G format from just a few years ago (around when I stopped collecting karaoke songs).
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Vic posted:Yup that's a really good idea. Pretty much the optimal solution to what I was talking about. Like if the OS would recognize the slide out as an unlock, shortcuts and all that good stuff, that would be heaven. The disc was also suffering a serious case of disc rot, which was loving up the audio track.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 05:03 |
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Vic posted:For content remember CD video? I never heard of it until techmoan made a video on it: I'll just quote what I said a few pages ago about this same video, since I still find it funny. Doctor Bishop posted:Besides what good ol' Techmoan has to say on the subject, I think there's a funny comparison to be made here between CD Video and 7-Up Gold (which came out around the same time, in 1988), in that they were both presented as follow-ups to popular products, but were really rebranded updates to other products, and as a result, fundamentally deviated from the essential qualities of their namesakes. I.e., CD-V was a rebranded upgrade of Laserdisc that (partially) did away with the compact size of Compact Disc, and 7-Up Gold was a rebranded reformulation of Dr. Pepper that did away with the "crisp, clean, with no caffeine" image of 7-Up.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 05:53 |
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Arivia posted:I can’t believe I’m engaging with this but there’s actual emergency call functionality on iPhones just for this kind of situation. Unlock phone, press home button to bring up PIN screen, hit Emergency, enter number, press call button. Done. An emergency call function that you can only do with use of both your hands (unless you have really long fingers) and full sight is completely useless in a large enough number of real-life scenarios to be unacceptable.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 07:20 |
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I'm not sure how you hold your phone, but personally I use my thumb when I want to do something one-handed. Also, I'm not sure how having physical buttons in exactly the same place instead of a touch screen makes it easier to reach that far. Maybe you're actually just asking for a smaller phone?
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ladron posted:what if they make some proprietary charging pad?
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 12:59 |
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FilthyImp posted:My favorite little bit of corner of the room tech that impressed me: CD+G. I went to a place for karaoke about 5 years ago now and the guy was still using those. Literally he brought probably 50 binders full of the discs. It just amazed me since every karaoke setup I've seen for a good 10+ years was a laptop.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 15:28 |
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When I still worked at Radio Shack like 4 years ago, we still sold CDG karaoke machines and discs. They didn't sell often, but they did sell.
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# ? Feb 12, 2018 16:04 |
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Aren't even laptop karaoke setups using CD+G? Or rather MP3+G since I haven't seen one karaoke host with non-warezed files or discs. CD+G is kinda cool actually, tech-wise.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I'm a Nokia 8210 I had a 8250, the even classier blue lit edition. 2G
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