• SpaceDuck@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Am happy multiple companies, commodore, clicks etc are working on more limited phones. It all takes too much out of a day.

    Also, I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.

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      22 hours ago

      Buttons and the aux hole.

      I don’t know why everyone just accepted that we don’t get those things anymore.

      I hate cordless earphones, I doesn’t make any sense at all.

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      22 hours ago

      I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.

      Could you elaborate? Do you miss tackle controls so much you’d rather have that vs screen space, or you genuinely don’t want a bigger screen?

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        13 hours ago

        Cooking plates come with (janky) touch panels instead of physical buttons, my laundry machine too.

        Also actual feel of good buttons on for example amplifiers etc actually is a nice feel. Also buttons are replaceable if broken.

        Generally if no screen is needed (fridge) it can just go.

        Also a screen should be if it’s there dumb. Eg a TV should not come with an OS that will serve me shitty apps and advertisements.

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          11 hours ago

          My induction hob comes with physical handles, and so does washing machine. And for them, it doesn’t make sense to do otherwise - wet fingers don’t go well with sensors, and I don’t know who came up with that terrible idea.

          For the smartphone, though, touch controls allow for the precision and speed of input unmatched by any other input method. They also allow to maximize the screen space on a very small device, allowing better interfaces and reducing eye strain.

          The quality of an OS and the developer incentives are different matters entirely, though.