The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

And mobile phones would still be in the "the smaller, the better" pre-smartphone phase.

I'm still in that phase

I update my phone every so often but always go for the smallest new iPhone I can get and luckily Apple have realised there is a market for smallish phones.

I have an Android phone with work that is massive and I hate it.

[Razgovory]

Nothing after 2000 seems distinct to me.  It just all mashes together.  Well, except for the last two years.  That's just unremitting horror.

[The Larch]

And mobile phones would still be in the "the smaller, the better" pre-smartphone phase.

I'm still in that phase

I update my phone every so often but always go for the smallest new iPhone I can get and luckily Apple have realised there is a market for smallish phones.

I have an Android phone with work that is massive and I hate it.

So retro.  You don't use it much for visual stuff, right?

[Syt]

Other stuff you still did in 2005: buy physical media, and rent it from video stores.

[Sheilbh]

So retro.  You don't use it much for visual stuff, right?

We're a small but demanding community if you search for "small iphone".

No. I don't watch anything on my phone. I use it for social media, internet, podcasts, radio etc. I think my basic criteria is that I should never have to use two hands to do basic things I need to do on a phone like type - it really annoys me, I think it's demanding too much attention.

[Grey Fox]

So retro.  You don't use it much for visual stuff, right?

We're a small but demanding community if you search for "small iphone".

No. I don't watch anything on my phone. I use it for social media, internet, podcasts, radio etc. I think my basic criteria is that I should never have to use two hands to do basic things I need to do on a phone like type - it really annoys me, I think it's demanding too much attention.

I have a pretty massive phone & I agree with you. I don't like doing anything on my phone that requires me to hold it in landscape mode. In pre-pandemic times I used it a lot to watch Netflix/Disney+ but not so much nowadays.

On the subject of child boredom, it still exists but it has to be manufactured. Gone are the days where parents could ignore their children for hours on end & find them doing something that came from their imagination. Personally, I don't let my children have limitless screen time. They find themselves bored & having to come up with something to do regularly.

My son plays sports or with remote cars. My daughter does art.

[PDH]

On the subject of child boredom, it still exists but it has to be manufactured. Gone are the days where parents could ignore their children for hours on end & find them doing something that came from their imagination. Personally, I don't let my children have limitless screen time. They find themselves bored & having to come up with something to do regularly.

My son plays sports or with remote cars. My daughter does art.

Sounds way less productive than having them work in the mill for a 14 hour shift...you are slacking as a parent.

[Grey Fox]

There no mills job available.

It's an ongoing concern, yes.

[Sheilbh]

On the subject of child boredom, it still exists but it has to be manufactured. Gone are the days where parents could ignore their children for hours on end & find them doing something that came from their imagination. Personally, I don't let my children have limitless screen time. They find themselves bored & having to come up with something to do regularly.

My son plays sports or with remote cars. My daughter does art.

Yeah - it makes sense that you need to manufacture it and that is probably a good idea.

The example he gave which was something I had a lot as a kid of the bus is going to be 20 minutes and you've not got a book. You will sit at the bus stop with nothing to do. Or when you're off school sick and there's nothing suitable for kids on TV (it's all boring daytime shows until 3.30). Or the carnage if you were made to miss an episode in a TV series.

[garbon]

I don't think I've ever picked to listen to the radio since coming to England.

[HVC]

And mobile phones would still be in the "the smaller, the better" pre-smartphone phase.

I'm still in that phase

I update my phone every so often but always go for the smallest new iPhone I can get and luckily Apple have realised there is a market for smallish phones.

I have an Android phone with work that is massive and I hate it.

I got the Samsung Fold 3, so both smaller and larger.

[crazy canuck]

Flying being quicker than train makes sense.

But when the bus is quicker than the train something is very wrong.

Where they exist, local train service in Canada is much faster than the bus.  The trouble for trains are the long haul routes.  Priority is always given to freight.  Nobody travels long distance by train.  It is really just a tourist venture.

[The Minsky Moment]

Other stuff you still did in 2005: buy physical media, and rent it from video stores.

I still buy some physical media and now that the big phone makers have scrapped the headphone jack I even have a dedicated portable music player.

[Josquius]

NSFW potentially. But may I just say I believe I've found a new entry in my top 10 coats of arms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalziel

[mongers]

I don't think I've ever picked to listen to the radio since coming to England.