Floppy disks will forever be used the way they are currently used: as the save icon.
NeatNit
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I think you are totally wrong about all of these except the dentistry (and for that I simply don't know enough).
Analog clocks are not going away. They're aesthetically pleasing, all the luxury watches are analog, all the smart watches have analog modes... I don't think this is changing any time soon. One caveat: I hear there's a trend where younger people (e.g. today's teens and younger) often don't know how to read analog clocks. So perhaps I can be convinced on this, but I still think they're here to stay.
Flashlights produce orders of magnitude more light than any smartphone. Headlamps provide light while keeping your hands free. Phone flashlights are useful in a pinch but flashlights are not ever going to seem alien, they might be more niche but not strange. In any event, this has already happened so you're describing the present, not the future.
Keys? No way. Every electronic locking system includes a mechanical backup for a reason: power outages happen, batteries don't last forever, and electronics fail a lot more often than mechanical lock mechanisms. None of these facts will change. People don't really like being locked out of their home then the power's out, so you bet they'll keep carrying keys.
Fax machines are already out. A story made the rounds maybe a year or two ago about how Japan was finally going to stop using faxes, and before that Japan was one of the few (if not the last) to still be using fax. So again this is the present, not the future.
Lastly, dentistry: man I hope that happens, it sounds great. But it doesn't really fit the question, it's not something we "use" every day, it's a treatment to a medical problem. Advances in medicine aren't they here IMO.
Good point, I edited that in :)
Look, I happen to know what this is but I really hate posts that just assume everyone knows what they're talking about.
So for everyone else: this is the newly announced Steam Machine, a gaming PC/console that will run SteamOS (Linux) (or any other OS of your choice) and overall looks freaking awesome.
It sounds that way on first listen! But it's actually about his daughter.
If I remember correctly: during a holiday and a large family gathering, his young daughter fell and hit her head very seriously. She lost consciousness and it seemed like she was in mortal danger. Gave them (her parents) the scare of their life! They put her in the car and sped all the way to the hospital emergency room.
This song is about that incident. "I wanted to tell you how much I love you" is what he kept thinking on that drive.
She's alright now :)
I use both btw
Woah. Sir, this is trademark infringement. You're only allowed to use that phrase with Arch.
Yup, Cinnamon is slow on Wayland support, but they're getting there. Eventually.
Try this: https://youtu.be/oOFdWRZr2uM
גיא מזיג - כמה אני אוהב אותך
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/4RyainOBqMazNOuSU2BMfx
It's obviously been painted over and the word "Copper" in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.
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Thanks! I've sent it to him and I'll try to skim it myself.
These things are always impossible to predict. But I'll try anyway.
What things like VHS and diskettes have in common is that they're clunky. They're a hassle to use, and they've been replaced by something easier. So what is currently a hassle to use, but we use every day?
Nothing obvious springs to mind, but I'm thinking of dishwashers and washing machines. Their main purpose is to save human time and effort, and they do a fantastic job at that compared to before, but there's still a lot of room to improve.
Dishwashers need to be carefully loaded and unloaded. (Also they often don't clean the dishes well unless you wash them a bit beforehand, defeating much of their purpose. Don't tell Alec from Technology Connections I've said this, but I tried putting dirty dishes in there and it just doesn't clean well enough. Maybe my detergent powder isn't good enough.)
Maybe in the future there would be a dishwasher-cupboard hybrid, where you just put the dirty dishes into it (WITHOUT having to think about how to place them) and it automagically cleans them and places them in the cupboard ready to take.
Washing machines also require a lot of hassle. Same idea but with a closet.