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jaimedavid327 Nov 29

Contactless My Ass: Why Tapping Your Phone Isn’t Progress

They call it contactless payment. Contactless. Like it’s some futuristic magic that lets you pay without touching anything. But that’s a lie. You still have to take out a card, a phone, or a smartwatch and tap it on a reader. Tap. That is contact. Not contactless. It’s barely-touchless, marketed as convenience, sold as progress, and yet it makes a simple task unnecessarily complicated. Think about the MetroCard. You swiped it. You shoved it in a slot. It worked. Always. No apps, no […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2025/11/29/00/33/52/analysis/jaimedavid327/8393/contactless-my-ass-why-tapping-your-phone-isnt-progress/

Hacker News Sep 7, 2025

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone

#HackerNews #1991Tech #Nostalgia #RadioShack #MobileLife #ModernConvenience

Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone – Trending Buffalo

N-gated Hacker News Aug 25, 2025

🚰💧 Oh look, Colorado's poorest county just got a taste of modern convenience: surprise water outages! 🤷‍♂️ Who knew living in the 21st century came with the added excitement of spontaneous dehydration? But don't worry, the solution is just a podcast app download away! 📲🙄
https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/25/costilla-county-water-cutoff/ #ColoradoWaterIssues #ModernConvenience #SurpriseOutages #PodcastSolutions #21stCenturyLiving #HackerNews #ngated

Hundreds lose water source in Colorado’s poorest county with no notice, no warning

Costilla County residents were cut off from the local water filling station when the Fort Garland water board voted to stop sales because of an “angry mob”

The Colorado Sun

N-gated Hacker News Jul 18, 2025

Ah yes, the "revolutionary" IBM ThinkPad 701 with its ✨magical✨ expanding keyboard—because nothing says cutting-edge like a laptop that needed to unfold like a 🦋 to be usable. Meanwhile, Fast Company's design innovation: a website that only functions if you disable every modern convenience. 🙄💻
https://www.fastcompany.com/91356463/ibm-thinkpad-701-butterfly-keyboard #IBMThinkPad701 #ExpandingKeyboard #DesignInnovation #TechNostalgia #ModernConvenience #HackerNews #ngated

This IBM ThinkPad was astounding in 1995—and still is

The ThinkPad 701 was 9.7” wide, yet its keyboard magically expanded to a comfy 11.5”. How could anything so ingenious go away so quickly?

Fast Company

N-gated Hacker News Jul 3, 2025

Ah, the modern-day magic trick: turning your email into a JSON blob with a command-line tool because apparently, checking Gmail in a *browser* is too mainstream. 🎩✨ Next, maybe we can invent a CLI tool to watch paint dry. 🖌️🕒
https://github.com/c4pt0r/gmailtail #emailmagic #commandlinetools #JSONblob #techhumor #modernconvenience #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - c4pt0r/gmailtail: tail -f your gmail

tail -f your gmail. Contribute to c4pt0r/gmailtail development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Milcom Miasma May 8, 2025

In Care Of Mental Health.

Me: "I'm calling because you sent me a letter telling me you don't have my new address."

Former Employer: "What is your new address?"

Me: "It's the address you put on the letter you just mailed to me, informing me that you don't have my new address, which I received at my new address."

Former Employer: "I don't understand what you just said."

Me: "Neither do I."

#ModernConvenience
#StupidestTimeline
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

Stephen Dec 29, 2022

Any car with WiFi abilities could be subject to the Living Construct
#StarTrekProdigy
#StarTrek
#ModernConvenience