Those were something, weren’t they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.

And in hindsight… Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn’t it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.

While I’m here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.

I guess just in general I don’t like touch screens and it’ll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don’t actually need them. I’m out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still

  • hamid 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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    I use a ~5 dollar usd mp3 player I got from aliexpress instead of my phone for when I am working out and I really like having buttons to press and it is way better than I expected for 5 dollars. It has a sd card slot, a headphone jack and even picks up the local radio