I will take no arguments

[matriks404@lemmy.world]

Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day

[snoopey@lemmy.world]

Did...did you eat your atomic purple N64?

[ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works]

Ok, fine, Graphite iMac G3 is perfection of form over function. That better?

Never actually had one, always wanted one. I did use the hockey puck mouse at school, and agree that it was fucking terrible. Can't really speak to the esd issues from the CRT, didn't use it often/long enough for that to affect me, though I can certainly see how it could have been a problem. Most computers are some level of space heaters, as far as that goes, especially if you've got a decent GPU, so I'm not sure I'd really knock it too much for that unless it was just really super egregious.

[monstrosity@lemm.ee]

Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!

It's got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

I don't know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me "cheap garbage" vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

False.

[sploosh@lemmy.world]

I definitely had a translucent tape player and clock radio in 1995.

[lime@feddit.nu]

fun followup of the day: a "factoid" is something that isn't true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!

[booly@sh.itjust.works]

Microplastics are stored in the balls.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

Interesting. I might research that on the toilet tonight, or just drop the word factoid from my vocabulary.

Regardless, clowns still have to go to college, while politicians do not. Fun fact of the day!

[lime@feddit.nu]

i wrote it on the toilet before bed, so that seems apt.

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

Technology design peaked here:

[fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk]

I guess it's very much a matter of taste.

Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went 'clunk', a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.

To me, that was peak design.

[melodiousfunk@slrpnk.net]

We were all tempted. It's okay.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

It was just a nibble!

[cornelius_wangenheim@lemmy.world]

Pretty sure it was actually that transparent phone everyone had in the 90s.

[cheems@lemmy.world]

Never forget what they took from us

[clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

You're a fan of the half-transparent aesthetic? I'm not.

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.