I will take no arguments

[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.

[sirico@feddit.uk]

Also cheap emulation devices like anbernic keeping atomic purple alive

[elliot_crane@lemmy.world]

Funner follow-up: this definition is correct and true to the original usage of “factoid”, however, the alternative definition meaning “a small or minor fact” has been used often enough that it’s generally accepted, and appears in several dictionaries. Ain’t English grand!?

Sources:

• https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/factoid
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
• https://www.oed.com/dictionary/factoid_n

[amon@lemmy.world]

Wii would like to chat

[slovene@feddit.nl]

Argument

[postmortal_pop@lemmy.world]

I actually took a busted one of those and fit a 32in flat into it. Blocks off a little of the edges with the frame and gives it that square screen look without losing anything important. Cheap soundbar sounds amazing inside the box, everything is plugged into a surge protector inside and fed through the antenna hole.

I really want to get a Vintage breadbox or radio to put the DVD player inside of.

[fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk]

That sounds amazing. I'd love to see a photo. I'd planned a similar project with an old radio, but it's one of those things that's been on my "I'll get round to it eventually" list for 5 years

[waldschrat@lemmy.world]

Honestly, I am really happy we passed that transparent bubblegum-toy style. My hope is that we move towards physical buttons again, at least where they make sense (cars for example).

[meep_launcher@lemm.ee]

Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ️️

[postmortal_pop@lemmy.world]

I'm snap a pic when I get home, I still need to find the right tacky fabric to finish the boarder, but it at least works

[pyroneurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I got one in 'atomic purple' because that is the most rad color.

[lime@feddit.nu]

inflammable means flammable?! what a country...

[vindictivejudge@lemmy.world]

Still perplexed Nintendo hasn't released atomic purple joycons.