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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Technology design peaked here:

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wrong, you can get colored and transparent cases for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.

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    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I only got the backplate but man I’m tempted to do the front too.

      Also transparent filaments are great. I 3D printed an olfa knife handle in transparent green (think Razer’s green) and it looks fucking awesome.

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Initially I agreed, but actually I think it stands. The design is similar enough, regardless of era. Honestly, I really do wish this kind of design would come back

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RGB, plastic edition.

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It just looks so… technological

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The original iMac being the device that kicked off the colored, translucent plastic craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

    There was a translucent George Foreman grill!

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Translucent George Foreman grill? For real?

      Did it even have a power switch? Mine isn’t translucent, but my OG George Foreman grill does not even have a power switch, you literally gotta unplug that mofo if you don’t want your house to burn down.

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That translucent blue plastic becomes about the most absolute brittle shit over time. When they say plastic lasts hundreds if not thousands of years, translucent blue plastic missed that memo.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.

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      • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Most of it is in my balls now.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, you’re not wrong…

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these

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    • Snoopey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?

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      • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It was just a nibble!

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        We were all tempted. It’s okay.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ?

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  • RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That blue ps2 looks dope af

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  • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One of these is not like the others

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always go for the clear plastic replacement shells for my electronics. I got a Dreamcast with a chewed up shell that is now clear blue, did my GBA SP in a clear green a couple of years ago, and I’m looking into reshelling my Wii too now.

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  • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    REAL

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  • Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

    It’s got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is one thing In here not like the others…

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  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. Love that round fucking mouse, and that computer with a space heating, ESD producing CRT crammed into the same chassis. Those things were fucking garbage.

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      • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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  • fu@libranet.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    @Stamets I'll admit it looks cool, but leaving your clear Gameboy out in the sun was a bad idea.
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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The iMac effect.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gigapet : Am I a joke to you?

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    • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      False.

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    literally drooling

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  • Gigliorananomicom@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Black is beautiful 🖤

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m 'bout to bust

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  • Peyroniehomie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember almost leaving my VMU on a bus and I ran so hard to go get it back. Fun memories.

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