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Sarah O'Connor has coined a new word:
Qualitynesia = forgetting something was better in the past when it objectively was
[her example: recorded sound quality - spotify's compressed sound files carry less info than old CDs & as such have worse sound]
However, fellow Masto-folk, I'm sure you'll have you own candidates for 'Qualitynesia'...
see also @pluralistic 'Enshitification'.
@ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic Nice tactile buttons you could press by feel while driving and keep your eyes on the road. Smartphones that gave you access to maps and the internet but somehow weren't a ball and chain. PDAs with keyboards. Specific-use devices that weren't general purpose computers connected to the internet.
@dm319 @ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic
I still have a couple of those. A Garmin GPS that I use to direct me on the roads (it's nice, has a 15 cm diaganolly measured screen, speaker loud enough to be heard while going 100km/hr with the windows down), and a Kindle e-reader. The reason I stick with Kindles is no notifications or other interruptions--also books in many languages easily. My Kindle doesn't render Hebrew well so when I read Hebrew books I have to use my tablet. The difference is stark!