40 Once Great Inventions That Are Becoming Worse And Worse

I heard that this was an issue for digital gauges on airplanes many years ago. The pilots had to read each number instead of glancing at the position of the needle so they quickly switched back to analog gauges. Not everything new is progress!!

When you consider the effect lighting angles have on the ability to even properly see a screen, these have to make a comeback. I have a 23 year old car with knobs, I am not looking forward to replacing it and this is one-off the biggest reasons. Ageing, eye sight more sensitive to light and glare as I get older and I'm expected to deal with screens and small icons whilst driving which i may or may not even see depending on sunlight or street lights? Just NO.

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Thank goodness. I knew this fad wouldn’t last too long.

They are. I bought my CX5 last year, and its all buttons and knobs. The navigation screen isn't even a touch screen any more.

Yay!

Here's hoping they come back to phones, too.

Yes! I had to get glasses when we got a new vehicle. We are hanging onto our other old vehicle I love. It’s not that bad but it went through a terrible hail storm, side swiped by an uninsured vehicle that all got fixed by insurance but bodywork only lasts so long when not in a garage in northeast Ohio. Then a truck lost a 2x4 my husband ran over on the highway and had to call a tow truck. He damaged the door jamb when his jack slipped. I love that sedan-I can change everything without looking, all buttons no touchscreens. but the body is falling apart.

Touch screens, and telematics (OTA updates). Absolute dealbreakers for me. We’re spied on too much by corporations as it is. No way in heII I’m going to own a car that phones home and data-dumps literally everything I’ve done and everywhere I’ve gone.

What the hell is it with the internet and ohio?

These poor people who've escaped the atrocities in Haiti are now living in terror because they, including their children, are being threatened with violence by a bunch of xenophobic racists. And you know damn well, any domestic pet that didn't return home was coyote food. Still, half the country made up by the willfully ignorant is supporting Trump/Vance.

Okay, look. Chicken drumsticks go on sale for 99 cents a pound. The time is takes to trap, skin , gut, dress a cat is probably two hours ( half spent setting up and checking traps). The amount if edible material is probably 5 pounds. So two hours work for $5 of meat ? Cheaper to pick up on more hour of work.

But trump said so , we must follow the hive leader

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Isn't that where unwanted and unwelcome immigrants are eating the neighbours' pet cats and dogs? (according to "the Truth", According To Trump in his debate with Kamala Harris)

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People who spread things like that should be indicted.

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In what universe? Around 2000 (edit: 2003? Maybe even a little later?), a typical website would have 25 pop-ups; take several minutes to load; would load ad content first, then pictures, then finally content; would have dozens of broken links. There had been text-only browsers which would refuse to load images and pop-ups, but these became fairly unusable by the late 1990s because they also didn't handle tables and frames well.

I have also noticed how many building materials are sawdust and glue.

MDF (medium density fiberboard) is heavier and weaker than wood. Most furniture from factories is made of MDF.

AGREED! I had a big flood in my house when the last hurricane came through....70% of the furniture and closet doors in my bedroom just effing DISSOLVED!!!!

I used to repair digital pianos. Guitar Center (now closed) use to sell a Chinese made piece of junk that was made of the cheapest 3/8 inch thick particle board stapled together. Not even any wood supports glued in the corner joints. The legs wobbled, the case did not even fit together correctly.

But worth it! You only buy it once and it will last for decades. I’m currently using my GRANDPARENTS bedroom set that is made from solid wood that they got when they first got married. So roughly 60 years later I inherited it and have had it for 10+ years now. It’s not really my particular style/taste but quality is quality and not having to shell out hundreds or even thousands for a new set every few years is a wonderful thing.

Luxury hand-crafted wooden items certainly are. But simple wooden kitchen utensils aren't, for example. I've got a fair few quite plain utilitarian items around the house made from solid wood that were quite cheap. And plywood, while not quite being "real wood", lasts pretty much as well as natural solid wood without being expensive either. However, I don't imagine anyone going to be mass-producing laser printers with enclosures that are made out of wood rather than metal and plastic...

Natural rubber doesn't last well, while synthetic rubber comes from mineral oil and is a long-term environmental hazard.

people said the same thing when halogens first showed up replacing old incandescent bulbs. Simply wearing lemon lens sunglasses (not regular amber lens daytime sunglasses) takes the harshness out of LED and HID headlights and doesn't restrict your night vision

The brightness isn't the big issue: "traditional" main beam is typically about the same brightness as dipped beam. The difference is where the beam is pointed. The problem comes with mis-aligned headlights that don't point the beam downwards and sideways away from oncoming traffic when on dipped beam. The regulations require this, but aren't always properly enforced.