Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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    This is so cool! I love watching videos of old handhelds of all kinds. Are you in any lemmy specific communities for the retro ones?

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      1 year ago

      I think there’s one for old handhelds, but if it’s there bugger all happens since there’s barely any folks doing much with these lol.

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        I found some reel son instagram of all places where people were messing around with restoring old PDA’s and other kinds of older tech from the early 2000’s. Vaporwave got popular and I think it caused more people to be interested in tech from that time.

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          I think there also may be a sorta “smartphone fatigue” that’s building up as well. People tired of having their privacy invaded, people frustrated at the modern smartphone ecosystem, people who just wanna be able to unplug from the internet and be to theirselves. I can honestly see a small movement building of people ditching smartphones for these older devices that have the same productivity apps, but without the distractions or privacy risks of the modern smartphone ecosystem.

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            I don’t know if you know the comic Ari Shaffir but awhile back he got rid of his smartphone and switched to a flip phone and then a lot of other people started doing it too for awhile.

            And I think he still uses just a flip phone and he’s like entirely removed from social media - or last I heard anyway. He still has a manager who does stuff for him.