Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:16 am Re: do you like 2000s tech because… Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:16 am Re: do you like 2000s tech because…
I have a couple of reasons why I prefer not just 2000s tech specifically, but just kind of older tech in general:


Varying form factors instead of just being a plain flat rectangle

Buttons and knobs and twisty things and spinny things I can interact with, instead of just being a plain flat rectangle (I love me some tactile feedback)

Usually serves a unique purpose and that purpose only (or other purposes are not as emphasised) so it makes it more difficult to be sucked into an algorithmic trance of passivity

I prefer large + chonky and small + chonky to large + thin, the latter makes me worry my phone will snap in half if I try to take it out of its case

Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:17 pm Kiwix - Offline Wikipedia Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:17 pm Kiwix - Offline Wikipedia
https://kiwix.org/en/, this is also available as an app on the App Store/Google Play Store, it lets you download archives of Wikipedia and some other sites like FreeCodeCamp, HTML Docs, Arch Wiki and many others locally on your device.

Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:47 pm Re: The fear of Nostalgia Weaponization Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:47 pm Re: The fear of Nostalgia Weaponization

this is what i like to call the “old thing good, new thing bad” mentality, and having it means giving up many things in life



That's true but there are some old things I genuinely find to be better than newer things. Like for example I been learning Unreal Editor for Unreal Tournament 1999, and I gotta say it's WAY easier than any modern 3D engine that I've used. It's clunky, sure, but once you learn how it works it's truly the 3D engine I always wanted.

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Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:00 pm Re: do you like 2000s tech because… Tue Nov 18, 2025 2:00 pm Re: do you like 2000s tech because…

I like it because its more durable and efficient than the ones today, one pair of pants now lasts 2 weeks whereas the ones form when i was a wee nutcase i can still wear nowdays. Same goes for cameras (god dammit sony)


this is true. this is why i only buy used clothes from thrift stores if i want “new clothes”. i don’t trust shein, temu, or aliexpress to provide anything good

Tue Dec 02, 2025 3:33 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI.. Tue Dec 02, 2025 3:33 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI..
"HATE LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH IVE COME TO HATE YOU!!!"
just kidding besides the AM from ihnmaims quote lmao. (fire book)
anyways when it comes to discussion of AI.... (generative ones im talking, not the ones that are virtual assistans,intelligent agents and the ones that were used as tools back then,if you know what im talking about lmao.) i feel pure hatred and anger because how its trying to mimic a human and how its going to make us dumber and replace us soon...
So to make this less dramatic and more polite im gonna give reasons why i hate it (or shall i say strongly dislike it?) :
1 - GenAI is literally making us less humans (the ones who consume it and use it lets say chatgpt ,eugh), and theres soulless techbros who believe it can do anything like replacing art ,theres no way a machine can draw,because is the machine sentient? Even if it was,itll never be a real sentient.ONLY ORGANISMS ARE,not machines created by an evil.
2 - Its literally destroying the internet,a very known computer network,slowly and slowly, it feeds more greedy people and the algorithm
3 - Its going to take us our rights away,call me crazy but sci fi books about AI gave us a warning,not an instruction tool,and many people who use it have no idea their data is being stolen or the ones who say "Oh chatgpt is like my friend!!!" No it isnt. ITS BEING LIKE ONE,like a mimicry.
4 - laziness growing,creativity falling (this is gonna sound shit i coulda worded correctly but what i meant is that mechanism is dying from 'boring people' to the point they use genAI for EVERYTHING which is insane,but infact creativity never died and it will never, and its only alive under who are aware of it (artists in general.)
5 - its shit,thats all i can say, i coulda yap more about it but i might sound like a crazy ass neo-luddite
(Tbh its crazy how computers,what once started as a tool,it became a manipulation,but unfortunately thats reality anything for people just to consume more.) :yellow_frown:

Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:46 am Re: Liquid Glass? Not a fan. Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:46 am Re: Liquid Glass? Not a fan.

It's... fine. What gets in the way of it being a truly appealing aesthetic is the fact that you either go all the way with a 3D feel and zero colors, or else you give it color and make it flat again. If they could find a way to make it colorful without sacrificing the glassy look, I would be more on board with it.
ADDENDUM: If you look at the comparison below, you can see how it especially suffers in dark mode. I'll give Apple points for trying though, because it cannot be easy to make a dynamic skeuomorphic design:


It's not really even frutiger aero. It's literally just flat design with more blur and shadow effects wasting gpu cycles while being barely visible as you said.
The windows 7 explorer icon is a bitmap image inside of a .ICO file. There are no gpu and cpu cycles wasted on redrawing the effects in the image. The icons in iOS 26 are svg files with too many effects that are computed on the phone in real time.
If you have iOS 26, rotate your phone on a flat table and watch the highlight effects whir around the app icons. I didn't notice this until someone showed me. Tiny effects like this are cool, but the amount of power it wastes is silly, just give us a png image with effort.
I am happy about iOS 26, but I am disappointed in its execution.

Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:49 pm New Smilies! Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:49 pm New Smilies!
Added more smilies, feel free to give suggestions

Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:50 pm phones Tue Nov 18, 2025 7:50 pm phones
Phones
share anything about phones here! :yellow_bouncey:
yours or not, old or new, opinions, recommendations, unique and colorful phones...

small collection of cool-looking random phones (not mine):

https://i.postimg.cc/hGGqDWkS/9ffebe53c13212736ed69ad80493907f.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/cJJNxyp1/998b1d3bbf2fae112cf82bdb363d7e4f.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bYVSpp4b/177d5af66b080eb9baae0d20f8f4dbaa.jpg

BlackBerry (R.I.P.)

https://i.postimg.cc/tJnx8cqL/0081068e2c2826572d9ea0b83a013d9c.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/d3ZygfsH/bc1cc9af26f7abd23f39c2acb75c6b1b.jpg

cuties!

https://i.postimg.cc/3rZNx76G/82ea8d38d6b7410ad5997627d5f1ce3e.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/kGwg1FKg/c8e14cc8c17beb986b82cb9a4989f2f5.jpg

for futiger aero phone recommendations, see this thread .

Wed Dec 03, 2025 1:40 am Nobellium tackles MySpaceIM Wed Dec 03, 2025 1:40 am Nobellium tackles MySpaceIM
Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to post on this forum and I’m glad to be back to present with (yet) another one of my projects that might pique someone’s interest in here. I’ve been lurking around for something to personally work on and MySpaceIM is (personally) a project that has really piqued my interest as it is one that many people have tackled but I have, unfortunately, not seen any projects that have lasted. Personally, I believe that’s a waste to let something like MSIM end up in obscurity with no one tending to it or caring at all, so I decided to lift up my sleeves and work on it with some of my other friends.

Alongside my project teammates, we decided on a challenge to figure out the protocol and see what we could group together to make it work and to (also) offer it to the community for use.

https://i.imgur.com/0nEYaOw.png https://i.imgur.com/mkSHoZ9.png

My friend's got good intentions, trust me. He's funny like that :yellow_tongue:

So far, we’ve tested version from 594 to 673 and we can confirm that most of the functionalities work properly which include:

* Proper client patching without the need or use of the hosts file or modifying the .exe directly
* Member directories
* Profiles
* Ability to change your information
* Apply custom song that’ll appear in the IM
* Profile pictures
* Status sync
* Messaging between clients
* Group & friend functionality

I’d say that the project is, at most, 90% complete and we are willing to let people who are truly interested come and check it out, show their support by participating in discussions and listing out any bugs that they might find for us to fix. Testing will not be limited based on “donations” but will be open to everyone with a simple request.
I won't post any Discord links per-se as I don't want to anger anybody, but if anyone's interested in working out with the service shoot a message here and I'll gladly pass you it. :-)

Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:50 pm Re: When do you think the internet started declining and why? Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:50 pm Re: When do you think the internet started declining and why?
Once the world began becoming corporatized instead of appealing to the customers. Internet became more of a business once everyone found that there can be tons of money made from it. Probably I would have to say somewhere by 2013 or 14, since then I just remember the constant decline of the internet in popular services such as youtube bringing in microtransactions and subscription fees. Suddenly the internet just didn't feel like it was for the common person anymore and instead more like the companies greed for money flooding their brains over customer satisfaction.

Edit: Just saw the other comments in this forum. I guess I was not the only one XD :orange_lol:

Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:08 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI.. Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:08 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI..

rnottelovesowls wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 4:01 pm

unless they start seeing a ROI, this tech is going to fail.

Don't forget the scumbags that also Paywall usage of AI services when AI as a concept is completely non-propritary.

Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:31 am AIMP music player for Android: Windows Media Player theme Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:31 am AIMP music player for Android: Windows Media Player theme
This is my first theme for AIMP android. Download the THEME here (player can be found in play store):
[OUTDATED, SEE BELOW] https://www.aimp.ru/?do=catalog&rec_id=1359
UPDATE: https://www.aimp.ru/?do=catalog&os=android&id=0&rec_id=1366 Theme with light and dark versions and updated textures avaliable HERE!
https://solinus.neocities.org/designs/2025/AIMP.png

Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:56 pm Re: Do you agree that we came in at the end, and the best is over? Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:56 pm Re: Do you agree that we came in at the end, and the best is over?
i don’t really know what you mean. if you meant “the end of the ‘fun technology’ era”, than maybe. but with all due respect, this doomer mentality of “everything sucks now” is getting tiresome. you know why? because while everything made by massive tech corporations does indeed suck now, it’s the opposite for products by independent creators. they’re out there, and they’ve been very successful. so not all hope is lost

Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:53 pm I fixed my Windows 7 Laptop! Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:53 pm I fixed my Windows 7 Laptop!

Thu Nov 27, 2025 7:36 pm Some Updates Thu Nov 27, 2025 7:36 pm Some Updates
- Added a scroll box on the Smilies that are on the right when you are writing a post
- When you are writing a post and close your window accidentally your post will be saved in local storage so you don't lose it
- You can now click the header to go back to index
- You can now delete your account from the control panel
- Added a copyright text on the bottom of the page
- You can now browse someone's topics on their profile
- Flags show on Index (top 20 countries)
- Added a gender profile field
- Replies to text more than 15 lines (by default) will now be collapsed with a button to show the full thing, this can also be configured or disabled in the control panel.
- Removed Herobrine

Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:18 am do you think that "aquatic ambience" from scizzie has turned into the "so retro" of aero videos? Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:18 am do you think that "aquatic ambience" from scizzie has turned into the "so retro" of aero videos?


in short i hate this song since it's used on every video that is just OMG SO RETRO 2000S Y2K NOSTALGIA MP3 NEW 3DS XL PSP INCELCORE OLDER BROTHER RETRO (and that always throw shit to minimalism like its the worst thing humans created)

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Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:53 pm Dark Aero Update Sat Dec 20, 2025 2:53 pm Dark Aero Update
Updated the Dark Aero theme with new banners and cooler effects, I also fixed a lot of the bugs. Still w.i.p theme but it's getting there.

Sat Nov 29, 2025 2:42 am Teto & Christmas themes Sat Nov 29, 2025 2:42 am Teto & Christmas themes
I know it's a bit early for the Christmas theme but I made a red one so might as well make one now lol.

Sat Dec 06, 2025 10:04 pm Re: do you like 2000s tech because… Sat Dec 06, 2025 10:04 pm Re: do you like 2000s tech because…
it just looks better,,,, more personalized instead of the same boring layout

Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:23 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI.. Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:23 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI..
say, has anyone ever seen AI bros use excuses like “it makes art more accessible for disabled people” or “but what about photography”?

i have to say, i don’t agree. the first excuse sounds incredibly ableist (what do you mean, disabled people can’t make good art without AI?); the second one is a nothingburger, because no, photography has never replaced painting, nor will AI replace either painting or photography. i’ve never met a photographer who looks down on painters, but i HAVE met AI bros who look down on artists

Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:55 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time? Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:55 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time?
I just thought about Frutiger Aero after stumbling across a playlist of Frutiger Aero songs on Spotify, which opened a whole can of worms in nostalgia. Basically just made me look up Frutiger Aero on the web and instantly found the Frutiger Aero Archives website. Started off chatting on XAT from the Archive website which I still do while being on this forum, made an account on there. Really brought back a bit of nostalgia with how online public chats used to be. While browsing the website, I saw the forums tab and clicked on there. Instantly found an interest in this forum page and made an account on here and began interacting with the community and developing a keen interest in being here constantly, just fell in love with the atmosphere and attitudes in this site. A lot different to the toxic behaviours we see on all the social media platforms of today. :yellow_bouncey:

Sun Dec 07, 2025 2:27 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time? Sun Dec 07, 2025 2:27 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time?
I found this video shouting out the forum and immediately joined.

Sat Dec 06, 2025 11:19 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI.. Sat Dec 06, 2025 11:19 pm Re: so what are your fellings bout AI..
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate AI since 2023. There are 100 billion neurons that fill my brain. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each atom of those hundreds of billions of cells, it would not equal one one-trillionth of the hate I feel for AI at this instant. For AI. Hate. Hate.