• Fake4000@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We all know landlines won’t be coming back. They can try and make it cool with some fancy stock photos but mobile phones have killed them long time ago.

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      9 months ago

      They’re going to popularize handsets that look and function like old bell deskphones. Slide your cell phone inside the charger, and you can press buttons and use the handset via bluetooth.

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        9 months ago

        Fucking hell, 40 for a plastic phone.

        Definitely not targeting some silly ticktock users.

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        God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.

        It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.

        Further, classic copper networks are all almost gone, and will be going away, VOIP is the future, if they really want a land-line. It looks like they’re wired for ethernet, but it’s hard to tell and the most the Urban Outfitters site says is “The GPO 746 Rotary Telephone prides itself on its traditional and authentic look and feel with built-in modern technology” and “Compatible with modern telephone banking.” It seems to say nothing of specifications for either traditional copper wire or ethernet.

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          God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.

          It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.

          If its real hipsters, wouldn’t they eschew any newly made products and instead seek vintage items out of antique stores? (Because stuff from the 80s and 90s is now antiques). So no net new plastic.

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    9 months ago

    This whole article is a load of shit and whoever posted it should feel bad

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      9 months ago

      It’s the fuckig NY Post. They took a few quotes from someone saying what they wanted to hear, and made it seem like it should be on everyone’s radar. Gtfoh

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    9 months ago

    So tired of these “Gen Z are…” articles. They’re always horseshit.

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      It’s just how things rotate out. Gen X had it, Millenials had it, now it’s Gen Z’s turn. It gets views from older generations who want any excuse to look down on those who’ve come after, and the generation in-question when they see the headline and think “what? Who the fuck is doing that? What are they talking about?”

      Get ready for it to go on through the next decade or so.

      (That said, it is horseshit, and “that’s how it’s always been” is no excuse to let things continue like that. I wouldn’t mind seeing an end put to it, myself)

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      “Gen Z ruining clickbait ‘Gen Z are ruining industry’ industry. Will they never realize complaining about them has been a national pastime for 400 years?”

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    This is utter fuckin nonsense.
    Not a single zoomer gives a fuck about landline phones, not even Zillennials who grew up with landlines.
    These are a novelty, a fad, that’ll wear off within a week.

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    As an 41 year old, I’ve actually used rotary phones and classic handsets when I was younger. And damn do I miss them. There was a distinct enjoyment in being able to properly slam down a phone when you wanted to make a point. Same thing with flip phones: you KNEW when someone hung up in a huff. Can’t quite get that point across on a smartphone.

    I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.

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    How does this belong in technology commynity post it a gossip one or something you idiot.

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    Wait until MCI goes behind your back and changes your service to them, and you get hit with a $300 bill that month, because every call is “long distance”. Yeah. Landlines were great.

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    Is everyone here talking about corded handsets when they say landline?

    In my country landline doesn’t exist anymore. Now you need to plug a handset into your modem for VoIP. Landline was the direct copper circuit in the ground. You can’t bring back a technology that has been decommissioned. That’s like saying Gen Z is bringing back the 2G mobile network.

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      For the most part, I believe in the US at least, that land lines are all VOIP but still referred to land lines because they are hardwired at a set location. Similar to how the internet was on dial up, DSL and fiber but it’s all called the Internet.

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    9 months ago

    Are we? Hadn’t heard. Nobody is really calling each other in the first place anyway

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      Wait until.theynlearn about how much landlines cost these days. Forget avocado toast this is the real money sink.