It was magnificent - eviltoast
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    13 hours ago

    We had one that had a really long cord on it and when my older sisters would walk into another room with it, I’d run up and unplug it from the base then disappear. Fuck I had some good hiding spots.

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    21 hours ago

    Slam it so hard you could make it ding. If you were still mad, you could then yank the cord out of the wall. If you still weren’t done, you could throw it across the room, and it would be just fine, when you calmed down, plugged it back in, and set it on the table again.

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    21 hours ago

    This was so unbelievably satisfying….Fuck you! SLAM … brrring …SLAM … brrring … over and over again

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    And the ringer in the phone was a physical bell with a little magnetically-actuated hammer, so if you slammed the receiver down hard enough, the bell would actually resonate for a little while after. You know how some people use a bell slowly fading out as a meditation tool? That’s the association I have for that sensation.

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      “You know how some people use a bell slowly fading out as a meditation tool? That’s the association I have for that sensation.”

      Oh man, this comparison is going to stick with me; it’s one of my favourite things I’ve read in recent weeks

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        21 hours ago

        Thanks! I debated whether to include it, because it’s definitely one of those “well my brain sure isn’t normal!” things, but now I’m glad I did.

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    I got the 2024 moto razr+ flr my work phone when ATT had it on sale for almost nothing since nobody was buying them

    I’d forgotten how satisfying it was to hang up by snapping the phone shut.

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      Like straight down? On what kind of surface?

      I spiked the fuck out of an old Nokia in like 2093 against the carpeted floor in my office. Sadly I slightly cracked the corner of where the battery case met the phone. The phone still worked but the battery wouldn’t stay connected. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person on the internet who ever broke a Nokia.

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      20 hours ago

      AFAIK, one reason for that is that AT&T was the monopoly provider of telephone equipment. They didn’t have to compete with anybody who might undercut them for price. In addition, people often rented their phones, paying a small rental charge every month. That meant that AT&T built the phones to last. They were extremely solid because AT&T didn’t ever want to have to replace a phone that someone was renting.

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      1 day ago

      Nowadays, we see the answer to the question “What if we made the hinges plastic?” in almost everything we do, everywhere we go.

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          I was speaking generally of most consumer goods that have cheapened on design and materials, but to address phones…

          While the material of the shell was plastic, there were huge differences in both shape, density (bakelite has different compressive properties than polyurethane) as well as engineering.

          IE, the shells of lets say, and old 1985 motel phone, were made of pretty thick bakelite or poly plastic, and the insides were made of very simple metal and copper wiring, there were no integrated circuits, there were no moving parts, no computers, no video screens, no charging ports, no boards with parts, they were almost entirely mechanical, the function of the keys only served to send signal tones and didn’t connect to anything more advanced than a switchboard somewhere. That’s why they could withstand a lot of abuse.

          Modern electronics, including the rare home landline phones we have now, are made of much thinner polyurethane or styrene shells, they have almost entirely solid-state parts inside, chips and boards that capacitors can come loose from, charging ports that can break off the housing and make shorts in connections, wiring isn’t designed to withstand someone accidentally yanking the whole thing, they have LCD screens and are basically just more fragile in all regards.

          The issue has a lot more to do with the wider array of consumer goods though, like vacuum cleaners or microwave ovens and home goods that are supposed to last for years and years, but tend to break after only a couple years, and this is now by design.

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      Answering on flip phones was equally boss. When you master that perfect wrist flip where you can just crack the hinge a little with your thumb and let the flip do the rest of the work.

      So satisfying every time.

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        1 day ago

        The older startacs where you could whip if out of a pocket and wrist flip it open without fear of ending up with a 2 piece phone