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What are you not nostalgic for? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't miss dial-up internet, I just don't. I don't even like the sound because it's just digital screeches and it's a sound that makes me cringe a little upon hearing it. Because I remember the times when I'd be listening to music with headphones with volume high and then that fucking digital screech just blares into my ears.

I don't miss waiting 30 minutes to load a page. I don't miss a bit of it.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Getting paid by check instead of direct deposit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm still getting paid by check.

France, public administration.

I moan absolutely every time, and then hold on to it as much as I can to fuck up their accounting because unclaimed checks whacks their balances. When they phone to complain I call them palaeolithic morons & ask them to fucking wire the money already. I think my record is three months (I don't work exclusively for them). Nice people and fun job otherwise but gosh, why the checks, seriously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They could at least fax you the checks to your home fax machine for convenience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Minitel it