Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And tablets killed those digital picture frames. Because why have those when you can just prop a tablet down and have it on slideshow mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No? Searching for "digital picture frame" brings up pages of results. These are popular enough because they are much cheaper than an equivalently sized tablet, e.g. a 10 inch digital picture frame details for around $150, which is less than half the price of a crappy android tablet.

Also, tablets don't really exceed 12 inches or so in size, but you can get digital picture frames as large as TVs.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

$150 is cheap to you? Um, okay then...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Indeed