Samsung and Xiaomi apps on their factory defaults are mostly fine, update them once and suddenly you have ads flashing after every 2 interactions with your phone
The Tesla Super Bowl rom hack from when my favorite team was still good. :(
- ABC iView v4.16.1 [4148], the last version of the Australian streaming service before they started requiring a login, IIRC this doesn’t even work any more so I just stopped using it
- the legacy version of Discord, more specifically the Aliucord mod which backports some modern features along with a bunch of optional plugins
- Simple Solitaire Collection, an open-source card game collection; the developer took it closed-source and ad-supported so I just stopped updating
- Skype on the last version before they added Copilot, but with Skype shutting down that’s not really useful information to anybody
Feels like a lot of programs that I use. It is like, if they’re still working as is and nothing is happening to them, why bother?
But specifically, my pick is Windows. I have the most lapsed way of handling Windows OSes over the years.
I was on Windows 98 and it lasted until roughly mid-2000s did I finally get on Windows XP. Didn’t touch Vista. Didn’t touch 7. Got into Windows 8 mid-2010s after buying a friend’s PC. Didn’t get on Windows 10 until a few years ago. Not going to touch Windows 11.
Get win10 LTSC iot. Have to reinstall, not sure you can just convert, but will help if you don’t want Linux. LTSC iot is good til 2032 I think.
On fairly older version of 3C all-in-one tꝏlbox (2.6.6b) bcus has only reliable way for me to keep screen on all the time (hate screen timeouts sorry) . That function appears to be missing from newer versions , all other “keep screen awake” type apps I tried don’t work very well for me , so just rolled back lmao
Vscode always breaks something so I do it as rarely as possible. Still can’t remember a single new update or feature adding anything for me other than github copilot.
Calibre Companion, on android. For years it was the best way to sync books between my calibre install on my computer and my phone, even after the developer abandoned it. Then a while back, the dev released a single update that broke the app’s integration with reader apps, then disappeared again. I rolled that back extremely quickly, by grabbing an older version from my old phone.
I’ve still got Twitter installed on my iPhone, despite rarely ever using it in the past and having not even launched it in well over a year.
But out of principle alone, as a form of silent protest I refuse to update it to X.
The Phillips hue bridge app. They forced online login in the new version for “security”. I don’t see how connecting to Philipps servers is more secure than local only.
I have wifi lights, when I move they will 100% be changed to zigbee. The cloud and iot has gone off the rails in security and convenience.
Some apps that I’ve patched with revanced manager like messenger to remove the inbox ads for example.
Discord and spotify cus I modified it illegally:3
Windows. Haven’t booted to it in years and am afraid of it fucking up my Linux partition.
TreeSize Free (Portable), versions older than 4.7.3 can run on Windows Server and still work just fine. They added a restriction on 4.7.3 that disallows server OS.
WinDirStat might be worth a look.
I started using BeyondPod for podcasts in 2009. At one point, they came out with an UI update that everyone hated but I was able to save an older version, I just had to avoid updating it in the store. I did that until they went out of business and it disappeared from the store a year or two ago. I’m guessing the version I still use came out in 2012
Maybe AntennaPod is for you: https://antennapod.org/
I’ve tried it multiple times. I’m not sure why I didn’t like it but every few years I try a bunch of them and I still like BeyondPod. It still works perfectly.
OBS Studio. It’s probably a terrible idea, but I have a real Jenga tower of a setup, and any time I update it seems to break something
Fenix nightly. Mozilla removed the tab strip experiment/secret setting in current builds :c
