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Remember when ipod was a word
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2018-12-31 at 1:07 PM UTCI remember my shitty iPod 3rd gen sometimes used to die when spinning up the hard drive if the battery was at all low.
Originally posted by Phantasmagoria The 30gb one could be for music and the 160gb for video (glorious 4:3)
Sometimes it seems to me like you genuinely expect to find happiness in material things like old technology. It's a very weird Asian sort of attitude. Does it actually work? -
2018-12-31 at 1:20 PM UTCtheres more happiness in old dogs than old tech
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2018-12-31 at 1:28 PM UTC
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2018-12-31 at 1:28 PM UTCI swear, they have some of the most adorable adult women over there.
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2018-12-31 at 1:28 PM UTCdisgusting bug creatures
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2018-12-31 at 1:51 PM UTCJust because a company declares an item to be obsolete doesn't make it so
Just because society moves on and evolves, doesn't mean that a previous era should cease to be
Things are artifacts of consciousness and the human view of existence
They are to be cherished forever
I'm sitting next to a CRT right now, on top of it is a portable cd player and a small synthesizer called "monotron delay"
These things are physical, tangible, real artifacts that I can touch and hold, I form memories of these things.
That's how I feel about CDs and why streaming and digital downloads depress me -
2018-12-31 at 1:51 PM UTC
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2018-12-31 at 2:04 PM UTC
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2018-12-31 at 2:12 PM UTC
Originally posted by Phantasmagoria Hai
I hate touchscreens
I hate everything about modern technology
I hate 16:9
Streaming
Unenhancemented jediry
I want to return to the 00s era of living
Yeah I hear that. I'm constantly cursing at this touchscreen shit. Especially when it does that stupid thing where it suddenly scrolls for no reason just as you go to click on summing then you end up clicking on summing else. That shit is so retarded, I've even ended up deleting stuff coz of that.
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2018-12-31 at 2:13 PM UTC
My waifu
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2019-01-01 at 12:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING III: The Quest for 911 Truth iPods with the scroll wheel were so comfy. It was a brilliantly satisfying way to scroll through media.
I have mixed feelings about this. I have a lot of nostalgia for that scroll wheel interface and liked it a lot back in the day. On the other hand I actually tried using an old ipod classic I have a couple of years ago because it had a lot of storage and it was actually a comparatively miserable experience to using a decent touch-screen phone music app. If you library is big it's annoying as dick to try to scroll to a particular artist/album. Like sure, there's acceleration so it's not like you have to spend forever scrolling in one particular direction (although the acceleration ramp wasn't as steep as it really should have been) but you end up overshooting and having to scroll back. It usually took like 3 direction reversals to find a particular item. Also the latency to start a track and between tracks was garbage, which is more a consequence of the drive than the UI but still make the experience decidedly worse than a phone or touch screen ipod. -
2019-01-01 at 1:33 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny If you library is big it's annoying as dick to try to scroll to a particular artist/album.
I don't even understand how this is supposed to work. It can take forever to find a song you want to listen to when trying to navigate artists (often split up due to collabs), albums, etc.
I wound up just changing all the songs I liked to a single artist and used that. It is hacjy as hell.
I used it a lot for audio books and podcasts (I don't even think the term existed when I started, there was no rss), it was great for them. The 3G had like 32mb of ram or something, 20-30 minutes of listening between spin ups.
Yeah touch screen is better, but these glass squares everywhere aren't as physically interesting as things like scroll wheels and joysticks were. -
2019-01-01 at 3:45 AM UTC
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING III: The Quest for 911 Truth Yeah touch screen is better, but these glass squares everywhere aren't as physically interesting as things like scroll wheels and joysticks were.
I definitely agree. And I don't really think it's inherently in touchscreens that they're a better interface, just that touchscreen devices today have over a decade more of experimentation and supporting technology. I think life would be a lot better if we didn't give up physical keyboards on phones. You can't really reintroduce them now because the whole software ecosystem assumes you're using the on-screen keyboard, but when you look at human beings typing out sizable things on a tablet screen keyboard with awkward two-finger poking I weep at the dark dead-end alley mobile computing has turned down. -
2019-01-01 at 4:16 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny I definitely agree. And I don't really think it's inherently in touchscreens that they're a better interface, just that touchscreen devices today have over a decade more of experimentation and supporting technology. I think life would be a lot better if we didn't give up physical keyboards on phones. You can't really reintroduce them now because the whole software ecosystem assumes you're using the on-screen keyboard, but when you look at human beings typing out sizable things on a tablet screen keyboard with awkward two-finger poking I weep at the dark dead-end alley mobile computing has turned down.
just plug in an actual keyboard for serious typing.
im surprised when i found out that my wireless keyboard works with my phone. -
2019-01-01 at 4:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny just plug in an actual keyboard for serious typing.
im surprised when i found out that my wireless keyboard works with my phone.
I mean that's what I do with my laptop, but it dosn't really do anything for the phone situation. Like with could have a flatly better experience typing on phones if we were willing to invest some hardware and design consideration into it, for short pieces of typing as well as "serious typing". There were some landscape physical keyboards (was it the sidekick that did that? Like you put it in landscape and slide the back to reveal a physical keyboard) that were getting really good, and the iphone came along and that whole thing just died on the vine. -
2019-01-01 at 5:20 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny I mean that's what I do with my laptop, but it dosn't really do anything for the phone situation. Like with could have a flatly better experience typing on phones if we were willing to invest some hardware and design consideration into it, for short pieces of typing as well as "serious typing". There were some landscape physical keyboards (was it the sidekick that did that? Like you put it in landscape and slide the back to reveal a physical keyboard) that were getting really good, and the iphone came along and that whole thing just died on the vine.
well i dont know anything about iphones but on android almost every low energy usb devices will work just fine, like i can just put my phone on a stand and do everything with my wireless mouse and keyboard and making things like filling out forms and reservations or teamviewing a breeze. -
2019-01-01 at 7:15 AM UTC
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2019-01-02 at 5:34 PM UTCTurns out my 160gb classic still works the issue is that the headphone jack doesn't which isn't an issue, I can buy a dac which is what I was wanting a decade ago anyways
