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[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I love collecting CDs

[–] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 38 points 5 days ago

Guillotines

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Tape drives. Remember those big reels of tape on mainframes in the 80s? They don't look exactly like that anymore, but tape is still used for backups/long term archival because they offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and decent longevity without needing to be powered, as long as you don't need to access the data all that fast or often.

Those dank memes and cat videos you posted in 2010 are probably on tape in a data centre somewhere

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Im obsessed with tape storage, but for audio. Nothing more real than audio on tape! Luckily it's catching on again. Music is so disposable now, I hope we can keep physical formats alive and keep corporations away from it (digital offers them unlimited control over us).

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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 25 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Pretty much anything in a machine shop made in the last 80 years or so. So many people turn up their noses at anything that isn't computer controlled anymore. Yknow what a big old mill can do that a CNC can't? It can make every single part needed to make a new mill. It's a self replicating machine with the right know how. People don't respect that kind of quality anymore.

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[–] RecipeForHate1@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago

Wired headphones

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Printing out tickets as a backup. I do this for concerts and travel because then I don't have to worry about batteries dying, wifi/roaming not being available, getting logged out and having trouble getting back to the ticket, etc.

I also print out maps when doing wilderness backpacks because even if you download the map you'll burn through your battery life well before the hike is over but a paper map is just as good. If I really need to confirm my location I can occasionally turn on the app and shut it off. I keep the maps in a gallon ziplock so water isn't an issue.

[–] NGnius@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago

Ticketmaster is doing their very best to make paper tickets unusable with refreshing barcodes. Funny thing is that "anti-theft" feature is needed because of their own systemic failures. I do like tickets that are just sent to my email or similar (e.g. as an attachment that I can save to my phone) though, it's better than wasting paper when I know my phone won't fail me.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Writing your passwords in a piece of paper. Safer than storing it digitally and easier for people that don't know how to use password managers or computers in general to understand what to do to access your stuff if you're under a difficult situation or dead.

Also, physical photos. Yes yes, we all have gigabytes of photos, but almost never check any of them. Physicals catch my glance at home very often, great decoration. I've also took to writing the day, place and people on the back, plus any other important bits of context.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 36 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Wrist watches. Extremely convenient, even when your phone is buried or you don't want to be distracted.

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[–] ray1992xd@feddit.nl 18 points 5 days ago
[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 39 points 6 days ago (8 children)

IRC: simplest way of communicating online, and a bouncer can be availed for free

Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

I can't related more on the second one. Slack and Microsoft Teams seems to be the default way to communicate in corporate environments.

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[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 6 days ago (6 children)

CDs/DVDs/BluRays

I don't want to support Spotify, which is owned by tencent. I don't want to spend a fortune on streaming services. I don't want to sell my data to google by using YouTube, and I want to be able to listen to music/ watch movies when offline.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Spotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.

There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.

The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Fax machines. Government and medical offices would grind to a halt without them. That's just reality.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because it can do something that the alternatives can't do or because they refuse to use something more modern?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

"It can't be hacked"

Of course, it can, and a lot more easily than a TLS stream, but try convincing them of that. So, more like they refuse to use something more modern.

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[–] Ghamorra@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Because it works. Every part needed to run those machines, even line of code, every possible cause of failure is well documented and there are layers and layers of redundant protocol to ensure that if something does go wrong downtime is minimal.

The entire purpose of these machines are designed to run for as long as they’re needed. They’re not replaced or upgraded because they were never meant to be. A lot of effort went into this being the case.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 days ago

Even worse, the US military, at least, is still using teletype machines and COBOL.

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago
[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Apparently trains for some people

[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

...how are trains obsolete to anybody?

Hundred of billions of tonnes of freight are moved by rail each year globally, and people travel hundreds of billions of kilometers by rail.

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

This is what annoys me too. Freight is so crucial and it still moves plenty of people in many countries both in the north and global south. I guess they will think of steam era trains.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Being kind to one another

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trackballs

You might think of them as this old mouse that you had 20 years ago, but actually the technology is still being used for all kinds of things, including ergonomic mouse

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I can actually game with one, and I've outright worn out 3. They last longer than traditional mice too.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Magnetic tape. Datacenters use it for long term storage.

[–] MathGrunt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Pencils. The ones where you need a pencil sharpener to sharpen them every so often. Mechanical pencils just aren't the same.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I'd probably say something like my Sony Discman or any other CD player, if we're talking the general public. CDs aren't anywhere near as popular as they used to be thanks to streaming, but if you're collecting like I am, a dedicated CD player is a necessity.

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[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to throw a shout out to the site that cloned the old Google reader by making theoldreader.com

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[–] janbaumy@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fax machines and overhead projectors, if you live in Germany. Basically every office here still has a (frequently used) Fax machine and all schools still use overhead projectors.

It was actually quite a shock to me when my University retired their projectors in 2023. They sent an email to each and every student as a warning. Life‘s crazy here.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a stupid american that took a few German classes in highschool many years ago, I must know, do you call it "der Projektor" or "der Bildwerfer"?

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