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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I miss cassettes and vinyl records only for nostalgia's sake. Realistically, they were a BITCH to handle and store with questionable lifetimes and middling audio quality.
I don't miss cassettes, getting eaten by the player in the car and impossible to get out without snapping the tape. Tapes of any kind are subject to being gobbled up by the player, looking at you VHS.
I miss albums, they were cool to look at, but only a few of mine survived. My music is all digital these days.
The VHS was a bastard on an entirely different level. My cousin lost his The Empire Strikes Back tape because a roller got stuck and the tape got twisted around the reader head.
Should've used a Betamax. /s
Never had problems with handling them, and analog quality is better for most purposes.
I grew up with analog audio, and still have most of my dad's late 70s "high tech" equipment, about a hundred vinyl records (mostly 33s with a few 45s), and several boxes of audio cassettes. Given the chance... I wouldn't go back. That era had some severe issues that we just had to deal with because it was the best that contemporary technology could offer.
I loved analog audio recordings when they were relevant, but there are good reasons why magnetic tapes are obsolete, and why we largely skipped the CED and LaserDisc and moved on to CDs and digital audio with their own unique issues.
In the theoretical sense, digital sound files have over double the potential dynamic range of the best cassette tape or vinyl. CDs are better, but still well below what can be done with digital files.
The issue is that most digital formats are so compressed that they end up with 1/10th the dynamic range of a cassette tape.
So its more like analog is “better” only because we need to improve storage and up/down speeds before we can truly enjoy how much better digital can be compared to analog. Its just not practical yet