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I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it's a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A car without an internet connection.

[–] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My 90s bike.

Most of the components have certainly evolved when you look at a modern counterpart.

But it's still fully repairable, serviceable at home or on the trail, extremely reliable, and doesn't require any firmware updates or batteries to use 😄

  • Cantilever rim brakes.
  • Square tapered bottom bracket.
  • Cup and cone hub bearings.
  • External cables.
  • Friction shifters (may latest "upgrade"!)
  • Steel frame.

So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.

EDIT: Photo of my metal steed in "winter mode". LOL

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have the original Kindle fire. You can have it for free. It even has a micro HDMI port.

[–] moe93@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why thank you, I’ll take it off your hands.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

DM me and pay the shipping. I will send it usps priority.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I still use two SL1210 turntables from Technics. They are from 1991 and still doing a great Job. My father-in-law bought them for his Nightclub he owned back in the days.

[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I have a large collection of game consoles, with several being older than myself. Just to list the ones that are at least 20 years old:

  • NES
  • PC Engine (Core Grafx II)
  • Game Boy
  • Genesis (Model 2) + Sega CD (Model 2)
  • SNES
  • Game Gear
  • Saturn (Model 2)
  • PlayStation
  • Nintendo 64
  • Game Boy Pocket
  • Game Boy Color
  • Dreamcast
  • WonderSwan Color
  • PlayStation 2
  • Game Boy Advance
  • GameCube
  • Xbox

I also have some old A/V stuff, like a small collection of CD Walkmans and most of the pieces in my stereo system (the turntable is new, but everything else is pretty old). I buy a lot of old electronics from thrift stores because I really just love playing with them.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

It's called a Zune. It's what everybody's listening to on Earth nowadays. It's got three hundred songs on it.

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[–] Oberyn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will never get rid of my modded N3DSXL (with clit-joystick replaced with a PSP joystick!), my modded PSP, or my modded Vita.

I should play New Leaf. I’ve never played it before and I hear it’s the best one.

[–] maxalmonte14@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My girlfriend is just getting into videogames, she started playing New Leaf recently and always send me videos of the stuff she unlocks, I only played the DS one, but gotta say, New Leaf sure looks fun.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, I’ll for sure check it out! Just have to remember how to download games to my and my partner’s DSes hahaha

I’ve played the GameCube one and the Switch one, but everyone I’ve talked to said the Switch one is a downgrade from New Leaf!

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

It's better for making a pretty island or a nicely-decorated house. And the vault pole is a real benefit early on, before you can build bridges. Otherwise, NL really is the better game.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Still have the first computer I bought with my own money, and it still works. It's an Amiga 500 from 1991. I fire it up and play ancient games with it once in a while, on the ancient 1084s CRT monitor.

Also had one of the super rare A3000T's but unfortunately the battery corroded the motherboard while I had it stored away. I didn't even learn about that problem until researching what had gone wrong with my beautiful Amiga tower. C'est la vie. At least I was able to get an image of the 120MB SCSI hard drive, which I can boot up in an emulator and relive the glory days of 1993.

[–] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 4 months ago

Do you still have that A3000T? There are people that can repair that...

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Same here, but my battery started to go out and puff up so I replaced it for a bigger one, put 1tb of ssd storage, a USB-C charger, and bluetooth. Now I don't have to preload music from my +200gb library and I have room for a couple of movies :D

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you replace the internal storage with ssd storage? Is it easy? I was going to look into some more modern niche music players. I just really don't want to use my phone. I love having the separate device.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Super easy, I went on to Elite Obsolete Electronics and got the Tarkan SSD storage adapter, then I got a mini SSD on Amazon. You can connect this directly to the existing ribbon cable that came with the iPod.

EDIT: Here's a good youtube video on how to mod them

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 3 months ago

Cool thanks! I ended up buying a hiby r1. It was pretty cheap and allows up to 2tb of flash memory. It's a little janky but seems to work well overall. It also appears to support higher bit depths/sample rates than the ipod does. I already had all my files properly tagged so everything showed up correctly sorted. I was even able to get my playlists from foobar transferred over without issue.