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?
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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
A car without an internet connection.
Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.
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I’m still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.
It’s called a Zune. It’s what everybody’s listening to on Earth nowadays. It’s got three hundred songs on it.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
My wired headphones.
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I hate constantly needing to charge headphones and dealing with bluetooth connection issues. Way more annoying lol
That’s why I use both, interchangeably! Worst of both worlds!
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.
Do you still have that A3000T? There are people that can repair that…
