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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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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's an absolute battery hog, so I don't use it as often as I want to, but I got an old 90s Sony Discman some time last year. It came with some amazing 90s over the head in ear wited Sony headphones that works real good as well.

Just looked at the Discman and it was manufactured in '92 in Japan, model D-111, and I think it's real cool. I also checked the headphones and they're MDR-W08 in-ear headphones. Absolutely love both of them together, despite the fact the CD player is the biggest battery hog I've ever seen.

Hell, I got a CD for a game that came out a few years back and my Discman can handle it perfectly okay. I would have expected something to change in audio file formats that would have made this harder to do, so that is really cool K can play it so easily.

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

There's a reason people still use "CD-quality audio" to describe high fidelity music playback, it's still the benchmark, and I feel like we are still trying to achieve it again after being lost in the woods of MP3 compression and Bluetooth earphones for the last 20 years.

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[-] gogosempai@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Does my PC with GTX 1660 count lol? No fancy ray tracing, no DLSS, no 4k, simple 1080p 60 fps gaming.

[-] kubok@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

I love my double edge razor.s.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago

The mouse I use on this computer is from the mid-2000s. Just in the past week or so it's losing clicks. I will have to get a new one and I'm ruing it.

It's this one if anyone cares.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago
[-] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

I actually stumbled upon this the other day. I might make a project out of it.

Thanks for sharing.

[-] Oberyn@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

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.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

I am famous for my love of my air fryer. Also, I had my main camera, a polaroid camera, gifted to me by my grandfather (who got it special from the higher-ups of Kodak back when I resided close to Rochester), and I don't ever see myself giving it up.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 4 days ago

15 years is old? I have PCs running that are older than that.

I still have my Game Boy lying around here. I think last time I played was 2 years ago. That should be the oldest tech I still use. Apart from the cables in the house.

[-] Antaeus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Vinyl player.

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Baskets and wheels.

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Me, sweating as I look around my office.

  • 3DConnexion SpaceExplorer
  • DOS era Gravis controller
  • Windows XP era Gravis controller
  • Windows XP
  • Fountain pens
  • Mechanical watches
  • Gameboy
  • HP-41C calculator
  • Old, chrome flashlights

I don't really know where to stop this list. I love old stuff.

[-] HEXN3T 5 points 4 days ago

I still use CRTs on occasion.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

My Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. Still working fine and without rooting (I will updated its software before learning that rooting it required a prior version).

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

my second monitor says 2009 on the back. still use it. like it more than my main 2016 one which is itself about to turn a decade old.

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago
[-] kugel7c@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

It does my brother in overkill at the time but somehow in retrospect completely worth it GPU.

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[-] SaintWacko@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

Pebble Time Steel, Surface Pro 3, and Kindle Voyage

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Old Casio watch. Works well on the same battery.

I have an old iPod I use when I go for walks or work.

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A stereo amplifier taken from a home sound system stack that was... Probably made the 80s? Or else made in the 90s with an already outdated style, IDK.

It's not name brand, it's dual stereo instead of surround sound, it doesn't have any labels about how many amps it can pump out, but as long as I'm in an apartment, it doesn't get turned up past halfway.

I like that it has multiple inputs, bass/mid/treble knobs, and that the thing just works.

Edited to remove a guess at how many amps it has

Edit, I looked up the model number and found a page of specs

https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/onkyo/tx-910.shtml

45 watts per channel would be advertised as 180 watts combined, wouldn't it?

[-] nicerdicer@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

I have an old flatbed scanner that I occasionally use. I bought it in 2003 or 2004. For scanning I use an old 2010 Macbook Pro still running on MacOS X 10.6.8. The scanner software ist written for Power PC, and MacOS X is the last OS that can execute the software. The scanner still works perfectly fine. Some time ago I found out that there is third party software availiable that probably runs on recent macOS installations, but since I refuse to pay for it, I transfer the scanned documents with a thumb drive onto my M1 Macbook Pro. I tried to connect my recent Macbook Pro with my 2010 Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, but I couldn't get them to transfer files between them, although they detect each other in the Bluetooth settings. I suspect that it is a compatibility issue, as there is a huge age gap between both operating systems (∼ 15 years)

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