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Counterpoint: I’m old and don’t miss any of that. Fewer devices is very, very nice. And fewer physical pieces of media is even nicer for the environment.
I actually don’t miss having to be kind and rewind, or spending 15 minutes with a pencil spooling my music back into a listenable format after being a bit careless with my tapes, only to have Glenn Frey sound like he’s eating marbles next time.
Less waste and less hassle. Nostalgia is overrated.
It's more nuanced. We like having all that stuff on one device. It's the other stuff the device does that annoys us.
That’s not an issue with the medium, though.
And I really appreciate being able to watch hours of content with no adverts now. Back in the day, nearly everything had unskippable ads. There was no adblock; you had to watch everything on someone else’s schedule, and the only way to not watch ads was to pee or make a sandwich.
I haven’t seen an ad in years and, my god, it’s awesome.
I guess i just miss having a walkman mode, where all it did was play music. If I could turn on a walkman mode on my phone, I sometimes would definitely do that.
Turn on do-not-disturb and you don't get notifications or calls. It's not a true walkman mode but it turns off some distractions.
A good suggestion. The harder problem is actually me. Oh, imma skip this song I don’t like it. Maybe they have a new album out, I’ll just quickly check. Hmm, what’s the weather tomorrow. Etc.
In dire straits you can still buy an MP3 player. Alternatively, you'll probably have all these problems still, so if you need to work on not getting distracted there's nothing else for it.
It’s not exactly a Walkman, but I’ve recently gotten into looking at the Innioasis Y1 MP3. I asked for one for Christmas, as you can put Rockbox on it just like an iPod. That, to me, is so fucking cool!
How far back are we talking? Because I remember in the '90s using the VHS recorder to record shows to fast forward through the ads later
Yeah, but you had to sit there for like a minute to do that, and you had to be on alert for that, not enjoying it but waiting for the ad break. Nowadays, the whole thing just plays uninterrupted.
Counter counter point. Your brain hasn’t been as fried by technology as the youth (I’m Gen Z). Streaming has trained our brains to never listen to full albums. Having to rewind is kinda the point. You’re way more likely to listen to an album from start to finish. Phones are overrated.
Me too old AF and don't miss walkman or discman or digital cameras or iPod or VHS or any of that old technology.
I understand more as you move away from technology. Like I can get why others feel an attachment to vinyl record players or film photography. Anybody can understand that stuff, while a smart phone seems more like magic.
Because cassette tapes were awful, fast declining quality, tiny picture + tiny booklet if you're lucky. Discman was awful while cycling to school, potholes causing interruptions... The mp3-player 256MB was a really cool innovation! Enjoyed that supermuch. Went through batteries FAST tho. But vinyl LPs... Is just different. It was never meant for on the road scenario and the size of the 12" sleeve just makes for a really cool collection of pictures alongside the cool collection of music. I still enjoy playing vinyl while I find it is the ultimate album experience. You get nice sleeve/context, sort of forced to listen album a to z and always dead silence in the end instead of some algorithm or autoplay making everything a never ending stream of best case 'related' stuff but more common the next sponsored crap being pushed on you...
Says who? (Lol, wonder why this didn’t catch on…)
One benefit I find of less options is you enjoy it more. You paid good money for CDs back then. I carried enema of the state by blink182 and Americana by offspring everywhere with my cd player. Played them beginning to end, two of my favorite albums at that time.
Now, there is just so much, you could never consume it all. And when you do find new cool shit, next week it's something else. I still fall back to offspring when I don't care what to play. I missed offspring supercharged when it came out but they made a new one called running and cycling with the offspring that has some of the same tracks and I really like it.
I just feel quality and your care for an album due to the money invested was greater back then.
I saw Blink earlier this year. They were great!
I do like to listen to some vinyl every now and then, but that's about it. I've listened to portable music all my life. Loved my walkman, don't miss the quality and the cassettes. Loved my walkman, don't miss the skipping, broken cd's and how limited it is. Love minidisc, it solved most of the problems before and LP minidiscs were pretty nice, and of all the things i would say i miss them the most, because how futuristic it felt using a cassette/cd hybrid. But then mp3 players came soon after and that solved everything (almost) and now with tidal, my phone and good headphones, i can listen to everything at all times in lossless quality? What's not to love?
Counter-counterpoint: The battery saving features on my past 2 phones (Poco X3 Pro and Ulefone Armor 24) have been absolute shit. I am talking about randomly killing the music player, and even alarm.
And it's also been unstable as fuck. I avoid updates once I learn all the bugs... and learn problems from others. I've had the X3 Pro motherboard fail 3 times, lasting 9 months on average. And after repair, instead of EEA version, I received a Chinese motherboard, with different software, and different set of bugs I had to learn to work around. And I heard MIUI 13 made everything even worse. Plus I lost the option to opt-out from tracking, because after the repair I was no longer on EU version of the software.
And what I can do is limited.
Arch isn't exactly a stable experience. Every update seems to bring some random bugs. But it's typically the same thing for everyone, you can probably search around, and somebody has experienced it, and you can change things in your OS on your computer, because for the most part, it is YOUR computer. Can't do that with a phone.
When I was unlocking my Motorola, I had to agree to a license agreement stating that I will not resell or otherwise transfer my phone to a different person, and that I will be held liable for any damages or bodily injury including death caused by the device.
Please corporation, have mercy, let me use the device I paid for.
Also if the phone fails, I just lost everything at once.
Plus I have to replace it a little too often. There's a lot of old electronics that only gets unusable because the plastics have already started decomposing, and either it's extremely brittle and falling apart, or a sticky mess (fixable with IPA in the sticky case).
You're pouring beer on sticky plastic to fix it? /s