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?
Too much to list.
Stuff that was created to do something and does just that.
No fuss, no ads, no updates, no sudden change of terms, no phoning home.
Vinyl player.
I don’t actually use these much, but I love using them whenever I get a chance:
CRT monitors
iPod Classic
OG GameBoy
DSi XL
I actually had rockbox on the iPod but had to take it off because I’m more concerned with how it feels to use than the actual functionality; and rockbox kinda fucked it up.
Edit: I kinda unironically wish dial-up would come back, but as a novelty that ends up blowing up into an actual, community-driven internet. A) gives me fuzzy feelings for when I was a kid at my grandparents house before they ate the MAGA brainrot, and B) might force people to learn how to optimize their shitty websites or get left behind on the corpo-web.
A 15+ year old MSI laptop. I’ve had to replace the screen and the battery is dead so I removed it and just use direct power. It’s happily chugging along dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. I don’t remember the last time I logged on to the Windows partitiion, but I’m too lazy to back up the 1TB of stuff there so I just keep it there. It’s connected to my TV and I use it to watch movies.
Once I get myself a new Mac Mini, my 3-ish year old one will go to the TV and be our media center. I need to wait a few more years now.
My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.
My 2 HP printers from the early 2000s
Me too! My toner is $20 and lasts forever.
My two favorite classics Ade my GBA (tho its nodded now) and my Sony WM-EX631 cassette Walkman.
1981 Yamaha turntable and receiver pair. Dad bought them new for my grandparents and I inherited the set when they passed. Fabulous sound and function!
My ten year old desktop.
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.
I still use CRTs on occasion.
Dumb tv.
i have a fully functional Kodak Brownie, 100 years old… but it requires ancient 117 roll film.
Original DS Lite.
I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.
The potential is limitless.
Ayaneo made the Flip DS but besides being expensive apparently the battery life is a bit wanting- but at least these kinds of products are starting to be made!
Sony PCM-M10 field recorder Olympia Travel Typewriter Olympus mju2 point and shoot camera
