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madeintaipei posted:You use the Vita as an emulator, or am I missing something? I think my wife still has her PSP. I should get it working again. I remember loving with the battery to get homebrew installed, and then beating Cave Story on it for my first time ever. That thing rocked.
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Armacham posted:They use these with big head muffs when I got an MRI because they can't have the speaker drivers of a normal headphone in an MRI machine for obvious reasons. The sound quality is ATROCIOUS, even before you add in the MRI noise. Thankfully the MRI plays some banging industrial the whole time.
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Gromit posted:Thankfully the MRI plays some banging industrial the whole time. You joke but I actually enjoy most of the sounds the big diagnostic machines make. I had a CAT scan once and aside from the massive headache I had it was very pleasant.
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Nocheez posted:I think my wife still has her PSP. I should get it working again. I remember loving with the battery to get homebrew installed, and then beating Cave Story on it for my first time ever. The PSP was a remarkable handheld when hacked, as is the Vita, the Vita is just such a pain in the butt I mean a lot less now with SD2Vita and stuff but still also I wish sony had loved the vita as much as I did
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The Sausages posted:It wasn't just cooling, the CRT was monochrome and the fluid (some kind of light mineral oil iirc) was dyed to obtain the colors. The oil is not dyed. The colors come from the dome-shaped plastic filters. Maybe really old versions are glass but I haven't come across that. e: I have to correct myself -- the CRTs have colored phosphors AND there are colored (or clear) filters. They are monochrome but red, green, and blue phosphors. I'm not sure why I didn't remember that when I first made this post, but I spotted a set of them in my hoard and realized my error. sleepy gary has a new favorite as of 21:36 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Code Jockey posted:The PSP was a remarkable handheld when hacked, as is the Vita, the Vita is just such a pain in the butt I literally just won an auction for 3 vitas, 3 psps and a GBA.
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I lost my PSP to battery swelling. It's too bad, I still had a bunch of games to finish. Those are gone now too.
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PPSSPP is a solid emulator!
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Also good for getting a cat to come to you
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evobatman posted:I collect the very best obsolete things. Very cool, I actually had the Discman at top right. I didn’t think it was anything super special at the time. I loved it but was it the best at anything? Also, does the blue Walkman say “guys and dolls”? And do the MD players play Hi-MD or whatever that format was?
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namlosh posted:Very cool, I actually had the Discman at top right. I didn’t think it was anything super special at the time. I loved it but was it the best at anything? The black metal bodied Discmans (discmen?) were the top models. I have also owned the Z555, which was considered the most advanced discman ever. I have no idea where you're seeing "guys and dolls"  These do not play Hi-MD, but I do also have a couple of NetMD models. The ones in the picture are more like dedicated recorder models for doing interviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiq-ttpU6bU This is the guide I used to hack my Vita and add an SD2Vita. It's hilariously easy! evobatman has a new favorite as of 14:51 on Apr 29, 2023 |
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evobatman posted:The black metal bodied Discmans (discmen?) were the top models. I have also owned the Z555, which was considered the most advanced discman ever. The veerrry original Walkman TPS-L2 model, called its two headphone outputs 'Guys & Dolls'. I think the poster is inferring or making a joke about how the blue of that minidisc player looks like the blue of the original TPS-L2.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I got my cassette player. I was not expecting it to still have the original box and the manual: Funnily enough, they make new versions of the headphones for that model. https://www.amazon.ca/DROP-Massdrop-Porta-Pro-Headphones/dp/B08512VZ47
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lordofthefishes posted:Funnily enough, they make new versions of the headphones for that model. Porta pros are fuckin killer.
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Speaking of headphones and their ilk: I accidentally bought a pair of Sony earbuds many years ago with one earwire longer than the other. The idea was that you'd drape the longer side around the back of your neck so you could remove one or both earbuds and they wouldn't fall completely down/off. They were great, but I can't seem to find anything like them now. Anyone have any leads? I also bought a Sony inline remote control that never fit any model I ever had. 
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Hirayuki posted:Speaking of headphones and their ilk: I accidentally bought a pair of Sony earbuds many years ago with one earwire longer than the other. The idea was that you'd drape the longer side around the back of your neck so you could remove one or both earbuds and they wouldn't fall completely down/off. They were great, but I can't seem to find anything like them now. Anyone have any leads? I remember envying the minidisc folks who got those headphones with their devices, but I always saw the benefit as having the longer cable on the opposite side of your body as the device and not the shoulderhold
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lordofthefishes posted:Funnily enough, they make new versions of the headphones for that model. I had a pair of the originals. I loved them but within a short period of time the little black plastic sliders snapped off. I exchanged them for a new pair that did the same not long after and that was the end of my first pair of headphones. I've always listened to my music primarily on headphones and will never forget those Koss ones.
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Hirayuki posted:Speaking of headphones and their ilk: I accidentally bought a pair of Sony earbuds many years ago with one earwire longer than the other. The idea was that you'd drape the longer side around the back of your neck so you could remove one or both earbuds and they wouldn't fall completely down/off. They were great, but I can't seem to find anything like them now. Anyone have any leads? That seemed to be standard for all the earphones I brought between 2002-2018 before switching to Bluetooth. It was very useful having a bit of slack so when one or both buds were taken out they didn't fall out of my clothes. Though it could be uncomfortable if sweaty around the neck. I probably broke a few of them by repeatedly pulling the cable down to get them off instead of unwrapping it from around the back of my head. Used to go through a pair of £15-£30 Sennheiser earbuds every 12 months as a cable to one of the buds would break. That could be a correlation between the price and the stress I pulled on them.
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Mantle posted:Isn't it so they can force you to buy their headphones on the plane instead of using your own? Buy?!?
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Dick Trauma posted:I had a pair of the originals. I loved them but within a short period of time the little black plastic sliders snapped off. I exchanged them for a new pair that did the same not long after and that was the end of my first pair of headphones. I've always listened to my music primarily on headphones and will never forget those Koss ones.
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They can also be easily modded to use detachable cables, which does invalidate that warranty but parts are cheap and repairs easy. Headphones are simple and the minimal housing is handy.
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Koss rule and their history page is an excellent source of vintage tech nourishment: https://koss.com/pages/koss-history
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Poor Techmoan.... I thought I had this video sped up but nope, he is smashing through it and with a very specific callout to someone criticizing him at the end while having very red eyes. I hope his family is well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2Si7D3JS0
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Humphreys posted:Poor Techmoan.... I thought I had this video sped up but nope, he is smashing through it and with a very specific callout to someone criticizing him at the end while having very red eyes. I hope his family is well He mentioned on Patreon that this was basically a last resort choice after several of the items he wanted to make a video on all wound up being broken in some way because old tech, so the rushed tone is probably attributable to that.
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ishikabibble posted:He mentioned on Patreon that this was basically a last resort choice after several of the items he wanted to make a video on all wound up being broken in some way because old tech, so the rushed tone is probably attributable to that. Also gently caress that dweeb that complained to him.
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Neon Noodle posted:They have an unlimited lifetime warranty. I bought mine 20+ years ago and have had them replaced 5 times. Mine weren't the 1984 model, they were the ones that were bundled with the Music Box. They sold them separately until the Porta Pros were released. This was around... 1980? 1981? Nice to know they stand behind their product though. Limited lifetime warranties shouldn't be able to use the world "lifetime." My custom sofa had a lifetime warranty that in CA is limited to 7 years.
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Humphreys posted:Poor Techmoan.... I thought I had this video sped up but nope, he is smashing through it and with a very specific callout to someone criticizing him at the end while having very red eyes. I hope his family is well He rules… it’s funny because I’ve been binge rewatching a ton of his videos lately and if it’s any consolation, he has a thing at the end about there being no point to his videos quite often. This one did seem a little more poignant than those though. And yeah, I certainly hope he and his family are doing alright.
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Humphreys posted:Poor Techmoan.... I thought I had this video sped up but nope, he is smashing through it and with a very specific callout to someone criticizing him at the end while having very red eyes. I hope his family is well only quality weed my friend (his eyes don't look red - is your monitor hosed up?)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Buy?!?
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yeah. 30-40 years ago the earphones cost a buck or two. I've only ever flown Finnair so  Lager was free, earphones were free, tentacle was free.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I've only ever flown Finnair so You got free beer? I feel cheated. (Though in fairness the Oslo to Helsinki flight is barely long enough to finish a lager.)
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Computer viking posted:You got free beer? I feel cheated. Last time I flew Lufthansa I downed two free glasses of wine in the 45 minutes it took to hop from Hamburg to Prague. The flight attendant casually opened a whole new bottle of sparkly to pour into our plastic cups, that's customer service right there.
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I don't drink; once got a free upgrade to first class and the attendant did a double take when I asked for water instead of alcohol.
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Interesting how far baby launching technology has progressed since then. https://twitter.com/DanielleEBowers/status/1653419366707240960?s=20
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Super Waffle posted:I don't drink; once got a free upgrade to first class and the attendant did a double take when I asked for water instead of alcohol. 
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When I fly KLM I exclusively drink wine because it's the only liquid they'll give to me bottled rather than pour it into a cup. But it's such a dogshit wine. I hate it so much. Each sip makes me want to die inside.
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goblin week posted:Each sip makes me want to die inside. Yep that's wine. If you want wine that doesn't do that, you must specifically order cheerwine.
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:arnold: STOP WINE-ING
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yep that's wine. If you want wine that doesn't do that, you must specifically order cheerwine. As a North Carolinian, I enjoyed this post. I also enjoy a nice Cheerwine Zero when I travel, since there's a place that sells them in the airport.
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