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Imagined posted:I would just get a Sandisk Clip. They're cheap enough that if you lose one you won't cry, they have good capacity, and they work with Rockbox if you want to fiddle with that. Yeah, my Sansa Clip+ was cheap as gently caress, its capacity is expandable via MicroSD, and the thing is so tiny. The screen is nice and bright, and it has impressive battery life for such a small device. I honestly don't have a single bad thing to say about it (except that I find its stock firmware infuriating, but YMMV).
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Both the Clip and the Clip+ aren't made anymore and Sandisk's new Clip variants don't have Rockbox support. Amazon.de now has the Clip+ at over 100€, which goes beyond throwaway territory. 
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Feb 10, 2016 18:15
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Imagined posted:I would just get a Sandisk Clip. They're cheap enough that if you lose one you won't cry, they have good capacity, and they work with Rockbox if you want to fiddle with that. My only complaint is that they're almost TOO tiny. Also a bonus is they don't attract the eye of thieves like Apple devices. I agree in that they are too small. I got one to replace my Sony walkman mp3 player that was a fantastic player up until it broke entirely but the screen is really just too small to use in the car at all and rockbox isnt really UI friendly enough to be usable without looking at it.. which is something I dont want to do whilst driving.
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I love my rockbox sansa fuze. So much that I bought another one on eBay even though they are commanding a price higher than I would like. Uh I mean they suck and don't buy them! Here let me take any you have lying around, you don't want that garbage!
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Holy crap, I could hug you right now http://itrunsdoom.tumblr.com/ Run by Kinsie, a guy who posts regularly in the early FPS thread in Games.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Both the Clip and the Clip+ aren't made anymore and Sandisk's new Clip variants don't have Rockbox support. Is this not the Clip still available at Wal-Mart for less than $40? That looks like the one I had.
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Imagined posted:Is this not the Clip still available at Wal-Mart for less than $40? That looks like the one I had. The Clip Sport does not support Rockbox. It's not the same player.
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Feb 10, 2016 23:33
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Inco posted:You can run Doom on a printer: You can also run Doom on a former TOP500 supercomputer.
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Imagined posted:I would just get a Sandisk Clip. They're cheap enough that if you lose one you won't cry, they have good capacity, and they work with Rockbox if you want to fiddle with that. My only complaint is that they're almost TOO tiny. Also a bonus is they don't attract the eye of thieves like Apple devices. They also have decent sound quality and good battery life, and the clip is sturdy enough to keep it in place.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Which obsolete, failed technology brought us this image? My VHS TV recorded version of an ep that was digitized waaaay back in the early 2000's. The resolution is something like 352x240!
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Feb 11, 2016 08:25
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Inco posted:You can run Doom on a printer: This is not as silly as I hoped it would be.
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Feb 11, 2016 08:34
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if it can't play rippin' guitar midis, it doesn't count.
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Feb 11, 2016 08:42
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:if it can't play rippin' guitar midis, it doesn't count. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8RAbWs1yo
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Feb 11, 2016 08:47
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Feb 11, 2016 08:58
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I've wasted my life. But nowhere near as much as the people who did that stuff. This makes me feel much better about the choices I've made. Also it's a crime that that those precious floppy drives are having that done to them, and the fidelity is pretty low also. Might need to use both the printer and floppy drives at the same time.
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Buttcoin purse posted:I've wasted my life. But nowhere near as much as the people who did that stuff. This makes me feel much better about the choices I've made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
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Speeding towards obsolesce are the old-style of remote control airplane: There are still a few companies out there pushing out these balsa-wood planes that get covered with tissue paper, but they are disappearing. It seems that people who like RC airplanes tend to prefer to fly them rather than build them and make repairs, so rigid foam is largely overtaking the industry. Foam planes can take as little as a few minutes to get up and running while building a stick and tissue plane from the ground up like your grandfather used to do takes probably 20 hours of labour, plus quite a bit of time between the work bits as various adhesives are allowed to fully set. In days gone by, one of those adhesives used to smell up the whole house and goes by the name dope probably because prolonged exposure to the fumes makes you progressively stupider. Once you get it all done and dried and painted, you head outside and this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfV9bNEcXCg So it's not hard to see why people are trending towards slightly more robust items. There are still some old guys out there keeping things going, and a few people like me who aren't quite as old but like to putter around with fragile bits of wood and easily torn paper. That said, I do find them fun and relaxing. You can get a kit on Amazon for as little as $15, so in a cost/time analysis, it is cheap entertainment too.
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Antifreeze Head posted:Speeding towards obsolesce are the old-style of remote control airplane: My grandpa has flown these things as long as I can remember. I used to love going into his garage where a dozen or so of these things were in various stages of assembly.  Back when I lived down the street from him, he'd take me out on the weekends to watch him fly them with his buddies.
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Some people were posting about CD cases and how bad they were a few pages back. The 'longbox' hasn't been mentioned from memory:  quote:When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12" tall, and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary. Most longboxes were full color, with details about the compact disc on the back, and artwork that was frequently taken from the original square album cover art, reworked for the new shape and size. There were generic white longboxes with windows that would display the compact disc cover, as well as clear plastic versions that were an inexpensive substitute for a printed longbox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbox#Legacy
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Humphreys posted:Some people were posting about CD cases and how bad they were a few pages back. Before I saw the picture I thought you were talking about comic longboxes  And anything is obsolete it's storing shittons of nerd wank in paper form for no reason. Hell, even before the internet and digital comics there were trades; holding onto fragile, individual monthlies was always strange.
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Humphreys posted:Some people were posting about CD cases and how bad they were a few pages back. Jesus Christ just looking at the thumbnail gave me flashbacks to high school. I used to cut the fronts off the boxes and pin them to my wall.
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ryonguy posted:Before I saw the picture I thought you were talking about comic longboxes I have a few I keep on-hand... mostly stuff I got at conventions so I could get it signed.
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Phanatic posted:Jesus Christ just looking at the thumbnail gave me flashbacks to high school. I got all my CDs at Sam's Club, so they all came in plain blue or yellow longboxes  (and would've been censored if I'd listened to decent music at the time.)
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I still have most of mine—say what you will about them, they looked a hell of a lot better on the shelves than a naked jewel box does.
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ryonguy posted:Before I saw the picture I thought you were talking about comic longboxes Printed matter will far outlast anything digital, and society. I mean we still have comics from the early 1800s but zero digital files. QED.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Printed matter will far outlast anything digital, and society. We all remember the tragedy of The Great Head Crash of The External Hard Drive of Alexandria, from history class.
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They say that the clicks could be heard for miles.
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ryonguy posted:And anything is obsolete it's storing shittons of nerd wank in paper form for no reason. Hell, even before the internet and digital comics there were trades; holding onto fragile, individual monthlies was always strange. If I bought it as a single issue why does it make sense that I should pay for it again?
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Jedit posted:If I bought it as a single issue why does it make sense that I should pay for it again? Take a look at your BluRay (or, if you're older, DVD or CD) collection and answer that question again.
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Here's a dude who just can't let the Minidisc go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkz5EHC-2pc&hd=1 He has literally no idea what he's talking about. Also, he may have parkinson's.
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Got a chance to play with my Craigslist find MiniDisc (Sony MZ-NF810). Good news is that I only paid $20 and it came with all the accessories. Bad news is that the rechargeable battery is shot (not surprised, replacement on the way and I have the AA adapter) and I'm still waiting on my Discs to arrive. So right now all I can do is use the built in radio 
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 if you didn't listen to music recorded from a record player on a home Minidisc player today.
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I brought my minidisc player to NZ for a month long trip back in 03. This was before the iPod era and it was great. A single AA battery ran it for about 8 hrs and I was able to put several hours of music on just a few discs. It still works and every now and then I break it out. Dead tech but worked well for the time.
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Humphreys posted:Some people were posting about CD cases and how bad they were a few pages back.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Although to be fair that may easily be a result of the vast change in cover design paradigms. They weren't different designs, really. Remember that these were contemporary with vinyl, so the longboxes were either the album art shrunk down to fit (like the Weird Al album there on the top left), or the album art with most of it chopped off to fit. I think the first CD where the artist said "gently caress that, we're doing a box design for the CD" was Sting's _The Soul Cages_, which was some elaborate deal where the longbox broke down and folded up into a jewel-case sized box so it would fit in your shelving.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Never heard of these, being from Europe, but they're pretty cool and look a lot nicer than jewel cases, much the same way old NES boxes have a certain something that DVD cases just don't replicate. Although to be fair that may easily be a result of the vast change in cover design paradigms. My 3DO port of Road Rash also came in a long box type arrangement as did a number of Saturn games.
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Humphreys posted:My 3DO port of Road Rash also came in a long box type arrangement as did a number of Saturn games. Quite a few Sega CD Games too
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I wonder what the world record for longest video game box is?
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I mean, not constantly or anything. Just for a moment right now.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I wonder what the world record for longest video game box is? That Jane's F-15 Officer's Edition up the top seems to be unreasonably large. I think somebody is compensating for something if you know what I mean.
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