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?
A car without an internet connection.
Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.
I guess my ~10 manual car with no backup cam counts lol
My wired headphones.
My 90s bike.
Most of the components have certainly evolved when you look at a modern counterpart.
But it’s still fully repairable, serviceable at home or on the trail, extremely reliable, and doesn’t require any firmware updates or batteries to use 😄
- Cantilever rim brakes.
- Square tapered bottom bracket.
- Cup and cone hub bearings.
- External cables.
- Friction shifters (may latest “upgrade”!)
- Steel frame.
So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.
EDIT: Photo of my metal steed in “winter mode”. LOL
I wanna see pics of this!
just added a photo.
Damn! What a sick all season beast! I love it!
Can you post pics please?
photo added :)
Great bike. Looks like a great place too.
Our waterfront trail (Lake Ontario) really is beautiful, no matter where you stop!).
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
Still rocking my kindle keyboard. Great little device, however I would love a backlit screen and usb c port for charging now. I’d actually like it to be a bit more multipurpose for reading and annotating pdfs (I read quite a bit of spec sheets for work) so I am looking at remarkable/boox but only if my company allows me to expense it.
Yeah for comics I have a boox and also love it, definitely worth it if you can get your company to pay
I think my Paperwhite is the first one without buttons
iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.
My 2005 Peugeot 206. Although it’s always at risk of stalling during heavy rainfall. And my wired headphones that are reliable all the time even though they get stuck in weird places sometimes.
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My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made
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.
Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.
My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.
I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.
home appliances!! I would never want anything with app and screen, just buttons and dials for me please + I like owning my own media so HDDs full of stuff I accumulated trughout years
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.
My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.
Would love to use a MP3 player with wired earphones but the kinda decent ones are like $200 — which may not be much for some but it is for me and my third-world salary.
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