I suppose it was inevitable when a MicroSD card and a music player app for your smartphone could do the same job. Except now we're expected to rent our albums instead of buy them.

I still have the 2nd gen iPad and still works perfectly.

I usually love Costco products but the one model that fits what I want is way too big for my space :( :(

Oh! Did the quality degrade during the supply chain issues because of the pandemic?

Oh that's a shame

this statement is incorrect and its not applicable to every apple product. just go to ifixit and see how easy it is to repair most. They even sell DIY repair kits for parts like batteries. I have very few apple products but they all are still working even after a decade.

My wave is still going strong, purchased in 2005.

https://oeyo.no/c/kjokken

Adding URL for reference, since it was a bit tricky to find.

I remember doing that.. it was like a part time job.

Still something to do while already typing away on MSN Messenger or mIRC.. while batch updating album art, track numbers, fixing typos on limewire downloads and piecing together albums from random tracks at barely dialup speed. Just for Winamp and sharing some MP3 discs.

It was like data entry gamification. Ended up running sound systems for bars I managed and working as a DJ for years, so it could've been worse.

My 80gb Classic worked great as a car HDD, I sync'd it after updating my Mac and now it resets after playing 5 seconds of the first song, and loops that process infinitely.

Big Sad.

I know I read all the manuals, no way to skip a song, so I just stuck with my mp3 players. It was maybe a bit bigger, but it had a small screen and interface buttons.

Don’t buy women’s redwings they aren’t built the same unfortunately.

It’s not a music player. It’s a compromise.

My five cents, Ikea no longer does anything that fits BIFL. Avoid

For ranch work i would suggest you go with the Surge. I have a family friend with a cattle ranch in Wyoming who has had, and abused, a Surge for 6 years. He has only had to warranty it twice, but he does go through the wire cutters about once a month. As long as you use each aspect of the tools within reason the Surge will last a long time. The only reasons he had to warranty it were 1: he snapped the plain knife off by trying to pry with it. 2: he snapped the large flat head off by trying to pry with it. He has not snapped anything on it since I gave him a LynchNW pocket prybar. Having said all of this, the main plier head is starting to wobble a little, but not much yet.

If you're determined to use an 11 year old MacBook with current software, you could use OpenCore Legacy patcher to make it run a current Mac OS rather than Linux.

iFixit does a teardown of each new model.

Source on the 14 series being more user repairable?

They will repair things for sure - my partner had a pair of their trekking tights start to lose the threads on one of the zippers and she dropped it off and picked it up a week or two later repaired.

/s

That’s an A+ pun

Thank you for reminding me. It was so satisfying tho. Those really were the good days!

Funk and jam. Hell yeah brother

Unpopular opinion here but if you use something, hard, sometimes more than it was designed for it will break. I know ranch work that tool could be out 20 times a day doing 20 different things. BIFL should mean I treat it with kid gloves and only use it 1-2 times a year.

It still works? Phew. I was worried about that when I heard they discontinued support for iPod. Mine from 2005 still works.