That was the goal of the original product tho, it's not for no reason that it has a strap. Might not be a necessity today, but one day it was.

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that’s incredibly interesting and i never thought about that. this is the kind of comment that makes me love reddit

Cloud computing! In the early days of computers (40s, 50s) they were the size of a small house and insanely expensive - to make computers more accessible to schools, businesses, universities, libraries, etc... they used terminals. Terminals were dumb - basically a glorified kvms - keyboard, monitor, and that was it - no real capabilities or storage - and they connected to the remote computers for all computation. Fast-forward to today. Chromebooks, and game streaming services, are the same idea. You don't need a powerful computer with lots of storage and powerful GPU. All the work is done on a remote computer - and our device acts basically a glorified kvm just like the early days of terminal computing.

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FYI, if you put a / before the hash, Reddit ignores it as a formatting symbol

#Loud

/# not loud

I'm a member of his Patreon - he mentioned having an order in for this one yesterday.

I think that the physicality of the object is as much reason as quality or any other metrics.

People want to own stuff again, not just “a data record in a database somewhere says that I have access to it”.

When you have space to own physical objects, the convenience of fast access becomes less desirable than possessing a concrete object.

Saturation?

Mr. Disk - the turntable no bigger than a man’s shoe!

That’s actually so cool.

Lotr username / speaking in riddles… in the dark

Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Band, come on down!

well when you throw a rock, it doesn’t come back

Beepers are returning at the same rate

Wut

so you’re saying it’s ok for me to throw my pager in the bin finally?

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Audio mastered for analog formats also has a lot of limitations.

Examine the vinyl record for example. Audio is encoded through grooves on a physical surface which is then read by a needle travelling at a constant speed.

Firstly, the physical size of the needle limits what you can decode. You can't have peaks or valleys that are too close to each other, otherwise the needle will just skip over them. You also can't have transitions that are too steep.

Digital actually makes everything closer to "intended" sounds, because you can eliminate so many physical and mechanical factors.

Ah, you were just trying to make a funny. Excuse me for being a rock 🪨

I love when you wax poetic

More a euphemism for having one's records destroyed.

well vinyl is a type of wax. But your comment sounds more like a euphemism for having a wax job done at the salon

If you want to play a record more than once, you must regress to the beginning of the album.

Hopefully your opinion is revolving as you begin to scratch the surface of the joke

Silly

Style of tech is… tech definitely is not. Open to be proven wrong but name one common invention that has regressed back to its roots.

I have an old technics 1500.

I just wonder if this will be one that messes up records or is good enough to be a fun novelty piece.

In my experience something as basic as Firefox stopped working on an old Apple because it couldn't be updated to the latest OSX, so I ditched OSX, installed Linux and the latest Firefox had no problems. There was no good reason that Firefox *couldn't* run, but Apple decides when your software becomes outdated, because most developers only support the most recent versions of OSX. Windows (and Linux) are generally very backward compatible. That's the difference. A similar thing happens with Photoshop and most other Apple software. It's very much a "latest hardware only" platform.

Apple do make great hardware - I'm not claiming they don't - and it does last a long time (I've still got a 2008 Mac Mini with Firewire that I use for Renoise which *does* support old versions of OSX, but it can't browse the web), but it's the software compatibility [planned obsolescence] that lets it down. Almost any Intel machine can run Windows 10, which will run almost any Windows app available. That's been Microsoft's strength and why they've stayed the market leader for so long. You don't generally get locked out of new software just because you haven't got the latest machine (with some exceptions due to CPU instructions being available for particular bits of software).

Feel free to make your own decisions, I'm not stopping you, but I refuse to buy Apple for this reason.

Ugh… stores with no sample tables bum me out, esp when heading in with no clear direction of purchase, just rainy day digging.