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Sliderules
Radio Alarm Clocks
Adding Machines

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>>58433248
I have iPod Nano 4GB version that I use for jogging. It will be 11 years old soon. Battery is still at 70% and still lasts me for at least 1:30min.

I jog with it every other day or so. I've dropped it dozens of times on concrete. It has small dings on the side but the screen is perfect and button works perfectly.

I love it so damn much.

PS: I bought that Sansa Clip thing last year as a backup but never use it because of the shit UI. It's garbage.

Picture unrelated, I assume?

>>58433291
DELETE THIS

>>58433291
Pleb

>>58433275
>Radio Alarm Clocks
>Adding Machines

These are still sold in their millions.

>>58433286
I have the same one, it still works, you should rockbox it

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i missed being able to use my headphones and charge my generic mobile device at the same time without a special $60 dual mode adapter

>b-but it's the future
>you can do so many things on one port it's better than two ports
>how?
>thinner!

>>58433473
Seriously. You'd think they'd try to push a smaller headphone standard instead of just getting rid of it completely

>>58433248
Fiio x1 gen 2 made their own version of that shit recently.

>>58433503
Is there any reason to use 3.5mm over 2.5?

>>58433248
>Out of use.

Apples statement was that they no longer had the flow of the resource required to support it.

>>58433275
>Sliderules
>approximation of a value is better than the actual value

>>58434123
I swear there were like a dozen different 2.5-ish mm jacks back in the fliphone era. It was horse shit and you could never find quality headsets in just the right size.

I imagine that had something to do with consumers not being particularly fond of anything other than 3.5mm.

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>>58435003
>every calculation involving rational numbers and decimal points is an approximation

>>58433291
I think there was a "Dumbshit kids react to" video where they where handed an iPod once.
Despite never having seen one before, they worked it out in a good 20 seconds.
Try telling me people work out "Double tap the home button on your iphone to, wait, no, we've changed what that does" just as quickly as they work out a click wheel.
It was, without a doubt, the greatest thing apple has come up with in the last two decades.

>>58433473
>future
I used to have to use a dongle with my Motorola 8 years ago.

>>58434922
They didn't have the 1.8" disks to build more classics.

Superior to what?

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>>58435045
> rational numbers
How's middle school treatin' ya?

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>>58433248
> 2 girlfriends
> 3 jobs
> 2 cars
> death of a close aunt
> death of a family pet
> 50 kilos lost
> 3 college courses

My buddy has stood by me during all those, and a lot more adventures. I'm seriously gonna be extremely sad when it decides to go to the outdated hardware dump in the sky.

My ipod classic 160 gb is the oldest piece of technology I still use daily. It's around 8 years old now and still going strong. I don't even know how long the battery actually lasts at this point, but I can listen to it all day for several days before I have to charge it. Rockboxed it so I'm independent of Applel's shitty itunes. When it dies I'll be sad.

>>58433248
10000000x times better than any touchscreen device for listening to music in the dark. I dont have to look at the screen to find the shitty virtual button.

My rockboxed 4th gen can also be used as media buttons for my computer via USB.

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Forget the driver, proprietary cable, and itunes with this.

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>>58433248
>out of use

>>58435536
good luck managing a 100GB library with thatc

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>>58433248

What's a reasonable price to bring my 2ng gen nano back to life? I believe it would only need a battery replacement. Also any way to increase memory?

>>58435611
It uses eeprom so it is possible to slot bigger capacity chip granted you know how to solder stuff.

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>>58433248

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I still use my 120. The only problem I have is the lack of multiple disk support especially now considering I have lots of double albums

>>58435867
lmao

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>>58436118

>>58433248
>lack of screen makes the price go UP
Fuck that thing. Sansa Clips were superior in every way.

>>58436118
Who here got the lisp emulator workins?

>>58436131
Qix was awesome.

>>58435229
>my buddy has stood with me during all those, and a lot more adventures
That's fucking gay. Are you mentally ill?

>>58433286
I had one but some faggot nigger stole it.

>>58436150
If you mean the Lisp machine emulator, I managed to get it working using this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12USa3gU_oU

>>58436131
You could render HD graphics on a late 80s workstations: https://twitter.com/tr1nitr0n/status/798665396853227520

>>58435867
>superior

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>>58436312

>>58435045
>>every calculation involving rational numbers and decimal points is an approximation

Yeah, that's a bitch, isn't it? It's too bad that 1/2 + 1/4 is only approximately equal to 3/4, and that the rational number system is unable to express the result exactly.

And the real number system is no help either. No matter how many millions of decimal points you calculate the sum 0.5 + 0.25, it will never quite exactly be equal to 0.75.

And, unfortunately, computers can't help us either. There's no way to express numbers like 1/2 or 1/4 exactly using the IEEE 754 floating-point representation.

>>58435229
>> 50 kilos lost

What did you lose 50 kilos of? I hope it wasn't cocaine or marijuana or something really valuable like that.

>>58435867
Sad, but true. Without a viable competitor, Intel turned to shit.

>>58433248
Damn, that's true. I almost forgot about how useful the slidewheel was. Thing was fucking awesome.

>>58435132
They did popularize the smartphone though, even though all of Apple's own smartphones are hot garbage. I doubt Android would be as nice as it is today without competition from Apple.

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>>58433248
Reminder that the 3rd gen iPod had the best controls.

Beautiful touch buttons that had no moving, or clicking parts. It was impossible to fuck up, and change track while changing the volume.

Reminder that the click wheel is a shitty, poorly aligned, poorly made dpad that has uneven gaps, and collects dirt.

Reminder that Apple are a shit company that refuse to update old hardware making legit good devices fucking useless in the modern world. No goddamn head unit made in the last 12+ years will properly work with the 3rd gen iPod simply because Apple has not updated it in 15 years. 3rd party OS do not resolve incompatibility issues when trying to hardwire the unit.

Otherwise this is the only Apple product I ever bought, and I use I still use it weekly.

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>>58436415
>not measuring your distances down to the Planck length

>>58436644
Good luck knowing where it is
The uncertainty principle kicks in at that level of accuracy

>>58433286
If you're talking about the Clip+ stock UI then kill yourself, it is godlike. If you're talking about Clip Zip or rockbox then I agree.

>>58436415
Go add 0.1 to 0.2

>>58436105
the design of everything there is godly. what a beautiful machine.

>>58433397
never used one, are these good? they are all hella expensive

>>58437463
>hella expensive
u wot m8?

$22.49 for that one
www.amazon.com/Kensington-Orbit-Trackball-Mouse-K64327F/dp/B000HEW0KW/

$28.99 for the newer one with a nifty scroll ring
https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Orbit-Trackball-Scroll-K72337US/dp/B002OOWB3O/

>>58435229
wow you are a faggot

>>58438062
shit brands.

ones I was looking at were well over $100
https://www.amazon.com/CST2545W-Ambidextrous-Performance-Ergonomic-Trackball/dp/B00YHZPB62/ref=pd_day0_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00YHZPB62&pd_rd_r=RB7PHQG69P084B2YZQ0T&pd_rd_w=4WSfg&pd_rd_wg=pE8o3&psc=1&refRID=RB7PHQG69P084B2YZQ0T

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>>58433248

Didn't the tiny second generation iPod Nanos that were about the size of a small buckle have built in voice recognition, used the headphone port for listening, charging and control, had no physical buttons beside an on/shuffle/off slider, etc? It also had a decent battery and multi-gigabyte storage. Imagine how insane one made now would be. I'm sad that pico-player form factor died.

Also, why the fuck does Apple require internet for voice commands now when even the 8080-tier chip on the Nano could handle voice?

>>58433248
I miss my 2nd gen ipod nano. Unfortunately one day it went through the washing machine

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bought it from ebay years ago off some dumb cunt who dropped it in the toilet and lied about it
cleaned it and replaced the battery
hard drive clicks but still works
doesn't boot unless it's docked
survived countless freezing ohio nights sitting in the armrest of my car
scorching summer days as well
still fucking working today

>>58439434
CST isn't even that good imo. I got one once and ended up returning it in a couple days and going back to my logitech m570 trackball. The build is not very high quality, just feels like your average cheap plastic, the buttons are kinda mushy, and the scroll wheel is just a volume wheel that they glued on to the top where you have to move your whole hand to reach it. I will say that the ball itself rolls nice and smooth with those steel rollers but other than that its not worth the extra $100 over a logitech or kensington trackball.

Reminder that SSDs actually reduce the battery life for ipods and you should use one of the SD adapters if you want storage space and longer battery life.

https://www.iflash.xyz/runtime-shootout-2016-quad-dual-solo-msata-vs-original-hard-drive/

>>58441204
>iShit

Found your problem.

>>58441231
>overpriced snakeoil players
Found your problem.

>>58435229
>Capsule
Great taste Anon, you truly are a patrician.

>>58435229

holy shit, what the fuck

this isnt reddit faggot, how are you still here

>>58433275
Sliderules are fucking god tier
I have one on my watch and it's amazing how many calculations I can do with it, from unit conversions to tip calculation and most importantly percentages

>>58441204
I have an old 30GB 5th gen I've been thinking about upgrading to Flash.

I only need around 80GB capacity.

Whats the cheapest type to get? dual flash or quad microsd?

I could also use a new battery, this thing looses all power after 4 days. I only use it my car.

>>58442043
Zen Clip Zip

>>58435931
yeah, these were great. I had a 8gb red, then an 80gb, then an HD.

The HD still works, but I have all my music on my phone now.

>>58433248
Electronics with tactile buttons in general, I miss not having to look at what I'm doing. Also, easily swappable batteries of standard sizes instead of everything having a fixed battery and needing a charging cable. Bringing additional batteries on long trips or just swapping a battery to keep a device running just was convenient. I would love an MP3 player that runs on swappable batteries while still having storage upgradeable to semi modern capacities and a menu to easily select a specific song

>>58435229
>I'm seriously gonna be extremely sad when it decides to go to the outdated hardware dump in the sky.
Why would it? You have an MP3 player that you can actually work on when something breaks.

>>58441204
>2 SD and 4 microSD card adapter
>512 GB microSD and 1 TB SD cards are available today
>MP3 player with 2 TB of storage
Is there a version of Rockbox where you can configure it to work as a RAID at that point?

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>people call my 2009 iPod Classic ancient when I plug in the aux

>>58442043
Quad is only a little more expensive than dual, but you can get away with the even cheaper single SD version and a 128gb card.

>>58442127
>Is there a version of Rockbox where you can configure it to work as a RAID at that point?
The boards treat the cards as JBOD. It's probably invisible to rockbox.

>>58442127
>Electronics with tactile buttons in general, I miss not having to look at what I'm doing.
You have to touch?
I just say "Hey, SIRI..."

>>58442295
>Hey Siri, play Filling God's Ass With Severed Cocks by Passenger of Shit
No thanks, I'd rather not.

>>58433510
very poorly, talking about its response with the software

>>58442194
I can buy 32GB micro SD cards for $12 each. So 128GB for $55ish vs a single flash a tad bit more.

hmmm

>>58443392
When was the last time you priced 128gb cards? They're somewhere around $30

>>58443426
lmao in Europe we cannot say same thing, they're way more expensive (at least in my country, btw I'm not the anon you are replying to)

>>58443426
Huh, guess it's been a while since I've looked at them too. Still, $40 is definitely cheaper than $55ish. You could fit a larger battery with the quad one, and you wouldn't even have to fill it all the way.