darryl

@darryl

@darryl

Generalist nerd

Space, software, board games, puzzle games, general nerdery. Canadian. Middle-aged. Ask me whatever you want, but if it’s something about naked-eye/binocular astronomy, you’ll make my day

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y'know what i miss? handheld devices with physical controls

i'm not really talking about like, game consoles or anything here, no i mean like. music players. phones. watches. that kinda thing. everything is just touch screen now and like, sure, that allows more versatility and customization in interfaces, but it really loses something in not having physical, clicky buttons and the like

when i was in high school, i got my first music player ever - a Sandisk Sansa e250. yeah, it was a knockoff ipod nano in some ways. but it was a dream to use. the buttons, the physical clicky wheel that spun around... the fact that the whole thing had an interface purpose designed to work with all those buttons too. it felt responsive. it felt good. it felt. i have such fond memories of it, of idly spinning that wheel even when i wasn't listening to music.

and now all we have are flat slabs of glass. the only things sporting buttons and wheels and knobs are all made by brands that nobody has ever heard of for prices that feel suspiciously "made in a sweatshop factory". and i really can't help but feel like we lost something along the way.

darryl
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Wait a ding dang minute

Does everyone on cohost have the same mp3 player? Is this the thread that unites us?

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lupi
@lupi

i tried to mitigate the problem by always having the cable connected to it when in storage

its worked so far, i think all the sansas of that era used the same pinout anyway, sibling had a Fuze (which was like the later ipod videos) and it used the same

yeah, there we go.

if you are tech capable enough to put rockbox on yours, it takes away the 4gb limit on SD cards so it becomes a whole lot more useful

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notinventedhere
@notinventedhere

I had a Creative mp3 player at the same time as my friends had iPods (the scrollwheel model). I could change track/volume in my pocket with the tactile/physical controls. They had to take it out to be able to see what they were doing. I could remove the battery if it locked up. iPods were sealed closed. etc.

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