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Date: January 19, 2026 03:12AM
Sad to say there's a lot of truth to this:
- track on an LP
- Eight Track
- Tape
- Compact Disk
- MP3 (lossy but convenient sound compression)
- FLAC and Ogg Vorbis (non lossy sound compression)
leads to:
- there's a tune on my app and I just select it.
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Date: January 19, 2026 12:40PM
I still listen to the radio in my 24 year old car. I'm not quite a luddite but
I was raised by people who went through the great depression and WWII so using
things until they wear out and can no longer be repaired was instilled in me at
an early age. I still have one of my dad's WWII ration books, a reminder of a
practice that would send today's "Don't Tread On Me" people into an
apoplectic fit.
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Date: January 19, 2026 01:23PM
We have a new car, and I still use the radio (though it's a digital radio these
days). Roughly equal with playing music from my phone.
I've never used an 8 track, but I've absolutely used every other thing on the
list. I have 2 record players. Then again I also ride a bike, so must be some
kind of hipster.
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Date: January 20, 2026 11:49PM
Using things until they wear out and can no
longer be repaired was instilled in me at an early age.
The same - despite the size of house and land compared to the surrounding house
blocks. The garage had extra space at the end and side for workshop use and
storing a mass of nuts, bolts, screws and so on, for making and fixing things -
all sorted in drawers by size and salvaged from things that couldn't be
repaired. It was built with a door for the lawn mower and gardening tools. It
had room for our bikes, solid racers I rode on fire tracks down ridges - I don't
know if they're made that strong anymore. On my morning walks I see houses with
minimum size garages and husbands build massive sheds their wives have to look
at from at least half the windows at the rear of the house - they must wonder
what went wrong.
Riding a bike makes you a hippie... the state of this world...
