Hmm... vented hearing aid molds. I can't wear hearing aids any longer because they decided to move on to silicone ear molds which cause me to get back to back ear infections because they don't have a hole in them that my ENT specialist always said that I needed to prevent the infections.
I would have said record player but you can find those easily I live listening to old records , I got my dad’s xollection when he passed away … took me a couple of years before being able to listen to them , the quality is amazing … the quality of the artists back then also
@gregloa I think I had only one 3-gear vehicle, a Bedford van from the very early-1960s, with column change. I managed to exchange its gearbox for a 4-speed version.
My present car, built in 2008 I think, has a 5-speed manual transmission. I'd not want an automatic though did own one once, years ago.
optical disc drives as standard equipment in laptops (along with multi-card readers)
and more generally laptops not being in a race to the bottom to be ultra thin, like the older generation of ThinkPads where the lid actually locked into the base and still had more of the "bento box" aesthetic were preferable to the current generation of ThinkPads ... soldering batteries onto the motherboard is also just stupid, any device's battery should be replaceable ...
... we're on a bad trend in general of electronics becoming disposable now, even LED lamps that have a built-in bulb which cannot be replaced, you're really supposed to just throw an entire lamp into the landfill when he bulb goes out?!?!
phones without AI hardware integrated (and integrated to a level you can never fully disable AI features) were preferable to this current AI hellscape too
@BrandNewMan Claiming that you cannot figure it out and already knowing and going along with the progrom are impossible to discern.
It seems. This is why collectivism is not so different from complete ignorance.
Edit: the original poster has deleted this post. And so I was forced to reply to your final reply by editing here. I'll consider that if ever you come to one of my comments again thinking I want you to speak to my comment, and from now on know that you are only interested in trolling. Which I am not. Ever.
@SteelHands It is rather incoherent drivel in regard to the subject of the post .. nothing to really bother figuring out about it. So .. save the smug attitude for somebody who cares what you think. I clearly don't.
Though would point out electrical and electronic scrap should never be consigned to landfill sites, but their materials recovered. Whether that's feasible may depend where you live, of course.
Not really ever so obsolete, but the parallel-motion drawing board I dismantled and cannot rebuild!
CAD is all very well but extremely difficult to learn if you are not a young whizz-kid properly taught it on a University Degree course in engineering.
i miss VHS. i remember my dad having this tv with a vhs built into it and i'd watch the old movies on loop. or making little forts by stacking them when i got bored.
Honestly .. nothing. The Tech stuff I have today exceeds all of it.
The quality /durability of a lot of other stuff has eroded though. How many refrigerators or washing machines, etc, do you see last 25-30 yrs or more these days?
Mobile CD players. I recently wanted to replace the stereo in our motorhome. I had such a hard time finding a manufacturer that still made a stereo with a CD player. The only one the dealer was able to find was Kenwood. When I told the dealer I wanted a remote too his jaw bounced off the floor and he looked at me like I was crazy.
@rinkydinkydoink There may perhaps be a DC-DC converter chip inside. Because, old-school transistor radios were equipped with a 9V transistor battery (9V are perfect to drive a transistor); and the SANGEAN has 2xAA, Σ=3V, so chances are that voltage is converted to something like 9V internally.
@Reason10 I agree. I think they marked Microsoft's zenith, and WIN-11 is appalling.
My copies of 'Word' and 'Excel' are on a CD labelled "Office for XP, and fortunately run perfectly well on W-11, although I needed use a plug-in disc-drive to install them.
