• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    3 hours ago

    Tape drives. Remember those big reels of tape on mainframes in the 80s? They don’t look exactly like that anymore, but tape is still used for backups/long term archival because they offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and decent longevity without needing to be powered, as long as you don’t need to access the data all that fast or often.

    Those dank memes and cat videos you posted in 2010 are probably on tape in a data centre somewhere

    • subunit317@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 days ago

      I started self hosting my own RSS feed a few years ago, and I couldn’t live without it. It’s the best way to get timely info.

      And then you can be the first one to post it on lemmy.

      • phampyk@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        Blogs are having a timid resurgence I would say. Also not everyone stopped writing blogs, I have been following some since 2008 or so… When Google Reader was a thing lol

        I think they are a lot more obscure because we prioritise social networks over blogs, so do search indexers. But they are still there!

        Comics are now mostly on Instagram, but you can make Instagram RSS feeds with things like rss-bridge

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    732·
    2 days ago

    Your caveman brain. People think they’re educated an enlightened and everything they do now is so well thought out. Nope, the caveman is in the driving seat for all of us. Even your most high level meetings and interviews are influenced by how hungry, horny, or hurt you are by a teasing comment yesterday. Everyone is looking to establish dominance at any cost, when you don’t really need to.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Everyone is looking to establish dominance at any cost, when you don’t really need to.

      You know, I see the rest, but I don’t see this. A lot of people are straight-up doormats.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    571·
    1 day ago

    Buttons, knobs, plastic bezels.

    At least according to the industry those are all in the past. The future is screens that go to the very edge of the device and absolutely nothing tactile.

    And it is bullshit. It is less reliable, less convenient, less cool – To say nothing of the safety disaster that nailing a tablet computer to the dashboard of every car has been.

  • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    Paper; Notebooks. Key only physical door locks. Manual transmission cars. Not having any IoT appliances, and not connecting everything you own to WiFi. Hard drive full of MP3s. Cash. Not being available for a call if you’re not at home.

    Source: work tangential enough to cybersecurity.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Hard drive full of MP3s is love, hard drive full of MP3s is life.

      Although ATM my folder is just 1.1GB including the music videos, so I could probably store it on a thumb drive or carefully-chosen dishwasher; it doesn’t have to be a hard drive.

          • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
            18·
            2 days ago

            Lol, might as well hang a sign out front that says “I share data with cops.”

            • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Now hold on, maybe they’re onto something. The highest levels of drug dealers most likely aren’t accepting cash, they’re laundering their money through legitimate fronts. Small time dealers setting up some simple LLC or something for a relatively small fee and funneling money through that could actually shield you better from local law enforcement. I’m pretty sure Cashapp and their ilk offer business accounts nowadays, haven’t checked myself.

              • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                2 days ago

                Block, the company that owns Cash App, lost a court case and had to pay an $80m fine for failing to adhere to anti-money laundering laws. The Feds have been all over it for a year. Maybe 3 years ago it was possible to fake the KYC, but not a much so anymore.

                The only truly non-tracable financial system is Monero, and many exchanges won’t touch it because it has such a close connection to crime.

      • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Marijuana is legal here. Dispensaries can ONLY accept cash, because they’re locked out of the federal banking system.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I think some states are offering workarounds for that dilemma now, but I really do wish the US federal would just legalize it already. We have 24 states that have already legalized it, as well as 3 territories and D.C… Around 33 states have for medical purposes.

          When 2/3 of a country has legalized something in some form, it should become the de facto law of the land at the federal level. Those other states can continue keeping it illegal if their citizens so choose, but the Federal government should be forced to at least decriminalize it if it’s something that isn’t directly harming people against their will.

  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
    38·
    1 day ago

    Safty razors! Why would anyone spend 20$ on the new fangled 30 million blade razor that mighy last one shave? When you can spend pennies even if you change blades every shave.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Safety* $20* newfangled* might*

      It’s like you consciously added misspellings and bad grammar.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
      4·
      23 hours ago

      I recently switched to a Leaf one and love it. It’s about the same as my Harry’s razor, but a hell of a lot less expensive when even Costco is selling their reloads at $27. The leaf blades are way less expensive, and they aren’t even proprietary.

      • racoon@lemmy.ml
        1·
        21 hours ago

        I got two of these security razors back in 2017 for less than $50 bucks altogether. Best investment ever. Then, last year I got a Philip razor but I have since just stopped shaving at home. I ask the barber from time to time

        • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          That leaf one appears to be $120 lol

          But I suppose if you find yourself on the Harry’s marketing train, jumping off for anything that’s actually recyclable is good.

    • ohhmyygott@lemmy.world
      3·
      13 hours ago

      Switched to a safety razor recently after years of using Gillette’s… It’s life changing! No more bumps or breaking out. Also it’s cheap!

      • zer0@lemmy.ml
        9·
        1 day ago

        Electric and safety razors don’t necessarily serve the same purpose. An electric razor can never cut as close to to the skin as a safety razor. I use both

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      At some point about a decade ago I realized I’m much happier just paying the extra $8 every couple months when I go to get a haircut and otherwise just letting it grow out.

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 days ago

    Magnetic tape. It’s one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.

    Just keep it away from magnets… or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can’t find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      2 days ago

      I’d love to get into tape backups for my stuff. But the price for the drives is absolutely unjustifiable for hobbyists unfortunately.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      We used to do tape backups up until about 6 years ago, but our higher headquarters decided they wanted to go all in on Rubrik instead. I will say that it is a lot easier to maintain and conduct restores from, and we have all of our various sites’ Rubriks backing up to each other for redundancy. But you’re definitely right that tape is far cheaper per GiB of storage than anything else.

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
    36·
    1 day ago

    IRC: simplest way of communicating online, and a bouncer can be availed for free

    Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
    33·
    1 day ago

    CDs/DVDs/BluRays

    I don’t want to support Spotify, which is owned by tencent. I don’t want to spend a fortune on streaming services. I don’t want to sell my data to google by using YouTube, and I want to be able to listen to music/ watch movies when offline.

    • piyuv@lemmy.world
      10·
      13 hours ago

      Spotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.

      There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.

      The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)

      https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/

      • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I want a new Blu-ray format but with the size of Laserdisc. Vinyl coming back into style shows that a large disc doesn’t matter if playing at home. Would be fun to have the Laserdisc vibe for movies and even whole seasons of TV using the tech of Blu-ray. Just think of how much uncompressed media could fit on something that size! It has no chance of happening of course, but Laserdiscs look sick. I loved when teachers would show educational stuff on them and see the size of those things. I plan to get a player sometime if I have the spare funds, but I did get Aliens on LD just to have and show off.

      • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        1 day ago

        For me personally? I have been steadily changing the way I source media over the past 2-3 years. Also I lately read more of other ppl going back to physical media for the same-ish reasons.

        • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Just pirate it after you have subscribed to it a few times. The author has got their share. The only party you’re harming by doing this is the streaming platform. Illegal, but not immoral.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.luEnglish
    311·
    2 days ago

    Obligatory thought to cobol, which is stil the backbone of banking computers.

    I would also think to the good old electromechanical relay which are still pretty common

    More political, but whatever what imperator Musk thinks Privacy isn’t obsolete

    • Pherenike@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      Not only is privacy not obsolete, it’s easier now than eight years ago when I started degoogling, there are so many decent alternatives nowadays to all kinds of services and apps.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    27·
    23 hours ago

    Wrist watches. Extremely convenient, even when your phone is buried or you don’t want to be distracted.