I was there
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If you've ever worked customer service, you know that automatically providing instructions is warranted; half the people you run into in public would struggle to operate a spoon without guidance.
And it is me. I am people.
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I actually saw a shop that developed film the other day in my local area. Genuinely surprised and delighted me. Got a brief trip through time and space to nostalgia land where I was constantly being told off for taking photos of landscape.
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I was telling a kid today how we'd sit by the radio, hoping to record a song onto a cassette tape, pleading with the gods that we wouldn't miss the start, and that the DJ wouldn't talk over the end of the song, or fade it into another one
She accused me of being from the stone age
The closest I ever got was being on the blaseball discord listening to fansongs, hearing one i liked, and scrambling to find it only to realize the HQ version sounds like shit
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Isn't showing how to use the camera just a common courtesy if you're asking them to take a photo for you? It's not really specific to a disposable camera, nor today. Even back in the day, people would do the same, despite cameras generally having a big clear button to take the photo with.
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Really? I've heard the opposite: that modern cassette players are garbage because they all reuse the same Chinese mechanism with mono playback and no Dolby noise reduction.
If you want a good cassette player, you're supposed to buy one from the 80s or 90s, preferably a Sony.
Yeah that's exactly the problem with modern cassette players, they're almost a waste of money. And the tape that is still produced today is quite terrible compared the old tape, so you also have to find old tape as well
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Didn't the Windows XP button actually say Start on it?
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It seems hit or miss. Most of my vinyl is 180 gram, I guess because it isn't the primary means of consumption for music these days, people expect to pay a little more for better quality. But I definitely have a lot of cheaper, thinner records that I bought brand new in the last few years.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]People probably kinda forgot how to cost cut when it went out of style, as the vynl market was mainly just audiophiles for a little while, and now that the market is growing again there's more incentive to cut costs again.
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Yeah that's exactly the problem with modern cassette players, they're almost a waste of money. And the tape that is still produced today is quite terrible compared the old tape, so you also have to find old tape as well
I own two modern cassette players. I’m not old enough to have really lived through the original cassette era, but can confirm the modern stuff is kinda trash. Lots of motor whine. Would love to get my hands on a Walkman, but can’t justify the price. Tbh I kinda lost interest in cassettes more recently. I love the idea of physical media and mix tapes, but digital just feels more practical.
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I used to work tech support during the Windows XP days. One time I had a customer call in and, as part of the troubleshooting process, I asked them to click their Start button. The customer didn't know what that was so I told them that it was the button in the corner of the screen. The customer said that they did that and the screen went blank. They'd hit the power button on their monitor.
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I own two modern cassette players. I’m not old enough to have really lived through the original cassette era, but can confirm the modern stuff is kinda trash. Lots of motor whine. Would love to get my hands on a Walkman, but can’t justify the price. Tbh I kinda lost interest in cassettes more recently. I love the idea of physical media and mix tapes, but digital just feels more practical.
Indeed, some models are reselling for extremely expensive prices nowadays, it's a bit crazy. Especially since digital is just much more convenient, but it can feel nice to have some physical media
Alternatively you could look into a cassette deck if you're not set on a portable player (one released before the 2000s, I don't think they make new ones at all anyways), the high or medium end decks tend to have better sound -- there's much less flutter/wow -- compared to portable players in the same price range nowadays, since they're less "cool". Still have to be pretty lucky to find good deals though
