What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?
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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.
Safety* might*
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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.
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 carefully-chosen dishwasher; it doesn't have to be a hard drive.
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Leeches are still used in some surgeries.
Maggots, too. And bloodletting in very niche cases.
I guess you could make the case for trephination (putting a hole in the skull), but now they put you back together so it's not really the same.
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Can a CNC not do that for just the mechanical parts?
I know way too much about bootstrapping semiconductor production, which is viable but highly impractical.
Yes, they make massive CNCs.
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Alive and... well alive in scientific computing
Just look at all these r packages! https://github.com/cran?q=&type=&language=fortran&sort=
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I want to throw a shout out to the site that cloned the old Google reader by making theoldreader.com
Thanks for this, I was so disappointed when Google cancelled Reader.
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Correlary: always test your backups and don't just assume that they will work when you need them.
If you aren't testing your backups then you don't have backups.
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Trackballs
You might think of them as this old mouse that you had 20 years ago, but actually the technology is still being used for all kinds of things, including ergonomic mouse
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Having to physically wire tap the phone line is a lot more difficult and requires local bad actors. Email’s exposure to the internet makes it easier to hack. Yes, email can be encrypted, but if your server is compromised, that doesn’t matter. Compromising a fax machine that isn’t connected to the internet is nearly impossible.
Proton mail is encrypted on the server with your key and proton does not have access to it. If you lose your login credentials and have to reset then you lose your old email because that key is not getting recovered.
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Proton mail is encrypted on the server with your key and proton does not have access to it. If you lose your login credentials and have to reset then you lose your old email because that key is not getting recovered.
The email comes into their server unencrypted. They promise that they will encrypt it for you, though. Of course, you’re also relying on the sending server to keep the message secure as well.
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Trackballs
You might think of them as this old mouse that you had 20 years ago, but actually the technology is still being used for all kinds of things, including ergonomic mouse
I can actually game with one, and I've outright worn out 3. They last longer than traditional mice too.
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Ota analog signals.
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As a stupid american that took a few German classes in highschool many years ago, I must know, do you call it "der Projektor" or "der Bildwerfer"?
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Apparently trains for some people
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"It can't be hacked"
Of course, it can, and a lot more easily than a TLS stream, but try convincing them of that.
Everyone even tangentially related to healthcare is terrified of violating HIPAA in a way that leaves evidence that can be traced back to them. So the corps force dumb shit like this, while the employees are perfectly happy to tell all kinds of private health information to anyone who will listen. Especially if it's funny or gross.
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Fax machines. Government and medical offices would grind to a halt without them. That's just reality.
That's basically the answer to the opposite question: what is something that someone thinks isn't obsolete, but really is?
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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.
Every single leaf I or my wife has had broke. Very good when they worked though. I still use the twig on occasion.
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...for fine drafting, rotation is the last thing you want: that chisel-tip is precious, lead holders are love, lead holders are life...
I own far too many rotoring products for someone who does not draft. their lead holder is significantly better than the others that I have used.
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Lol no, never, why?
"school says they are because you could technically put in something like 10H and have it not read properly and they aren't going to check to make sure that students are using the right type of lead."
-a random reddit user like 5 years ago when I asked the same questionThat is the only theory I have heard as to why teachers say that they are incompatible that makes sense to me.
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I'd probably say something like my Sony Discman or any other CD player, if we're talking the general public. CDs aren't anywhere near as popular as they used to be thanks to streaming, but if you're collecting like I am, a dedicated CD player is a necessity.
I fucking hate that everyone is selling vinyls not CDs. I don't want to buy something that I do not have space for and would have to spend even more money to get a good player. My favorite bands sell vinyls but not CDs.
