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Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it's still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.

And because of that, it's no wonder internet isn't expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.

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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Smoking. Black and white movie stars of the 40s and 50s made it look elegant and sophisticated, but you can't smell a movie. And I don't want to smell cigarette smoke.

When people think men look "cool" smoking in those (which honestly, who thinks that anymore), they never think of the following 40 years. When I think of smoking now it isn't the movies, it's grandma and grandpa hacking and coughing, their sickly yellow walls of their house permanently stained with nicotine, and low gravely voices. Maybe you think you look cool for 5 years or so, and then it's all downhill

[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago
[-] pseudonym@monyet.cc 1 points 1 hour ago

Is that nostalgic for you?

[-] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

But this is the only method I trust to not surprise me with fees for a "free" service.

"Free-free-free, free-free, free. That'll be $39.95."

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 11 points 3 hours ago

VCRs.

Spent my childhood merrily taping things off the TV, and thought it was the best thing ever. i love those nostalgic whirring and clicking sounds as the tape loads.

But digital media is just the best, and tapes can stay in the past where they belong.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 2 hours ago

with digital media recording has become a lot harder, thanks to Digital Restrictions Management

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 3 hours ago

DVDs too. If I never burn another DVD again, that will be A-OK with me. I hate having to babysit those. Give me a hard drive, USB, or server to move data all day.

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Burning DVDs was really a thing there for a hot minute. I remember buying them in big spindles of 50 at a time, and burning at least two or three a week.

Back then I already had my first ever USB flash drive, but they were still very expensive and small - 128MB was great for some documents, but no good for large files. And my PC's hard drive was still only about 120GB or something.

DVDs were in their element. 4.7GBs of storage, and super cheap. I was using them to back up data and clear apace on my hard drive, and I was loading them up with content for friends, where I could just take a disc over their house and leave it there for them.

Then flash drives got bigger, and hard drives got bigger too, and that sweet spot the DVD occupied got squashed from both sides until poof, in just a few short years the age of the DVD was over.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't doubt it exists, but I'm kind of curious about workflows that still involve burning optical media in 2024.

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The US military uses tapes for long term storage still

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Secure networks have their head in their ass about flash media. So, discs.

Edit: For more technical reasons see what ReversalHatchery wrote further down

[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It sucks, trust me

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

Most healthcare systems are stuck in the old ways.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

its still better in a sense. usb storage devices all have an internal "mini computer" that run their own code and have access to the USB bus of the connected computer, with the ability to even present themselves as a keyboard, a network adapter or a lot of other things. that's not a good idea to plug in to the hospital computer after it was given to the patient, and it is also not the best idea to just plug these in at home.

optical media on the other hand does not store code that is executed by the drive.

the problem is that pendrives have a firmware, and too much capabilities, even when not accounting for errors in hardware and code that participates in making it work. some of them (maybe most?) is even writable with the right tools, and the computer's user doesn't even need to know that it's happening.
the most famous web browser that allows any website access to your USB devices with just 1 or 2 clicks makes this even worse.

[-] vaper@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Changing the channel on the tv itself instead of having a clicker.

[-] afk_strats@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Also having an actual clicker YouTube short

this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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