I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
I have this old PC I made back in 2014. It’s an AMD build can’t remember the processor, I use it as a multimedia pc hooked up to myain tv in the living room for watching movies shows and streaming, so the specs are low.
I recently updated to a AMD 5500 because the hardware was loosing support so it was time a for a whole new platform. I used the old case and video card from the 2014 build.
When I put the old video card into the new 5500 build I had a really hard time getting drivers for it for Linux Mint and I couldn’t figure out why.
It took me a while but that card I swapped over was a freaking Nvidia 8400 from like 2007. That card worked for 18 mfing years!
Then it dawned on me. When I build that computer in 2014 I put that 8400 in there as a place holder until I would have gotten a more up to date card… I just forgot and it’s been working diligently since then… I mean wow.
My Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. Still working fine and without rooting (I will updated its software before learning that rooting it required a prior version).
My modded new 3DS LL
I will never get rid of my modded N3DSXL (with clit-joystick replaced with a PSP joystick!), my modded PSP, or my modded Vita.
I should play New Leaf. I’ve never played it before and I hear it’s the best one.
My girlfriend is just getting into videogames, she started playing New Leaf recently and always send me videos of the stuff she unlocks, I only played the DS one, but gotta say, New Leaf sure looks fun.
Awesome, I’ll for sure check it out! Just have to remember how to download games to my and my partner’s DSes hahaha
I’ve played the GameCube one and the Switch one, but everyone I’ve talked to said the Switch one is a downgrade from New Leaf!
It’s better for making a pretty island or a nicely-decorated house. And the vault pole is a real benefit early on, before you can build bridges. Otherwise, NL really is the better game.
Count me in for CRTs and old consoles.
I also used a Dualshock 4 specifically for a couple of fighting games until all the dumb micro USBs gave up the ghost. It just worked better than the DS5 for me for some reason just for this specific application.
Controllers are a place where I’m fairly odd and obsessive, in general. I still have fight sticks for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the PsOne. I firmly believe the chunky Sega Saturn controller with the handles is way superior to the bone controller that everybody keeps mimicking, unfortunately. The couple I still have in working order are deeply cherished. I have all sorts of weird, tiny modern controllers, and I still have a PS3 fightpad from the launch of Street Fighter IV. And don’t get me started on my hot takes on leverless controllers.
I’m old, my hands hurt and I’ve gone down some rabbit holes.
As a controller nerd, I think I may be in the market for some of those hot takes
Hah. Welcome, kink sharer, it is weird here.
Mostly my big hot take with leverless stuff is that I much prefer the WASD configuration using keyboard switches (like the Haute/Cosmox boards, which are my current leverless choice).
My brain should be friendly to the thumb-to-jump stuff, since I was a micro and PC gamer in the nineties and I’m no stranger to QAOP/Space platformers, but for some reason I just can’t parse it in all-arcade-switch leverless devices. WASD just works better for me, especially outside of fighting games where jump is mapped to a face button anyway.
These days you can get more of these, and you can also find WASD keys and arcade face buttons (I have one of those from FightBox, which I do like, although be warned that the slim version uses keyboard switches for both sides). I think I’m still way in the minority here.
I guess it’s also a hot take that leverless is my primary choice for all 2D games, not just fighting games. In fact, I’ve been going back to fight sticks for fighting games, but leverless is just so nice for 2D platformers, metroidvanias and retro console games.
Original DS Lite.
I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.
The potential is limitless.
Ayaneo made the Flip DS but besides being expensive apparently the battery life is a bit wanting- but at least these kinds of products are starting to be made!
Me, sweating as I look around my office.
- 3DConnexion SpaceExplorer
- DOS era Gravis controller
- Windows XP era Gravis controller
- Windows XP
- Fountain pens
- Mechanical watches
- Gameboy
- HP-41C calculator
- Old, chrome flashlights
I don’t really know where to stop this list. I love old stuff.
1981 Yamaha turntable and receiver pair. Dad bought them new for my grandparents and I inherited the set when they passed. Fabulous sound and function!
Tech that still works, I’ll continue to use it till it dies. Then I’ll try to revive it, and if I can’t, then I’ll upgrade. My main PC is over 10 years old.
I bought some pencils and paper last night. Gonna write something stuff down, while using my chair to sit at my desk, in this house.
So much old technology that I rely upon.
bought it? like with money? pfft what an outdated technology
But don’t worry, I didn’t use language to talk to a cashier, I used the u-scan.
That happened to me just a few weeks ago: a cashier refused to accept money as payment.
Which store?
Which store?
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I love my double edge razor.s.
Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.
My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.
I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.
Too much to list.
Stuff that was created to do something and does just that.
No fuss, no ads, no updates, no sudden change of terms, no phoning home.
A 15+ year old MSI laptop. I’ve had to replace the screen and the battery is dead so I removed it and just use direct power. It’s happily chugging along dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. I don’t remember the last time I logged on to the Windows partitiion, but I’m too lazy to back up the 1TB of stuff there so I just keep it there. It’s connected to my TV and I use it to watch movies.
Once I get myself a new Mac Mini, my 3-ish year old one will go to the TV and be our media center. I need to wait a few more years now.
My 2070gtx
Mines still chugging along in my nephews PC.
analog watches, also analog odometers/ dashboard
piano, keyboard
dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb can opener, dumb book, dumb eyeglasses, dumb shoes
i like dumb buttons, sliders, knobs and switches vs touch controls
