• Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      27·
      2 months ago

      was at a flea market, there was a machete, i jockingly called it a pocket knife, because it fits in a pocket,

      put it in my pocket, it fit.

      felt bad for my daughter’s who will likely never get proper pockets.

      who do I need to hack with my pocket knife for them to get normal pockets?

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      He screamed, loudly then sobbed through tears, at the foot of the table where the Epsom sat mocking him with it’s silence.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    Missing:

    • A game console
    • All the maps in the world + compass
    • Gigantic notepad
    • Calendar
    • Entire stack of catalogs
    • Newspapers
    • Thermostat
    • A whole fucking supercomputer
    • An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
    • Flashlight
    • An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      176·
      2 months ago

      was at a flea market, there was a machete, i jockingly called it a pocket knife, because it fits in a pocket,

      put it in my pocket, it fit.

      felt bad for my daughter’s who will likely never get proper pockets.

      who do I need to hack with my pocket knife for them to get normal pockets?

  • aname@lemmy.one
    6·
    2 months ago

    Pretty sure I cannot fit 3 VHS tapes in my pocket. Pockets have not really gotten bigger

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    TBF, the stereo speakers probably sound better and are certainly capable of being much louder than my phone speakers. But yeah, miles better in every other capacity.

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      You can buy a bluetooth speaker that sounds as good (if you don’t need real stereo sound) and still have room in your pocket.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    91·
    2 months ago

    Even ignoring the joke with the dude fitting into your pocket, I cannot fit full over-ear cans I to my pocket… This is just lies.

  • vane@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    I prefer the things on the picture. Look how many cool gadgets you could have, now you’re just computer user.

  • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    2 months ago

    The single CD amongst all that analog media seems so much like an anachronism that I had to look it up. The CD standard was published in 1980 and it was commercially available in the US in 1983 but it took until 1992 for CD sales to surpass cassette tape sales.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      The Walkman and other tape players were so much superior to CD players for portability and convenience. Batteries lasted a lot longer for portable tape players than for CD players. Tapes could be remixed easily so you could bring a specific playlist (or 2 or 3) with you. Tapes were much more resilient than CDs. The superior audio quality of CDs didn’t matter as much when you were using 1980’s era headphones. Or, even if you were using a boombox, the spinning of a disc was still susceptible to bumps or movement causing skips, and the higher speed motor and more complex audio processing drained batteries much faster. And back then, rechargeable batteries weren’t really a thing, so people were just burning through regular single use alkaline batteries.

      It wasn’t until the 90’s that decent skip protection, a few generations of miniaturization and improved battery life, and improved headphones made portable CDs competitive with portable tapes.

      At the same time, cars started to get CD players, but a typical person doesn’t buy a new car every year, so it took a few years for the overall number of cars to start having a decent number of CD players.