#devicehoarding
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@GeriAQuin please add an alt text to the image so people using screen readers can understand the image.
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@GeriAQuin Next up: "Spouse hoarding is damaging divorce lawyer business"
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@GeriAQuin if you don't want me to keep using my ipod then sell me a new one, i only have so much money @cstross
@ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin Psst: a 5-10 year old iPhone is a shitty phone but has more storage than the largest iPod Classic, runs Apple Music (when you're near wifi, never mind cellular), and a better DAC. A 6+ or earlier still has a 3.5mm headphone socket: for later ones, a lightning or USB-C adapter is available. The music tech is one of the less-remembered secrets of the iPhone/iPod transition that Apple got so right people forget to complain.
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@ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin Psst: a 5-10 year old iPhone is a shitty phone but has more storage than the largest iPod Classic, runs Apple Music (when you're near wifi, never mind cellular), and a better DAC. A 6+ or earlier still has a 3.5mm headphone socket: for later ones, a lightning or USB-C adapter is available. The music tech is one of the less-remembered secrets of the iPhone/iPod transition that Apple got so right people forget to complain.
@cstross @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin
Hmmm... <Moose looks at iPhone> Ah, the current one is a secondhand 7, with no headphone jack. That's a bugger, but shows how little I use it. I shall have to dig out and repair the old 6 if I want to use iTunes on the train. (It got broken by some muppet who got on the train, took the seat opposite, and hurled his bag under the table - damaging the power connector such that it won't charge. A friend donated his 7 with dead battery as a replacement. 3:O)>
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@cstross @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin
Hmmm... <Moose looks at iPhone> Ah, the current one is a secondhand 7, with no headphone jack. That's a bugger, but shows how little I use it. I shall have to dig out and repair the old 6 if I want to use iTunes on the train. (It got broken by some muppet who got on the train, took the seat opposite, and hurled his bag under the table - damaging the power connector such that it won't charge. A friend donated his 7 with dead battery as a replacement. 3:O)>
@Cadbury_Moose @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin If you can find a second-hand 6s Plus, that was the peak of headphone-jack iPhone tech. Had LTE/4G so the phone will still work for a while yet (but the OS is probably too insecure for safe web browsing without adblockers). Up to 80 hours audio playback on a fresh battery according to MacTracker.
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@cstross @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin
Hmmm... <Moose looks at iPhone> Ah, the current one is a secondhand 7, with no headphone jack. That's a bugger, but shows how little I use it. I shall have to dig out and repair the old 6 if I want to use iTunes on the train. (It got broken by some muppet who got on the train, took the seat opposite, and hurled his bag under the table - damaging the power connector such that it won't charge. A friend donated his 7 with dead battery as a replacement. 3:O)>
@cstross @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin
As for the rest of the current setup: White MacBook 5.2 with Snow Leopard for eMail (because I like Eudora), 21.5 iMac (mid-2011) for everything else. There's a new iMac (last year) still sitting in its box awaiting the time to set it up and migrate so I can use a modern web browser. I'll get the Round Tuit from the kitchen and do that eventually.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix[1] it."
3:O)>
[1] or replace.
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@Cadbury_Moose @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin If you can find a second-hand 6s Plus, that was the peak of headphone-jack iPhone tech. Had LTE/4G so the phone will still work for a while yet (but the OS is probably too insecure for safe web browsing without adblockers). Up to 80 hours audio playback on a fresh battery according to MacTracker.
@cstross @ianbobmorris @GeriAQuin
The 6 always used to run out of battery on trips to London if I was using it for audio playback. Some of that was probably due to it desperately trying to maintain a cell connection at 100mph or so, and you can't turn that off. 3:O(>
I did have to replace the SIM at one point to keep it working, so it might be recent enough for 4G. I'll have to open it up and see if I can re-solder the power connector.
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This is the thing, apart from the points others have made about not needing to replace things actually being a positive, what the current batch of capitalists don't seem to realise is that people need to have money to spend to keep the whole capitalist edifice going and there are only so many people you can fire and benefits you can cut or keep suppressed before it all starts to fall apart.
@adaliabooks @GeriAQuin you only get one generation of capitalists / imperialists who remember how the system works and then their overconfident idiot offspring trash it all
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@GeriAQuin What's also costing the economy is the insane component price inflation caused by the "AI" tech industry. I don't see anyone trying to fix that.
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Not just that, but every single "upgrade" seems to remove a feature or option that I actually use and may even have bought the device specifically for.
Stop removing the stuff I bought your crappy thing for in the first place. How is modern marketing and product design a sustainable business practice?
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