What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you’re an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.
Me ->
Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.
Paper books rather than e-books.
DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.
Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.
Old ass pre-connected car.
Prob more but I can’t think of it all rn.
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Ipod classic is my favorite thing. Also, paper books and cash.
I still use my AlphaSmart Neo. Its a smple portable word processor, popular in schools in the 2000s. Small LCD screen, Full keyboard, and runs forever on AA batteries. No apps, notifications, or distractions, just turn it on and write.
RSS feeds instead of algorithms
Do you have any guide or advice on utilizing RSS? I’ve caught myself opening Lemmy and Reddit immediately after I close it.
Reddit’s what got me into RSS in the first place. Adding different subs to my reader let me go through posts on my own terms instead of relying on refreshing browser tabs. These days Reddit is dead to me because their feeds are rate-limited to the point where they’re unusable.
That’s why I switched to Lemmy doing more or less the same. Feeds organized into folders, filtered and tagged in my reader which I usually just check once a day.
I also self-host RSSHub to generate feeds for sites that don’t provide them.
Basically I treat my RSS reader as a web browser. I get everything web-related through it, only opening Firefox for quick searches or to find new feeds. It helps that I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader, so I get email and feeds all in the same place. I also have it configured to open links with different applications so I can open media links directly with yt-dlp, gallery-dl, etc…
Old ass pre-connected car.
this is me and i think now that i’m going to keep this thing until i die. lol
Same with my car. I think it’s more important than ever to learn how to fix things. “Buy a new one” is becoming less and less viable for certain types of products if you value longevity, privacy, independence, finances, sustainability, etc.
I think it’s more important than ever to learn how to fix things.
i almost killed myself when i taught myself how to change my brakes – i did a terrible job and they failed.
i agree w your sentiment 110%, but i don’t partake because i like being alive. lol
same for mine. max amount of electronics i’m willing to tolerate in late stage capitalism is efi. even then i still distrust it with it’s proprietary shit.
Wired earphones
Cash
Cash
A good one!
Vintage audio equipment. It’s purpose built without gimmicky features, high quality, high performance, and built to last with discrete components and service manuals. Really it doesn’t have to be vintage, but it’s usually the old stuff that prioritizes these traits. I usually play local files (mp3/flac) over a bluetooth DAC but vinyl is fun once in a while. The same living room system gets used for movies and whatever else too.
damn i regret letting some relatives get rid of theirs. i should have kept it but never had the space for it.
My family promised to save me their 1980s pioneer stereo system, tape deck, 6 cd changer, turntable, and cabinate. I didn’t go ‘home’ when they cleared out my grandparents house and my uncle sold the fucking thing for a few 100 bucks.
looking online i can find a similar system for like $1000, and only in america.
The one safe space I had as a teenager was sat in front of that thing with headphones blocking out the rest of the world. I will never get over this.
my grandfather treated me like a vulture when i asked if i could take it back in 2019, they hadn’t turned the thing on since the 1990s.
/rant #firstworldproblems
looking online i can find a similar system for like $1000, and only in america.
If there are any thrift shops or used electronics shops near you, check into those. While back, I scored a sweet mid/high end 1990’s AV receiver for $60 USD at a local surplus & thrift shop.
If you don’t need all that stuff, like you can make do with a normal single CD player, you might be able to put a nice system together on the cheap. Esp if you are willing to collect it bit by bit.
I use more post-enshittification tech. I’ve replaced most of the apps on my phone with open source versions.
I’ve never used proprietary software on my Linux computers so there’s no enshittification there. But I have stopped using my enshittified android TV in favor of Kodi on Linux.
For the love of god. I just started repairing a Huawei P10 for my own use (was my mom’s). I had to ADB pm uninstall --user 0 a bunch of Huawei shit and play services. The (last) 2021 upgrade made it so it redownloads some apps I removed occasionally (Facebook, Instagram, Petal, …) fuck this. Why does it keep doing it?
I think I also uninstalled something too much since it doesn’t pair to bluetooth devices anymore.
And why can’t I just unlock the bootloader and replace the os (well, I could with PotatoNV, but i could only get a GSI, so I lose most features and the camera quality). And it’s also stuck on Android 9 - somehow (the phone is from 2017).
Still more usable than my Redmi 4x (4+64) with some motherboard issues, and cheaper than the decent grapheneos compatible phones on ebay (300 - 400€ in EU).
2000 Corolla. Doesn’t connect to anything except the radio. Stopped using the clicker to lock/unlock the doors when the battery in it died ~6 yrs ago. I was giving a ride to my kid and some of her friends, all around 10 y.o., and the friends were deeply confused when the doors stayed locked until I stuck an actual key in one of them. “Why doesn’t your car beep?”
Wow, a 2000 corolla has a remote. My mk4 golf (2002) with decent equipment doesn’t have that (but to be fair, it also doesn’t have a CD drive radio - well I could add one for ~100€ but I won’t since it costs money and the original radio works).
It’s extremely reliable (especially the TDI engine). After 178000km, the only problems are the surface rust, (my grandma who owned it before me) had to replace the fenders - which rusted away and I recently had to replace the rear axle. And some trunk door water leaks I still had to fix (and some weird sounds coming from the wheels when steering to the right). My mom’s 2014 golf mk7 is in way worse mechanical condition than my older car.
Also: how do the 10 year olds not know how batteries work (I did basic electronic repairs back then and help my dad wire lights ) and have you thought about reporting their parents for child neglect
There was a story in the a(us)bc media last week becuse someone was roadtripping in a 2006 corolla and it was amazing locals
i’d still have my corolla from 1994 if it wasnt stolen during the lockdowns :(, had a bunch of my cassettes in it too
Wired headphones.
Component hifi with floorstanding speakers.
Older car with cable-driven throttle and clutch.
Rotary-dial landline phone (not even kidding)
Vinyl records.
Home theatre PC.
Component desktop tower PC.
Basic Casio digital watch.
Great ones, respect.
Restored a T3 Palm Pilot to work as a my own little portable minigame thang!
If computers count then a phone with GrapheneOS and a laptop and a PC with a custom NixOS config.
Reticulum.
What’s reticulum?
Hmm… sounds interesting, buy what is its use case?
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IPod classic 5th gen with a 512gb sd card and higher capacity battery
Gameboy advance with a backlit screen, rechargeable battery and a flash cart
Library card for borrowing cds and dvds to rip
2022 thinkpad running arch
Film camera
And I dont connect my tv to wifi
Thanks for reminding me to fix my old iPod!
I miss my GBA :/
There’s plenty of options for a small emulator handheld if you’re will8ng to forgo getting OG hardware or hardware emulator devices that can read from carts.
Check out !sbcgaming@lemmy.ml or the same name sub on that other site if you’re willing. Hmm maybe !retrogaming@lemmy.world as well probably.
thanks for pointing these out, good to see these communities over lemmy
I should participate more but I funnily enough do not have any of those cheap handhelds because I can’t decide lol
But also I don’t really play much retro games, or any games for that matter
Only lately I’ve been playing L4D2 and REPO or other friendly chill co-op games.
I’ve been meaning to look into those kinds of things; they look really cool. Thanks for the recommendations!
if you want the best cheap GBA clones you can get right now Anbernic has two models depending on your favorite GBA model:
RG34XX for OG GBA
RGSP for GBASP
- lynx
- vim
- pen & paper for my notes/scratch pad
- a book (made of paper)
- wired everything
- old washing and drying machines (40 years old+ and still kicking!)
- lynx
lol you win, but it’s the only weird thing on your list
Side note, there was a gui version of lynx that ran on the early Mac.
The car is a 2014. Not internet connected but still has a black box.
I’ve been playing local mp3 for decades. Along came streaming but I didn’t see a reason to switch.
My laptop is a 2017 T-470 Thinkpad running Fedora44. Old machine, new software.
I use Syncthing and external hard drives instead of cloud storage.
I don’t own a TV.
Not a single smart appliance in the house.
