The outdated tech you use (and why)

[DroopyTofu]

I read real, physical books. I also have a Sansa mp3 player that's close to ten years old. I don't use it often, but if I want to save battery on my phone or listen to a portable radio, I'll still pull it out. Ironically, I've broken 3 iPods, but this thing just won't die. Oh, and I'm not sure if it's obsolete yet or not, but I still like radio stations broadcast over the air, not over the internet.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Yeah, that's exactly my thought process as well.

Now I'm curious about that. Does writing what they say down instead of clacking away at a keyboard put the interviewee more at ease? Personally, the latter seems more intimidating.

Also, transcribing recorded material takes foreverrrrr, and I can't afford to pay somebody to do that for me.

I never understood that. If you're going to be there anyway, you may as well be the one who makes a record of it. This may be just me, but listening or watching a sound or video record of a lecture seems even more tedious.

 

[MobBoss]

I drive a '92 model Kilgore Rangerette. I really need to upgrade to a '95. Getting from point A to point M is a breeze though.

Oddly enough, I have a friend from high school that was a Kilgore Rangerette, so i'm probably one of the few here who knew exactly what that was.

Go you.

 

[AlpsStranger]

- I have a "dumb" cell phone
- I absolutely love cash
- I use a desktop

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Desktops aren't outdated. Still a better gaming platform than laptops.

 

[Zelig]

I don't really consider writing stuff by hand or paper books to be outdated. They're older technologies, but still have a proper use, so aren't really outdated, like fax machines or telegrams.

 

[Mise]

I still use an open window instead of air conditioning.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

^ I wish I could do that in Missouri.

 

[Farm Boy]

^ I wish I could do that in Missouri.

Well, you can, it just sucks. And apartments don't usually have breezeways to set up a table and fan in. I use a old tracphone, DSL, and landline. I enjoy busting out a typewriter(while the supplies hold) on occasion, I pay bills by mail and balance my checkbook in the register, I hate cordless drills and use an old hand-powered one, but I do not miss sleeping on the floors in the hallway during the summer because the rooms/beds were just too hot. I welcome my fat American decadence in this regard.

 

[Borachio]

Hard copy road map.

Landline.

Wash the dishes by hand.

Don't have a microwave, a freezer, mixer taps (except in the kitchen) or airconditioning (except in the car - but it's broken).

Do have an inside toilet with a high level cistern, with a chain pull.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah our apartment has 0 cross breeze and there is only one window in each of the two bedrooms - no window in the living room or kitchen. So the front door with the magic screen (as seen on TV contraption) only stays open on really nice days. So 3 times a year.

 

[warpus]

I use an outdated stereo system complete with a tape deck, mostly to listen to tapes I have left over from highschool and such. That and a tape of my own music that I made back in the 90s. Ahhh the memories

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Wash the dishes by hand.

This too. I don't feel a dishwasher is needed.

I still eat food instead of getting all essential nutrients intravenously.

They found a way to do it long-term without any complications?

 

[Mise]

I still eat food instead of getting all essential nutrients intravenously.

 

[Borachio]

I still look at the things using my eyes, instead of using direct stimulation of my brain cells to receive information. I'm a bit of technophobe.

 

[Mise]

I still have all my original body parts instead of cybernetically enhanced superparts.

 

[Patroklos]

I still play Civ 3. It came out in college, the last time I had time to learn how to mod a commercial game enough to make it fun. Some goes for EU2 and SC4.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm confused, was Civ 3 the last game you had to mod a game?

How hard is modding anyways? I find awesome mods for various games and I have ideas for my own but I've never tried to execute them.

 

[Borachio]

I still have all my original body parts instead of cybernetically enhanced superparts.

Ah.

Those cybernetically-enhanced ergonomically-designed genetically-modified super-parts aren't all they're cracked up to be, let me tell you.

Not by a long chalk.

 

[Patroklos]

It's the last game I moded as opposed to downloading the work of others, as its the last one I had the time to learn to mod beyond trivial adjustments.

Dificulty depends on the game, but no matter what you have to learn the mechanics behind the game to create anything interesting and that takes time.