The freedom to carry your DRM free music tapes around with you and easily lend them to your friends is sadly not in my pocket.
Buy DRM free music instead of streaming it.
Not all the artists provide it. At least through legal methods.
They don't make CDs anymore?
I haven't touched a music CD since Sony decided it would be fun to put rootkits on them.
Bandcamp usually has the artists I'm interested in though, thankfully.
Not all artists do
yt-dlp has a --no-video switch.
Well if you go apple you don't, but freedom is on Android. Flac is awesome
nah just convert them to ogg/opus unless you're archiving music. there's literally zero perceptible difference
Have that stuff looks like duplicatous audio reproduction technology and what's in my pocket doesn't sound nearly as good as that boom box likely does.
Also that thing in the right looks maybe like a radio and there are streaming emulators, but still no actual radios in most of our pockets unfortunately.
I had an Nokia, my last “featurephone” before I got my first smartphone, which actually had an FM tuner built-in. It used the headphone wire as an antenna as far as I recall. Quite neat, not that I ever really used it, but it was perfectly serviceable. And a great way of having music on the go in the days before streaming music was widely available.
One of my first smartphones could do that as well. I don't pay for streaming services and I don't have infinite data like most people seem to have, so I dearly miss that kind of feature. The corporate overlords have decided that free is bad.
One of my first smartphones, I don't remember the brand, but it was a Chinese knockoff, even had a TV tuner, with a built-in antenna that retracted into the case. I had to stay in the hospital for a few days and it was great. This was back around 2010.
Some androids have fm radios and it uses the headphone cable as an antenna.
I had a Motorola that did it and I think my workphone has it too.
Weirdly, I'm pretty sure Qualcomm chips still include an FM tuner. Most manufacturers just decide not to enable it and hook up the antenna.
I still have FM on my phone. Poco X3 Pro
Pretty sure 3 sets of headphones aren't in my pocket
I know this is a shitpost, but a lot of those things in the picture do the same thing etc: The boombox, the walkman, the CD player
I think the point is that the formats have basically been unified into fully digital formats. Though we still use Bluetooth speakers to replace boomboxes and audio stacks.
They all played music but they didn’t serve the same purpose, thus why I had all three. The CD player was for listening in my room, the boombox could be brought anywhere, and the Walkman was for privately listening on the go.
That's why I like cargo pants. Carrying all this antiquated technology around would be hard as fuck otherwise.
Actually they removed the FM radio
Not from every phone, when I was looking for a cheap phones, a lot of Chinese brands still had FM radio.
Sometimes I wonder, are we truly better off? Yes, it's really cool that I have one device that does it all; but am I really happier? Is my life really any better because of it?
GPS.
Unless meant, like, cumulatively. In that case it's more dependent on your choices than the tech itself.
Yes. My life is objectively, measurably, better because of the smartphone in my hand.
There are elements to life that have drastically changed for the better, to name one example how about not just being able to hear your local radio stations, but radio from anywhere in the world.
The fact that I can tune in live to... say BBC Radio 6, and be listening along to the exact same thing they're listening to in a city like London, makes a measurable positive impact in my night-owl life. It emotionally makes me feel more connected to the outside world from where I am, and that's one station out of hundreds of thousands, if not millions. I can explore the world.
Another example is that I can now understand (to the extent that each step makes sense to me) the physics theories and laboratory experiments that have changed our paradigm of reality itself, thanks to a whole bunch of science content creators on YouTube; it is incredible what can now be explained in relatively (ahem) simple language, and it is, by people doing the explaining as a labor of love.
People have found ways to express in mostly non-technical language what a couple of decades ago felt like abstract numerical gibberish wherever one looked. I find this spectacular. And inspiring.
These new tools that have been put in our hands are astonishingly powerful and profound. Yet of course, they can be both either used or abused. Here, I am focusing solely on the "used" side.
I could think of a lot of things I could use a little pocket guy for. Getting my phone when it falls through the crack between the cushion and the arm in the easy chair, for example.
Not the printer part of the old word processor/electric typewriter (not sure which it is.)
Hmm, pocketable mech keeb? 🤔
Pocketable IBM model F keyboard sounds rad for typist (no pun intended).
Where do I get a pocket VHS player?
You jest, but the industry was pretty close to having something like that. VHS-C format tapes are the key, as they were used in lightweight camcorders back in the 90's. The viewfinder used an active screen, so this could be used for playback anywhere.
If we ditched the optics and stretch the definition of "pocket", this is basically that: https://www.ebay.com/itm/386925509292?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
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