Message aside, the site is cool, love that you can change the style, and the icon animation on the last one is brilliant. Also: a webring! It's been a long time since I saw one. I need more of this web and I'm happy to rediscover it.

This is not a personal account, it's one for a site I'm building. I know many won't like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.

I'm tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites... but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice... and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I'm just daydreaming, I know- the default.

And to this point this post made me realize that it won't happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I'm culprit of just signing up and... well, waiting. And that won't work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I'll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.

Below the vote was a link to see what an internet with AI is, or something like that. I went and asked their AI if all this was just a blatant ad for their AI, and it gave me a long, long list of excuses, after which I told it: come on, just say yes or no, and it replied back: yes, it could be said to be a blatant ad :D

Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.

Want the clock? That'd be $2 a month. A calculator? $5.

Honestly, no idea.

“modern design sensibilities”

How I dislike laptops not having trackpad buttons! No matter how good modern trackpads are, I still just want buttons. And lots of keys, and switches... and screws. Don't care how clean and sleek modern laptops look, they are a tool for me.

• Bonus points for the trackpoint!

Exactly. Truly sad. And I'm confident most users will respect the rules, specially if they have to provide evidence of previous works (on public profiles) and they are proud of their work. The thing is... how do you know when AI is getting harder to spot?

Do you make it a rule to include hands or whatever in the art? That's just a crazy and almost funny idea, but one that at some point won't even matter. So previous work and, yes, progress pics or videos, are what I can think of. The other option could be to just admit that it is inevitable to have some bad apples and deal with it as long as it's a minority.

Not that I don't agree but... I'd take Mini Disc over them. Really similar but smaller -but not to the point of losing tactility or nice labels- and I love the eject mechanism of some players/recorders. Amazing mix of cassette tapes (usability) and CDs (capacity, non-linearity...), kinda late to the party.

UMDs are cool too, thought not as much IMHO.

You have 3 possible reasons: A) those stats aren't that accurate; B) "unique" is not that unique (same person counted more than once through the month); and C) it might also include bots. Maybe it's a mix of the 3.

Maybe a way for them to be able to say one day: "yes, it's not selling in big numbers, but we aren't competing against the others anyway, ours is a second phone, so it's not a failure!" I mean, I don't even know if that makes sense, but it's the only spin I can give to it.

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And of course it loads content from Google! :( Well, it tried, because I block all that stuff, but how sad anyway. There are very few "independent" sites out there these days, all of them depend on third-parties, sometimes for a valid reason, but many others not.

Same. But it looks weird when a product has 2 different types of plastic and one yellows but the other doesn't. I don't think that's too common though.

Are there new handhelds in that form factor ?

Like every other week.

Well, not really, but there's a constant stream of new consoles from Retroid, Anbernic, AYN, Ayaneo, Miyoo... and a dozen other brands, and it's kinda an in-joke.

Some are in a PSP-like form factor, Vita too, even PSP Go, some are like a GBA/GBA SP, Game Boy, DS/3DS... and some come in unusual form factors. Some are cheap in components and build, others are really powerful and well made (what is reflected in the price difference). All options/preferences are covered, I think.

Just have a quick look here (no need to watch the videos, just skim through the thumbnails to see what's going on):

https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCoZQiN0o7f36H7PaW4fVhFw

You'll find a few interesting PSP-like ones in the second and third page, but going further maybe the models are "too old" or discontinued.

surf-club I'm making it a habit to hit that "random" link daily. Already spent quite some time at a few sites. Even when they are no longer being updated all of them are interesting in their own ways and, funnily, refreshing (given the current modern web). Thank you!

Those long lists are mostly full of everything but consumer electronics: semiconductors, gaming studios, movie studios, TV networks, music labels... heck even real estate is on there. So they kinda have a point when it comes to consumer electronics (which is what I think they meant with "customer market").

The current Sony has little to do with the one from the 80s, 90s or even early 2000s... In addition to the PlayStation they are strong in imaging (photo and video cameras) I think, but little else, and those products no longer have mass appeal (they are getting high-end- and pro-focused). Vaio, Xperia, Bravia, Walkman... gone or on life support. Browse their site and there's a handful of products left, as good as they might be (which I don't know).

WTF??? That's amazing! Thank you for wasting my time -a lot of it- in the best possible way ;)

WOW! This has it all! I mean, all I care about myself anyway: 42 keys, trackpad AND trackball (though I could do with just one of them) and 2 rotaries, and at the right place. Looks aren't what I'd go for, but that's a matter of personal taste, and yet it still is a well made and beautiful one. Congrats and enjoy!

Since this seems to be about a singer (not that I knew, it's in the comments), I guess they refer to before their first album release or something like that.

Curious: what exactly happened in 1997 regarding Sony?