Some of my coworkers were talking about using RSS to read blogs, which made some of the younger folks in our team ask what it is and why we keep using it.
Some still use iPods to avoid subscriptions and streaming services, my favorite was one of our sysadmins who showed me Gopher.
I’m curious about others though, thanks!
my iPod Touch 4 that currently works as a whatever i want information displayer. I’ve previously made it display CPU/GPU temps and RAM usage percentage as a graph, but now it pretty much is a terminal command history log displayer.
winrar, i think
Do people really use this? Why?
I use it because it usually costs money but somehow it’s been working free for me for decades!
There’s still 7zip or Peazip that does the same thing, but they are properly free (open source). Check them out.
Sorry I should have but an /s was totally kidding
winrar? just works.
it’s never failed, so I’ve never used an alternative.
The biggest question is did you pay for a license?
i only paid once, and not until a decade after i started using it, but i did at dinner point paid the whatever it was, although now i just use the free version again and the purchased version (which is identical) is long lost.
Winamp
It’s not outdated until they come out with something else that really whips the llamas ass!
What skin do you use, tho?
Great question and I’m happy to answer it:
Winamp Modern - NightVision
Can you tell me an easy way to get Winamp up and running on a modern computer? Man, I miss Winamp…that shit really whipped the llamas ass.
Email. Pretty much the first network-related utility.
I still use emacs pretty frequently for coding. I forced myself to start with VSCode recently, and it was way bigger an improvement than I expected it to be, but being able to do text editing without an extended negotiation with the software being involved is still pretty nice sometimes.
I use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
Where your stick? Me have good stick. Very pointy.
Me use stick make fire. Need new stick hold meat on fire. Where you find good stick?
Bush stick, bush burn, bush taste a little acidic, wrong bush.
These seemed like the obvious answers at first, but then I realized I don’t actually use either one on a regular basis (I walk to work and cook on an induction stove). So in my case it’s probably the lever.
I have a grandfather clock I inherited. It’s about 100 years old.
Me too! I just haven’t remembered to wind it in five years.
If you start, oil it first. Disuse is lethal on old clocks
Yesterday I used an axe to chop firewood.
Teletext
I suppose SSH has been around for ages, I use that
Fire.
Holy crap. Gopher is old AF.
You need to specify whether you’re taking about digital or analog technology, or some other limit on the question, because i think you’re not looking for answers like “fire”.
I have a 10 megabit ethernet hub (not switch) that I still use in my homelab. It’s just a super easy way to throttle devices and helpful for diagnosing network issues.
i thought i was the only one. i use one occasionally to keep downloads (ahem, updates) or streaming from sucking the internet connection dry… so i have some left for more important things, like doom scrolling and games. other times (or when the hub’s being used elsewhere) i just manually configure the os (in windows, ‘speed and duplex’ via device manager) to use a slower connection on the lan port. either method comes in handy here where the internet speeds range from “kinda sucks” to “at least it’s faster than dialup”
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
That’s real value right there.
