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Favorite forms of out dated media? I have many, but VHS tapes have a special place in my heart.

Physical books are still not beaten, no matter what you say. These are invaluable when I want to read but can't use my laptop or in any number of other scenarios. They also feel great to use and are easy to read without eye strain. Ereaders are proprietary scams that let megacorporations control your library.

>>17888 I love reading real books too, especially the older ones that have that distinctive smell. I really don't like Ereaders that much either, mainly because of the cost and it obviously doesn't feel the same.

>>17891 >>17888 this. physical books are elder god tier.

cassette tapes. memories of sharing mixtapes with mates and taping soykaf off the radio. upgraded to a 4 track (to record my flimsy bars lol) and later on I bought an old reel to reel tape recorder. fun times. I have a ton of vinyl but I'm not as sentimental about that. I used to have a lot of books as well but I've been shrinking that down to essentials even though I now have more space to put the things rather than when I was flatting before. magazines maybe? are they dead yet? I have a few issues of various publications from over the years.

>VHS tapes have a special place in my heart. Big fracking deal.

>>17893 well tapes are still alive in some genres

Vinyls. Especially the blues and punk rock. Also there used to the be these best of 19** vinyls that were released and given to stations to play as like to 40 kind of things, and I fuarrrking love those things.

>>17908 noise/punk/lo-fi have been releasing on cassette from the start and never really stopped. that said, tapes have made even more of a comeback over the past say 4-5 years much like vinyl. the hard thing now is finding quality players and cleaning equipment.

With proprietary firmware in the micro controllers of hard drives, and all the known and unfixable vulns in thumbdrives, I actually use floppy disks to keep my keys on. * GPG * SSH * Twister-dat * Electrum wallet file and seed in a .txt file * key to my Tomb file It's all on a single floppy disk. They are literally too simple to have any exploits in.

>>17989 If you use a compatibility USB cable for your floppy disk it'd have the vulnerabilities of USB wouldn't it? Did you somehow build a PC with a floppy drive?

>>17980 I know, just wanted to say that noise on floppies is the shit, man.

>>17887 TFW the reels auto slowdown when rewinding or fastforwarding near the end of tape, then with much click and clunk shuffles back and forth to find the exact 0 point. N.b. on full speed FF the reel edge can cut through a shirt button!

>>18011 Floppy noises... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-rmRmm3bgY

Vinyl records for me.

>>17888 >>17891 Physical books are nice and all, but your criticisms of ereaders don't apply in every case. You can get a sony PRS off ebay for under $20, the difference with a more "modern" ereader is negligible and there's no walled garden.

>>17989 Watch out for floppy bitrot. You don't want to lose all those precious files.

>>18394 PRS 300 is fuarrrking GOAT

>>17887 I have a thing for cassettes

It has to be cassettes. They are cheap as fuarrrk for an analog audio medium. The type ones take a digital source and give it a warm sound so occasionally I record some vaporwave albums to cassette. The type twos are good for converting vinyl to cassette. One appeal for cassette for me is that I know its secure. Where as all computer operating systems, even Linux now could have backdoors and such.

>>18418 Cassettes also had the whole mixtape/pirate culture surrounding it, which is way cool. In a way it's a bit of a precursor to the open source culture we have now.

>>18439 TFW we once apon a time copied software with tape to tape machines!

>>17888 I can't even learn stuff if I don't have it printed. If I have it printed, I scribble around - either on the book/print with pencil if it's not that important or on the side.

>>18468 Shit, gotta learn to de-OP myself. Sorry.

>>18418 I feel like with the controversy over increased surveillance with digital technologies, some return to more analog tech might actually be helpful towards protecting our individual freedom.

>tfw I have a library of ~600 VHS

>>17887 Film projectors are fun because they are intricate yet you can see how they function rather clearly. They also prove to be superior to may new forms of media. For example, IMAX HD is much better than Digital IMAX in terms of picture quality. Additionally, most high profile television shows are shot with film.

Vinyl records, of course. There's nothing like playing a set on all vinyl.

I already have a cassette deck. But I would like something more portable. What cassette players are versatile enough I can still get replacement parts to repair.