• cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    502·
    1 month ago

    Your caveman brain. People think they’re educated an enlightened and everything they do now is so well thought out. Nope, the caveman is in the driving seat for all of us. Even your most high level meetings and interviews are influenced by how hungry, horny, or hurt you are by a teasing comment yesterday. Everyone is looking to establish dominance at any cost, when you don’t really need to.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    45·
    1 month ago

    Buttons, knobs, plastic bezels.

    At least according to the industry those are all in the past. The future is screens that go to the very edge of the device and absolutely nothing tactile.

    And it is bullshit. It is less reliable, less convenient, less cool – To say nothing of the safety disaster that nailing a tablet computer to the dashboard of every car has been.

  • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    1 month ago

    Paper; Notebooks. Key only physical door locks. Manual transmission cars. Not having any IoT appliances, and not connecting everything you own to WiFi. Hard drive full of MP3s. Cash. Not being available for a call if you’re not at home.

    Source: work tangential enough to cybersecurity.

          • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            1 month ago

            Lol, might as well hang a sign out front that says “I share data with cops.”

            • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              Now hold on, maybe they’re onto something. The highest levels of drug dealers most likely aren’t accepting cash, they’re laundering their money through legitimate fronts. Small time dealers setting up some simple LLC or something for a relatively small fee and funneling money through that could actually shield you better from local law enforcement. I’m pretty sure Cashapp and their ilk offer business accounts nowadays, haven’t checked myself.

              • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                1 month ago

                Block, the company that owns Cash App, lost a court case and had to pay an $80m fine for failing to adhere to anti-money laundering laws. The Feds have been all over it for a year. Maybe 3 years ago it was possible to fake the KYC, but not a much so anymore.

                The only truly non-tracable financial system is Monero, and many exchanges won’t touch it because it has such a close connection to crime.

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 month ago

    Magnetic tape. It’s one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.

    Just keep it away from magnets… or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can’t find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      We used to do tape backups up until about 6 years ago, but our higher headquarters decided they wanted to go all in on Rubrik instead. I will say that it is a lot easier to maintain and conduct restores from, and we have all of our various sites’ Rubriks backing up to each other for redundancy. But you’re definitely right that tape is far cheaper per GiB of storage than anything else.

  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
    25·
    1 month ago

    Safty razors! Why would anyone spend 20$ on the new fangled 30 million blade razor that mighy last one shave? When you can spend pennies even if you change blades every shave.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
      4·
      1 month ago

      I recently switched to a Leaf one and love it. It’s about the same as my Harry’s razor, but a hell of a lot less expensive when even Costco is selling their reloads at $27. The leaf blades are way less expensive, and they aren’t even proprietary.

    • ohhmyygott@lemmy.world
      2·
      30 days ago

      Switched to a safety razor recently after years of using Gillette’s… It’s life changing! No more bumps or breaking out. Also it’s cheap!

      • zer0@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 month ago

        Electric and safety razors don’t necessarily serve the same purpose. An electric razor can never cut as close to to the skin as a safety razor. I use both

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      At some point about a decade ago I realized I’m much happier just paying the extra $8 every couple months when I go to get a haircut and otherwise just letting it grow out.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      22·
      29 days ago

      Safety* $20* newfangled* might*

      It’s like you consciously added misspellings and bad grammar.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    24·
    1 month ago

    Wrist watches. Extremely convenient, even when your phone is buried or you don’t want to be distracted.

    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      29 days ago

      I wear a cheapish waterproof one while swimming. The pool has a clock but I can’t see it without my specs.

    • SheenSquelcher@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Yep. And it doesn’t need to be charged every night like apple watch or similar.

      Am looking for a new one if you have any recommendations.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        1·
        28 days ago

        Don’t get the one I got, lol. I’m probably going back to a non-smartwatch after problems with my tic watch.

  • LordGimp@lemm.ee
    192·
    29 days ago

    Pretty much anything in a machine shop made in the last 80 years or so. So many people turn up their noses at anything that isn’t computer controlled anymore. Yknow what a big old mill can do that a CNC can’t? It can make every single part needed to make a new mill. It’s a self replicating machine with the right know how. People don’t respect that kind of quality anymore.

    • Noobnarski@lemmy.world
      1·
      29 days ago

      I don’t think a mill can make the copper windings in the motor and isolate them. Same with the power cable.

      • LordGimp@lemm.ee
        2·
        29 days ago

        You don’t need an electric motor. You just need enough spin. I’ve seen old mills and lathes that run on steam. An electric motor just happens to be very convenient with our current technology.

  • BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml
    181·
    1 month ago

    Developers. Yes, AI can sling a lot of code, but it can’t make business decisions and it can’t please a difficult customer.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
    171·
    30 days ago

    Printing out tickets as a backup. I do this for concerts and travel because then I don’t have to worry about batteries dying, wifi/roaming not being available, getting logged out and having trouble getting back to the ticket, etc.

    I also print out maps when doing wilderness backpacks because even if you download the map you’ll burn through your battery life well before the hike is over but a paper map is just as good. If I really need to confirm my location I can occasionally turn on the app and shut it off. I keep the maps in a gallon ziplock so water isn’t an issue.

    • NGram@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      29 days ago

      Ticketmaster is doing their very best to make paper tickets unusable with refreshing barcodes. Funny thing is that “anti-theft” feature is needed because of their own systemic failures. I do like tickets that are just sent to my email or similar (e.g. as an attachment that I can save to my phone) though, it’s better than wasting paper when I know my phone won’t fail me.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    29 days ago

    Tape drives. Remember those big reels of tape on mainframes in the 80s? They don’t look exactly like that anymore, but tape is still used for backups/long term archival because they offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and decent longevity without needing to be powered, as long as you don’t need to access the data all that fast or often.

    Those dank memes and cat videos you posted in 2010 are probably on tape in a data centre somewhere

    • applemao@lemmy.world
      3·
      29 days ago

      Im obsessed with tape storage, but for audio. Nothing more real than audio on tape! Luckily it’s catching on again. Music is so disposable now, I hope we can keep physical formats alive and keep corporations away from it (digital offers them unlimited control over us).

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    Analogue clocks, particularly clock towers in towns, but also just basic clocks on the wall in your home. With smart devices everywhere, it seems like they’re not needed and probably old-fashioned. The circular 12-hour clock face probably feels like the floppy disk icon or the rotary telephone, in terms of how ‘of another era’ it is, but it’s still a fantastic and resilient form factor for the purpose of visualising the passage of time. Digital is great, but analogue will be with us for the foreseeable future (and I’m including in that the representation of analogue in a digital form, e.g. on smartwatches that provide a classic clock face graphic).