Does anyone else agree?

Yorkie · December 2023

Digital is shit, until you need a long reverb but don't live in a castle.

eatapeach · December 2023

guyinlyon said:

Gadget said:

I'm old enough to have used cameras with no electronics whatsoever. You clicked a lens onto the front of it and started shooting.
Nowadays I get messages like "lens failed to initialize"! FFS

If you didn't load a roll of film into it, take a light reading with a separate meter (or successfully guess) and set the exposure, and focus the lens you'd probably have gotten a big old batch of nothin'.
And don't get me started on remembering to take out the dark slide before making an exposure...

but digital photography is demonstrably better, the Fender amp that won't boot up is tech for tech's sake surely? If your digital multi effects into an amp goes crapola, you still get to play on....

fretmeister · December 2023

eatapeach said:

guyinlyon said:

Gadget said:

I'm old enough to have used cameras with no electronics whatsoever. You clicked a lens onto the front of it and started shooting.
Nowadays I get messages like "lens failed to initialize"! FFS

If you didn't load a roll of film into it, take a light reading with a separate meter (or successfully guess) and set the exposure, and focus the lens you'd probably have gotten a big old batch of nothin'.
And don't get me started on remembering to take out the dark slide before making an exposure...

but digital photography is demonstrably better, the Fender amp that won't boot up is tech for tech's sake surely? If your digital multi effects into an amp goes crapola, you still get to play on....

If your amp goes crapola you can go direct with the digital fx unit, you still get to play on...

Secret_Sam · December 2023

I had a very cool Volvo sports car (I know how unlikely that sounds). It went like a rocket, but about once every six months the computer that ran most of it - from the steering weight to the collision detector to the braking, transmission and engine management - would go utterly nuts.

The solution was easy enough. Disconnect the main battery (it had two) and after ten minutes it resets and reboots.

That is all very well in Europe. You really don't want to be stationary in a Volvo next to a South African township.

I now drive a far dumber car, but my life expectancy has improved.

BillDL · December 2023

Secret_Sam said:

The solution was easy enough. Disconnect the main battery (it had two) and after ten minutes it resets and reboots.
That is all very well in Europe. You really don't want to be stationary in a Volvo next to a South African township.

I would have thought the Chacma Baboons up the hill could be trained to do the job in return for some food. Probably easier and less dangerous for them than robbing people coming off the bus or using bent coathangers to break into homes and potentially be facing a 410 shotgun or Uzi once inside

One of the guys I worked with bought himself a fancy Jaguar. On most cars when a tyre drops in pressure you get an annoying alarm and a continual display on your dashboard, but you can still drive it. His Jag wouldn't allow him to drive it until he inflated the tyre and performed some sequence with dash controls to reset its clever computer. We thought it was bad driving into a carwash and having the handle break off your sliding sunroof, but at least it was usually an easy fix after you dried out the car's interior. Along came electric sunroofs and made it a hell of a job to trace and fix a non-working one, and rear-view mirrors that were manually adjustable with a lever from inside only cost about a tenth of electrically controlled ones when some knob tore off your mirror. Cars now brake all by themselves when you are building up speed behind a slower moving vehicle for a quick and efficient overtake, and fancy sensors to dip headlights falter and blind other motorists.

ScreamingDave · December 2023

guyinlyon said:

ScreamingDave said:

My fridge has WiFi connectivity, FFS! What’s all that about? Apparently it can send you a message if the freezer temperature goes too high. Great. My f@cking FRIDGE now has the ability to ruin my holiday, a privilege previously reserved for my children.

If you're unlucky to have bought an Internet Of Things fridge just don't connect it to your home's WiFi and it'll never bother you.

I haven’t, but I’m affronted that anyone even came up with the idea of internet connectivity for a fridge.

Sunburst · December 2023

timbuk02 said:

Is there a postal version of The Fretboard?

No, but I think it's on Ceefax.

digitalkettle · December 2023

ScreamingDave said:

guyinlyon said:
If you're unlucky to have bought an Internet Of Things fridge just don't connect it to your home's WiFi and it'll never bother you.

I haven’t, but I’m affronted that anyone even came up with the idea of internet connectivity for a fridge.

I'm okay with the modernisation of kitchen appliances.

gatheredinsong · December 2023

guyinlyon said:

ScreamingDave said:

My fridge has WiFi connectivity, FFS! What’s all that about? Apparently it can send you a message if the freezer temperature goes too high. Great. My f@cking FRIDGE now has the ability to ruin my holiday, a privilege previously reserved for my children.

If you're unlucky to have bought an Internet Of Things fridge just don't connect it to your home's WiFi and it'll never bother you.

Yeah, just pay extra for that crap for nothing

guyinlyon · December 2023

eatapeach said:

but digital photography is demonstrably better

Not if you want your photos to last.

A photo on film will, properly processed and preserved, last 200 years or more (it's been tested). Digital? Who knows, but they'll probably disapear in the great hard drive crash of 2032.

Fez · December 2023

Loads of Passwords now multi factor authentication arrrg! If only the wazocks who do the hacking would do something useful instead of hacking learning to play guitar could be a start.

Petepassion · December 2023

Modern life is far too complex for me, I like to try to keep things as simple as possible, work hard through the week. Then pleasure…My old 335, old valve amp, playing originals in a three piece, good food, JD and good sex…Simple’s.