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What’s an outdated piece of tech you still use and love? (lemmy.world)

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I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it's a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have the original Kindle fire. You can have it for free. It even has a micro HDMI port.

[–] moe93@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why thank you, I’ll take it off your hands.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

DM me and pay the shipping. I will send it usps priority.

[–] fetter@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Still rocking my kindle keyboard. Great little device, however I would love a backlit screen and usb c port for charging now. I’d actually like it to be a bit more multipurpose for reading and annotating pdfs (I read quite a bit of spec sheets for work) so I am looking at remarkable/boox but only if my company allows me to expense it.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah for comics I have a boox and also love it, definitely worth it if you can get your company to pay

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Same and I got it second hand too, it is really convenient and works great with calibre.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 3 days ago

I think my Paperwhite is the first one without buttons