There are dozens of apps and most have their own communities that are pretty active. Also, Combustible came out just recently.

Video8 portable players looked pretty much like this

Oh hell imagine an NT cassette in a phone. Welp.

If there was no way to flatten the tape into a disc form, and solid stage storage would be impossible in higer capacities, I think it would lead to faster adoption of networking and “cloud”.

A datacenter could host thousands and thousands of tape mechanics with robotic cassette handling, and with some smart caching and data management could retrieve your data faster than it would take you to rewind and forwards to get that photo - never mind if you needed to change tapes.

The difference becomes even greater when you delete and overwrite stuff. I don’t know how it’s handled irl on tape data storage, but again a large center can just copy the data from a tape over to a new one without fragmentation.

Wow never seen this one, that looks awesome. Someone tell Techmoan to check out stuff like this.

Most countries in fact, but you can get them if you want. Though I guess you never know if it’s not a honeypot operation.

Cool, it’s still more of an exception though. Here in most of Europe it’s barely a thing.

It depends whether you can buy one anonymously - you probably can’t, I guess, as for what I know, providers tend to offer eSIM only with contracts and not prepaid options. Physical SIMs you can get on the street in many places, vending machines, eBay, wherever.

Tho there isn’t really any reason why eSIMs couldn’t be sold the same way, as it’s just a QR code.

The other problem is that in order to move the eSIM from one phone to another, it needs to be deactivated on the first one, which requires an internet connection. That’s more of a practical concern than one of privacy I guess.

If you like Worms, try Liero. It’s a tad less sophisticated, but even more madness.

Looks like Lemmynade is a web app rather than an Android client?

the brand’s engineers made it next to impossible to open the frame that contains all the parts

VanMoof’s creators fancied their company to be like Apple — creating unique products that would spawn its own ecosystem

Well there we go, nothing to add that.

I guess? But the same thing works with Lemmy already, you can search for an url. I don’t really know what needs to be done to have instance-agnostic permalinks…

My main issue with Lemmy permalinks is that they’re instance-specific, so to load a comment link on my instance I need to search for it. There needs to be something like ! for communities. Same for post links.

Another issue is that if a commentisn’tf found (deleted, bad link), that isn’t handled very gracefully I think. (Don’t quite remember how atm.)

Brands like Teac still make cassette decks even for racks - they also have to use the same shitty mech, but try to package it with good electronics and possibly hand pick the best samples? I don’t think it makes sense, but if someone really wants a new deck, that’s an option.

But for cassette to make a proper return, you’d still need more than that. Chrome and metal tapes aren’t made anymore, heck not even good type I tapes, and old stock is running out, so that’s one hurdle. Then those new mechanisms don’t have the capability to record on them anyway, and Dolby doesn’t licence their tape NR anymore.

To bring cassettes back, one would need to recreate the whole ecosystem. It seems more difficult than with vinyls.

Techmoan, Vwestlife and others on YouTube have reviewed such cassette devices.

An audiophile cassette deck is a bit of a misnomer today. Cassettes certainly have some cool feel to them, but they definitely sit in the retro novelty/nostalgia territory.

Vinyls have a high quality ceiling, as do reel to reel tapes; cassettes not so much, especially the type I that’s the only kind available now. They can be good enough for most people, but there’s no reason to invest into making them top notch again, when a FLAC file and $100 DAC can blow any cassette out of the water.

There are variants to the mechanism, you can get one with auto reverse or without, record or playback-only, different quality motors, different heads etc. But the basis is the same, and so the quality ceiling is very low.

Also keep in mind this is a hipster device, so taking out something like auto reverse can be meant to invoke even more “retro” feeling or something.

Same thing like with modern film cameras or vinyl players, they’re just a novelty only functional to the bare minimum level on par with the cheapest, crappiest machine from the past.

And you can sell a device with $5 worth of parts for a couple hundreds as a hipster novelty piece.

(Nothing wrong with being a hipster btw.)

Just a warning in case someone is tempted: it’s crap. All cassette players of today use the same crappy cheap mechanism, as it’s the only one available.

For what purpose? If you like it for a wallpaper out whatever… Sure?

It’s some of the most anti-consumer behavior we’ve seen from Microsoft in recent memory.

It’s the same company that makes Windows… Always worth remembering.

Here we are https://lemmy.world/post/2295294