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Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It

https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/6a054b304770e67d92e8c7a2

#HackerNews #olddevices #dying #sensors #siliconlabs #technews #innovation

The only drawback I can think of was that the Jukebox was pretty heavy. Not the kind of thing you’d want attached to your body when going for a run. Hence me adding a Samsung YP-U3 to my collection of #OldDevices in 2008. Only 1GB this time, but in a very convenient USB stick form factor with a removable clip to attach it to your clothes or backpack strap.
That one too must be hidden somewhere.

One of these #OldDevices I had ca. 2004 was a Creative Jukebox 3. It was an awesome mp3 player that looked like a discman, with 20GB of storage (❗) and such features as changing playback speed. It was super helpful when learning songs by ear on the guitar to slow things down. Now I struggle to find an app on F-Droid to do the same, and it took me a while to find out that VLC exists on Android and can do that.
I also miss the tactile feedback of physical buttons. Awesome product.

Lately I’ve been reminiscing about #OldDevices I owned and liked (and that I’m not sure where they went, because at some point I stopped using them and put them away somewhere, I wonder where).

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