#zune — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #zune, aggregated by home.social.
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Launched in 2006, gone by 2011 – the Zune was Microsoft’s valiant “me too” moment in the MP3 wars.
#RetroTech #Zune #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
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Launched in 2006, gone by 2011 – the Zune was Microsoft’s valiant “me too” moment in the MP3 wars.
#RetroTech #Zune #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
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Launched in 2006, gone by 2011 – the Zune was Microsoft’s valiant “me too” moment in the MP3 wars.
#RetroTech #Zune #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #2000sTech
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Third #video in my #series of #top5 #songs that belong on your #playlist. Older video as trying to get moved over to #vimeo . This weeks list theme is #postrock w/ music from #mogwai #godisanastronaut #monkey3 #russiancircles and #explosionsinthesky
please feel free to #boost
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The 2nd video in the #series i'm starting of the #top5 songs that should be on your #playlist . This #video has #music from #TheKinks #SaintEttienne #jesusandmarychain #TheOuts and #Staind
https://vimeo.com/1031644456feel free to #boost - feedback always welcome
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"This is 'You Chose Poorly', a tech podcast about you being wrong... We are gonna talk about Rdio today, in the list of things I chose poorly Rdio is one of the big ones. Along with the 3rd gen Shuffle, the Zune and my general career choices"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-chose-poorly-s01e06-rdio/id1102649486?i=1000648845523
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The Zune is a killer mp3 player despite the crap it got. I LOVED my Zune.
I got a bit sad just now - on this early 2000s Dell I re-set up the other day, there's some old Zune art files on it. Some jerk broke my car window and took my Zune from my car when I lived in Florida probably ~2006. I had a beautiful brown one like the one below, and I'd still have it today if that dick hadn't taken it.
I WILL buy another one someday. 🔥
#Zune #mp3 #mp3players #OldComputers #Dell #VintageComputers #OldComputing #WindowsXP
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At least, if you're like me and consider 15-year-old laptops that give me nostalgia “retro”! This Dell Inspiron 1420 has been with me through a lot. In 2008, I convinced my parents to support my budding interest in computer programming by getting me a laptop for my birthday. It wasn't the highest-spec'd laptop ever — 4 GB RAM and an almost-irrelevant #PentiumD . But it was mine! And it had this shiny new OS called #WindowsVista and an integrated nVidia GeForce 8400M GS graphics card!
And boy did I use the ever-loving crap out of it. I forced it to play Crysis (24 FPS at 800×600, baby!). I wrote dozens of terrible applications on it in C# in Visual Studio 2008.
One time, I decided to force myself to learn the #Dvorak keyboard layout. Except Dell, in their infinite wisdom, designed the keyboard specifically so that the keys could not be fully re-arranged; you see, the indexing keys — F and J, where your pointer fingers rest in the home position — have their butterfly hinges upside down compared to the rest of the keyboard. As the hinges are not centered on the back of the keycaps, those two keys don't fit in any other position without overlapping adjacent keys.
Well! I had a solution for that! A few minutes with some heavy-duty scissors and F, J, and the new Dvorak home-row keys U and H, were no longer “asymmetrical”!
I abandoned Dvorak after a few weeks - but the keyboard still bears the scars of that endeavor. I've long since lost the F keycap - the butterfly hinge, weakened by being replaced so many times to switch keyboard layouts, no longer held the cap securely and eventually was lost to the sands of time.
This laptop is sitting next to me now, getting a fresh installation of the OS it shipped with — Windows Vista Home Premium. Then I'm going to install some period-correct software — Visual Studio 2008, #Zune, maybe even the #LegoMindstorms programming environment — to create a time capsule of this precious-to-me artifact that sparked the beginning of what would ultimately become my career.
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Despite learning a lot about computers when I was a kid from the Apple Performa my family had, I've never been an Apple guy, despite owning an iMac once myself. I also really didn't like iTunes, so I never had an iPod.
Back around 2005ish when people were mostly getting iPods and before I got my beloved brown Zune (that someone later stole) I had a wild and wacky (and physically HUGE in comparison) DMC XClef mp3 player that looked like this. It had a LOT of storage space for the time, for the price, and had no software like Apple or Microsoft packaged in with their mp3 players. You didn't need it! You would just plug it up to your computer and transfer the damn files, as it *should* be. A method I use to this very day with my phones.
And I just looked it up to compare, 5th generation iPods around 2005 had about 30 or 60GB drives, these XClefs had 80 to 100GB. I had a friend joke saying I'd never fill it up - and I had to tell him I already pretty much had. 😂
#mp3players #tech #history #TechHistory #music #iTunes #Apple #iPod #Zune #MusicAddict #MusicAddicts #2000s #mp3 #mp3s
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@lynnesbian heck yeah #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreSoftware #FourEssentialFreedoms #RMS #Windows #Microsoft #Zune #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #HURD #OS2Warp #Haiku #TempleOS #FuckGoogle #Google #SurveillanceCapitalism #women #MastoAdmins #GPL #AGPL #LGPL #BSD2Clause #BSD3Clause #OpenSource #CathedralAndTheBazaar #DunkingOnWindows #EFF #GNU #Privacy #RightToRepair #Hashtags #WindowsTen #GNUSlashLinux #MoreLikeShitdows
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i think my computer has a fever.... it's all bloated and tired... oh wait that's just windows bloatware!!!!!! #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreSoftware #FourEssentialFreedoms #RMS #Windows #Microsoft #Zune #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #HURD #OS2Warp #Haiku #TempleOS #FuckGoogle #Google #SurveillanceCapitalism #women #MastoAdmins #GPL #AGPL #LGPL #BSD2Clause #BSD3Clause #OpenSource #CathedralAndTheBazaar #DunkingOnWindows #EFF #GNU #Privacy #RightToRepair #WhenYouPayForADeviceRunningWindows10HomeYouArePayingMicrosoftToGiveYouAnIntentionallyRestrictedProduct #Hashtags #WindowsTen #GNUSlashLinux #FamilyGuyFunnyMoments #LegalMonopoly #FuckCapitalism #ButItsWhatIveAlwaysUsed #ButINeedToPlayBethesdaGames #ButIDontWantToTypeCommands #MoreLikeShitdows #LynneTeachesTech
