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Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle (edition.cnn.com)
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With our homes and lives swarming with AI-powered devices, assistants and chatbots, a backlash is brewing.

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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Having just got a vinyl player and a DVD player to deplug and own things again this is real.

I also deleted any algorithmic social media, all part of a New Year's resolution to not be advertised to constantly and feel drained all the time.

It's slightly tough right now, but I hope it'll get easier. At least I'm reading more books!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't gone back to physical media, but I bought a MP3 player last month and it's so nice to listen to music on a dedicated device (with a headphone jack!).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Been thinking about this too, how good are they these days?

    As we're not in the era of limewire I wonder how easy it is to use, and what the audio quality is like on dedicated MP3 players.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    A lot of them seem to lack the features of older MP3 players (like queuing the next song or creating playlists) so I got one with android (Hiby M300) and just disabled the play store and browser. Getting music on it is as easy as the players I had in the past, just plug it into a computer and copy over files in the file explorer. The sound quality ranges from decent to incredible as the market has more focus on audiophiles these days. The real problem is that a lot of them are way too big and have poor battery life because of the integrated amps.

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