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[+] 169 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Indeed, it would have been a lot funnier without the caption.

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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Fixed that empty space at the bottom

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    As if cassette tapes were some obscure niche and not a major media format for years

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Those of us who used them ain't dead yet!

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I'm young enough that CDs had taken over by the time I was born, but my parents still used their massive cassette collection for about a decade.

    So this should be familiar to people born after cassette's prime time

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I literally use them for my baby. I've got stacks of old rubbish on tape (got them for free) that's getting taped over to provide easy, tactile storage of spoken word and music. Nothing obscure is being destroyed - it's naff compilation tapes and similar shite. If they wear out then I can just dump the digital audio onto another tape.

    They're easy to choose from, don't play infinitely, fairly hard-wearing, and the quality isn't bad because the tape deck I record with is a fancy direct-drive unit.

    It's kinda funny recreating some old Swedish comedy stuff for her. As in, when I was little I had tapes that were either dubbed from other tapes or from records that a family member borrowed from a library in Stockholm. For my daughter I'm grabbing the audio from YouTube rather than the library abroad, but the end result is the same. Multiple levels of nostalgia and a load of tapes aren't going to landfill.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    My app happened to crop the caption so I didn't even see it until I saw your comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you, but also don't like that it lead me to that negative value caption.

    Tl;dr your comment has neutral value 😀

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