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My father-in-law had a never-opened, 48-year-old GE radio in his garage. No pairing, no logins, no setup. It just works.
@Newmy That’s beautiful!
@Newmy Looks gorgeous. Love the physical knobs and switches too.
@Newmy New Old Stock in the wild!
@Newmy Baseball on the radio is still a surprisingly pleasant experience. 
@glecharles @Newmy Who's on first‽
@glecharles
The NYT had an article recently on a faux baseball game stream. People fall asleep to it. It’s very popular.
@Kencf618033 @glecharles @Newmy Haha that’s so cool
@Newmy jealous!
@Newmy Wow, nice looking unit.
@Newmy Well okay, but of course most old radios that just look like that do not work (and did not work they say the box was first opened).
.....Also, radios released today DO work, and DO NOT "require pairing" or WTF-ever.
The general idea, the reason you posted this, having nothing to do with musical radios, is of course true.
This is a very bad example.
@somegirl Not seeing a lot of well-designed tabletop radios with decent built-in speakers being released today tbh.
No surveilance.
@vandorb12 @kevinrns @Newmy You actually haven’t needed a license for a radio since before this one was made!
And after they got the second tv channel they didn't know what channel you were watching.
@Newmy Me: "I love old vintage tech like that, so cool!"
Also me: "Wait, that radio is only 4 years older than I am." 
@Newmy what no microtransactions?
@Eggfreckles @Newmy How did they even do economics back then? Must have been so poor without all the ways to make maximum profit!
@Newmy Beware of those radios, you wil still get ads and in Canada, there is very little music left on the FM band, mostly ads and talking heads. In moving away from playing music to save money, the radio stations opened the doors to Internet-based music.
Some millennial somewhere: "What are those round things on the right?"
You: "Those are knobs for adjusting volume and other things!"
Same millennial: "What are knobs?"
@jeff @DamonWakes @Newmy I'll be the one to tell you. Millenials grew up with knobs. It's Gen Z who are young enough they may not have seen them much.
@slowenough @DamonWakes @Newmy
Thanks but I couldn't care less.
@jeff @slowenough @DamonWakes @Newmy Ah, you're what they would call 'an old soul'. You know, born a generation too late.
I think you mean intelligent. GenX is the best generation hands down.
We didn't cry when we fell down, no, we got back up and kept trying.
We don't cry because a career that never existed in the first place doesn't actually exist in reality.
We worked and continue to work hard for every penny earned. We didn't create some imaginary self worth that somehow translates to how much money a job should pay.
We can handle confrontation without somehow thinking everyone is attacking us.
We get our news from the news, not social media, and especially not from facebook. We invented trust but verify.
Should I keep going?
@jeff Definitely born a generation too late. Bye Jeff 
@ElBeeToots @slowenough @Newmy Weird to see this comic play out in real life.
Ok then if you say so. Because you are definitely qualified to make such assumptions.
@jeff @ElBeeToots @DamonWakes @Newmy Into every generation...
...all kinds are born. Don't be one of the kinds who foments or falls for divide & conquer tactics, creating unnecessary divisions among people on the basis of age (or whatever).
I'm not the one doing the dividing.
A lack of a quality education is what divides generations today. What kids are being taught in present day school is crap so they don't pay attention and then don't learn things like history, civics, etc.
If you want to truly debate this with me, you had better read a lot first.
@jeff @slowenough @ElBeeToots @DamonWakes Gripping as this generational battle has been, I'd appreciate if y'all removed me from it.
It would be easier to mute the conversation. This will prevent you from seeing anymore replies. Getting everyone to respect your request would be more difficult.
@slowenough @jeff @DamonWakes @Newmy I'm gen Z and I grew up with physical controls. Touchscreens are only good on the computer
@ellenor2000 @DamonWakes @Newmy There are more and more cars with less and less knobs and such these days.
I know most gen Z have seen knobs. Maybe it's more about how we respond when we encounter an interface that's all screen. My generation (X) or boomers might be more likely to be annoyed or confused.
Figuring out physical interface, what's screen, and what's voice - and even moreso how those all work together - ought to be a fun UI challenge, but I don't see anyone having fun with it yet.
@slowenough @ellenor2000 @Newmy I was originally just poking fun at "millennials" being used as if that generation were in its teens rather than its thirties, but the fact that older stereos/cars/ovens are still in use makes it unlikely that anyone - even the very young - would actually be confused by the existence of knobs and dials. From what I gather, touchscreens largely appeal to manufacturers because the UI can be localised more easily. I'm not sure users actually prefer them on cars etc.
@Newmy@writing.exchange manual ad-blocker
Whippersnappers...
@Newmy does it have Spotify?
@Newmy Awesome radio. Amazing if it still works -- a lot can happen to capacitors in there over the years.
@Newmy There is something sweetly naive about that radio. Maybe it should just go back to sleep and dream.
@Newmy I can hear this pic and it sounds like cardinals baseball
@Newmy What a thing of design beauty! 
This was the GE back before Jack Welsh destroyed it.
#FBPE @Newmy but surely it needed a firmware upgrade and an account subscription set up and confirmed first?
@Newmy Ha, had many of those starting with a “transistor radio” from Japan to listen to baseball games under the covers in my childhood room in Miami. Radio so full of commercials now I only listen to podcasts 
@Newmy
I have a little battery transistor radio that I keep so that if the whole internet and all the electrical grid goes down I can find out why.
Loudness -> ON 
@Newmy The procedure for changing the volume: fiddle about with the top knob until you find somewhere you like (you will get instant feedback).
@Newmy I strongly suggest not touching that shaped foam speaker covering. While it'll probably be somewhat preserved by never being unpacked and exposed to light, it's nevertheless almost certainly brittle by now and might crumble and disintegrate with any handling.
(Yes, I once had speakers of that era with that kind of facing. And that was in fact their fate, after a lot less than 40 years.)
@Newmy@writing.exchange Old School iz best school.
@Newmy wow, what a find.