Possibly. What’s especially needed are better materials that can keep withstanding both a start/boost and atmospheric re-entry with little maintenance. Maybe with such super materials you can also build engines that are more effective and possibly transfom between modes, such as from turbojet to ramjet to rocket or hydrogen propulsions.

Seems like something quite a few decades off at least, and not super practical in general. The requirements for aircraft and space craft just go against each other, even moreso than with a plane and submarine.

Yea but I guess that’s something the lw/bridge admins would have to set up with the bot makers, wouldn’t they

Eh I just want a bot that will notify me of new posts and reports on Matrix

I’d just want to be passively notified, not looking to control the bot

Could the bridge be used by bots that work with Discord but not with Matrix? 🤔Bc there’s quite a few of those, and me as a Matrix user can’t have anything

Video8 portable players looked pretty much like this

Oh hell imagine an NT cassette in a phone. Welp.

If there was no way to flatten the tape into a disc form, and solid stage storage would be impossible in higer capacities, I think it would lead to faster adoption of networking and “cloud”.

A datacenter could host thousands and thousands of tape mechanics with robotic cassette handling, and with some smart caching and data management could retrieve your data faster than it would take you to rewind and forwards to get that photo - never mind if you needed to change tapes.

The difference becomes even greater when you delete and overwrite stuff. I don’t know how it’s handled irl on tape data storage, but again a large center can just copy the data from a tape over to a new one without fragmentation.

Wow never seen this one, that looks awesome. Someone tell Techmoan to check out stuff like this.

Brands like Teac still make cassette decks even for racks - they also have to use the same shitty mech, but try to package it with good electronics and possibly hand pick the best samples? I don’t think it makes sense, but if someone really wants a new deck, that’s an option.

But for cassette to make a proper return, you’d still need more than that. Chrome and metal tapes aren’t made anymore, heck not even good type I tapes, and old stock is running out, so that’s one hurdle. Then those new mechanisms don’t have the capability to record on them anyway, and Dolby doesn’t licence their tape NR anymore.

To bring cassettes back, one would need to recreate the whole ecosystem. It seems more difficult than with vinyls.

Techmoan, Vwestlife and others on YouTube have reviewed such cassette devices.

An audiophile cassette deck is a bit of a misnomer today. Cassettes certainly have some cool feel to them, but they definitely sit in the retro novelty/nostalgia territory.

Vinyls have a high quality ceiling, as do reel to reel tapes; cassettes not so much, especially the type I that’s the only kind available now. They can be good enough for most people, but there’s no reason to invest into making them top notch again, when a FLAC file and $100 DAC can blow any cassette out of the water.

There are variants to the mechanism, you can get one with auto reverse or without, record or playback-only, different quality motors, different heads etc. But the basis is the same, and so the quality ceiling is very low.

Also keep in mind this is a hipster device, so taking out something like auto reverse can be meant to invoke even more “retro” feeling or something.

Same thing like with modern film cameras or vinyl players, they’re just a novelty only functional to the bare minimum level on par with the cheapest, crappiest machine from the past.

And you can sell a device with $5 worth of parts for a couple hundreds as a hipster novelty piece.

(Nothing wrong with being a hipster btw.)

Just a warning in case someone is tempted: it’s crap. All cassette players of today use the same crappy cheap mechanism, as it’s the only one available.

Yes it makes sense after the admin’s explanation.

Not cool to accuse some random person in public like that. (Just my personal policy, I don’t even know who you’re talking about.)

I was wondering why the CloudFlare protection doesn’t work, this makes sense. Does CF have any point then? Lots of people don’t like it.

It’s weird someone would spend so much time to target LW. Ah well.

Wooo that is old Droid 2.x style adorable

For what purpose? If you like it for a wallpaper out whatever… Sure?

wtf is it about landlords never wanting to discuss things through email? Or text?

So there’s no written record in case they say/ask for something that’s not legal.

Or records of your demands, like in your case.

I’d still prefer a separate server even if it’s only for myself:

1. power efficiency, you don’t need to keep a power-hungry PC on when you don’t need it, but only an old laptop or a rasp Pi or whatever

2. if your PC is down - broken, needs reinstall, having an issue that needs troubleshooting - you can still have your server stuff running

3. expandability. Media server alone is good to stream movies to a TV, or to a phone over the web, and again the PC can be off