• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Meme source: 2009 movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

    To me, who saw the original Escape to Witch Mountain in the theater in 1975, this meme is fresh.

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    2 months ago

    The movie may be that old, but that doesn’t say anything about the meme.

    This meme also isn’t +100 years old:

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        2 months ago

        This one is really fascinating TBH. It’s like they did this after a lifetime of scrolling 9gag.

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            I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.

            I kinda take solace in this a bit. I’m 38, got young kids, and I don’t generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it’s always with the thought that I’d miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you’re okay saying “Welp, that’s enough!” Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that’s my hope, that I’ll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I’ve seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.

            Obviously the darker alternative is that I’ve seen enough pain and I can’t take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!

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    2 months ago

    You guys have cars with working stereos? La dee dah looka mister fancypants over here, vibing on Alanis Morissette

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    2 months ago

    I still use my CD player. Especially if I’ve forgotten to turn bluetooth on and can’t be bothering with flipping my phone out. Fiddling with a bunch of plastic and easily scratchable CDs is much better.

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      I don’t understand these words: “Forgotten to turn on Bluetooth”.

      You turn Bluetooth off, or D by use automation to manage it?

      Over the years I’ve ysd a combination or NFC and Macrodroid/Automate/Tasker to manage connections.

      Like I always wanty phone to connect to my car, so NFC tag right beside the phone mount. Quick touch and all is configured - BT connection, volumes, etc.

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        2 months ago

        I think you just made OP’s case about the simplicity of popping a cd in the cd player and being done with it. What you described almost needs a degree to understand. 😂

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        2 months ago

        Active BT & WiFi radios can be used to identify you and track your movement, so I tend to keep them off whenever not in use. I do try to have it automated but I often need to manually toggle it.

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    2 months ago

    I used to have the same thing, until someone broke in and stole it. Ever sense then I had burned CDs in the car. My current car has MP3 ability so I have 300 songs on a CD.

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      None of my current cars have a cd player. I can only consider that a bummer through nostalgia. The cd is antiquated as portable music.

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          No, I get that. I dont do it myself, but if I did, id buy the cd, rip it, and then store the cd in my home so it doesnt get all fucked up from repeated use. Classic Ipod or even usb stick didnt have a subscription.

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          Word, same, I like owning the physical format. Though it feels more of a collectors thing to do now but I like listening to albums. Sort of a lost art but you can stumble on less played songs and keep growing that playlist.

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          I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.

          But even as an old guy that’s all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it’s hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.

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    2 months ago

    Brilliant!! Why didn’t I have this before? I have a 2005 ‘modern classic’ that has a cd multichanger, and the glovebox has a cakebox cd stack in that could definitely migrate to this Sun visor

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      Those sun visors (and pretty much any soft case or sleeve type holder) absolutely devoured CDs. I had one too, everybody did, but I only let mine eat my burned CDs (mostly mixes I crafted with cross-fades and normalized levels using foobar2000 and a pirated copy of SoundForge) and carefully curated MP3-CDs. Scratched? Who cares, I burned multiple copies to pass around and trade with friends anyway.

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    2 months ago

    What kind of car were they in? They haven’t made dome lights that big in cars since 8 tracks

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      Yeah, but there’s also seatbelts in the back. The car is either straddling the line between generations or it’s set design fucking with us.