Ask Lemmy

The amount of "modern" companies I had to fax shit too when my dad died was infuriating! Hyundai, Target, etc etc etc. Email is a thing dumb ass companies! Fuck me.

Fax may outlast landline telephony.

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system!

Bless you is such a weird way to respond to a sneeze though. Fitting for the clusterfuck the english language is tbh.

It's his hundredth birthday in 2 days!

To be fair my old high school acquaintances swear their oils made from magic plants literally healed their child's cancer and my kid is only autistic because we took her to a doctor one time years ago.

The album thing has bothered me for a long time. There are now tons of “internet artists” that all seem to release one or two singles every six months and that’s just how they release music.

Albums aren’t just about a limitation of the medium. It’s about putting a concept together that’s bigger than a 3-5 minute idea you had one day. It’s about capturing a time of that artist’s or group’s life and progress. It gives you the chance to bind all of those tracks together and organize them in a way that you think will help guide your audience.

With single-only releases, you may never really get to know the artist or what emotion they may be trying to convey in a greater sense. Or worse, all of their singles just sound like “them” and never evolve beyond that.

most people who enjoy music in 2026 have access to a good percentage of all music ever recorded as part of their music streaming subscription.

For NOW they do. I suspect enshittification is forcing more capital investment in response.

We're in a bit of a renaissance!

Kodak just put out brand new Kodacolor 200 and Ektachrome 100 film

I've not even got one developed yet!

Hell I just got my daughter a disposable camera for her school camping trip. No electronics allowed but they encouraged them to bring those. I was surprised to find one. I told her (11yrs) it was a one time use camera. The look on her face was priceless. She looked at me as if I were dumb and said, "so it takes one freaking picture?? That's stupid, my phone takes all the photos I want!" She got further confused when I explained why there was no screen and how she had to get those photos lol.

Came here to say this.

Zildjian, the cymbal company, was started in 1623.

Amen to that.

An IBM AS/400 has entered the chat.

My asshole puckered every time we had to reboot that sucker.

afaik limewire rn is not what it was before, someone just bought the old branding

False. Civilization only dates back to September 1991.

RIP missed connections. Local radio used to read them on Wednesday mornings. Pure gold.

Still better than facebook marketplace.

Craigslist doesn't deliberately waste your time with a bad search algorithm just to cause you to spend more time there ... like Facebook does.