1 yr. ago • 95%

This is peak living.

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You know what I miss about iPods and older style mp3 players? Nobody interrupted my music with their bullshit.

These days every notification tries to pull you away from your music and honestly that sucks. When I’m driving and I want to belt out the croaky renditions of my favorite songs, nobody else’s bullshit should be able to take me away from that moment.

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- Like when the guidance lady interrupts the beat drop to tell me to turn left 😡😡
  
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  Nothing worse than jumping back a few seconds only to realize the moment and feeling are lost now. It’s never the same 😒
  
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  That's exactly why you disable voice directions unless it's the highway and the next one is in 1 hour.
  
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- Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn't constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it's when my significant other messages me.
  
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  My phone has been on DnD for over a year now. I have a (cheap) smart watch which vibrates on certain alerts like message, calendar, and phone and I can quickly glance and see that it's something I don't care about. I also ignore the calls from numbers not in my contacts if I notice them. In the time I've been doing this I don't think a single person has left a message on my voicemail - validating my actions.
  
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- I'm pretty sure you can do that with Do Not Disturb on Android?
  
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  Yup, and iphone has basically the same thing
  
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  Yep, pretty easy solution.
  
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- This is one of many reasons why I root my phone and make sure that Do Not Disturb mode actually does what it says on the tin.
  
  That said, I still keep my old 1st Gen iPhone around because it's now just a more expensive iPod Touch and works great for playing music.
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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- Simple fix, just don't have any friends like me! 😉
  
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- The fact that you have to set iPhones to only vibrate and Androids to "do not disturb" to achieve uninterrupted audio playback, is why aliens make a detour around earth.
  
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  This comment gave me a good chuckle 😂
  
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- I just bought a audio player, mostly because I don't have good internet at my house and files was taking up a lot of space. Plus it has Bluetooth transmit and receive.
  
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- Just don’t let any of your apps have permission to send you notifications. I don’t let messages notify me. I check when I check. The only app that has permission to notify me of anything is the phone app because I’m too scared there’ll be an emergency.
  
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I wanna know how you got 16k songs on a second gen nano

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- Iflash.xyz have everything you need for iPod classics and iPod minis, the mini is just my fav, I had one when I was a kid and now I have another (well, 3) now I'm in my 30s
  
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  Now this is cool, thank you for sharing
  
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- You can upgrade them with flash storage pretty easily.
  
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- eBay. Lots of people putting high stage flash drives in old iPod models. 128gb and up
  
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  just do it yourself, it's super easy, only takes a cheap adapter you can get on ebay or from iflash and like 15 minutes of time, i used this guide to put a spare 32gb in a mini i bought and it was reaaaaally easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY761U4vik
  
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- that's a mini, they use tiny microdrives inside, they're tiny HDDs in the form factor of a compactflash card, you can very easily replace them with a compactflash to SD adapter and put a shit ton of storage in them
  
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I remember the first time I saw an iPod. I really did think technology was over.

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Wow, big ol' nostalgia hit right there.

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peak ipod would look like this but able to search for podcasts and make playlsts of podcasts

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I preferred my Creative Zen Touch.

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- Loved my Zen Micro so much. Was a sad day when it finally died, but then I got a Zune, which was incredibly excellent.
  
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Are those kz's you got there

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- Haha, yea they are!
  
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  That's awesome man, I love kz iems
  
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When life was simpler!

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I remember downloading this song (it was a bonus track on certain versions of the album) and it was called "Expert Knowledge" and I always thought that was a better title.

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I miss the brick game and music quiz game

anyone else remember Vortex?

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- Music quiz with 16k songs is a real test.
  
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iPod choice, 100. Music choice... I don't know... 20?

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I still have my Sansa Clip+. I should go see if it still works. I remember I rooted that thing too lol.

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