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Nov. 9th, 2023 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieBoycat knocked the Nikon camera off the table. It was stupid of me to leave it there. I think he's learned that people come when there's a large bang, so various objects, some quite large, are pushed off of things throughout the day. Or maybe he doesn't care about the people and is only bored. But he tries to demand attention on and off through the day too. This was a camera I got my mother many years ago so she would take pictures of her quilts. She kept making quilts and then not taking pictures of them. Various film cameras were obtained for that purpose too. Still need to deal with some of those.
Rough past couple of weeks for electronics. Button on the old Rio Forge mp3 player died. This was an eBay item picked as the last Rio mp3 player made, when they finally figured out how to make the player show up as a USB flash drive instead of requiring their Windows-only software. It also took up to a 4gb SD card. It also had an extremely chintzy build. This is a classic corporate story. They were the first to market with an mp3 player, and immediately got locked in to a tunnel vision of cutting costs and iterating on products only by very slowly increasing memory capacity and changing the physical shape in arbitrary ways to make something unchanged from the first version to make it seem fresh. Apple and the iPod ate their lunch and they went bankrupt. See also Commodore's criminal mismanagement of the Amiga.
The Cowon iAudio7 players I liked a lot always had button failure. I got one of the Chinese evolutions of the popular AGPTEK mp3 player (what the hell is that screensaver screen it always shows while playing music that has no useful info on it and why did the Chinese clones keep that?) and the play button failed. Some of the iAudio7s I got were refurbs that shipped with broken buttons. Trying to keep a working mp3 player has been a huge saga. Dug out an eBay Rio Sport I got for running a long time ago and it works but requires the Windows 32 bit app to talk to it since it doesn't know how to be a USB drive. It has 128 megs of memory but the "sport" models seem to have better construction. Hoping.
Most other other device that takes batteries has the batteries failing. I've been busy replacing them, but all of this just generates piles of ewaste. Lithium recycling I read is only currently reclaiming half of the lithium in recycled batteries which seems oddly inefficient.
Rough past couple of weeks for electronics. Button on the old Rio Forge mp3 player died. This was an eBay item picked as the last Rio mp3 player made, when they finally figured out how to make the player show up as a USB flash drive instead of requiring their Windows-only software. It also took up to a 4gb SD card. It also had an extremely chintzy build. This is a classic corporate story. They were the first to market with an mp3 player, and immediately got locked in to a tunnel vision of cutting costs and iterating on products only by very slowly increasing memory capacity and changing the physical shape in arbitrary ways to make something unchanged from the first version to make it seem fresh. Apple and the iPod ate their lunch and they went bankrupt. See also Commodore's criminal mismanagement of the Amiga.
The Cowon iAudio7 players I liked a lot always had button failure. I got one of the Chinese evolutions of the popular AGPTEK mp3 player (what the hell is that screensaver screen it always shows while playing music that has no useful info on it and why did the Chinese clones keep that?) and the play button failed. Some of the iAudio7s I got were refurbs that shipped with broken buttons. Trying to keep a working mp3 player has been a huge saga. Dug out an eBay Rio Sport I got for running a long time ago and it works but requires the Windows 32 bit app to talk to it since it doesn't know how to be a USB drive. It has 128 megs of memory but the "sport" models seem to have better construction. Hoping.
Most other other device that takes batteries has the batteries failing. I've been busy replacing them, but all of this just generates piles of ewaste. Lithium recycling I read is only currently reclaiming half of the lithium in recycled batteries which seems oddly inefficient.
