Wow. I haven’t heard Eudora used in a conversation since, shit, 1998 maybe? Had no idea it had a following still. This is like “pine” level shit for email.
Paying bills with a check, through the mail.
It’s the only mail app I’ve found that manages the UI in the way I want - no new windows for anything. It also handles multiple accounts like a dream. And moving it between different systems and/or restoring it from a dead hard drive or whatever is easy as pie.
I tried Thunderbird within the past few decades but it couldn’t deal with it. Eudora has been my jam since 1997.
That is, for my work email. Everything else is through Gmail. Can’t beat that spam control.
I write letters to my friends with a fountain pen. My youngest pen is from the 1940’s.
Really it would be a much shorter list of modern technologies I have, reluctantly and long long after everyone else, adopted. Mostly I like doing things the same way I always did. A few things, like gps for the car, and a calculator, I think of as handicap equipment – I have dyscalculia --than great progress.
Yep. It was about the time when the “emails should always be text only” crowd got drowned out, and then Gmail happened and madness ensued.
There are certain modern technological shifts I embrace, and certain others I avoid as long as possible. I have one foot in luddite, one in technophile.
My emails are text only. I get sent all of these emails from mailing lists I’m on, and I have no clue what they say because all they have is a whole heap of boxes and stuff presumably linking to something else. I never know what they say.
Australia went metric the year I was born (1966) and I grew up in a half metric half imperial world. My dad always spoke imperial but my mum who came from Finland was already metric.
So height for is always in feet/inches but I prefer metric for pretty much everything else.
Oh and yes of course I still have vinyl, my then 18 year old son bought home a record player and a couple of his favourite bands records and when I heard the sound I walked (how retro of me) and purchased a nice record player and dug out my records in the basement. It doesn’t get used much but when I have the time to sit and listen with a nice glass of red I do.
I also have a beautiful valve radio from the 1940’s (I think) that was my grandpa’s and nothing beats listening to the cricket on a lazy Sunday arvo on it. The warm sound takes me back to sitting in my grandpa’s shed as he tinkered away on something.
I’m also “broken” when it comes to height. I know what I am in metric, but if I hear a description on the tv of somebody in metric, I have no idea how tall they are, I only understand 5’10" or something in the “old money”.
My wristwatch. It has numbers and a dial and two hands, and I can tell the time without pulling my phone out of my pocket. Just like I have read dial clocks and watches for years.
Newspapers and magazines. I have read them online, but having read them in paper format for so long, it’s just not the same online. I like having a hardcopy newspaper or magazine to read.
Watches always made me break out or got wet, smashed, or left behind on the sink, and I don’t miss newspaper ink at all.
Sex. I’m sticking with that man/woman thing. No Chinese robots for this guy. Maybe when WestWorld robots become a reality I’ll give them a try.
OP chiming back in.
Interesting read. I hadn’t considered the pre-electronic level of technology. I just wanted to see if there were still others like me when I couldn’t locate my Walkman when I wanted to mow lawn the other day.
And as to the analog clock, I will look up from whatever screen I am using to look at a wall clock if there is one in the room. I realized I did that at work one day when I took off my cheaters to see the clock and I was wondering why I did that.
Let’s keep this clean. Get out of the gutter.
Newspaper ink is the best thing ever for cleaning glass. Trust me. No, don’t trust me. Try it yourself. Streak free and shiny spotless!
A little Windex and a sheet of newsprint. Bird killing recipe.
It’s the paper, not the ink. You can get it at UHaul.
Compared to what you can do with real instruments, they are most definitely toys, in that their basic ability to play - the mechanics of their action - is ridiculously limited. They’re like sunroof, heated seats, leather everywhere, keyless entry, 12-speaker stereo, … and a Yugo engine. And no power steering. I don’t doubt that work gets done with those shitty tools, but they’re still shitty tools.
Gnus is working very nicely here - and there are even updates from time to time! 
Fahrenheit is no more suited to weather than Celsius. Perhaps less, in fact, because Fahrenheit’s zero is meaningless in everyday life, while the zero in Celsius is freezing. For weather, 40 Celsius is damn hot, minus 40 Celsius is damn cold, everything else is in the middle. Sounds easy to me, and is in fact easy.
Please cite the way in which miles have been discovered to be satisfying, for people who previously only knew kilometres.
It’s true that the action of electronic keyboards has always been one of the toughest things to get right. It’s pretty good these days though, and electronic keyboards are used by a number of musicians who could afford to take a genuine grand piano, Rhodes, or B3, etc. out on the road if they wished.
I understand the differences will always be there but to call these instruments “toys” when they are used by serious musicians is a bit beyond the pale.
It’s also possible that I somehow missed the thrust of your posts.
I wear a pocket watch, I do maths in my head or with pen & paper, basic weights & measures are Imperial, not metric.
Me too. Have to run it in a virtual machine (MacOS 10.6.8 Server) but yeah still using Eudora for my email.
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^^^ yeah, REAL Eudora.