“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On

I can't even think for a second that books can be obsolete ? I mean books ? That's the last stuff i would keep at home. No electricity but you can read.

I dont know anyone who thinks they are obsolete.

As one whose presence is tolerated by 4000 books, in a very small house, I totally understand this. I do use a Kindle, but I still love the book. And I don't trust Kindle to leave my books alone (just outright gone, or being edited), so usually when I order the Kindle, it is in addition to the print copy.

We are more than a decade into e-readers, we can confidently say ebooks haven't replaced books and both media complement one another.

Nothing beats real paper.

Yes! Bring back buttons and knobs please

I hope they get rid of these things. We are not allowed to use our cell phones, because it supposedly is too distracting to have a conversation with someone. Oh, but take your eyes off the road and change a temperature or radio station, that's safe!!! I have a simple car, manual transmission, buttons and knobs for the radio and temp control in car, knobs that I can get by feel. I can do all that I need without taking my eyes off the road.

Thankfully, mine has a touchscreen but still has physical buttons for things like heating, windscreen heater, fan etc.

while driving, I have found that the bouncing around from the road OFTEN results in the wrong function being selected on a touchscreen. With a k**b, my hands stays put and I can operate without even looking at it. A vehicle is not the environment for a touchscreen interface.

My car doesn't have a touchscreen. The manufacturer doesn't make them anymore. It's a big screen that looks like a touchscreen, and you can use Apple CarPlay on it, but you have to use the console between the driver seat and the passenger seat to use it. It's pretty straight forward, really.

Books, CDs, DVDs, records yep. Only costed me once and it's mine.

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Just copy it all to computer storage. It's not the physical media you need, just the independent storage it provides, and you can get that for real cheap these days, using cloud storage only a a backup.

I have 4 containers of my favourite cds. Which o still play on my nearly 20 year old technics separates. Still have around 100 dvds I often use my dvd

hey-ho a pirate life for me

You don't rent physical books. Once you've bought it, it's yours: you don't have to worry about keeping up a subscription, or the publisher withdrawing it. Unless you check it out of a library.

I still have a couple of 2 terabyte external hard drives that I use to store data and I unplug them when I'm done accessing them.

When something is important, I always put a copy of it in an OFFLINE archive.

Could not agree more.. HOWEVER, there is no absolutely secure or incorruptible media. A backup scheme will rely on multiples of many types. Redundancy.

Same with Dropbox!

I wish I had a TB external drive for this D: but so espensive

As a fellow hiker, I confirm paper maps are more practical and of a sturdy material

I still have a road atlas in the car. I don't use it, but it is there in case of emergencies. Before satnav, I used to use it to plan my journeys for work.

I’m always afraid that if I, or the mapping program screws up, I’ll be completely LOST ! Not with a paper map !

I would NEVER tackle a hike without a printed OS map and a proper compass. To rely on something that needs batteries to help you in an emergency is simply inviting trouble.

Plenty of apps that sow hiking paths, such as AllTrail, Ordnance Survey has a app too. There is a lot more out there than Google maps

This. I own a calender / notepad / planner / shopping list book. Since I found those earasable pens I don't use pencils anymore.

For scientific field notes - pencil. Ink runs in rain, and fades- graphite is eternal. You MUST be able to check your field notes 30 years later - your memory is not as good as the graphite. ( yes, I have a Rapidograph, it's only 20 times more trouble than the pencil.)

Absolutely need my paper and pen and notebooks and diary

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My parents always told me: "If you can't remember something, write it down." Been over 65 years + I still do!

Notes I did for school I had an app on my laptop for and it was a notebook I would use my drawing tablet to write in. Worked wonders, didn't need a million notebooks, and was still getting that funky fresh muscle memory goodness. I miss that in all honesty.

I crack up every time somebody approaches me with "Mister- I don't have my phone with me- can you tell me what time it is please?" I strive not to guffaw.

I also love the mechanical swiss and Japanese watches over quartz because of the craftsmanship and the mechanical factor and many are not expensive either