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Walking around Lemmy like:

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And the constant one-upsmanship to make them more and more ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

then you remember they required a family of D batteries and lasted 2 hours tops. meanwhile my phone can connect to several speaker and headphone sets and deliver astonishing quality compared to tapes, while barely moving the battery meter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Only, like, 8 D cells, which only cost 1 paycheck or so 😅

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Imagine the lifespan you could get from one that's been converted to modern li-ion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What?!? They lasted months. MONTHS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If your phone did the full signal amplification and driving of the speakers, that battery would die pretty quickly too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I miss when hip hop was fun

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I liked the culture of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The decent ones are ridiculously expensive now. It's crazy. If the one he's holding is the one I think it is, that specific models is worth thousands now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought boomboxes were peak coolness in the 80’s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My dad wouldn't let me get one with 2 speakers. Only one speaker. I still don't understand that reasoning.

Like this:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol, that’s weird. “I forbid you from listening to music in stereo!”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably too much stimulation like that Kellogg brother was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or maybe he thought two speakers would be louder, and he didn’t want to be constantly bombarded by your satanic rap music.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That configuration allows for a much larger driver than if you had stereo mains—probably get some decent boom out of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Two speakers, meh. A lot of them had two tape decks and could copy tapes at 2x or 4x speed, for one-click music piracy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Radio Raheem was very polarizing, you either LOVE him or HATE him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I loved him

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Rest in power Radio.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

RADIO RAHEEM! THAT'S THE HYPE, YO!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Great movie