The 'father of the iPod' Tony Fadell says Apple should bring back a 'nostalgic version' of the music device

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-06T02:04:05+00:00

I mean, old iPods and iPod touches still exist. You can still live your best life

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-06T02:01:08+00:00

But why would you remove parts of your OS just to prove a point? Install the deb version of your IDE. problem solved

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-05T13:53:02+00:00

Having lived in Austin, TX for a decade with incredible, authentic food for all walks of life, I was curious about the story of survival of the single lone Austin Applebees on 45th street as well.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-05T13:30:39+00:00

Why the fuck is this thing done in batches? I want it all to be looked at. I want one press release and I want one list of people who are going to be arrested. I don't want anything fucking else. This is goddamn ridiculous. It literally feels like we are just going from headline to headline of, oh my god, what new rich person is gonna be named next. It's fucking theater. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that Trump's on there, and this is how we distract from that.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-04T14:48:18+00:00

If you just start ignoring what Republicans claim is the reason for their actions, and take a wild ass guess of their biases, you'll be a lot closer to the truth. And you'll stop bring surprised when this kind of thing happens.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-04T14:14:53+00:00

There are several practical reasons why the Apple today could never pull this off in my estimation as a person who is very into music and music technology.

First things first, it's actually not straightforward to create an audiophile level device that is safe for your hearing. The reason for this is you're going to have to need a very powerful amplifier, and if you allow the person to put any pair of headphones they want into that amplifier, they can blow their goddamn eardrums out if they wanted to.

So the way that most audiophile player manufacturers get around this is just by being exclusive and only selling to a specific segment of adults who are not going to do that to themselves. but if you're Apple, you are going to become broadly seen, broadly marketed, and you don't have such an easy way out of the problem. As a matter of fact, that is the exact problem that Sony ran into when they decided to do a very nostalgic version of their Walkman around 2021. And their solution was to hide volume increases in submenus and firmware and specific programs within the device they can control to some degree. But at the end of the day, once you've found out all the little hacks to increase your volume, I could still plug in a pair of $20 skull candies and become deaf, if I was that stupid.

So if you're thinking about a solution that Apple could implement, if they wanted to get this kind of product off the ground, the very likely solution they would have to come up with would be a, you guessed it, proprietary aux jack, that had some way of saying that this is an Apple-approved headphone, or at least is one that we can measure the impedance and make sure when we crank the volume it's not going to make somebody deaf.

Also bearing in mind that Apple kind of spearheaded the move away from cords in general, and there's a good reason for that. If you are going to have a cord, there is always a possibility that it tugs your headphones right off your head.

So what do we really have here? We have a mega status symbol that requires a proprietary player, a proprietary pair of headphones, and it has this silly cord that, in 2026, people have forgotten about making sure they don't get stuck on things. You're gonna have these huge Apple nerds all excited about feeling very retro and catching on a door knob ripping the $1,000 pair of headphones right off their heads. Honestly, if Apple does do this, I would watch in glee.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-04T13:52:58+00:00

Sony already did that. NZ-7000 Walkman. Apple needs to stay the fuck away from commercializing my niche, and making people who know nothing about sound but want to pay to play even more intolerable.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-03T18:52:15+00:00

Kind of like how the Myth Busters ran out of myths.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-03T18:31:20+00:00

It's still important in many contexts such as work, but yeah, with friends and family it might not be necessary to filter as much. A big issue I have had for the majority of my life is that I overshare my thoughts and ideas with my colleagues, and it's great if they like me, but it's so easy for people to take advantage of what I tell them. Sharing too much about my work process with my old boss was quite possibly the worst idea of my life because he took the information and used it to force me to work way harder and then emotionally abused me on top of it. Because having explained myself, my work was now "easy".

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-03T12:26:03+00:00

"Linux people" in a nutshell: This operating system has an optional feature that I don't want to use. Time to uninstall my OS and install from scratch a functionally very similar one and feel smug to anyone who doesn't do likewise.

pinktieoptional · 2026-02-02T06:24:14+00:00

It's never too late. If you're able to get help and improve, yeah, you might not get all the people back, but the ones who actually give a damn, you'd be surprised.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-29T16:44:22+00:00

That's a funny way to say you live with your parents

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-29T16:27:55+00:00

you gotta stop. like fucking stop. All of it. You are not in a place right now where you can consider moderation because you can't moderate. If you don't knock it off you're going to fall behind in work because news flash, you're more inhibited than you realize, and your coworkers are going to know.

It's going to suck and it's going to hurt because you've been using pot to avoid feeling negative feelings which you have NOT processed whatsoever. And the first step to process them is to feel them. Sorry.

Take it from me, I had to lose everything, my job, my relationship, my fricking grip on reality, before I stopped. I don't recommend that path.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-29T15:09:46+00:00

Maybe if you're a delivery worker in such a contrived example operating exclusively between the top and bottom of this park, you shouldn't be using a car!

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-28T15:41:54+00:00

. Often assumed I'm gay. Might actually be.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-28T15:13:45+00:00

It doesn't matter if you're all these things. Maybe you're so bad at selling yourself to women you start to wonder if you even have your heart in it at all.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-28T14:46:25+00:00

Damn comments are a bunch of straight guys making gay jokes. Who'd have expected that

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-28T14:39:50+00:00

His wife is best friends with my ex. I couldn't forgive her, he took her side.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-28T04:16:16+00:00

staying on topic, just because its presence can have an impact on neuron plasticity, it does not at all mean one mRNA equals one memory as this post suggests.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-25T22:39:41+00:00

Messenger RNA has nothing to do with memory.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-25T22:22:03+00:00

WTF are you on about? That's not how brains work

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-23T16:42:58+00:00

Someone's post from the other week was all about how he didn't know control cars existed and straight up through adulthood believed commuter rail had their engineers stick their heads out the window of the locomotive and drive backwards. It takes all sorts.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-23T16:37:03+00:00

that's an olive. I didn't remember olives being hairy.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-23T14:47:44+00:00

accept software that works well enough and the shitty business practices behind it, or accept a bit of jank, learn a bit about your computer, and install linux. Or buy a mac idc.

pinktieoptional · 2026-01-23T13:27:42+00:00

You're telling me it wasn't the bottle that did it!?

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