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Everything about this is wonderful. I do as much of my writing on a mechanical typewriter as I can, I use a rotary phone, and listen to vinyl records. This kid
by ginkgotree 3y ago
Everything about this is wonderful. I do as much of my writing on a mechanical typewriter as I can, I use a rotary phone, and listen to vinyl records. This kid takes it to a whole new level and I'm so happy to see someone passionate about being a luddite in the new generation
- Aloha 3y agoI also have rotary phones, use vintage radios, prefer vintage appliances, and listen to vinyl. I thought I was a little odd - nope, I'm just a normal level of odd in comparison.
- Aeolun 3y agoI’m starting to feel like a lot of people in tech have an outsize love for more vintage stuff.
- Aloha 3y agoI like the vintage stuff because its usually easier to operate, and better built. My vintage west bend percolator makes the best coffee you'll have - it makes maxwell house taste good. I have 60 year old Zenith radios that work great, and have needed zero parts.
- SoftTalker 3y agoDo rotary phones even work anymore? I had thought (perhaps mistakenly) that support for them was dropped a number of years ago.
- johnzim 3y agoI thought that too. Pulse dialing can’t possibly work anymore. Is OP sure it’s not a retrofit?
- bydo 3y agoThere are pulse to tone converters: https://www.dialgizmo.com https://www.dialgizmo.com
- function_seven 3y agoThe VoIP gateways we were installing a few years ago still supported pulse dialing on the FXS lines. Those gateways supported all sorts of archaic and arcane POTS features. All the classic feature codes (like *69) had support. I think it could be set up to emulate a DMS-100 or a 5Ess as well. If you have a copper landline from your local telephone company, I'm willing to bet it still supports pulse dialing? Maybe it's 50/50 now?
- phirschybar 3y agoha. this just reminded me that some old touchtone phones had a pulse button in case you needed it.
- Stratoscope 3y agoEvery POTS phone I've ever seen, touchtone included, has a pulse button. It's the hook switch!
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThere are adapters available.
- thornygreb 3y agoI have a functioning rotary phone connected to POTS. I do live in the sticks though. Only issue is automated systems that ask me to dial 1 for foo, 2 for bar, etc. But a lot of those now actually also take voice.
- bobowzki 3y agoYou can play dtmf into the microphone with a separate device
- jonathankoren 3y agoBlue boxing is back baby! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
- Aeolun 3y agoShouldn’t that still work there if they work for dialling?
- crtasm 3y agoNo, the dialing on a rotary phone is done by quickly closing and opening the circuit (this means you can tap out numbers by hand on the switch that detects you hanging up the handset). Press 1 to continue systems require the DTMF tones to be played down the line, either by the phone or any other device held up to it.
- kevinsync 3y agoI commented [0] on this a while back, there are hybrid adapters that bridge Bluetooth to old handsets. I have an older version of this [1] and a few different phones I've successfully used with it. YMMV [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484671 [1] https://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Technolgoies-XLink-Bluetooth-Gateway/dp/B08RXF16XD https://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Technolgoies-XLink-Bluetooth-G...
- toast0 3y agoYes, last year, I setup a real CenturyLink POTS line for my MIL in a condo near me, and tested my rotary phone on the line, and it works fine. That phone won't dial with my VoIP ATAs, even though they say they work with pulse dialing though. I'm hoping it continues to work when utility power goes out, but we haven't had a long enough outage to test since I set it up.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoI want to live in the 90s. CD audio is a little bit nicer tech. They say vinyls release VOCs. There's Internet, but not enough to drown in.
- airstrike 3y agoYeah, Seinfeld is my go to mental reference for the perfect time period... and I'm not even a huge fan of the show, having only watched bits and pieces
- sylens 3y agoEh, I think the early days of broadband and wireless routers were it for me. Being able to have multiple devices in the house use an Internet connection was great for school work and such....but before you had the internet in your pocket at all times via a smartphone. Early 2000s
- coldtea 3y agoAbout CDs being "nicer tech", even quite a few people growing up in the CD era disagree with that. Vinyl is more tactile, has bigger album covers, demands more focus in the music (like how it takes more effort to skip). CDs are like an awkward in-between phase between vinyl and downloads/streaming. Besides it's absolutely not vinyl VOCs that will get you. Compared with health low hanging fruit, from diet and exercize, to stress, bad sleep, to BS substances in modern industrial food and city air pollution, it's beyond insignificant.
- ghaff 3y agoAs someone who has spanned eras, I don't really disagree. I embraced CDs because they were a lot more practical in many ways, but we did lose something in the process--physicality, album art, etc. The same is true with photography or writing for that matter. Ultimately I've always pretty much embraced the new but I understand why someone wouldn't--especially if forced to live through it.
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- kuon 3y agoI have one with a SIP VOIP converter. I had to add a resistor or the sound was too lound. But it works.
- Aloha 3y agoA 500 set is not really well optimized for 40ma+ of loop current.
- bigmattystyles 3y agoYea, I went in expecting him to ask for followers / clicks but there was none of that.
- mckn1ght 3y ago"Please subscribe to my monthly mail newsletter, I accept payment in the form of check or money order, or even trades"
- goles 3y agoIt does feel like putting tech into everything was novel (Cars becoming iPads with 4 wheels) and at some point the scales tipped into mechanical things with the least tech in them are novel (Mechanical watches[1], manual transmissions, typewriters, developing film, INS[2]). [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Speedmaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Speedmaster [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Ove...