did i do okay? im a retarded zoomer and wanted to listen to the local smooth jazz station at home. all of the ones at target sounded like shit in reviews.
Cool clock, Arnold.
Zoomers and old things is a literal cargo cult kek
>>109355422You have no imagination if you can't see why it's appealing to them. If there was an entire generation of old tech out before I was born I'd be curious about it too.
>>109355422Why do you blame us when millenifags ruined the world by gladly embracing subscriptions and enshittified cucked electronics?
>>109355462NTA, but I'm not interested in owning old tech because everything used to give you cancer if you even so much as looked at it funny back then--most certainly still the case. >>109355403>all of the ones at target sounded like shit in reviewsYeah, most consumer electronics are chinkshit, regardless of whether they're made in Burgerland, or CHYNA. Blame the Plaza Accord. >wanted to listen to the local smooth jazz station at homeMost radio hosts are insufferable faggots.
>>109355403Gemini said this was unsafe tho
>>109355517I asked Claude right now and she said it's fine
>>109355403you can usually find these at thrift stores for under 10 bucks.
>>109355403If you wanted a clock radio with decent sound you should've just got one of those Bose Wave radios
>>109355481>NTA, but I'm not interested in owning old tech because everything used to give you cancer if you even so much as looked at it funny back then--most certainly still the case.That's just your imagination.
>>109355403Had that exact one, kek, the KMart GE one. It literally never, ever failed in 20 years of service. It ended getting crushed in an apartment move. When you listen to 80s and 90s music, remember the original masters had to sound "good" on this, which is why so many of them were remastered once people stopped using these. It's zero bass with a crisp, poppin midrange along with a scaled back treble made these perfect for a soundtrack to 00 era day drinking and playing NES.
lol I have that radio. Parents bought it before I can remember, maybe before I was born. The numbers on the display started glitching a while back so that you'd look once and it'd say 3:45, look away and back and it'd say E:L0 or something. Had to open it and clean decades of grease and dust out to get it to stop making me think I was insane. Anyway, I don't think you're going to find the sound quality to be any better than anything else. >>109355481>afraid of getting cancer from a clockYou have a compulsion to lick everything or something?
>>109355403You can use a simple radio app and use IOS shortcuts to automate it launch it as your alarm. Don't need to buy dinosaur shit
>>109355559>t. high-energy particle>>109355555Checked.
>>109355555The Gods agree. These were literally magic alien technology at the time.
>>109355403I had one of those (well and a slightly earlier version) basically my whole life. Went to sleep every night listening to oldies, back when they were actually oldies (like 50s-60s music).
>>109355403Yeah you are based and foresightpilled. You can also use it as an alarm clock and keep your phone out of your room.
>>109355403Do radio stations still play any music that isn't nigger shit? Radio stations in my area got rid of most genres of music.
>>109355462>If there was an entire generation of old tech out before I was bornThere is, and yet you don't seem curious about it at all given you don't even know about it. How interesting.
>>109355982Seems like anti-AI backlash caused some stations around here to shift towards a more human centric style with DJs. Mainly country, 70s/80s/90s top 100, and 90s/00s hip hop.
>>109355982most major markets should have classic rock, greatest hits (pop musics from the 70s-90s) and a hot AC station that mostly plays new pop hits. out side of that theres probably a country station. AM radio is still 75+ percent right wing talk shows.
>>109356026Haven't listened to radio in my car since the mid to late 2000's but in my area at the time, I could count maybe less than 10 stations. At one point they got rid of the only rock station for poka music. That's when I finally realized radio is fucking garbage and stopped listening to it.
>>109355403Why? AI can do this better and more productively.
>>109355555my grandma has one of these i hope she didn't throw it away.
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>>109355403I have one +35y old still working fine.Only thing I'm worried about is when they stop transmitting FM. DAB is pretty much standard here now..
>>109356242These become very sensitive to brownouts as they age. OP's model is much more robust.
>>109355462there was an entire of generation of tech before that too, but you didnt give a single shit about sparc and sgi workstations, amigas, commodores, or record playersin fact, when you saw them at a garage sale, you asked your mom why they didnt just throw it away
>>109355549This. I had one with digits twice that size in college. It was great, I got up the same time every morning.
>>109355555Got one of these on top of my fridge, good choice there.
>>109356254You have to get one that's new enough to have the backup 9 volt battery bay.
>>109356273At some point in the 90s they added a capacitor that kept charge for about 5 minutes for short blips in power, it essentially just shut down the LEDs.You can test if you have one by letting it charge for a few hours, then unplugging for 30 seconds and seeing if the time reset. I remember when it came out because my mom had to move one to another outlet and it kept the time. It spawned some sort of neighborhood investigation until a WW II EE set everyone straight.
>>109356299kept the time with no 9V battery installed, that is
>>109355422>radio: :/>radio vintage General Electric red LED: :O
>>109355403No.
>>109355555Checkem
Any high end radios worth buying? My parents want something Gucci I currently have a Sangean WR-16SE. Its nice but i feel like they deserve more you know.
>>109356960go an extra mile and buy them a small generator along with it with traditional batteries and solar, perfect for blackouts that last less than 16 h
>>109356929>Hard-coded wake up alarm that for some reason moves a few minutes every day, except for twice a year when it jumps an entire hour
>>109356982Wow thanks for the none reply go fuck yourself.
>>109355403For an alarm clock for your bedroom, it's excellent. Practically everything today wants to use great big numbers with green or blue LEDs that light your whole fucking room when you turn out the lights. This has dimmer red numbers that are visible but won't disturb your sleep or mess up your circadian rhythm.For listening to music, it's going to sound like a cheap radio. Small speakers are always ass, especially older ones. For listening to the radio, get a small radio with an aux jack. You can plug that into headphones, speakers, or a Bluetooth transmitter if you have a decent sounding Bluetooth speaker that doesn't have an aux jack.
>>109356929That just tells you the time. If you want to add an alarm function you need to get one of these.
>>109356356Yes? What wrong is there to say about getting a nice looking appliance?
>>109357153$25 is overpriced, $5 at garage sale
>>109355403lol what its like $5 a thrift store are you tarded
>>109357199>>109357243iPad kids nowadays are buying fucking canon powershot """digicams""" from IG shops/ebay for $200 kek
>>109355555Damn my dad used to have this one around 30 years ago. I remember the remote's buttons being so cool to the touch. Fucking based
>>109355573>E:L0It was just trying to say hello.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMPpHWxXag
>>109355403clock radios are awesome. setting alrams to radio stations is so fucking cool. radio is still an awesome content provider
>>109355422Have you taken a look outside in the past 3-5 years, fag?
>>109357263My cousin bought one of these, says "it takes the greatest photos!" and refuses to not use the flash.Zoomers are getting nostalgic over the photos their parents took when they were 5 and unironically think that 7 megapixel digital photos with a full flash are the peak of photography.
>>109355403It's TikTok faggots like you who are destroying the market for old tech. Fuck. Off.
>>109355403ge
>>109356242>Only thing I'm worried about is when they stop transmitting FM.never gonna happen
>>109357714Well, it uses a CCD sensor, so personally for me the pictures feel better than with CMOS devices. More warm.
>>109358998>never gonna happenRight? If anything is going to get shut down its AM.
>>109356191Just tell her if she decides to get rid of it to give it to you
>>109356242Some parts of Europe have already shut down their FM stations but it's not going away any time soon in the US since we don't have DAB here.
>>109355422>new thing le goodfuck off, consumerfagif you can get decently made old stuff for cheap why the fuck is that a bad thing?t. millenial
>>109356960I like Sangean radios because they're one of the very few brands sold in the US that have RDS, for whatever reason it's really only in cars there and even on home stereo units that have it overseas it's disabled on the US models.
>>109357130based
>>109357714There even selling shitty "digital cameras" at a lot of stores now to cater to nostalgic zoomers that look like they're using sensors straight out of a 00's flip phone.
>>109355555>insanely expensive even 30 years later in "for parts" listings on ebayNot even digits can convince me it's actually that good.>>109355982You could look up what stations are in your area, but judging by your post you'd want some chatbot to hallucinate things for you instead.
>>109360154Most of the "for parts" listings are probaby just because the cd player stopped working which the early models had issues with or newer models without buttons missing the remote. The radio tuner and aux inputs probably still work perfectly fine.
>>109359835>for cheapcheap is not $25 kek
>>109357714Ever since Nokia left the smartphone market, smartphones stopped using the very simple but effective xenon flash to improve photos and instead we have an AI hallucinated hellscape. Maybe your cousin has been suckered in by the digicam vintage vibe thing popular among zoomers but I hope the trend continues as a fuck you to smartphone companies for the AI crap, awful fake bokeh, face filters, etc. The older smartphones had the right balance where they would do a little bracketing and stacking to reduce noise and keep highlights from blowing out but it's ridiculous now.
>>109355403$2 at the yard sale, you got robbed.
>>109355403>buy vintage clock radio at a premium price>sleep on my phone every night>use my phone to find my way to the bathroom in the darkVanity of vanities, all is vanity.
>>109355403>>109355555>>109356242funny how everything built 40 years ago still works fineunlike the samsung lgbt 4k+ made in 2026 that will die in 2 years
>>109360837Why do you consider this some profundity? Electronic things are far smaller and do far more tasks per unit. That's a choice industry made with full knowledge of the trade-off. You going to take the derailleur off your bike and ride it single speed? Gonna drive air cooled only? All your clothes black only? Maybe you can push things back in the direction you want to see them going.
>>109355466shut your goofy ass up and go play roblox
>>109360837You're suffering from survivorship bias, there has always been garbage, low quality trash and budget ewaste, you don't see them in used listings or in thrift stores because they're deep underground in a landfill.
>>109360837To be fair, radios are a solved technology, even the cheapest shittiest ones. The CD player might crap out within a few years but the radio tuner will survive until the heat death of the universe.
>>109358998they already transmit on hybrid digital FM, some stations are exclusively hybrid digital FM>>109357056these old things base their clock on the frequency from the wall, if there’s a change or it’s slightly off the standard electrical frequency then the clock drifts, it’s normal.
>>109357714>>109357263Better than cell phone cameras. >>109361466Radios may be a solved problem, but audio quality isn't. It was, but then they decided bluetooth, tiny speakers, phone and tablet outputs were more important than audio quality. Even a cheap, shitty speaker with a fake tweeter in a flakeboard box from a 40 year old budget stereo system beats what most marketed devices have now.
>>109357714Migapickles don't make a photo good or bad. Composition and feeling do. Flash can be great, especially since sometimes you literally don't have enough light to take the photo otherwise. That's all it's there for, to add light when you don't have enough in the scene.>>109358999Snakeoil for the most part, but yeah, there's a nice nostalgic vibe to SooC jpegs on CCD that's not there on CMOS. That said, with CMOS RAWs you can do pretty much anything.
>>109355403just wonderingdid you want me to find your ebay profile?because i found your ebay profilejust lmk if i am supposed to do smth with itas your further instructions are unclear
>>109357714To be honest, it makes photos with soul, compared to soulless phone cameras, even IPhone 4 images had more SOUL to them than modern phone cameras which look too processed and fake
>>109355403>did i do okay?faggot, go to reddit if you want approbation for wasting money on e-waste.
>>109361656>psychopathic autist digs up an ebay profile based solely on a generic clock radio and a purchase dateAnimals like you belong in a cage.
>>109355403NGL you riped them off! Id pay $50 for that
>>109355403I have a portable AM/FM/SW radio from Tecsun and I like it a lot. Audio quality is great, it's portable and it picks up a lot of stations too.
>>109355403If you are going to do that at least buy the fun era specific stuff this looks like the shit you find in goodwill that nobody wants to resell
have fun setting the time every 2 weeks guess some of us only learn things the hard way
>>109365255What shithole do you live in where you constantly need to reset the clock due to power loss? commiefornia?
>>109359835New amd innovative technology is indeed good, but we can still appreciate the classics as a lot of those older relics still hold up well to this day.>Inb4 zoomerI wish I was that young again. I'm approaching 40 and it only feels like yesterday I was 15.
Try a Boofwang UV-5R. Enjoy HAM radio while having an FM tuner as a secondary feature.
>>109355555Sharper Image-core slop for upper-middle class gold digger wives
>>109355403Only techtok larpers buy this type of shit. Next you are going to buy a 500 dollar desk lamp.
i set my phone alarm to that models alarm tonepeak comfy>>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kf5RA7bNnP4
