I’m optimistic too, but I can’t help wonder if the post scarcity world, like the future, won’t be evenly distributed.

I was around in the 80’s in the UK and this was a real thing:

https://newsthump.com/2026/01/28/uk-on-verge-of-return-to-he...

The ZX81 had that too, at least the UK ones did.

The keyboard itself, er, takes some getting used to. But they are a little cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81...

Good job the Brits are asleep as they’d be cracking up at these comments.

Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”

Not serious, and you got it.

Obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

But Unifi should be able to implement this with zero extra hardware, just with VPN-style clients on phones and laptops?

I'm just surprised this needs an extra device. It would make sense if the device provided its own connectivity (with global wireless service, say), but this doesn't seem to be the case here. It still needs an uplink.

That's already an option, too.

Like DCC (1992)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

It’s amazing to see this. How good are the transports in these modern units? I seem to remember when cassettes died the first time, the whole ecosystem went away, from Chrome Dioxide cassettes to good quality transports, which took a long time to get right. How do these compare to a good quality unit from the 80’s and 90’s?

Is transport the bit that reels the tapes? I watched a YouTube video recently about these that said that it seems all these modern ones are using basically the same mechanism from a PRC factory, and thus the minimum size is quite large.

Since Sony doesn't manufacture their phenomenally small mechanisms anymore, the era of the tape sized tape player is gone unless someone invests millions in r&d and setting up manufacturing.

Also in terms of quality: fine, but the video found better quality from vintage units he had cleaned up.

I don't have the video saved sorry.

The video is probably from the “techmoan” channel. Very good content.

They’re not very good. As the other comment said, they all use the same mechanism. It gets the job done, but that also means the “premium” models are rip offs. Basically lipstick on a pig, so to speak.

Sadly I don’t see new mechanisms appearing anytime soon. But there is still hope. There have been new film cameras with modern innards recently released.

Then this one?

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/05/10/scala-series-its-...

I grew up in South Hylton where the Cretehawser was basically dumped near Claxheugh Rock (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not a Mackem!) Proper fun 70’s and 80’s adventure to be had getting on board at low tide. Can’t imagine the authorities being happy with kids doing this today!

It had lots of stories associated with it and it was a strange thing to see just sitting there in a shipbuilding town. Happy to see it get a mention on the site [1] and there’s an article with better photos here [2].

[1] https://thecretefleet.com/wwi-uk

[2] https://fabulousnorth.com/cretehawser-wreck/

Similarly, there are also abandoned concrete barges in the Manchester ship canal: https://youtu.be/ExKPh9mszFE

There is one at Seaton Sluice, now (almost?) completely buried by sand.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36891793@N08/8033301173/

My home town, Sunderland in the UK, is home to the National Glass Centre and has an amazing relationship with Pyrex, until 2007.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-century-of-pyrex-i...