When Napster fell there were lots of alternatives for peer-to-peer file sharing to fill the vacuum but The Next Big Thing was torrents. Maybe Tribler will be The Next Big Think and replace centralized torrent aggregators.
I personally have about the same number of devices as I did through the decades but I have a lot more gadgets. I used to have a cell phone for phone calls and texting, a camera for taking pictures, and a portable audio player (Walkman then Discman then MP3 player) for listening to music. I now own a phone that does all of that, but I also have an 8mp digital camera that takes better pictures and an MP3 player that is more compact and comfortable when I go to the gym. I've never owned a stand-alone GPS but I now have one in my phone. If I had a day-to-day need for a GPS or needed better accuracy for hiking or geocaching I would get one for that purpose. I have never owned a stand-alone handheld gaming system but my phone can do that too. Of course, if I was serious about handheld gaming I'd get something like a PS Vita. When I looked into getting an eReader I ended up with an Android tablet. It works as an eReader plus everything my phone does plus plays HD videos and even hooks up to my TV via HDMI. I bought a Bluetooth dongle for my car and can read engine codes with it. But now I wish I had got a one-trick-pony eReader for the better display and longer battery life.
My ~$200 Pandigital Supernova does all that. I like the TuneIn app for streaming radio. I also have a decent set of Bluetooth stereo headphones. I can charge the headphones off the OTG USB when the unit's charger is plugged in.
I did this over a decade ago. I put a DPDT toggle switch in the drive bay cover and wired it to the DRIVE 1 and DRIVE 2 jumpers on a pair of MFM hard drives. With the flip of a switch I could boot into DOS or AIX. Back in the day, it required a pair of identical drives. But today the BIOS will auto-detect at boot so you could do it with the MASTER and SLAVE jumpers on IDE drives or get real creative and tap into the CSEL lines on the ribbon connector.
Heck, I might try hot-wiring a rotary switch to the multiplier jumpers on a MOBO just so I can turn the processor speed up to 11.
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When Napster fell there were lots of alternatives for peer-to-peer file sharing to fill the vacuum but The Next Big Thing was torrents. Maybe Tribler will be The Next Big Think and replace centralized torrent aggregators.
I personally have about the same number of devices as I did through the decades but I have a lot more gadgets. I used to have a cell phone for phone calls and texting, a camera for taking pictures, and a portable audio player (Walkman then Discman then MP3 player) for listening to music. I now own a phone that does all of that, but I also have an 8mp digital camera that takes better pictures and an MP3 player that is more compact and comfortable when I go to the gym. I've never owned a stand-alone GPS but I now have one in my phone. If I had a day-to-day need for a GPS or needed better accuracy for hiking or geocaching I would get one for that purpose. I have never owned a stand-alone handheld gaming system but my phone can do that too. Of course, if I was serious about handheld gaming I'd get something like a PS Vita. When I looked into getting an eReader I ended up with an Android tablet. It works as an eReader plus everything my phone does plus plays HD videos and even hooks up to my TV via HDMI. I bought a Bluetooth dongle for my car and can read engine codes with it. But now I wish I had got a one-trick-pony eReader for the better display and longer battery life.
My ~$200 Pandigital Supernova does all that. I like the TuneIn app for streaming radio. I also have a decent set of Bluetooth stereo headphones. I can charge the headphones off the OTG USB when the unit's charger is plugged in.
I did this over a decade ago. I put a DPDT toggle switch in the drive bay cover and wired it to the DRIVE 1 and DRIVE 2 jumpers on a pair of MFM hard drives. With the flip of a switch I could boot into DOS or AIX. Back in the day, it required a pair of identical drives. But today the BIOS will auto-detect at boot so you could do it with the MASTER and SLAVE jumpers on IDE drives or get real creative and tap into the CSEL lines on the ribbon connector. Heck, I might try hot-wiring a rotary switch to the multiplier jumpers on a MOBO just so I can turn the processor speed up to 11.