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Re: Heat Death of the Internet

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On Fri, 3 May 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 May 2024, Ben Collver wrote:
>>>
>>> You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a
>>> third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up
>>> yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you
>>
>> For app only restaurants I don't go to them, because I don't have a
>> smartphone. I have my favourite restaurants and there I can either call
>> to order, or order through their web site from my laptop.
>
> I've never ordered from a restaurant online, I expect it's a big
> city thing (in Australia, at least). I just searched for a local
> place that does pizzas some nights and they don't even have a
> website (there's a Facebook page, of course). I went to a fish and
> chip place in a city a few years ago that was cash-only.

Maybe. I do have a plan, at some point in my life, to move to a smaller 
city. Not yet, but maybe once I do, I might experience the same thing with 
a bit of luck. ;)

>> Here I find youtube and local public tv channels online to be good
>> sources. But this is an interesting point. Sometimes I think about if a
>> campaign to rescue old dvd:s and blueray:s would be successful? The idea
>> is to ask people to send me dvd:s and bluerays they no longer want and
>> build up a library. Where I live it is legal to lend out dvd:s as long
>> as its for private use and no money is involved. Imagine an Alexandria
>> of old dvd:s and bluerays which people could borrow, rip, and return.
>> Would anyone be interested?
>
> Scratched discs would be your enemy here. Old DVDs find their way
> to second hand stores which sell them for very little money, but
> usually a good percentage of them are scratched to unwatchability.
> Renting DVDs always had more risk than renting VHS tapes due to
> scratched discs, even though they usually had disc polishing
> machines which they might use to some effect after you went back
> to the store and complained. I don't think video DVDs and audio
> CDs were fit for the purpose of replacing tape in the first place,
> and the rapid adoption of streaming and P2P downloads is the cost
> that the old media industry paid for that. Much to the benefit of
> ISPs and the new internet media companies like Amazon and Google.

You do have a point about scratches. When it comes to CD:s I know an 
audiophile who swears by them. Some love their LP:s, some their CD:s, and 
I read that casettes are making a comeback.

To my ears (pun intended) it almost seems like it is no longer about the 
audio, but instead some kind of nostalgic childhood feeling that 
"overrides" the pure audio to persuade the person that _this is it_.

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Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 03:54 +0000
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-02 12:34 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-05-02 12:05 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 14:47 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:39 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 14:01 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 21:20 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:26 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-03 08:52 +1000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 09:36 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-05-03 11:19 +0200
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:58 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-05-06 16:43 +0000
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-07 08:20 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-12 13:06 +0000
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-04 14:01 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:30 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:39 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-04 13:03 +0200

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