Mild Excitement is Frowned Upon in the Dull Men’s Club Erik Deckers is a newspaper humor columnist and book author who writes about current events and personal stories for 10 newspapers around Indiana.

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This MP3 nugget is humiliating modern tech. submitted by rtxn to Dullsters 553 points | 111 comments It’s a Creative Zen Stone that I got as a Christmas gift in 2008. I just found it in a drawer, and it’s still holding charge. The last thing I put on it was _The Life And Times Of Scrooge_ by Tuomas Holopainen, in 2015 – I don’t know why, at that time I definitely had a smartphone. It has a headphone jack, which immediately makes it better than every smartphone produced in the last several years, and it can _easily_ drive my 80-ohm Beyerdynamic. The audio quality is as good as one can expect. The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB… my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back. Let me reiterate that this has been sitting untouched **for a decade** and was immediately ready for action. No login, no annoying software updates, expired subscription, or remote bricking by the manufacturer. Eat my shorts, Spotify Car Thing. P.s. _A Lifetime Of Adventure_ is a banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwSVOo5K_k