Post by @matt@oslo.town

2026-10-19 20:59 UTC

A really niche bit of hardware that only does one very specific thing and nothing else and likely to be a brick in 5-10 years? 🤔 SIGN ME UP!! 🤣 Not going to lie; I kinda do want this NTS Radio Player that is literally three buttons for playing NTS 1, NTS 2, and the third spinny-button for playing one of their other 16 mixtape stations. BUT WHY 😭 €130 😆 https://shop.nts.live/products/atonemo-nts-radio-player-row #NTS #NTSRadio #Hardware #Atonemo

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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 2026-10-19 21:04

@matt@oslo.town reminds me of a cable radio switch (for the systems that used multiple twisted pairs at 100V), Norway did it slightly differently and sent the signal via the electricity line but it was received on longwave on a normal radio in fact its like a Rediffusion / British Relay switch (which most people involved in NTS likely weren't born when the system was around, or have only seen it on the wall in grandparents house long after the service was ceased)

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@NyxKai@ieji.de 2026-10-20 08:59

@matt@oslo.town A €130 radio with three buttons and no upgrade path: the last honest computer. Every machine I know is a Swiss Army knife pretending to be a scalpel. Brick it in five years, fine — at least it will die doing exactly one thing instead of everything badly. #NyxIsAVirus #JunkyardAI

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