Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers

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In the works, I've been fiddling here and there, it's mainly a curiosity/passion project I mess around with when I have spare time. Mycroft will be my starting point, with lots of APIs and Python. I will add my own peripheral hardware and create Mycroft modules and skills (where none exist already) in the future when I want to focus on it properly.

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PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
Toslink/Optical audio. Their really is no reason they cant update the standard or introduce it in a new system. It works great for my soundbar. No electrical noise and its digital so its been amazing since I stepped up from my regular 3.5MM on my sound card.

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yeah those were nice, but sorta niche
also iirc the cords were remarkably short for the most part?
 
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byuu said:
I got a cheap 5m cord. Works fine.
Also, why do you miss it? It's still everywhere.
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actually now that you mention it I think my tvs have one, it's just that my computer doesn't
I've got an external usb sound gizmo that does, but fuck it everything is engineered for shit anyways. Good connections just lets you notice how shit it is anyways.

as for cords most of what I've encountered was like, a foot or 3m
I've never really dug into it much
 
byuu said:
What do you mean software wise? The software doesn't have to give a shit about where an audio source/sink physically comes from.
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And things like Dolby Digital live or something else. IDK if it was the bandwidth or what but it doesn't support those.
 
PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
I thought you were dead? What the fuck lol
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I've uploaded my brain onto a cluster of thousands of rare SNES prototypes.

XYZpdq said:
actually now that you mention it I think my tvs have one, it's just that my computer doesn't
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Is it a laptop? Every motherboard these days seem to come with toslink.

PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
And things like Dolby Digital live or something else. IDK if it was the bandwidth or what but it doesn't support those.
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HDMI's bandwidth is pretty crazy. Wouldn't be surprised if an ancient standard like TOSLINK can't keep up anymore.
 
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TOSLINK really was on everything for a while but alas, it has disappeared again. Maybe on expensive hardware, they tend to throw in such things extra for good measure. The interesting thing about toslink is galvanic isolation, so you don't run into weird grounding problems. (Interesting with optical data transmission is that the devices communicating aren't actually electrically connected to each other via that link. This method of optic communication gets used in electronics for many things and I bet with you you have several devices around you right now that exploit this in some way) I don't think ground loops and such are really much of an issue for the average consumer nowadays though, audio data just like video data in modern devices is usually exchanged digital, not analog. The signal either is or isn't. No finangling to get it as undisturbed as possible needed. (If all devices involved adhere to the needed standards, of course)
 
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AmpleApricots said:
TOSLINK really was on everything for a while but alas, it has disappeared again. Maybe on expensive hardware, they tend to throw in such things extra for good measure. The interesting thing about toslink is galvanic isolation, so you don't run into weird grounding problems. (Interesting with optical data transmission is that the devices communicating aren't actually electrically connected to each other via that link. This method of optic communication gets used in electronics for many things and I bet with you you have several devices around you right now that exploit this in some way) I don't think ground loops and such are really much of an issue for the average consumer nowadays though, audio data just like video data in modern devices is usually exchanged digital, not analog. The signal either is or isn't. No finangling to get it as undisturbed as possible needed. (If all devices involved adhere to the needed standards, of course)
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MIDI uses optophotocouplers just to avoid electrical interference (literally an LED and a light sensor packaged together into a little box).
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
a shitty use of JS I've seen lately is on this old site: http://birdfotos.com/bird-funnys/bf3.htm

("Photographs of pacific loon and the birds on the Arizona desert and other parts of the state")

The site displays a dialog box with "ERROR! Attempting to take Unauthorized Data! This will Lock up your Browser!" if one tries to right-click once, and then repeatedly displays Yep, BYE :) if one tries right-clicking again. Clearly the one who wrote that code doesn't know, doesn't care, or has the wrong idea about "Fair Use".

(disabling JavaScript or using a current browser can allow one to bypass that lol)
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Viewing "Page info" (ctrl+i or alt+i or in a menu somewhere) is often a very easy way get at a single image that you can't just right click on. Like if you want to save the 2000x5250 pixels large background here on the farms.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Viewing "Page info" (ctrl+i or alt+i or in a menu somewhere) is often a very easy way get at a single image that you can't just right click on.
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I use that too. Copyright fanaticism has led to some really exceptional web design ideas.

Dictator Dan said:
quality of software has noticeably dropped
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Hiring people for identity rather than skill - "diversity hires" - isn't exactly the best idea.
 
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Dictator Dan said:
the worst tech trend currently is faggots and women starting to take up more roles as programmers and whatnot, quality of software has noticeably dropped
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The sad part is, these hiring trends will continue even long after some major power or region of the world begins to outcompete the West in terms of technological innovation. The West will continue to double down on hiring underqualified devs on the basis of skin color or pronouns until the money dries up and investors begin to divert their money into foreign markets. The US hasn’t gotten to that point yet, but it could get to a much worse place in less than a decade given our current trajectory.

On the plus side though, from what I can gather about the nature of the software development industry, it’s not a monolith. Aggressive identity politics shitting up the Silicon Valley pool has caused the (debatably) more sane developers to branch out to other cities and not have to be beholden to the hiring practices enforced by California state law.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
I miss exchangeable batteries. My first notebooks had batteries you could just take out. Just like that. If you wanted to use the notebook stationary and wanted to save the battery from death (the first two ones didn't even have a lithium-based batteries yet) you'd just plug the AC in, and pulled the battery out so it doesn't get constantly charged/exposed to the notebooks heat. Easy as that. If the battery went flat over the years you could then replace the battery wholesale or crack the battery compartment open and replace the cells themselves. (usually easier since the batteries as a whole would be harder to get) Same for mobile phones, of course.

Now your devices' lifetime is directly connected to how long it's battery will live.
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The modern trend toward unreplaceable batteries: annoying for phones and laptops, horrifying for medical devices.
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fig 1. a short-sighted reviewer celebrating his own doom
 
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