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

thejackal said:
There was actually an AMD chip circa 2007 that you could unlock the "crimped" cores on (it was a quad core they were selling as a dual) by soldering or removing a pin, something like that.

I hate liquid coolers. Or moreso I guess I hate the needless application of them in so many stock builds. Is liquid cooling objectively the best cooling? No, not for every application. Liquid coolers have pumps that go bad. They have fans that wear out faster. They have controllers that shit the bed. And you've added all those potential failure points into your cooling to...run your prebuilt at stock speeds?
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And they can leak. Just thinking about a leak happening in an electronic has me reaching for a Xanax.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Back in the day, when the watercooling components came from the aquarium store, people came up with all kinds of crazy shit (homemade Peltier elements were the free energy from magnets trap), but it makes me wonder if anyone has seen a heat pump for computers? Googling it I found this paper from a couple of years back
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The problem with cooling like this, is that it can reduce the temperature below the dew point, which will cause condensation and your electronics to get wet.
 
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byuu said:
The problem with cooling like this, is that it can reduce the temperature below the dew point, which will cause condensation and your electronics to get wet.
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Yeah you're right. It feels like that can be solved somehow...
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Niobium said:
Compact flash was a lot more rugged than SD cards and I miss it.
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I don't believe the format is quite dead. Don't professional dslrs still commonly have the option of using these things because they simply last longer through rewriting? I think they are still faster by quite a margin as well. This could be old news though.
 
I like that Siri is still dumb enough that she doesn't recognize the name "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam." Lmao VA Dalila dumb. It is an heroic effort, though. Even though SJW Siri takes offense if you just start calling her a cunt and a whore, she is apparently entirely unaware of when you are making fun of her in more subtle ways.
 
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I'm sure its been said a million times in this thread but I hate the direction tech has gone in terms of trying to make it as retard proof as possible. Either through being forced to use overly simplistic UI, your trendy IoT devices giving you error codes like "OOPSIE WHOOPSIES WE MADE A DUCKY WUCKY LE CODE MONKIES ARE LE FIXING IT NOW", or mass censorship to make sure no adult toddler ever has their feelings hurt ever. Outside of niche places the internet just feels dead and its all because we're removing all barriers of entry.
 
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Seanut Arbuckle said:
I'm sure its been said a million times in this thread but I hate the direction tech has gone in terms of trying to make it as retard proof as possible. Either through being forced to use overly simplistic UI, your trendy IoT devices giving you error codes like "OOPSIE WHOOPSIES WE MADE A DUCKY WUCKY LE CODE MONKIES ARE LE FIXING IT NOW", or mass censorship to make sure no adult toddler ever has their feelings hurt ever. Outside of niche places the internet just feels dead and its all because we're removing all barriers of entry.
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The internet was far better as a disconnected set of unique web zones. As true for many things, convenience sacrificed all else.
 
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The Last Stand said:
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I love people who say "well I hate this shit game but gotta get all the pointless steam achievements so off to another 50 hours of this shitfest I go" just why. Is your limited time on this earth worth nothing to you?

Ultrabright LEDs as status LEDs. What the actual fuck, really. I have a nice pair of Sony noise canceling headphones, the expensive flagship ones, so no cheap china shit. It still has a shitty blue LED that blinks for no good reason sometimes in the dark and burns holes in my retina with it's brightness. Don't these engineers know that you can make LEDs dimmer and diffuse? Bonus question: Can you figure out how to make them pulse slowly instead of blinking obnoxiously? 1 million dollar question, do your expensive headphones REALLY need a shitty LED when there's an inbuilt status voice? Worried about all the deaf people that buy your headphones that can't figure out if they're on or off? I mean, really. It's just offensive to the senses at this point.

The first thing I do with any new computer case these days is modifying the status LEDs so they don't light the entire room in the dark and throw fucking spot lights at the wall. Makes the whole thing also usually look a lot classier right then and there. Why does nobody care?
 
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AmpleApricots said:
I love people who say "well I hate this shit game but gotta get all the pointless steam achievements so off to another 50 hours of this shitfest I go" just why. Is your limited time on this earth worth nothing to you?

Ultrabright LEDs as status LEDs. What the actual fuck, really. I have a nice pair of Sony noise canceling headphones, the expensive flagship ones, so no cheap china shit. It still has a shitty blue LED that blinks for no good reason sometimes in the dark and burns holes in my retina with it's brightness. Don't these engineers know that you can make LEDs dimmer and diffuse? Bonus question: Can you figure out how to make them pulse slowly instead of blinking obnoxiously? 1 million dollar question, do your expensive headphones REALLY need a shitty LED when there's an inbuilt status voice? I mean, really. It's just offensive to the senses at this point.

The first thing I do with any new computer case these days is modifying the status LEDs so they don't light the entire room in the dark and throw fucking spot lights at the wall. Makes the whole thing also usually look a lot classier right then and there. Why does nobody care?
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There is no reason for products to still be using the shitty blue led which is basically one of the first ones invented.
 
Seanut Arbuckle said:
I'm sure its been said a million times in this thread but I hate the direction tech has gone in terms of trying to make it as retard proof as possible.
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I hate it from the other way, idiots thinking they are smart are making tech to dupe retards and have them open their wallet. A lot of IoT and things like Juicero comes to mind.
 
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