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

[DavidS877]

I just want a professional camera that takes standard batteries goddamnit.

Nikon uses standard batteries... Every camera uses a different standard.

One possibility would be a USB power bank and a small USB charger for the spare camera battery. Or an external adapter for the camera and a much larger battery pack.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Standard batteries are pretty great as you can just swap them out if you need the device charged now and they don't necessarily add to trash either as you can easily buy rechargeable batteries, hell there are even now AA batteries with usb plugs you can charge on an usb charger.

The lifetime of your device is also not limited by the internal battery cell which might or might not replaceable at all (an operation which might range from "relatively easy" to "impossible without destroying the device" - not even considering sourcing a fitting cell which might be impossible) and *will* eventually wear down, as you can just buy new batteries. It's just stupid all around. A bit ago I was looking at getting some wireless devices (mice, keyboard etc.) and idiots on youtube actually critizised the devices that used standard batteries, calling it "outdated", as it usually is with these youtube knobs, without explaining why they see it that way. Pains me to say, but internal batteries that are charged via USB might actually be something many customers want.

 

[seri0us]

A bit ago I was looking at getting some wireless devices (mice, keyboard etc.) and idiots on youtube actually critizised the devices that used standard batteries, calling it "outdated", as it usually is with these youtube knobs, without explaining why they see it that way.

Maybe I should find it slightly eerie, but sometimes for a laugh I'll go to YouTube and search "retrospectives" about electronics I own and there's even ones for a phone I got that was released four years ago. I'd get it if it was legitimately a classic, but it's not.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Standard batteries are pretty great as you can just swap them out if you need the device charged now and they don't necessarily add to trash either as you can easily buy rechargeable batteries, hell there are even now AA batteries with usb plugs you can charge on an usb charger.

The lifetime of your device is also not limited by the internal battery cell which might or might not replaceable at all (an operation which might range from "relatively easy" to "impossible without destroying the device" - not even considering sourcing a fitting cell which might be impossible) and *will* eventually wear down, as you can just buy new batteries. It's just stupid all around. A bit ago I was looking at getting some wireless devices (mice, keyboard etc.) and idiots on youtube actually critizised the devices that used standard batteries, calling it "outdated", as it usually is with these youtube knobs, without explaining why they see it that way. Pains me to say, but internal batteries that are charged via USB might actually be something many customers want.

yeah i miss the days when devices used batteries you could replace. i remember how easy it was to jsut pop out the AA batteries and put in new ones and you are good to go. now you have to first find a charge cable, a rectifier,, then a free socket some where, then sit and wait for it to charge. and yeah liek you i hate that people somehow prefer this to the old way of doing it.

 

[The Last Stand]

I hate how Youtube detects terms you'd say on your video and just demonetize it. Common examples include "suicide," "COVID-19," and certain swears.

 

[Apochrypha]

I would give a lot to have my very first DS back. I was in the 5th grade when I got it. Didn't have none of this Nintendo Switch crap.

 

[Rewire Tea]

- technology that could be repaired or changed or upgraded, ideally without removing 800 tiny screws (that may or may not be coated in some adhesive bullshit) or having to pry open a case and pray you don't break the connecting wires or the casing itself because it's so thin.

Example: I had a Toshiba laptop I bought ~13 or so years ago. Removable battery, easy to disassemble even for my dumb, clumsy ass. By cannibalizing another one of the same model for parts and some YouTube tutorials, I made that thing last 8 years. I only sent it off to the big electronics graveyard in the sky when the d/c jack failed; it wasn't worth trying to find parts to replace/repair it.

The laptop that followed that one is dead and currently sitting in a drawer because I cannot be fucked with taking the motherboard out of it to get the hard drive out.

Cellphones too; my first dumbphone that I got in high school, I could take it completely apart and remove/replace the battery, didn't even need tools.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

- technology that could be repaired or changed or upgraded, ideally without removing 800 tiny screws (that may or may not be coated in some adhesive bullshit) or having to pry open a case and pray you don't break the connecting wires or the casing itself because it's so thin.

Example: I had a Toshiba laptop I bought ~13 or so years ago. Removable battery, easy to disassemble even for my dumb, clumsy ass. By cannibalizing another one of the same model for parts and some YouTube tutorials, I made that thing last 8 years. I only sent it off to the big electronics graveyard in the sky when the d/c jack failed; it wasn't worth trying to find parts to replace/repair it.

The laptop that followed that one is dead and currently sitting in a drawer because I cannot be fucked with taking the motherboard out of it to get the hard drive out.

Cellphones too; my first dumbphone that I got in high school, I could take it completely apart and remove/replace the battery, didn't even need tools.

I concur. Clamshell laptop covers are the worst. Unrelated to electronics, I remember with old cars from the 80s the owner's manual would have a section on how to repair your broken alternator by getting new brushes and whatnot. Now you just return the old alternator as the "core" and get a new one that's made with worse materials. We're such a wasteful society and the same greentards who want to reduce pollution also want to take away the ability for people to repair their own shit.

 

[Nurse Ratchet]

I miss my Blackberry, circa '08. I could text & drive without taking my eyes off the road. Used to be able to type faster & with higher accuracy withmy right thumb than I've ever been able to pull off withe both hands on a QWERTY.

I also miss Napster, lol. Hard to believe now that it once took nearly 3 nights to download like 3 songs, & the only emotion you'd have when one completed, was elation. <3

Edit: Holy fuck, spullink.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

call me a boomer but i legit miss dumb flip phones. ive come to hate smartphones and want to go back to the simpler days of nokia flip phones.

 

[ditto]

I hate how Youtube detects terms you'd say on your video and just demonetize it. Common examples include "suicide," "COVID-19," and certain swears.

Which has lead to YouTubers inventing really irritating cutesy ways to refer to it instead. or worst of all just bleeping it out. Stopped watching ItsAGundam because he bleeped out all his frequent swears with the most annoying quack sound.

 

[opy702]

Stopped watching ItsAGundam because he bleeped out all his frequent swears with the most annoying quack sound.

The same thing happened with me for Oney Plays, mostly during that period where they bleeped all of their swears instead of now where they only do it for the first minute or so.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Youtube claims it's the "advertisers" that are demanding this level of censorship but if you look at what's aired on cable/satellite there's far more swearing and violence. Yet cable channels still have plenty of commercials. Youtube is the MySpace of video streaming sites and will be a shell of its former self in 5 years. And you can quote me on that.

 

[Stasi]

I also muss Napster, lol. Hard to believe now that it once took nearly three night to download like 3 songs, & the only emotion you'd have when one completed, was elation. <3

The good old days

 

[Otis Boi]

Which has lead to YouTubers inventing really irritating cutesy ways to refer to it instead. or worst of all just bleeping it out. Stopped watching ItsAGundam because he bleeped out all his frequent swears with the most annoying quack sound.

Nothing is worse then a video about rape and they keep calling it "Forced adult time" like holy shit.

If you are going to beep out your swears you shouldn't swear in the first place. It's just makes what your listening to grading. It's not even that hard to do.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Standard batteries are pretty great as you can just swap them out if you need the device charged now and they don't necessarily add to trash either as you can easily buy rechargeable batteries, hell there are even now AA batteries with usb plugs you can charge on an usb charger.

The lifetime of your device is also not limited by the internal battery cell which might or might not replaceable at all (an operation which might range from "relatively easy" to "impossible without destroying the device" - not even considering sourcing a fitting cell which might be impossible) and *will* eventually wear down, as you can just buy new batteries. It's just stupid all around. A bit ago I was looking at getting some wireless devices (mice, keyboard etc.) and idiots on youtube actually critizised the devices that used standard batteries, calling it "outdated", as it usually is with these youtube knobs, without explaining why they see it that way. Pains me to say, but internal batteries that are charged via USB might actually be something many customers want.

I hate the shit out of the rechargeable-everything trend. Give me back my standard cells! I needed to find a reading light for a loved one recently and everything with a good color temperature (not a won hung lo cool white LED) was rechargeable and probably will only last a couple of years. I had a AA battery powered reading light as a kid that lasted from elementary school through high school, it had an incandescent bulb too, none of that cool white LED bullshit. I have some relatively expensive instrumentation/tools that use proprietary form factor rechargeable batteries too. When the batteries for my FLIR E4 eventually are too short lived for my taste and they inevitably stop making the batteries I'm going to have to crack that stupid thing open and replace the standard 18650 lithium cell that's inside it. Why couldn't they just put an 18650 battery bay in it so that I could just skip the step of cracking the battery housing open and then re-closing it? If they want the battery profit they could just sell their own branded 18650s with a dedicated charger.

 

[TurdFondler]

Running Gallium on a chromebook is probably the cheapest way to have a decent laptop. The specs on chromebooks are pretty rad given the price, and the idea of a lightweight purely solid state laptop kinda rules. The google environment stinks, I was a huge fan until I learned they broke it so it doesn't play .mkvs and un breaking it was complicated.

The tech I miss the most is netbooks. Tiny laptops with all the output features anyone could ever need, that ran a lightweight Windows OS.

 

[Rewire Tea]

The tech I miss the most is netbooks. Tiny laptops with all the output features anyone could ever need, that ran a lightweight Windows OS.

I have an Asus Eee from 2009 in a drawer here. 8.9" screen, original OS was Win XP. I threw a lightweight Linux on it (Mint, I think, or maybe Puppy) a couple years ago.

The specs are showing their age a little (the processor, really) but the hardware is rock solid still, it was a great portable writing machine. Chromebooks are close to that, but not as sturdy and also, fuck Google.

 

[Reluctant MC]

I wish we would go back to floppy disks, just more powerful than the OG ones. I dislike cloud solutions for personal use, prefer local storage and they are much cooler than CDs or USB keys. And they're rectangular. Just talking about them makes me want to touch one.

 

[Rewire Tea]

I wish we would go back to floppy disks, just more powerful than the OG ones. I dislike cloud solutions for personal use, prefer local storage and they are much cooler than CDs or USB keys. And they're rectangular. Just talking about them makes me want to touch one.

And slide the metal bit on them back and forth. It was so satisfying to put a floppy disk in the drive of my first computer and hear it  click.

I think it's a similar thing to why some folks love mechanical keyboards; the sound and feedback's good stuff.