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This bothers me a lot more than it should.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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I don't really see that. Maybe if you are comparing soviet stuff to late 1990s black plastic crap sure. But apples to apples if you compare a USSR TV to something like a Zenith or Motorola the western TV's are just as well documented and repairable. If the factory didn't put out service manuals then you just go to a library that has a SAMS subscription and copy off their service manual.
By the year 2000 consoomer electronics where so cheap and reliable no one was bothering to fix anything. And with custom IC's in everything and suffice mount components you weren't fixing it anyways.
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I miss when creators posted creative works online for free.
They still do that now, but there's also crap like Patreon.
They still do that now, but there's also crap like Patreon.
So they don't know about the concept files and directories, but instead just the visual representation of folders and the things representing the files?
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Samuel Hyde
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From my understanding of the issue; most youngsters today don't understand that folders are hierarchical and contain nested structures of files and folders. The reason being that young adults were raised with the internet and smartphones instead of "real" computers. Smartphones try very hard to obfuscate the file system with interfaces like Android's "App drawer". The internet is probably as big of a culprit though since almost everything today has some kind of search feature. If you can just query everything from a search engine then folders seem like an unnecessary complication and few people under the age of about 25 or so have much exposure to directories.
I heard about this issue some time ago but didn't believe it was real. Just like I didn't believe people in that age group can't change lightbulbs. Then recently I noticed that many lamps sold on Amazon have the bulb soldered into the fixture/lamp/light source instead of a normal E26 socket. Which was about the time that my girlfriend told me that people in that age group don't know how to use a mop - instead of "mopping" lots of people use mops like a broom and sweep instead of mop.
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So people are becoming more helpless and dependent?
I don't like how the future is looking more like Idiocracy than The Jetsons.
(also that makes even lamps disposable things when the bulb burns out - which can still happen with LEDs)
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This all started going downhill with Microsoft calling directories folders. Absolutely disgusting
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Seeing how much money some of them make it's hard to blame them, and this in turn inspires others to lock stuff behind that paywall hoping they'll make it rich too, half of those will barely make anything because they want everything under lock and key. Honestly some numbers I see floating around on Patreon hurts my wagie soul, but that's the free market.
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Maybe "boxes" or "paths" could've been used instead. IRL, paths can branch from paths, and boxes can be in boxes.
(it's kind of hard to have folders inside folders IRL)
Americans seem to do the Patreon "paid reward" thing the most, from what I've seen.
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It's not that hard to have a folder within a folder in real life. Take a file cabinet or accordion folder for example. You have the name for each root level folder and within you can place a smaller manila folder within the accordion folder. Too many manila folders inside the accordion folder pocket can get clunky and bulky, but the nice thing about the virtual version is that there are no such constraints. It doesn't even have to be a manila folder. A regular postage envelope can serve the same purpose with a much smaller physical size.
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And envelopes themselves are just folded papers that are slightly bigger than the paper put into them.
A C4 envelope will take a an A4, C5 will take an A4 folded in half, S65 will take an A4 evenly folded two times(they're the slim envelopes you get). C4 can (without almost not overlapping) take two C5s each holding one or more folded A4s or S65s holding twice folded A4s or a mix thereof, all of this can then be stuck into a C3 with more C4s holding C5s etc.
There's also the B-series of envelopes that I am 100% sure you all are familiar with, let's get into them now... no let's not, but their size is based on an even horizontal and vertical folding of a standardized sheet of paper, they're the small envelopes people used to send handwritten letters. If you've gotten a letter from grandma it was most likely a B6(1/4th the size of an A4), if you are of grandma age you have definitely mailed them yourself.
Folders is a way better term than envelopes though.
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What sorcery is this? In this forum we use Imperial units. Because they make perfect sense.
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Solution to that:
Buy the inevitable GOTY edition and/or the game+DLC on sale. Speaking of that, I miss when DLC for those editions would be built into the disc. Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Fallout 3/NV being examples I could think of.
Codes can expire and be lost easily. Another example: Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus included a digital copy of Quest of Booty which expired on 2016.
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what the heck... But you still know what an A1/2/3/4/5/6 is right, you don't just call an A4 a 3-8th quarters pocket acre, right?
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I know what A4 is.... but that's just because I went to Australia once and had to print stuff at our office there.
We have 2 main paper sizes. 8.5 x 11 and 8.5x14(inches). Called "Letter" and "Legal". Most of our printing is Letter which is similar in size to A4.
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Don't sweat your mistakes, the common machine can individually process, cut, fold and stuff them into a C5 envelope at a speed of~70,000 pages per hour.
Samuel Hyde
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Slowly but surely we are moving in the direction of Idiocracy. About 1 IQ point is lost every decade since ~1860. People are more dependent, dumber, and have fewer real skills. And companies are clearly capitalizing on that. Its very hard to find a "dumb TV" today. Many new cars are built without transmission dipsticks and in some cases even the transmission drain is omitted from the design. Of course I doubt that most people today have even held a real map - forget about knowing how to read one.
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Now that's new to me. There are new cars without even transmission drain bolts? Ludicrous. I thought plastic transmission pans you see in modern bimmers and ZF auto equipped cars are bad but that tops it.
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I don't know where you got this from. IQ has been increasing by about 3 points per decade for the last hundred years.
Samuel Hyde
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Sorry, my mistake. I meant to just say that modern sealed transmissions lack dip sticks.
That's called the Flynn effect. While there is some disagreement over the exact details, I think many psychologists believe this effect was mostly because people have become more used to standardized testing. Measuring reaction times is a more precise measurement since it eliminates the testing by measuring how fast your nervous system can react to stimuli. The Flynn effect has also reversed in the past couple of decades.
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It sure doesnt fucking seem like it