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

I need to find a way to completely block out SEO websites from my search results. They are utter cancer and deserve nothing good. Just try googling "how to create new file in <Stupid-old-Linux-editor>" and see how many fucking results you get promising you to show it, it's in the fucking title and then proceed to give you a full basic-bitch tutorial on, like, how to start it, how to switch between modes and fucking shit, and in the end, show you one way to do it, but not the way you need it. Every website that provides you with more than one paragraph of information you specifically asked for needs to die.
There was an article about that lately, the simple solution according to the article is to add "reddit" to your query.
But you can also use stack exchange.

I really hate those sites as well especially when you click on five of them and they are all identical and ONE solution on every one of the sites is to download their "very niche problem fixer that only fixes this one thing". I have no idea what that software comes bundled it but someone must be making a lot of money doing this shit.
 
There was an article about that lately, the simple solution according to the article is to add "reddit" to your query.
But you can also use stack exchange.

I really hate those sites as well especially when you click on five of them and they are all identical and ONE solution on every one of the sites is to download their "very niche problem fixer that only fixes this one thing". I have no idea what that software comes bundled it but someone must be making a lot of money doing this shit.
I miss karma whoring pajeets. At least their answers were usually right, albeit in broken English.
 
Not sure if this is the right place, but as a photography nerd, I miss large format technical cameras, granted these are now rare for a good reason. There's a built-in preview screen made of ground glass that works without any electricity, lens and shutter operation is entirely mechanical.
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What so special about it you might ask? The best part about it is perspective control comes for free on all lens regardless of build.
Ever wanted to take a picture of a subject but find yourself raising your camera above your head to get the right angle? With perspective control, you physically shift the lens up by a few millimeters on the camera, that's it. You can also tilt the lens up and down, in case your subject is not aligned to the focal plane (your film plate angle), like a restaurant dish on a table, so that the entire dish is in focus, rather than just parts of it.

Another upside of such a camera is that there's no real need to worry if a lens is compatible with your camera or not, since they just get bolted onto a board and secure in front like:
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No vendor lock ins, you just move the lens forward and backward to adjust for the lens focal length to keep your subject in focus. While you can still use modern digital cameras as backs, they are no way close in size to these, here's an adapter so you can compare the size (Note the Fujifilm GFX camera itself is already larger than average):
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You'll need to stitch multiple shots together for the full image.
 
I need to find a way to completely block out SEO websites from my search results. They are utter cancer and deserve nothing good. Just try googling "how to create new file in <Stupid-old-Linux-editor>" and see how many fucking results you get promising you to show it, it's in the fucking title and then proceed to give you a full basic-bitch tutorial on, like, how to start it, how to switch between modes and fucking shit, and in the end, show you one way to do it, but not the way you need it. Every website that provides you with more than one paragraph of information you specifically asked for needs to die.
I needed to find out what the latest version of Windows 10 was. It took me minutes to find an answer thanks to SEO landfills. I hope whoever invented the SEO faces the wrath of RNGesus. No rare drops for you, SEO inventor.
 
Just try googling "how to create new file in <Stupid-old-Linux-editor>" and see how many fucking results you get promising you to show it, it's in the fucking title and then proceed to give you a full basic-bitch tutorial on, like, how to start it, how to switch between modes and fucking shit, and in the end, show you one way to do it, but not the way you need it. Every website that provides you with more than one paragraph of information you specifically asked for needs to die.
What is this, 2014?

They've made the process even more EnGaGiNg where in 2022, VIDEOS are hip and cool so they clog up the viewport so you'll have to do at least 2 Page Downs worth of scrolling to get to non-video results (this is the same whether it's Scroogle or FuckFuckNo).

For added spice (and in case you are retarded and didn't mean to search for what you just searched for, Google also adds 4 "People also ask" questions like "How to create a text file in Linux editor?", "How do I create a Notepad file?", "How do you create a new file?" and "How do I create a new Python file?" so you have to scroll EVEN HARDER.

Said tutorial videos are then 2-20 minutes long so you're forced to stop playing your music or actual video you wanted to watch to listen to some faggot give you a basic bitch tutorial on how to open the text editor, before ranting about how his cat walked across his keyboard that one time he was writing a blog post on his CMS editor and the thing autosaved at the wrong time which caused him to lose his changes, and that's why he's using a text editor in Linux now. I don't fucking care bitch just shut the fuck up and answer the fucking question stupid nigger.

So you have to stop what you're doing, scrub through a video that's 10 minutes long on average to find the section where the faggot actually goes over the question you wanted actually answered. And the question itself is answered in either 20 seconds, in which case why the fuck did you make a 10 minute long video to answer it (real answer: Youtube monetization), or 30 minutes in the case of a Photoshop or Premiere Pro tutorial because the faggot has to go through every single option and what it does in the dropdown menu in EACH AND EVERY FUCKING STEP.

Should you choose to click on a webpage in the search results instead of one of the most interesting and helpful videos (Why wouldn't you watch the videos? What are you, a boomer who still uses a desktop????), you'll be presented with a website with your question as its title, a bunch of introduction content you don't want to fucking read... and then a FUCKING EMBEDDED VIDEO that AnSwErS yOuR qUeStIoN jUsT cLiCk pLaY bRo.

Or you'll be serve the other flavor of 2022's typical "top page 1 search engine result" which is a website with your question as its title and a bunch of completely irrelevant really obvious keyword stuffing shit "content" that's like 6 pages long and you scroll all the way down only to find "related links" to other bullshit content and that NONE of what you just scrolled through even remotely answers your question.

How the fuck the typical Indian faggot blogspam website dominates first page results as described above is beyond me. Given how prevalent they are, it's either none of the dumbfuck normies are reporting the content and/or Google/FuckFuckNo/etc doesn't take any enforcement against those websites.

Only after all of this might you finally find those websites that provides you with more than one paragraph of information you specifically asked for in WRITTEN form.
 
They've made the process even more EnGaGiNg where in 2022, VIDEOS are hip and cool so they clog up the viewport so you'll have to do at least 2 Page Downs worth of scrolling to get to non-video results (this is the same whether it's Scroogle or FuckFuckNo).
This is good when it's something like "how to fix random thing in car" where I have no idea what the part I'm looking for even looks like. It's annoying as fuck when it's a video of some retard rambling for a few minutes before telling you what to paste into the command line, which I don't need to look at a retard at all to figure out, and usually has an ad on top of that. That fucker is getting no subscribes and no likes.
 
I miss tech blogs that just covered tech. I don't want to read about politics, woke bullshit, 'sex and culture', gender in tech, and whatever other garbage Ars Technica, Engadget, and The Verge spew forth.

Is anything left that isn't a YouTube channel pedaling little content in 10 minute chunks for ad revenue? I don't need some sort of Christian tech blog blessed by the Lord himself, but something that just focuses on tech and not endless internet faggotry.
 
I miss tech blogs that just covered tech. I don't want to read about politics, woke bullshit, 'sex and culture', gender in tech, and whatever other garbage Ars Technica, Engadget, and The Verge spew forth.

What, you don't like your tech blogs sharing mind blowing life hacks such as how to make a soda bottle into a shovel to use in your co-op garden?
 
A new tech trend I don't like is service providers hosting speech deemed "wrongthink" offensive giving in to a "cancel culture" mob.

Free speech can mean speech one finds offensive, not necessarily the freedom to parrot The Narrative™.
There's literally no such thing as freedom of speech without the freedom to offend, because nobody even tries to stop speech if they aren't offended by it.

The fact society has chosen to commit cultural suicide over ogrish men in drag is absolute insanity and the right to call out such lunacy is precisely why we need the right to offend these worthless freaks who contribute nothing of value to the world, unless rape is a value.
 
A new tech trend I don't like is service providers hosting speech deemed "wrongthink" offensive giving in to a "cancel culture" mob.

Free speech can mean speech one finds offensive, not necessarily the freedom to parrot The Narrative™.
On an unrelated note, the CEO of DiamWall is homosex megagay.
 
a standardize 2 din car radio slot, now pretty much it is impossible to swap it out in the latest car
 
I miss software installation being a big deal. A full screen ‘wizard’ with music and fanfares, that moment you realise you didn’t select custom install, so now you have a new homepage and increasingly invasive ‘search assistant’ that you’ll only be able to remove by tracking it down with regkey.
 
I miss software installation being a big deal. A full screen ‘wizard’ with music and fanfares, that moment you realise you didn’t select custom install, so now you have a new homepage and increasingly invasive ‘search assistant’ that you’ll only be able to remove by tracking it down with regkey.
I miss "drag the thing into a drawer oh it's installed now".

Amiga Workbench was a dream of an OS.
 
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I miss software installation being a big deal. A full screen ‘wizard’ with music and fanfares, that moment you realise you didn’t select custom install, so now you have a new homepage and increasingly invasive ‘search assistant’ that you’ll only be able to remove by tracking it down with regkey.
If possible I always select portable apps. Are cracktros still around or are they yet another casualty of the trannies?
 
I miss software installation being a big deal. A full screen ‘wizard’ with music and fanfares, that moment you realise you didn’t select custom install, so now you have a new homepage and increasingly invasive ‘search assistant’ that you’ll only be able to remove by tracking it down with regkey.
I was always careful with optional crapware but every time I had to use a family member or friends pc back in the day their IE literally looked like this
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Do not miss that at all.
 
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