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

[DavidS877]

Try OpenRGB, made my 3090 shut up.

Edit: It works on Linux and Windows.

Yea, not supported yet. And I'm not feeling like tracing I2C calls from the official app.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This trend of websites going "whoops your browser is outdated you can't use the site bro" is irritating.

Also irritating is if a website has a Cloudflare page to "prove that you are human" page, but the test only works on new browsers.

 

[indomitable snowman]

This trend of websites going "whoops your browser is outdated you can't use the site bro" is irritating.

Reminds me of those banners and icons stating "this page works best in IE5" or whatever from years ago.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Reminds me of those banners and icons stating "this page works best in IE5" or whatever from years ago.

At least one could still use a site that's designed for IE with Netscape.

BTW I got into a site that supposedly worked with later browsers just fine with a somewhat outdated browser: by bypassing front page with a direct link to the other page).

 

[ditto]

Tired of Wikipedia's endless cyber-begging? Visit this link:

https://thankyou.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You/en?country=US

This hides the intrusive donations popups, at least for a time.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This hides the intrusive donations popups, at least for a time.

Turning JavaScript off also works, but site functionality can be reduced. Like text being stuck in a narrow column.

 

[daffodils]

This hides the intrusive donations popups, at least for a time.

You can also block them for good with UBlock's element picker:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker

 

[indomitable snowman]

I hate how everything must have rounded corners. Just now I open Edge browser and while the actual program window has corners they do this shitty rounded corners on the web pages. I opened Gmail the other day and the inbox has rounded corners that cut off information at those corners. All phones now have rounded corners.

Make it stop. It doesn't fit and makes me think of bad CRTs that were rounded and cut things off at the corners.

Ok so chrome updated and it also has more rounded tabs and the corners of the browser are removed in favor of rounding.

It's everywhere and spreading.
Maybe this is a metaphor for the current year safetyism culture. Can't have anything "edgy" anymore.

 

[Creative Username]

Ok so chrome updated and it also has more rounded tabs and the corners of the browser are removed in favor of rounding.

It's everywhere and spreading.
Maybe this is a metaphor for the current year safetyism culture. Can't have anything "edgy" anymore.

I have rounded window corners configured in my window manager, but it doesn't fucking cut off part of the window, it adds padding to edges like any reasonable human being would do. Unfortunately, Google UX niggers aren't human.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

in the "tech you miss" column
back in the day when Preview Guide channel (the tv listing scroll on basic cable) would, like all systems running off a single unmanned computer, sporadically crash
then you would see the Amiga boot back up
I knew that Video Toaster was the secret weapon of low-budget tv but it was always nice to see the Amiga still trucking in a win96 world

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It'd be nice if DOS was somehow still updated. Like if it had native support for HD and 24 bit RGB.

(256 colors -- from 6 bits per channel RGB -- and 1024 x 768 is the best DOS can natively do AFAIK)

 

[khaine]

I know I have said this before but fuck Microsoft Teams. Further, fuck every web developer clamouring for native features in web browsers like USB access and push notifications. I don't want that shit. It's just another way to fuck with my PC, uniquely identify me, and a vector for malware. Fuck off with your useless shit you useless cunts.

 

[HackerX]

While I'm beating a dead horse, SAAS, or more specifically software which vendor locks "your" data once you decide to leave a cloud solution. Looking at you SAP Cloud .

If you decide, lets say, you want to switch from SAP On-site to another ERP system then you can export your data and then migrate it to another system. This is not the case for SAP Cloud and SAP has been quite aggressively pushing companies to switch from S/4HANA (on-site ERP) to SAP Cloud. I'm not looking forward towards the inevitable disaster.

I don't have a background in ERP, but I did stumble into it a bit recently for work research. It seems delightfully autistic.

I hate how everything must have rounded corners. Just now I open Edge browser and while the actual program window has corners they do this shitty rounded corners on the web pages. I opened Gmail the other day and the inbox has rounded corners that cut off information at those corners. All phones now have rounded corners.

Make it stop. It doesn't fit and makes me think of bad CRTs that were rounded and cut things off at the corners.

Rounded edges are for homos. I intentionally use square bullets instead of the default circle shit in word docs.

Didn't porn also heavily influence physical media back in the days? It was either VHS and some other tape format or some compact disc formats.

IIRC, the porn industry is responsible for the adoption of the exFAT format. I imagine something similar will happen with VR.

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

My thunderbird updated and the logo became this monstrosity:

Thunderbird in its entirety is a monstrosity with the last major update, fuck Mozilla for what they did to my beloved

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

I intentionally use square bullets instead of the default circle shit in word docs.

Absurdly based; I kneel

 

[GNU Abyss]

Further, fuck every web developer clamouring for native features in web browsers like USB access and push notifications. I don't want that shit. It's just another way to fuck with my PC, uniquely identify me, and a vector for malware. Fuck off with your useless shit you useless cunts.

That ship has sailed a long time ago. The web browser, that is to say anything Chrome-based, is the new JVM - a portable environment for containing your shitty, hastily made products.

On the same topic, I want to go back to a time where my games launcher isn't a fucking web monstrosity spawning 10s of processes and eating my computer's resources, which could've been used for rendering what I'm playing. Very cool of Valve, the small, poorly funded indie company. You can't even make their steamwebhelper non-functional anymore as Steam refuses to start without that retarded shit.

 

[Tequila Jong]

I'm in the painfully slow process of building a Windows XP PC with parts entirely from the mid-late 2000s. I bought some crappy XP PC second hand because I liked the case only to drunkenly forget the motherboard I ordered was like twice the size of the case. But it came with a fucking amazing Dell keyboard, mouse and monitor so I set it up anyway. After a tiny bit of messing around so my Word documents work in Word 2003, it's amazing how I'd forgotten how good that interface is, compared to Word 2007 and later. The interface is so simple and easy to use, then with 2007 they introduced that weird windows-icon-bubble bullshit that looked like ass, and it's gotten progressively worse. I've just left it set up specifically for word processing, and to have a computer that's never connected to the internet.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

The realization that consumer technology will never again be truly exciting or innovative.

How exciting was it to hear broadcast radio for the first time? Or to see moving pictures at home, even more so when you went to the local Sears, Montgomery Ward, or JCPenny to see them in color? Having a Commodore 64 was a great time to be alive, as was BBSing and phreaking. It's hard to imagine anyone saying this about Windows now, but Windows 95 was truly revolutionary for its time. Say what you will about Apple, but I think Jobs was the greatest salesman of our time and he was enough of an asshole behind the scenes to actually whip the teams at Apple into making some pretty magical stuff.

Coming to the realization that all of that is gone now and will never, ever be coming back makes me sad. There is nothing to be excited about in consumer technology anymore. There's no innovation, no risk-taking. What was the latest Apple event all about? A slightly faster phone with a USB-C port, and 15 minutes of cringe virtue signalling about the environment. Microsoft's latest event wasn't even open to the public and the only thing that they announced was that AI is going to be integrated into Windows 11! Yay!

Yeah yeah, I'm dooming, gimme my top hats. Hard not to when you grew up in such a whirlwind of exciting change and promise, and now everything sucks shit, isn't it?

What!? You're saying you don't look forward to seeing more and more services move onto the subscription model so you can't permanently own anything? But the future looks so bright with innovations like these! In the sense we're watching a nuclear bomb detonation that will ruin everything near it.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I miss docking stations for laptops. I think not only is it neat you end up with a bunch of useful ports, but some even would have space to add in an additional expansion card or have space to add in another hard drive or a second optical drive. I recently ordered a thinkpad t430 and after it arrives I'll buy a docking station to go with it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I miss docking stations for laptops. I think not only is it neat you end up with a bunch of useful ports, but some even would have space to add in an additional expansion card or have space to add in another hard drive or a second optical drive. I recently ordered a thinkpad t430 and after it arrives I'll buy a docking station to go with it.

the universal usb-C ones aren't as stylish, but the universal and cheap outweighs the "cool mid-season gundam upgrade" docking cool for me