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

In the traditional computing sense applications actually referred to things like spreadsheets and word processors. As in, "Here are some useful applications for a personal computer." That's where the word applications or "apps" comes from.

All apps are programs, but not all programs are apps. If I wrote a simple script to sort files on my PC, that would be considered a program, but not an application.
 
Google Playstore revised their front page.
Google just keeps getting suckier and suckier. What if they go out of business someday?

There are people out there in the world who somehow don't know what the word "software" means.
It's one thing if they're rural farmers in crapholes, but it's quite another if they're urban dwellers in developed places.
 
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I miss these old multi purpose media machines that had built in DVRs like the Archos 604. With how dogshit media is nowadays a way to portably store stuff and also be able to check it would come in real handy. Might make for a cool homebrew project.
 
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I miss these old multi purpose media machines that had built in DVRs like the Archos 604. With how dogshit media is nowadays a way to portably store stuff and also be able to check it would come in real handy. Might make for a cool homebrew project.
tbh i miss mp3 players in general, smartphones are kind of useless since i almost exclusively communicate through my laptop when i need portable communication, an mp3 player with a web browser would be good enough
 
tbh i miss mp3 players in general, smartphones are kind of useless since i almost exclusively communicate through my laptop when i need portable communication, an mp3 player with a web browser would be good enough
won't lie I hate the way that Apple Music is offended by the way I won't pay for streaming is very annoying
> clicks on MUSIC on iPhone
>goes straight to APPLE MUSIC to some ethnic music which is a million miles from what I listen to.
>has to find normal playlist
>continues on far right exercise / bike ride
 
won't lie I hate the way that Apple Music is offended by the way I won't pay for streaming is very annoying
> clicks on MUSIC on iPhone
>goes straight to APPLE MUSIC to some ethnic music which is a million miles from what I listen to.
>has to find normal playlist
>continues on far right exercise / bike ride
if only the algorithm could be trained to know i only want to hear "white is right" on loop for 4 hours
 
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I'm a bit salty finding out that GeoGuessr, despite built on the back of Street View (and Street View can be hit and miss with blurs and blobs everywhere, if the camera didn't entirely fuck up) is now entirely subscription-based.
probably because streamers popularized it, and the devs know that their zoomer audiences will likely fork over a subscription fee
 
I hate modern OS designs and by proxy all modern software. To me the look and feel of Windows 98 was the perfect environment. Its corporate, serious, seemingly sterile carapace made it possible that with use the machine starts to feel truly yours. It's hard to explain. The seriousness of the design organically takes on an intimate and comforting familiarity very easily. This was to an extent carried over to Win XP with a classic theme. Nowadays everything genuinely looks and feels like it's made for pajeets and retarded children. Too many bright lights, colors, gimmicks. It appeals to the savages who like shiny trinkets.
Bruh, you know Linux exists right?

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I miss when news online was all free. Now much of it is pay-walled or for subscribers only, or there's a preview and then that BS.

It really does seem like the internets are turning into cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV that still has ads.
 
I hate modern OS designs and by proxy all modern software. To me the look and feel of Windows 98 was the perfect environment. Its corporate, serious, seemingly sterile carapace made it possible that with use the machine starts to feel truly yours. It's hard to explain. The seriousness of the design organically takes on an intimate and comforting familiarity very easily. This was to an extent carried over to Win XP with a classic theme. Nowadays everything genuinely looks and feels like it's made for pajeets and retarded children. Too many bright lights, colors, gimmicks. It appeals to the savages who like shiny trinkets.
Wrong, child.

RETU\/N to MacOS Platinum
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Then RETU\/N to BeOS
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Then RETU\/N to NextStep
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In the roguelike game Nethack, there's the option to include mail daemons that deliver scrolls of mail to you in-game
Huh. Does this mean I could spam myself with mail to save myself from attacks of swarms of ants?
 
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I miss when news online was all free. Now much of it is pay-walled or for subscribers only, or there's a preview and then that BS.

It really does seem like the internets are turning into cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV that still has ads.
Archive.today gets around nearly all news paywalls. I don't even bother trying to open the articles anymore, I just right click -> Copy Link -> Paste in "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots". Fuck them. Don't give them the clicks.
 
I miss when news online was all free. Now much of it is pay-walled or for subscribers only, or there's a preview and then that BS.

It really does seem like the internets are turning into cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV. Pay-per-view cable TV that still has ads.

I recall being upset years ago when digital radio sports simulcasts went behind a paywall.

So fucking retarded that any swinging dick could listen to the ballgame on an old-timey transistor radio for free if they live within the signal range.

But if you want to catch the ballgame play-by-play digitally, you have to pay an annual subscription fee to some billionaires.
 
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