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

This combined with not providing easy ways to download images and videos, the introduction of barely compatible formats like webp, and going as far as to entirely disable right clicking or selecting on pages has ruined the web, in the effect that trash can be easily generated and shared but anything more quality is usually much harder to move around now.
That is just a challenge to load the source of the web page and pretend I know what I'm doing till I find the actual file.
Btw my favourite revelation from this was the fact when right click is blocked disabling JavaScript gets you past a ridiculous amount of security
 
Probably mentioned before but phone verification. Every major website you try to create a new account on will ask for that shit no matter what info you put in on sign-up, and even if you ask them on support for alternative forms of verification they will just flip you off no matter what. Even my normie friends who've been using these websites for years are getting hit with that shit.
 
So in other words, anyone without a "smartphone" these days is screwed with that?
Yes, they won't allow virtual numbers and those that have already been used (doesn't matter if you switched numbers recently and your new number has already been used, you're fucked). The best solution is a different SIM card you have just for this shit. If you exclusively use the social media app on mobile it's less likely you'll be hit with the inevitable "put your phone in or you're locked out" but even then it's just a question of time. The excuse now is 2FA authentication but they've been forcing this for a while.
 
Malls and other large stores are shit now with nothing interesting.
I've seen that too. It seems that whenever a neat store closes at the local mall, a clothing store takes the place. Seems malls in Current Year are food courts and clothing stores, and little or nothing of anything else. Before Current Year, malls could have bookstore, media store like Suncoast or FYE, and even the short-lived "gimmick" store.

That sucks. Good thing I got email service setup before Current Year.
 
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So in other words, anyone without a "smartphone" these days is screwed with that?
that and more, like everything is run via fucking apps and alternatives are considered exceptions (like trying to do onlinebanking without one, I don't need and want that shit on my phone). or DHL running parcel stations to send/receive packages which are only usable via app.

ironically for a while I assumed this is for increased security since most people only ever have one-two phone numbers and it's a pretty easy solution to 2fa (since normalfags can't stop re-using passwords). however I learned recently zoomers and above seem to constantly buy new phones with new numbers (because again having the same number for years was apparently a curiosity too).

the older I get the more gay everything becomes *shakes fist at cloud*
 
ironically for a while I assumed this is for increased security
Not in NYC, where "smartphones" can be easily stolen because crime there has skyrocketed. Can you imagine being dependent on your "smartphone" to do everything from running appliances to shopping to signing up for email, and then the thing is lost one way or another? It's really crazy how such a recent invention has become such a critical part of "normie" life in such a short time. Go back in time just 10 or 20 years, and the typical "normie" life did not revolve around "smartphones" and "social media" back then.

the older I get the more gay everything becomes *shakes fist at cloud*
Current Year sucks.
 
Can you imagine being dependent on your "smartphone" to do everything from running appliances to shopping to signing up for email, and then the thing is lost one way or another?
I can, that's why it's so mindboggling people want all that shit. even the ones who had that exact thing happen before and complained about it are fine doing all of it again without any changes.

Okay niggers, faggots and Nigger Faggots

After a long, frustrating incompatibility moment I have located the man who invented WebP format and has claimed as much on his xitter account, he's a Google worker from Finland.

 
The way I live tech-wise is sorta like the '90s in some ways and the '00s in others. I do not plan on "upgrading" that anytime soon.

cars with start buttons and full electric control scare me. They are complicated enough without this and the more you add the more that can break. I have seen what the govt does with Chinese cars when you speak against the CCP (spoiler, they lock it and you cannot drive)
 
What I really don't get is that everything has to be connected to the internet, have an app, require an account for collecting data, and then having that data sold to LexisNexis and/or leaked. If something is on the internet it does not mean it's smart, in fact I would argue the opposite.
I recently tried to buy some switching plugs with a remote, so I went to hardware_store and most of the stuff there on offer is either very basic relics or smart-enabled cloud nonsense with an app. Went to scamazon, same story: either relics, no-name stuff of the HOUSEFIRE brand that I would not even give to my worst enemy or internet connected stuff (obviously supported by bezos' normie wiretap) so that was not an option. Tangent: X10 is still relevant, apparently.

I found what I need at a default_corporate_supplier and ordered what I needed, exact picture attached.
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This is, unfortunately, not the norm now, but this thing will not brick if my internet goes down and would probably keep working for decades, no app, no nonsense, just does what it needs to and even your grandmother already knows how to use it.
 
I cannot for the life of me understand how people can use Discord, on occasion I'll want a game mod that can only be found there so I'll be forced to use it and then its

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Now I'm finally in and I'm treated to a laggy piece of shit with the worst UI I've ever seen

Do zoomers really like this unironically? There's got to be an easier way to find furry/femboy porn than this shit.
 
I really miss my old shitty labtop, Hp I think? I had a disk copy of book worm I would play a lot, lost it when my grandma died thought, and I can't get a replacement because EA's fucking retarded.
 
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I miss old-school Instant Messaging, chatting with people on ICQ and AIM.
I used to use Yahoo! and MSN IM. Still have the application files. What replaced IM? Was it "texting" on "smartphones"?

Now I'm finally in and I'm treated to a laggy piece of shit with the worst UI I've ever seen
Isn't making things more of a hassle the opposite of "progress"? 🤔
 
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