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

[Premium Dog Food]

My mom was unable to send emails because her google account didn´t have enough storage space, I thought it must have been something she did accidentally or some shit...
Turns out her phone this entire time automatically backed photos up to google photos.
I tap the handy "clear space" button just to be greeted by "google one", subscribe now to get more space!! get the super special time limited offer!!
Skipping that, I get to the part where I can actually delete the fucking photos. But! You can only delete 24 at a time. Out of thousands.
I hate google so fucking much it's unreal.

 

[Never Scored]

I just want to be able to by a standard cab basic compact pickup truck in the United States again. Every pickup truck now is XBOX HUEG and rife with over complicated computer controls and electronics. They also all have short beds because a crew cab is basically the only option available now. Not to mention that they are all like 34k and up. I had a GMC Sonoma back in the 2000s. Small, V6, AC, basic radio, physical controls, manual roll down windows. I miss that little nigga like you wouldn't believe.

I held onto my mid-2000s Ford Ranger until it basically fell apart. I still miss it. I have a F-150 and the box is shorter.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

This.

 

[Ho-oh]

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Yea this sucks, fucking hate it when that happens. Have you tried https://www.smspool.net/ ? I use it for online stuff, it supports alot of sites.

Thread tax:
What's the point of paywalling certain functions or features for certain softwares? Not needed, not welcome etc. I get that people gotta put food on the table but after a point it becomes rediciulous.

 

[Squishie PP]

Yea this sucks, fucking hate it when that happens. Have you tried https://www.smspool.net/ ? I use it for online stuff, it supports alot of sites.

Thread tax:
What's the point of paywalling certain functions or features for certain softwares? Not needed, not welcome etc. I get that people gotta put food on the table but after a point it becomes rediciulous.

You answered your own question, but I will elaborate more:
Reason 1: The most popular platforms for end-users is Windows. On Windows, it is common for users to install antivirus software. Even if they don't, Windows Defender is turned on by default. One of the things that antivirus software (including defender) looks for is whether or not a given application binary is signed with a certificate. As a developer in order to obtain a certificate that will allow you to get past the antivirus software and Windows SmartScreen, you need to pay a certificate company a recurring fee (example: https://codesigningstore.com/windows-code-signing ) so that your program looks "safe". It is a total protection racket. So any software with signed binaries needs to be self-funding unless the developer wants to waste hundreds of dollars.

Reason 2: There are a lot of completely retarded boomers who don't know that free and open-source alternatives to a lot of these freemium applications exist, and the makers of said freemium software are just capitalizing on the difference in knowledge between tech-illiterate people and tech-literate people.

 

[Cave Fisher]

Wireless or Bluetooth anything.
The only appliances in my entire goddamn house I wanna constantly keep charged and/or buy batteries for is the TV remote and my phone, and anything else is unnecessary inconvenience. I shouldn't have a perfectly functional headset that becomes useless the second the battery dies just because it doesn't come with its own damn cable.

 

[Never Scored]

Wireless or Bluetooth anything.
The only appliances in my entire goddamn house I wanna constantly keep charged and/or buy batteries for is the TV remote and my phone, and anything else is unnecessary inconvenience. I shouldn't have a perfectly functional headset that becomes useless the second the battery dies just because it doesn't come with its own damn cable.

I will never get over the removal of headphone jacks from phones.

 

[Mr. Ghoul]

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It wasn't that long ago (maybe 2013-2014-ish) when most websites had open comment sections that you didn't need an account for. Now even VPNs are losing their effectiveness due to IP range bands.

 

[AnOminous]

Wireless or Bluetooth anything.

I like playing audio from my phone on the car radio, but I absolutely detest Bluetooth headsets. I have yet to encounter one that isn't absolute shit. Maybe the really expensive ones are good but like I'm going to pay that much for some dongle to put in my ear. It also seems they often crap out when there are sunspots or whatever.

I will never get over the removal of headphone jacks from phones.

Blame industry leader Apple for that. They weren't the first but they were the one who set the trend into motion.

(You can use something like a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter in the USB port on an iPhone though, yet another case where the Apple "solution" to a problem they created is to invent yet another single-use adapter at a high price that won't even be good with the next generation of whatever.)

 

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I like playing audio from my phone on the car radio

I do that with the headphone jack of my phone and an AUX cable to the glovebox
Was wondering how to set up bluetooth and what bluetooth adapter to get when I figured out I can just use a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable lol

 

[AnOminous]

I do that with the headphone jack of my phone and an AUX cable to the glovebox

Since my head unit has a USB jack but not a hole in the dashboard to put it in, I put the USB jack in the glovebox and put a USB drive in it for music.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Ford has filed a patent for an in-car ad system. It's as if Ford is trying to make more excuses for people to buy German, Japanese, or Korean cars instead, and yet another thing that isn't safe from ads, and the attempts to ad-block them.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Ford has filed a patent for an in-car ad system. It's as if Ford is trying to make more excuses for people to buy German, Japanese, or Korean cars instead, and yet another thing that isn't safe from ads, and the attempts to ad-block them.

I'm surprised nobody in Ford's legal department brought up the possibility that they could be sued if any of these in-car ads led to distracted driving that caused property damage, injury, or death. Its ironic that in light of the push to eliminate and criminalize distracted driving, auto makers want to add shit like this that would only make the situation worse instead of better.

Thread tax: I hate actively-maintained sites whose webmasters can't be bothered to remove dead/outdated internal links. One such site apparently decided to stop using DropBox to share various documents but the links are all still there. It's not that hard to delete that section and replace it with "This content will be posted/back soon."

 

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I'm surprised nobody in Ford's legal department brought up the possibility that they could be sued if any of these in-car ads led to distracted driving that caused property damage, injury, or death.

Probably only ad on trip start & end?

 

[Peenix]

Probably only ad on trip start & end?

Haha good one, chief.

Two soy-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved ads.

(Attaching the full document to this post)

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Two soy-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved ads.

I hate advertisements and advertisers something fierce.

 

[Internet Wizard]

The older userbase of this site might not get what I mean, but I truly despise how it's basically accepted among zoomers to stay ardently loyal to a brand. Peer pressure for not having X tech (in my case, iPhones) would quite literally tear through friend groups - I knew people who were cut off from childhood friends over the "green bubble" shit (try telling them that it's Apple's doing and they won't hear you ofc). My best friend in high school, who loved rom flashing and other tinkering, eventually caved in out of being left out of almost every group chat.
This isn't like the 2000s stereotype of X being for nerds/dorks either, as much as "Y is for normal people and if you don't have Y you're not in". Maybe a couple years ago no one ever gave a flying fuck about any of this, but now tech has become a unilateral status symbol for who you are as a person. Maybe this is an entirely American phenomenon because I'm enough to think the rest of the world is beyond this childishness
My friend gets told this daily by one of his friends, who is 26 years old:

Honestly when I say "loyalty to a brand" I just mean Apple. No one is retarded enough to be in the "Google-sphere" yet there's an entire nation like this.

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I'm currently typing this post waiting for my college IT desk to message me back since I am currently locked out of access to literally every academic service/login (even my own school email) since my phone was reset while being repaired. Forced 2FA is so fucking tilting it's unreal

 

[Mad At The Intranet]

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I especially fucking hate this shit now that half the time people expect you to join a shitty discord server to troubleshoot something as simple as an error with a video game mod. I don't want to join your child grooming hellhole just to figure out why your poorly coded mod crashed my game. IIRC this trend is spreading outside of gaming communities, and there was some Windows theme tool falling to this malignant tumor of a trend.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

The older userbase of this site might not get what I mean, but I truly despise how it's basically accepted among zoomers to stay ardently loyal to a brand. Peer pressure for not having X tech (in my case, iPhones) would quite literally tear through friend groups

I can tell you from experience that it was the case before zoomers as well
Maybe not so overt, maybe not so obvious, but it was there

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

I'll open this post stating that my phone still runs android 7 and it's doing a fine job so far with what I need, and that a device that still works perfectly shouldn't be discarded.

I am being told by both IT and HR in the most condescending way to buy a new phone and being able to install Microsoft Authenticator (requires android 8.1), as of today it's mandatory to log into the work computers. I am refusing to do so on the principle of not using my own belongings for benefit of my employer, besides fuck programmed obsolescence.