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

[crowabunga]

Spoiler: compressed quotation

Hey guys, are you ready for the next step of owning nothing and being happy?

A TL;DW breakdown: Basically the TV has a secondary screen whose purpose is to display ads, and comes with a sensor that can detect when people are in front of it. Now, I don't know what kind of niggercattle is out there watching cable TV and thinking "Gee, I sure wish there were more ads on this thing," but it gets fucking worse. See, being in possession of this TV means signing off on a draconian TOS document that includes demanding that the TV be the "primary television in your household," so no tucking thing this in your kid's bedroom or something (not that I think putting a TV that can spy on you in your kid's bedroom is a good idea, but I digress). On top of that, the TOS require you to have an internet connection at all times, and forbid the use of ad blocking software, as well as any "unauthorized peripherals" or tampering with the internals. If you break their TOS, they will demand that you return the TV back to them, or else they will charge you $1,000 on your credit card.

Great. Fucking great. I can't wait for tech like this to advance even further so that not only do I not own any of the appliances in my home, but every appliance in my home is spying on me and comes packaged with some voice recognition software that'll brick the appliance, freeze my bank accounts, and send the police to arrest me if I commit the heinous crime of saying "nigger," "tranny," or "faggot" in the privacy of my own home. Gotta get those sheep in line, right? What better way than to get AI language learning models built into everyone's fridge to be your Gestapo?

I've been on a Philip K. Dick binge, and I fear that man is a prophet of dystopia: the high-concept stuff is bullshit, but the little details are too close to a modern MBA's fantasy. In Ubik, there's a running gag where the protagonist can't do basic household things because they require change to use - his shower, his phone, his refrigerator, even his door literally nickel-and-dime him for basic functionality.

Point being, maybe PKD's dystopian gag will actually manifest and I'll get e-billed by a leasing company for each time I used my IOT-toaster each calendar month: if one strategy remains constant, it's monetize everything, and if surveillance-capitalism IOT with draconian TOS becomes the norm*, it's only a matter of time before the Overton Window gets raped again and we'll be expected to pay for the privilege of what was initially pitched as a tradeoff of privacy and autonomy for affordability.

*edit: I just read this and thought, "like it isn't already?" God, this is a tragic situation. Alright, to clarify: "surveillance-capitalism IOT with draconian TOS" that is as bad as in this TV's case.

 

[cain_destroyer1]

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

Was helping an older friend sign and email a document. Went to HP smart on their computer to request that the scanner scan and send the file via LAN and it required an HP account to fucking scan to the computer. Ended up having to take them through taking a photo with their phone and emailing it cause fuck making an account just to do something that shouldnt need one. Want to see a single thing on a website? MAKE AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO SEE THE SITE TO EVEN KNOW IF IT IS THE THING YOU WANTED

 

[MyBushDid9/11]

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

Was helping an older friend sign and email a document. Went to HP smart on their computer to request that the scanner scan and send the file via LAN and it required an HP account to fucking scan to the computer. Ended up having to take them through taking a photo with their phone and emailing it cause fuck making an account just to do something that shouldnt need one. Want to see a single thing on a website? MAKE AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO SEE THE SITE TO EVEN KNOW IF IT IS THE THING YOU WANTED

Bought a HP printer years ago, managed to print shit a few times without creating an account. Didn't use the printer for a few years, plugged it into a new computer as I wanted to scan photos, it wants me to download new software and create an account to scan/print anything.

Thankfully I remembered that good old MS Paint has scanning functionality! The Windows scanning service was dogawful but Paint came in clutch. Sod new tech.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

Was helping an older friend sign and email a document. Went to HP smart on their computer to request that the scanner scan and send the file via LAN and it required an HP account to fucking scan to the computer. Ended up having to take them through taking a photo with their phone and emailing it cause fuck making an account just to do something that shouldnt need one. Want to see a single thing on a website? MAKE AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO SEE THE SITE TO EVEN KNOW IF IT IS THE THING YOU WANTED

ive only had the misfortune of using HP shit and i got tired of having to sign in to do LAN printing even when a password manager just made up gibberesh and auto-inputed it into the fucking thing but NAPS2 was a good enough solution, i used it with my shitty Deskjet and it works better than the in built windows shit when it comes to bypassing HP's kikery

https://www.naps2.com/

 

[Book Thief]

By the way, if any of you thought my comment about getting furniture and appliances to report you for crimes is "exaggeration" or "paranoia," it's not. Gun-hating faggots have already begun work on software for 3D Printers that uses AI models to detect gun parts, and will log every print you do so that law enforcement can look through what you've been doing with it (1, 2, 3).

This is in spite of the fact that building your own firearms is perfectly legal in the vast majority of the US, so long as you're not a felon and aren't planning on selling them without an FFL and a serial number. But the device has no way of knowing if you're a felon or not, so it instead treats you as though you're a criminal no matter what. So the idea of getting your own appliances to spy on you for an authoritarian government isn't entirely out of the question.

 

[Haunted Dishwasher]

AI models to detect gun parts, and will log every print you do so that law enforcement can look through what you've been doing with it (1, 2, 3).

At least AI telling people to make stupid shit in their homes is mildly amusing. AI being a snitch for the fed is just gay.

Tax: Stores and/or products that require some kind of membership that usually takes your info to sell it off just to not get shafted on the purchase - why the fuck should I register for an app every time I go to a different store? It's everything now; clothing, electronics, groceries. Almost every service is funneled to shove ads/memberships unless you want to pay extra.

 

[Tripshots]

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

Was helping an older friend sign and email a document. Went to HP smart on their computer to request that the scanner scan and send the file via LAN and it required an HP account to fucking scan to the computer. Ended up having to take them through taking a photo with their phone and emailing it cause fuck making an account just to do something that shouldnt need one. Want to see a single thing on a website? MAKE AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO SEE THE SITE TO EVEN KNOW IF IT IS THE THING YOU WANTED

I had the same issue before when I was helping my mom try to scan a document to her computer. After some searching I found that you can bypass the HP login to scan by going to the path:

%LocalAppData%\Packages\AD2F1837.HPPrinterControl_v10z8vjag6ke6\LocalState\HPPrinterControlSettings.xml

and look for "GrandfatheredInLegacyUser", then change the settingvalue from false to true. Afterwards, it'll no longer ask you to login.

 

[stares at error messages]

to be fair, the tv is apparently free. same way tv stations show you ads to finance themselves.

it's silly and highly questionable, but I can see it "make sense" from a business perspective.

It's not "free" you just pay for it in a different way.

It's super Orwellian. It's literally a Telescreen from 1984. The only difference being that it's a private company instead of the government running it, but with Public Private Partnerships, who can really say there is a difference between companies and governments? Actually it's exactly like a telescreen. It is real and not fictional and forever smiling psychopaths are trying to manipulate you into putting it your home. Just horrible. Makes me not want to spend money.

Imagine your toddler being shown an Ad telling him or her that gender is a spectrum and that they should steal their parent's credit card and buy puberty blockers. If I can think of it, then WPATH can think of it too.

 

[Sharpeteer]

1) I hate those TVs with the second screen that delivers ads too, but I really can't complain too much about it because you're not paying any money for it. Yeah it's garbage and I would never get one, but since you paid no money into it, I can't really say much. Save a couple hundred bucks and get a TV that doesn't do this, and just be sure to never connect it to the internet, then this shit won't ever happen. Ruined an LG TV I used to have by allowing it to update over the internet. Will never make that mistake again.

2) I absolutely hate it when websites will not only not let you delete your account, but have a system that is intentionally designed to let you believe you can delete your account, but in reality you can't.

Lyft is one - they have instructions in their privacy policy on how to delete accounts, but once you go through all the steps, it takes you right back to the home screen, and it acts like nothing happened. It will even email you to tell you the account is deleted, but it will never actually do so despite you following all the steps correctly. If you ask their support about this, they are all pajeets of course, and will just send you the link to that same set of instructions over and over again. Even after telling them you already did this, they will continue to copy-paste that same link that you just told them you did.

Eventually I realized this was intentional, and just changed my email and name to something racist and abandoned it.

Best Buy is the same way, go through the steps on their website to close your account, then it does absolutely nothing.

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

Was helping an older friend sign and email a document. Went to HP smart on their computer to request that the scanner scan and send the file via LAN and it required an HP account to fucking scan to the computer. Ended up having to take them through taking a photo with their phone and emailing it cause fuck making an account just to do something that shouldnt need one. Want to see a single thing on a website? MAKE AN ACCOUNT WITH US TO SEE THE SITE TO EVEN KNOW IF IT IS THE THING YOU WANTED

Literally every single Xbox One/Series console will eventually become a paperweight - they all require a Microsoft account to initialize the console, and these machines aren't supported forever, so yeah, the day they can no longer connect to MS' servers is the day every single one of those consoles becomes useless. As much as I don't like Sony these days, at the very least, you can set up a PS4/PS5 and use it without an account, or internet connection at all. Except the newest models have a disc drive that requires a fucking internet connection, so that's dystopian, but at least the base disc model is safe for when it's not server-supported anymore.

I share in your hatred of accounts required for physical hardware. I'm fine with an account unlocking additional functionality, but requiring it to even use it for the basic functionality at all ensures I will never trust it. If it requires connectivity to a server to function at all, allow me to set up my own server at home running my own hardware. Otherwise, it can be assumed the device will eventually become a paperweight when the company decides it's time for you to buy a new one. I have absolutely zero confidence in consumer protection in the United States, and I've more or less given up on waiting for it to get better, so all I'm doing now is just not using things that do this.

I had the same issue before when I was helping my mom try to scan a document to her computer. After some searching I found that you can bypass the HP login to scan by going to the path:

%LocalAppData%\Packages\AD2F1837.HPPrinterControl_v10z8vjag6ke6\LocalState\HPPrinterControlSettings.xml

and look for "GrandfatheredInLegacyUser", then change the settingvalue from false to true. Afterwards, it'll no longer ask you to login.

My mom has an HP printer w/ built in scanner as well. It's relatively modern (around a year old), yet doesn't ask her to login or create an account. That's good, but I worry about the day she's no longer allowed to scan because one of her ink carts is out, and I have to explain why this is the case, because HP is absolutely garbage and treats their customers like cattle. Still not sure what I'm going to do when Windows 10 goes EOL, and it's time to move her computer to something else.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

You've reminded me, chromebooks (because of course it's chromebooks) do something similar in terms of hardware restrictions. A mate of mine asked me to move his chromebook (to which I bullied him about even owning one in the first place) over to linux a while back, turns out that some models have a write protection screw in place on the motherboards to prevent the BIOS being flashed, restrict developer mode and obviously prevent the installation of a new OS. Extremely gay and retarded, here's an example of it:
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Sorry for late quoting. In some of the newer models from different manufacturers, you've to disconnect the battery to enter developer mode, and any time you boot it up, it reminds you that the battery is disconnected and you're now in said mode. If you reconnect the battery, developer mode is disabled and it renders unusable all the applications you side loaded. The offenders, as far that I'm aware, are models from HP and Lenovo from the past 2 years, so don't be surprised that it's an attempt from Google to make the process to load "unsigned" apps as annoying as possible for anyone.

Also there was someone selling licenses to the audio drivers for certain Chromebooks models that have a very customized audio chip, but only if you wanted to install windows on them, and it required an internet connection to validate your licence because of course.

 

[The Last Stand]

Games with unskippable cutscenes. If I saw the cutscene, I don't want to see it again.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Gun-hating faggots have already begun work on software for 3D Printers that uses AI models to detect gun parts, and will log every print you do so that law enforcement can look through what you've been doing with it (1, 2, 3).

Probably the same defund the police faggots.

 

[DavidS877]

PC Cases. They're all shit now. Why the everloving fuck would I want a glass side on my case. Ain't nobody going to be seeing that shit, and the EMI/RF shielding of glass is non-existent, not that things these days really need it. Then the total lack of desktop cases.

And then the fact that I have a system I'm reassembling into a new case with 2 GPUs. This means #2 needs the bottom slot and is 2 wide. So I need 8 expansion slots, but really I need cooling too, so that means 9 slots to make sure there's enough. Every 9 slot case is serious overkill, I need a metal box with 9 slots not 9 slots, 10 fans and 26 hard drives.

I've settled on the Fractal Define 7 XL. Which will only take 11 fans and 23 hard drives. But it offers a full metal case at least.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

It's not "free" you just pay for it in a different way.

It's super Orwellian. It's literally a Telescreen from 1984. The only difference being that it's a private company instead of the government running it, but with Public Private Partnerships, who can really say there is a difference between companies and governments? Actually it's exactly like a telescreen. It is real and not fictional and forever smiling psychopaths are trying to manipulate you into putting it your home. Just horrible. Makes me not want to spend money.

Imagine your toddler being shown an Ad telling him or her that gender is a spectrum and that they should steal their parent's credit card and buy puberty blockers. If I can think of it, then WPATH can think of it too.

I consider any "private" company that frequently works with the government to be an unofficial part of the government. Especially companies like Microsoft and Alphabet. They are being used by the government to get around that pesky constitution.

 

[Elysian]

Still not sure what I'm going to do when Windows 10 goes EOL, and it's time to move her computer to something else.

Maybe you could put Linux Mint on her computer and apply a theme to the desktop environment that makes it look like Windows 10? If she’s a turbo-normie that just uses her computer for basic tasks she probably won’t notice a difference.

 

[Sharpeteer]

Maybe you could put Linux Mint on her computer and apply a theme to the desktop environment that makes it look like Windows 10? If she’s a turbo-normie that just uses her computer for basic tasks she probably won’t notice a difference.
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Honestly, covering the Linux OS with a Windows skin wouldn't be something I'd want to do just because I think she'd inevitably find a way to "break" it somehow, and that would lead to the conversation of why this computer works the way it does. The whole "I wouldn't trust Windows 11 with their CoPilot AI on my computer, therefore I wouldn't be comfortable installing it on yours" probably would not land the same way.

If it came down to it, I would rather dual boot Linux Mint on her machine and just ask her to give it a try, and if she hates it or can't figure it out, fine, I tried, Windows 11 LTSC it is. But I suppose I'll see what happens.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

Thus of ould,

Thus now.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I have hated HP with a passion after I discovered that in many cases, they do not provide a plain driver download so that you can install a printer the normal Windows way: you have to have their HP Smart software to get it. Often, the driver installation fails through that method. Not being able to use Windows' built in tools/methods to manage basic devices always pisses me off, as they often work better than the bloatware that I am being forced to install, especially since things like Devices & Printers predates the Pajeetization of Windows.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

I have hated HP with a passion after I discovered that in many cases, they do not provide a plain driver download so that you can install a printer the normal Windows way: you have to have their HP Smart software to get it. Often, the driver installation fails through that method. Not being able to use Windows' built in tools/methods to manage basic devices always pisses me off, as they often work better than the bloatware that I am being forced to install, especially since things like Devices & Printers predates the Pajeetization of Windows.

I would say "linux chads stay winning, ls /dev " but devices on linux can suck more cock than wangblows drivers

 

[DPRK Is Real Wakanda]

You've reminded me, chromebooks (because of course it's chromebooks) do something similar in terms of hardware restrictions. A mate of mine asked me to move his chromebook (to which I bullied him about even owning one in the first place) over to linux a while back, turns out that some models have a write protection screw in place on the motherboards to prevent the BIOS being flashed, restrict developer mode and obviously prevent the installation of a new OS. Extremely gay and retarded, here's an example of it:
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Yeah I hate this. But after I figured out how to allow read/write, I was able to boot GalliumOS onto a 12 year old chromebook and it works great to this day. I use it as a beater laptop to browse the web and watch youtube videos. No signs of slowing down.