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

[Miller]

Mechanical keyboards are fucking aids.

Wrong.
That said, keyboards with raised keys are a pain in the ass to clean. I always thought that it would be the opposite, since there's less plastic crap around. They tend to get fucked fast (double typing, etc) since the keys are exposed to the dust in the air, I thought that it was a meme but apparently a few drops of alcohol can fix those issues.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Smart speakers (e.g. Alexa Echo, Google Home, etc.)

Privacy issues aside, it seems like a pointless piece of tech like the Juicero. Can't you just use a virtual assistant on your phone? Or search for it manually?

I'm suspicious of those things. I got a Google home for free, set it up and then unplugged it. I only control two lights a box fan with smart plug, opening the app for it is fine with me. Usually I don't even do that.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Wrong.

So...the faggot hipsters that continue to Tap their keys into their mic don't exist?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Wrong.
That said, keyboards with raised keys are a pain in the ass to clean. I always thought that it would be the opposite, since there's less plastic crap around. They tend to get fucked fast (double typing, etc) since the keys are exposed to the dust in the air, I thought that it was a meme but apparently a few drops of alcohol can fix those issues.

Take it apart and run it in the dishwasher, problem solved.

 

[BOONES]

You know what i miss? i miss Windows movie maker.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

You can use youtube-dl to download songs from youtube. Put them all on a playlist and download as mp3s or flacs or whatever.

Sure but I just meant it lacks features that Google music had, not to mention some times all I can find is the music video of a song (with speech/sound effects, etc), or the fact that some of the stuff I listen to wasn't on youtube but on Google Music.

NewPipe is a Youtube client for Android (I got it off F-Droid) that lets you play videos in the background, play audio in the background, has a floating player, downloads video, strips and downloads audio, plays audio in background...pretty much everything. Obviously Google doesn't allow this on the Play store. I haven't bothered installing the official YT client in years.

What corporate buzzwords do they use to rationalize $10,000?

I work in a different industry, with even more expensive software than this cute media editing shit. You'll earn that corporation a lot more than $10k using that software, if you're a professional. No buzzwords necessary, it is the tool you need to do your job and your boss already knows that. Conversely, if you have to justify the expense to yourself or anyone else, you probably don't have a real need for the latest version. You can see why the annual licensing thing is so juicy for Adobe. Now it's that much easier for home/"pro-sumer"/amateur users to justify the expense, and corporate finance like the fact that the software is no longer a big one-time CapEx hit but a monthly "maintenance" fee that comes from a completely different bucket.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Take it apart and run it in the dishwasher, problem solved.

I did that, it cleaned really well and worked perfectly after I let it dry completely.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

These camcorders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000 were fun as hell, you had a interesting lowtech quality to your movies that was charming.
Filters don't replicate it very well.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Right-click menu nested between useful features and unknown keyboard shortcuts to instantly set an image as the desktop background should be illegal.

 

[Pissmaster]

Software just doesn't give a shit about wasting space anymore.

I just now discovered that Podcast Addict on Android hangs onto every single thumbnail it ever comes across, in full quality, forever. By "comes across", I mean, even if you search for a show and other results pop up, or just browse through their storefront and see various thumbnails, it'll keep them all. Even tracks you've deleted. Here's my folder that dates back to mid 2018:

So for a wall of shame, here are the podcast images that weighed in at the biggest filesizes, with the top 7 clocking in at over 10mb each:

Fuck you, Doug Stanhope, and your 6mb thumbnails each.

The 18mb one has full EXIF data, too, with Jamie Vernon's name in it. Fuck you, Jamie, and your $900 (today) Canon EOS 60D.




And four are under 10kb, though for obvious reasons:



So if you use that app, now you know. They're stored at Android\data\com.bambuna.podcastaddict\files\podcast\thumbnails.

 

[heyitsmike]

I only control two lights a box fan with smart plug, opening the app for it is fine with me.

I use my smart plugs mainly in the kitchen. I'll use one to turn on and preheat the toaster oven without having to get up, bake some chicken in it and have another smart plug turn on the rice cooker when the chicken is thirty minutes from done.

Except today I forgot to plug in the rice cooker so the timer went off only for me to find the rice was just sitting in water, still uncooked. Oops.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'm suspicious of those things.

I've said it before, but technologically I'm pretty much still in the '00s. So to me, the idea of getting a voice-operated computer spyware thing to do what I'm used to doing myself is both pointless and out of Star Trek (and a cyberpunk dystopia).

I guess people from Current Year may look at me like they look at one who prefers washing clothes by hand over a washing machine.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

I miss cartridges for the satisfying tactile feedback upon insertion, easy to store, and almost instantaneous load times (when those mattered). USB drives almost do the trick but I rarely have a reason to use them and software is better stored on your SSD anyway. Floppies/Zip Discs were also fun for the same reason (save for load times) but are so small as to be useless these days.

I really hate the trend in smartphones to remove as many buttons/physical sensors as possible. While I really like the in-screen fingerprint sensor on my V60 (some Star Trek shit right there tbh), I miss having a dedicated sensor elsewhere on the device. Not having a dedicated home button is alien to me but I can live with the UI replacement. I dislike the Google Assistant button. I don't use virtual assistants and would rather be able to remap it natively instead of having to find a 3rd party monotask remapping app wasting space.

The size of phones has gotten ridiculous as well. It's like I'm carrying around a PSP constantly. My old S7 is dwarfed by the absolute titan that the V60 is and I though the S7 was big when I got it. It's almost comical compared to the old iPhone 3G my wife has kicking around.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

I miss cartridges for the satisfying tactile feedback upon insertion, easy to store, and almost instantaneous load times (when those mattered). USB drives almost do the trick but I rarely have a reason to use them and software is better stored on your SSD anyway. Floppies/Zip Discs were also fun for the same reason (save for load times) but are so small as to be useless these days.

I really hate the trend in smartphones to remove as many buttons/physical sensors as possible. While I really like the in-screen fingerprint sensor on my V60 (some Star Trek shit right there tbh), I miss having a dedicated sensor elsewhere on the device. Not having a dedicated home button is alien to me but I can live with the UI replacement. I dislike the Google Assistant button. I don't use virtual assistants and would rather be able to remap it natively instead of having to find a 3rd party monotask remapping app wasting space.

The size of phones has gotten ridiculous as well. It's like I'm carrying around a PSP constantly. My old S7 is dwarfed by the absolute titan that the V60 is and I though the S7 was big when I got it. It's almost comical compared to the old iPhone 3G my wife has kicking around.

Before smartphones, the trend of cellphones was "Getting as small as possible" to ridiculous levels, its just going full circle.

I do like larger cellphones but that is because my hands are larger.

 

[heyitsmike]

It's almost comical compared to the old iPhone 3G my wife has kicking around.

I've owned exactly two smartphones: an iPhone 5c and an iPhone SE. I consider them to be the perfect size a phone should be.

Before smartphones, the trend of cellphones was "Getting as small as possible" to ridiculous levels, its just going full circle.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

These camcorders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000 were fun as hell, you had a interesting lowtech quality to your movies that was charming.
Filters don't replicate it very well.

Those things are valuable as hell. Seriously. They go for thousands. Every Hollywood director/producer tries to snatch them up just for the clout points.

 

[Dell Conagher]

I miss the old icons of the site

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Anyone else think vidya - or maybe even software in general - is getting "watered down"? Like the "flavor" is more bland or mild?

Seems to have become a thing after smartphones became a thing...

(also Current Year sans-serif fonts - like on Twitter - suck)

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I miss cartridges for the satisfying tactile feedback upon insertion, easy to store, and almost instantaneous load times (when those mattered). USB drives almost do the trick but I rarely have a reason to use them and software is better stored on your SSD anyway. Floppies/Zip Discs were also fun for the same reason (save for load times) but are so small as to be useless these days.

Cartridges weren't immune to load times. Simcity on the SNES had them.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Anyone else think vidya - or maybe even software in general - is getting "watered down"? Like the "flavor" is more bland or mild?

Seems to have become a thing after smartphones became a thing...

(also Current Year sans-serif fonts - like on Twitter - suck)

It's because Vidya became mainstream, need to keep it bland to keep the normies happy.