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

[stupidpieceofshit]

That's very good advice in general, especially for those that are clumsy, inept or the ones thinking they're neither. Separate the work computer on the network so it can't reach any local resources, that way a hypothetical dumbass can't browse personal pornographic pictures and try to print them, intentionally or unintentionally, only to have it choke in the print spooler because the default printer isn't present, then forget about it until he arrives at the office or remotes into to the VPN. Good times. Or she!

Don't let business touch your stuff, don't let personal business touch work.

And yet the masses want BOYD! the C level in charge of IT wants to offer BOYD, on one hand he claims employees who do it will need to sign a release stating IT won't give support (good) but I am still uneasy with the idea because we are in a regulated industry and I could easily see it goes tits up become some one installs an app that records and sends data to well..any one.

What happens when the bean counters realize "We could save so much money not issuing phones to our employees?"
I am not giving out my personal number to coworkers for IT support.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

I miss screensavors. You can still get them but they don't seem the same from the ones 20 years ago.

 

[OvercookedBacon]

I miss screensavors. You can still get them but they don't seem the same from the ones 20 years ago.

Always liked the Flying Toasters but I've never been able to find one that works with Win10.

Also, do relatively cheap MP3 players (hopefully with microSD support) exist anymore? The only ones I've seen are 4 GB tops and my music stash is 5 GB.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Also, do relatively cheap MP3 players (hopefully with microSD support) exist anymore? The only ones I've seen are 4 GB tops and my music stash is 5 GB.

Sony still makes an 8GB Walkman, that seems to be about the limit.
I looked into them a while back but just couldn't justify it when phones can act as MP3 players.

 

[melty]

I miss screensavors. You can still get them but they don't seem the same from the ones 20 years ago.

Oh man I spent hours watching some of these in class. The haunted house one was my favorite. This one was also good:

But yeah as they are not needed anymore they are kind of pointless. I miss them too.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I've found that convenience makes me appreciate things far less than I did before.

I miss listening to the radio hoping upon hope to hear that song I really wanted to hear. Then when it came on, it was like "OH FUCK YEAH!". Now? I can pull up any song I want on Youtube. Its nice to have that, but I don't get that same joy of listening and waiting for my favorites.

Same thing with TV. Any movie I want, I can find it online with relative ease. Again, that's nice, but it doesn't beat the joy of going to a video store and rummaging through the aisles to find something good and take a chance on something unknown, or scouring the TV guide hoping upon hope to find that movie you want to see again.

 

[AnOminous]

Oh man I spent hours watching some of these in class. The haunted house one was my favorite. This one was also good:

I had this for a couple years.

Sony still makes an 8GB Walkman, that seems to be about the limit.
I looked into them a while back but just couldn't justify it when phones can act as MP3 players.

That's ludicrous. You can get a 160 GB original iPod from *2009* for less than $200 now. And even my nearly decade-old iPhone 4s has 64 GB of storage. I absolutely detest the trend of absurdly niggardly storage capacities.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I had this for a couple years.

That's ludicrous. You can get a 160 GB original iPod from *2009* for less than $200 now. And even my nearly decade-old iPhone 4s has 64 GB of storage. I absolutely detest the trend of absurdly niggardly storage capacities.

It's probably penny pinching because THE CLOUD. You know, where you can put all your stuff so it can be fiddled with for containing wrongthink, stolen and sold to criminals and fraudsters, or just plain lost during a server migration.

You WILL own nothing, and you WILL be happy.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Same thing with TV. Any movie I want, I can find it online with relative ease. Again, that's nice, but it doesn't beat the joy of going to a video store and rummaging through the aisles to find something good and take a chance on something unknown, or scouring the TV guide hoping upon hope to find that movie you want to see again.

Instead of browsing the aisles of Blockbuster or your local mom & pop rental place looking for something weird you can browse russian torrent sites for VHS rips.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

It's probably penny pinching because THE CLOUD. You know, where you can put all your stuff so it can be fiddled with for containing wrongthink, stolen and sold to criminals and fraudsters, or just plain lost during a server migration.

You WILL own nothing, and you WILL be happy.

Not to mention, the potential monthly or yearly charge to store your data, not see/hear ads on your content, etc.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I miss screensavors. You can still get them but they don't seem the same from the ones 20 years ago.

This is one thing I hate about nerds (and related to the 'assholes giving tech advice' thread) - not only did they remove screensavers by default, they decided to break functionality with them so you couldn't have them even if you wanted to. This goes for Linux and Windows (IIRC, havent look at win's in awhile). Getting them working now requires somewhat hacky solutions that don't work completely right.

Would it have killed them to allow screensavers to be an option for those of us that liked them? Tech autists instead just said beep boop modern monitors don't need them and removed the ability to use them at all.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

This is one thing I hate about nerds (and related to the 'assholes giving tech advice' thread) - not only did they remove screensavers by default, they decided to break functionality with them so you couldn't have them even if you wanted to. This goes for Linux and Windows (IIRC, havent look at win's in awhile). Getting them working now requires somewhat hacky solutions that don't work completely right.

Would it have killed them to allow screensavers to be an option for those of us that liked them? Tech autists instead just said beep boop modern monitors don't need them and removed the ability to use them at all.

I don't understand what the logic behind removing them is. I have screensaver software installed for practical reasons. Despite what many have been lead to believe, screen burn-in can still happen on modern LCDs and I have experienced it personally.

 

[melty]

I don't understand what the logic behind removing them is. I have screensaver software installed for practical reasons. Despite what many have been lead to believe, screen burn-in can still happen on modern LCDs and I have experienced it personally.

They probably just want people to buy a new screen every other year

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I don't understand what the logic behind removing them is. I have screensaver software installed for practical reasons. Despite what many have been lead to believe, screen burn-in can still happen on modern LCDs and I have experienced it personally.

I have seen it on screens at McDonald's (ie the big menu screen LCDs) as well as at airports, ie CNN crawl burn in. It's not as easy to do, but it does happen.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have seen it on screens at McDonald's (ie the big menu screen LCDs) as well as at airports, ie CNN crawl burn in. It's not as easy to do, but it does happen.

It can happen but it is under pretty extreme circumstances, screens like those at McD also have people poking at them constantly. Remember how stuck pixels can be "massaged" away? Getting pixels stuck by poking seems possible. On a normal computer+screen you probably won't see the windows button in the lower left if you play a movie, display a full screen black or white image or full screen game. That is a static piece of graphic that is present almost all the time and it would show up.

But there's a crux to all of this, turning the screen off by software or hardware is better than a screen saver. It's good for the panel. It is not good for the backlight, be it CCFL or LED, but especially CCFL, they're fluorescent lights and turning them on and off again many times per day is not good for their longevity, power cycling kills.

Most everyone have had that moment when they're buying a new laptop or phone to replace the old one and being impressed by how bright and vibrant the screen is, right? Then when you buy a new laptop/phone to replace the previous one the screen looks more vibrant and brighter as well. That impression is mostly caused by the old backlight going to shit and the screen growing dimmer, not screens becoming brighter. It is especially noticeable on laptops used on the go because they go through tremendous amounts of on-off cycles for the screen in a two year period. It's less noticeable with LEDs but those fade on their own.

So, repost me in the Smarmy Assholes on Tech Sites thread. But there is a balance there, good CCFL lit screens should power cycle as few times as possible, but lamp time is also important, a screen saver might not hurt because it only applies to the panel and not the light. Maybe? LED should probably be turned off when not in use and a screensaver might not be the best idea, it goes hard on the light while both the LED and panel could rest. An OLED need that jitter so punch it whenever you can.

 

[seri0us]

It can happen but it is under pretty extreme circumstances, screens like those at McD also have people poking at them constantly.

Yep no display in public goes unmolested.

 

[Mal0]

Oculus being bought by Facebook. I want a VR set and borrowed a friend's Rift S to see if it was worth it.

Going to vent my frustrations here:

Spent most of my morning re-arranging my room to make space, then waited for Oculus' shitty program to download (slowly inching at 1.5 mbps versus my normal 105.6 mbps internet connection), then after waiting for it to install, I have to make a facebook account just to use it. I wasn't even going to use the shitty Rift store, just SteamVR. But I literally can not use it as a headset unless I have a FB account or use an Oculus account (that you can't make anymore). Facebook instantly locked my fake FB account I made, so now I'm stuck unable to use it.

Either I'm saving nearly double for a used older headset, or I'm just not going to mess around with VR at all.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

You can't make a porn version of Cr. Crusher using VR so I'm waiting for a real holodeck so I can go full Barclay.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

[QQUOTE="Mal0, post: 8878910, member: 72093"]
Oculus being bought by Facebook. I want a VR set and borrowed a friend's Rift S to see if it was worth it.

Going to vent my frustrations here:

Spent most of my morning re-arranging my room to make space, then waited for Oculus' shitty program to download (slowly inching at 1.5 mbps versus my normal 105.6 mbps internet connection), then after waiting for it to install, I have to make a facebook account just to use it. I wasn't even going to use the shitty Rift store, just SteamVR. But I literally can not use it as a headset unless I have a FB account or use an Oculus account (that you can't make anymore). Facebook instantly locked my fake FB account I made, so now I'm stuck unable to use it.

Either I'm saving nearly double for a used older headset, or I'm just not going to mess around with VR at all.
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Im happy with my Samsung HMD Odyssey+

I was wondering why some one would want facebook shit but then holy hell in less then two years the price for the Odyssey+ has skyrocketed to just under 400 to just under a grand. WTF

 

[seri0us]

[QQUOTE="Mal0, post: 8878910, member: 72093"]
Oculus being bought by Facebook. I want a VR set and borrowed a friend's Rift S to see if it was worth it.

Going to vent my frustrations here:

Spent most of my morning re-arranging my room to make space, then waited for Oculus' shitty program to download (slowly inching at 1.5 mbps versus my normal 105.6 mbps internet connection), then after waiting for it to install, I have to make a facebook account just to use it. I wasn't even going to use the shitty Rift store, just SteamVR. But I literally can not use it as a headset unless I have a FB account or use an Oculus account (that you can't make anymore). Facebook instantly locked my fake FB account I made, so now I'm stuck unable to use it.

Either I'm saving nearly double for a used older headset, or I'm just not going to mess around with VR at all.

Im happy with my Samsung HMD Odyssey+

I was wondering why some one would want facebook shit but then holy hell in less then two years the price for the Odyssey+ has skyrocketed to just under 400 to just under a grand. WTF
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