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

[AnOminous]

You WILL own nothing, and you WILL be happy.

I will own everything I want to and I will fucking kill you if you try to take it away. Woke world is going to get done away with if it pushes it too far.

 

[seri0us]

I will own everything I want to and I will fucking kill you if you try to take it away. Woke world is going to get done away with if it pushes it too far.

*seizes ur shit with my private army*

 

[AnOminous]

*seizes ur shit with my private army*

Shut up libertard go live in Somalia.

 

[TheBest]

I still have a love for CRT monitors despite it's big and clunky aesthetic. There's nothing more appealing to me than that scanline looking CRT TV/Monitor.

 

[grenskul]

I still have a love for CRT monitors despite it's big and clunky aesthetic. There's nothing more appealing to me than that scanline looking CRT TV/Monitor.

I can't deal with crts anymore. I member when a mate gave me his old 27 incher behemoth and it was nice to play some retro vidya but man it is bad in every other way other than framerate. I just use a high refresh monitor now a days and a filter and it's much better than a headache after 40 minutes.

 

[TheBest]

I can't deal with crts anymore. I member when a mate gave me his old 27 incher behemoth and it was nice to play some retro vidya but man it is bad in every other way other than framerate. I just use a high refresh monitor now a days and a filter and it's much better than a headache after 40 minutes.

What filter do you use?

 

[AnOminous]

I still have a love for CRT monitors despite it's big and clunky aesthetic. There's nothing more appealing to me than that scanline looking CRT TV/Monitor.

The one I miss most is the Sony Trinitron.

That said, one of the things I miss most are amber monochrome monitors in general, but the DEC VTxxx type specifically. These things were so warm and welcoming. I associate them with a time in my life where I still had hope.

 

[grenskul]

What filter do you use?

Don't know the name. it was a basic bitch scanline filter that came with a retropie image full of mame roms.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Computers having BASIC built into them so anyone could write programs easily sounds cool. Also being able to hook them up to any TV set, and games being designed with the mindset that every byte counts.

Also I miss when the internet was a nerd thing. The average person getting access through the smartphone is what helped open the floodgates to the endless flood of Current Year Clown World.

 

[AnOminous]

Computers having BASIC built into them so anyone could write programs easily sounds cool. Also being able to hook them up to any TV set, and games being designed with the mindset that every byte counts.

Also I miss when the internet was a nerd thing. The average person getting access through the smartphone is what helped open the floodgates to the endless flood of Current Year Clown World.

I miss when it sounded actually somewhat impressive in a nerd way just to be able to say yeah, I talk to people in Russia and China over the computer, and this was viewed as some kind of magic. Even if we were mostly talking about autistic, retarded shit.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

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.

[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.

I can't go into detail because it would be a big powerlevel, but Oculus is terrible in a variety of ways that I have experienced personally. I highly recommend buying a Vive or an Index instead if you want to do VR. Also, if you're interested in developing stuff for any Oculus platform, DON'T.

 

[SBG]

Honestly miss how nice VCRs could be for recording shows. When I was a kid I would have mine set to record pretty much all my favorite shows each day so I could fast forward through the commercials, great for stuff like Dragonball Z with its obscenely long recaps and previews each episode.

Now you have streaming services you have to pick through to find which ones are carrying the shows you might be into or get a recommendation so you can pirate it off rutracker or whatever. Means not really paying much attention to what's showing on regular cable television, which has resulted in stuff like my thinking It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia was cancelled years ago because I stopped seeing clips of it posted anywhere since they were clamping down on those clips with copyright restrictions.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Computers having BASIC built into them so anyone could write programs easily sounds cool. Also being able to hook them up to any TV set, and games being designed with the mindset that every byte counts.

Also I miss when the internet was a nerd thing. The average person getting access through the smartphone is what helped open the floodgates to the endless flood of Current Year Clown World.

you mean the Endless September.

 

[grenskul]

Honestly miss how nice VCRs could be for recording shows. When I was a kid I would have mine set to record pretty much all my favorite shows each day so I could fast forward through the commercials, great for stuff like Dragonball Z with its obscenely long recaps and previews each episode.

Now you have streaming services you have to pick through to find which ones are carrying the shows you might be into or get a recommendation so you can pirate it off rutracker or whatever. Means not really paying much attention to what's showing on regular cable television, which has resulted in stuff like my thinking It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia was cancelled years ago because I stopped seeing clips of it posted anywhere since they were clamping down on those clips with copyright restrictions.

Sonarr.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Oculus being bought by Facebook.

WTF

you mean the Endless September.

Facebook + Internet Of Things = Exceptional Idea

(and IOT is stupid enough)

Imagine having to have a FB account to use your fridge, and your fridge becomes an unusable monolith in the kitchen because your FB account was locked.

I miss life being less internet-dependent, but the "powers that shouldn't be" want us to live in a cybernetic soy hive, so life will circle the 'net more and more as long as Endless September drags on.

 

[Sperghetti]

Facebook + Internet Of Things = Exceptional Idea

(and IOT is stupid enough)

Imagine having to have a FB account to use your fridge, and your fridge becomes an unusable monolith in the kitchen because your FB account was locked.

It's like the social credit score system, except entirely controlled by the private sector and without anyone having to admit what it is.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

Old appliances will start appreciating value in the not too distant future.

 

[SBG]

Sonarr.

I get there's probably a multitude of programs to help automate downloading shows, but it doesn't feel quite the same as recording on the VCR. With the VCR it was like you physically had the episode at that point, whereas with downloading you either store it away on some external hard drive or go through burning CDs/DVDs and have to have booklets of all the discs and so on.

My habits with the VCR tapes actually carried over a bit when it came to getting a DVD burner so I ended up with a ton of CDs of Inuyasha and Ghost in the Shell episodes I'd downloaded (along with tons of other stuff). Thing is with CDs they can get scratched and be unusable and external drives can fail, versus those tapes could probably play right now.

It's sorta the difference between feeling like you had a physical copy of a game in the form of a cartridge or disc versus having some downloaded copy from steam.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

you mean the Endless September.

Sure Endless September did kill some internet culture, it wasn't as bad (due to the time commitment of needing to sit in front of a computer, boot up, etc, normies stuck to email, CNN, etc) compared to Endless September 2.0 (June 2007) when the iPhone was released, where all you needed was a phone and normies really started to take over.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Thing is with CDs they can get scratched and be unusable and external drives can fail, versus those tapes could probably play right now.

This is why I wish companies would come up with a new physical media format to replace everything optical, like maybe flash drives - perhaps something like Nintendo Switch games - instead of discs. But seeing as how Hollywitz is treating physical media as a red headed step child a new format seems other wordly at this point.

One note on tapes though - while its true they can be pretty indestructible - I have tapes from the early 1980s that play - the tracking goes to shit after awhile and they can get magnetized and ruined.