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

Pissmaster said:
So in summary, Apple tablets are stagnant at being tablets, so they're trying to be really really shitty laptops. They're fine for stuff that tablets are good at, but tablets aren't good at doing much.
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Detachables like the Surface Pro have really outstripped them in usefulness and even style, and at a better price. There's really no reason for anyone to buy an iPad at this point. They should probably rip off Microsoft and make it a detachable, too.
 
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Stasi said:
Its honestly insane. Was visiting a buddy last year and we got Diablo 3 for PS4 to pass the time. Put in game disk - sorry, patch is require, now downloading 20gb. Bro what the actual fuck?

At least he had a good internet connection, if this was at my place we'd be waiting two fucking days.
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This is why I don't test used post-6th gen consoles out if they are gifts for someone else. I'll do the updates for the console, but no way am I testing how it handles games. Not worth it.
 
Pissmaster said:
Other than that, the iPad's stagnant. The iPad 2 was a fantastic tablet computer for reading, watching YouTube, and casual web browsing. It also came out in 2012. Every single iPad since can pretty much do all of that, but not much more. I'd still be fine with my iPad 2 if it weren't for planned obsolescence more or less shitting up the thing.
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They have the iPad Pro. Oh yes, pressure sensitive screen for drawing/painting, it's an iOS device and all the headaches that comes with that. How do you transfer the image you just drew or print it, ok there's a cloud thing here, do I need to... It starts at $1100 at 12".
A 22" Cintiq made by Wacom can be bought for $1200 on Amazon and can be hooked up to a $100 PC using that same program.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Like I said before, it looks like there's a trend of new vidya and other new software feeling "watered down" and "smartphone-ish" - the "flat" style UI look surely doesn't help, but it's more than just that.
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Minimalism to the point that everything is pretty much exactly the same has invaded pretty much anything it can these days. Probably mostly down to laziness though there seems to be a crowd that genuinely enjoys it, even this many years in.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
They have the iPad Pro. Oh yes, pressure sensitive screen for drawing/painting, it's an iOS device and all the headaches that comes with that. How do you transfer the image you just drew or print it, ok there's a cloud thing here, do I need to... It starts at $1100 at 12".
A 22" Cintiq made by Wacom can be bought for $1200 on Amazon and can be hooked up to a $100 PC using that same program.
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But you know all the tech trenders keep saying "aPpLe sHoUld jUsT dIsCoNtInUe tEh mAc aLrEaDy, wHaT's A cOmPoOtAr?"
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
It's like @Dom Cruise said: things haven't changed much since 2016.

(aside from coronapanic and riots that is)
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In some ways things haven't changed significantly since 2010, the biggest changes have all been political and they've been some radical changes, but outside of that what really has changed in a truly major way?

In 2010 you had smartphones, HDTVs, blu ray, online streaming and social media, today you have... smartphones, HDTVs, 4k blu ray, online streaming and social media, it's been more about refinement and sure some of those things are way more popular now than they were in 2010, but compare it to 2000 to 2010, in 2000 most people didn't have cellphones or even computers with internet access and most people still watched movies on VHS on CRTs, there was an absolute quantum leap in the decade from 2000 to 2010 that there hasn't been a fraction as much technology wise since.

Meanwhile culturally, go back and look at hipsters from 2010, it does not at all seem like it was over a decade ago, sure maybe people have become a little more punk than hipster in recent years, but it's not like comparing 1990 to 2001.

Progress seems like it's ground to a real halt and I fear with the rise of Woke it's actually going to start going backwards, technology and software is only going to get worse, not better.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
In some ways things haven't changed significantly since 2010, the biggest changes have all been political and they've been some radical changes, but outside of that what really has changed in a truly major way?
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Notice how vidya and computer graphics haven't changed much in the past 10 years compared to before?

Like in 1980 to 1985: Atari and VIC-20 to Commodore 64 and NES?

1985 to 1990: NES and SEGA Master System to Genesis (Mega Drive) and SNES?

1990 to 2000ish: SNES and Genesis to GameCube and Dreamcast?

(you get the idea)

But compare 2010 to 2020: graphics and vidya aren't too different in "tech level". I guess it has something to do with the limits of processing in this case though - all electronics makers can do is add more processors to make stuff faster.

(American politics got stuck in Clown World since 2016, and that could impact tech like you said.)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
But compare 2010 to 2020: graphics and vidya aren't too different in "tech level". I guess it has something to do with the limits of processing in this case though - all electronics makers can do is add more processors to make stuff faster.
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They can indeed. But bloatware and spyware takes up more CPU time so they have to make it faster for the NPCs to consoome it, especially in phones.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
What if the powers that shouldn't be arranged that to happen to try and keep us prisoners in the modern world of consumerism - unable to easily travel, to say nothing of traveling beyond this crazy planet?

:thinking:
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In 1969 blacks protested the Apollo moon landing launch with signs like "What are you running from, white man?"

I can easily see any attempt at space travel in the future being met with similar attitudes of "wait a minute, you aren't trying to opt out of the diversity and inclusion are you?" even though that might be white people's only hope is to get off this planet, like the ultimate form of white flight lmao.

I think that might be why Elon Musk is pushing so hard for space travel, being from South Africa and all and that might be why the Woke despise him even if they don't consciously realize it, but sooner or later if that's what's really going on they would get wise and try to put a stop to it, if we had another century maybe it would be a viable option but we don't have the time before Woke would put a stop to it.
 
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Speaking of incompetence in tech, it does seem to be becoming more of an issue. Like bill payment services not working right, or tech service companies not setting things up right.

Dom Cruise said:
In 1969 blacks protested the Apollo moon landing launch with signs like "What are you running from, white man?"
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I see "woke" may have been just as insane in the 1960s - but at least crazy woke wasn't as mainstream.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I see identity politics was just as insane in the 1960s - but at least it wasn't as mainstream.
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Also, it is about control at the end of the day and it's about control of absolutely everyone, the hatin' whitey game is just the most convenient tool for that at the moment.

Because you know any group of people that are going to seriously try to colonize another planet would probably be a diverse bunch, but people that don't buy into Woke and want freedom and the powers that shouldn't be can't have that no matter who is trying to break free, white or otherwise.
 
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