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

[seri0us]

Oh is that why whenever i try to install directly to my HDD it takes days to download a 60 gig game?

Yeah it is.

 

[Campbell-Duo]

Yeah it is.

That explains a lot.
Now i just install games to my main drive then just move them over.

 

[seri0us]

That explains a lot.
Now i just install games to my main drive then just move them over.

That's a good idea.

 

[The Last Stand]

Why do I need to register an account to use a printer to its fullest potential?

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I was always sad we kind of skipped over wrist mounted computers/vidphones. We are in a "better" place technology wise, but like many other things my childhood was a lie.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

I was always sad we kind of skipped over wrist mounted computers/vidphones. We are in a "better" place technology wise, but like many other things my childhood was a lie.

I'm probably older than a lot of the Kiwis here, but when I was a kid I had a Dick Tracy watch: God damn, that thing was the shit! It didn't work as a walkie talkie like in the cartoon, but it lit up and made me feel like a big man.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I was always sad we kind of skipped over wrist mounted computers/vidphones.

Instead of picturephones, it's "Zoom meetings".

Instead of wrist computers, it's "smart watches".

Instead of flying cars, it's drones and that "hyperloop" thing Elon Musk made up.

Instead of a peaceful space age society, it's a divided and crazy tech-addicted "society".

It's like the wishes for the future were made on a cursed monkey's paw.

 

[The Last Stand]

Remember those days where if you had CDs, you could "rip" songs from them and make a collage of your favorites into another CD?

Physical media is slowly, but surely fading away. I like the convenience of digital media and streaming, but you lose ownership. Not even that, stuff can get pulled and removed at any time for any reason.

It's not like I bought CDs anyway, but still.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Remember those days where if you had CDs, you could "rip" songs from them and make a collage of your favorites into another CD?

Physical media is slowly, but surely fading away. I like the convenience of digital media and streaming, but you lose ownership. Not even that, stuff can get pulled and removed at any time for any reason.

It's not like I bought CDs anyway, but still.

I'm old enough to remember waiting for the song to come on the radio and recording it with a separate tape recorder. We won't even talk about my parents huge record collection or my grandparents 8 track collections

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Physical media is slowly, but surely fading away.

It lines up with that "own nothing" bullshit the powers that shouldn't be seem to be pushing for. If everything is rented, centralized, and "on the cloud", they would pretty much have total control over everything. They'd definitely really love it if all the "little people" rented pods and ate bugs too.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm old enough to remember waiting for the song to come on the radio and recording it with a separate tape recorder. We won't even talk about my parents huge record collection or my grandparents 8 track collections

I'm young enough to recall buying these phone tape decks and you'd plug in your phone and have it play through the speakers.

That's where "plug in the aux" would come from.

I actually like the chip on credit/debit cards. It would reduce wear and tear from swiping.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I'm young enough to recall buying these phone tape decks and you'd plug in your phone and have it play through the speakers.

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That's where "plug in the aux" would come from.

I actually like the chip on credit/debit cards. It would reduce wear and tear from swiping.

Heh, in my days those were for CD players before they became standard in cars.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That's where "plug in the aux" would come from.

holy crap I remember those things

I still have a cassette collection, but no tape player.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It is also difficult to hack a computer that is not not connected to the Internet. Just pack a few USB drives or Micro SD cards with you and not even the NSA can find what you delivered between two computers.

Air-gapping.

I actually like the chip on credit/debit cards. It would reduce wear and tear from swiping.

The blip(press card against reader) or whatever it is called in your country is even better. The strip is useless on mine, it's rarely used, the chip works after a few tries because it is nearing replacement age, pressing the card against the terminal works every time though.

 

[Kornula]

Tech I honestly miss...

As for tech trends I don't like:
planned obsolescence which is increasing (legally speaking) at an alarming rate

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Firefox updated and it's like Chrome now, the "view page info" on right click is gone. It was really useful to download images and videos from sites that really didn't want you to be able do that, like Instagram(hoping to get a photograph in a nice resolution but jokes on me) and other places that hijacked the right-click in some way.

 

[Kane Lives]

Firefox updated and it's like Chrome now, the "view page info" on right click is gone. It was really useful to download images and videos from sites that really didn't want you to be able do that, like Instagram(hoping to get a photograph in a nice resolution but jokes on me) and other places that hijacked the right-click in some way.

Firefox has been Chrome-lite for like, what, five years now?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Firefox has been Chrome-lite for like, what, five years now?

What is the menu that kills? Right click!
What is that [root]? Right click, to mix with [view page info]!

Firefox had a super easy way to see where things were linked from and it looks like it is gone. I guess I have to settle for blob-men art as software

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Remember those days where if you had CDs, you could "rip" songs from them and make a collage of your favorites into another CD?

Physical media is slowly, but surely fading away. I like the convenience of digital media and streaming, but you lose ownership. Not even that, stuff can get pulled and removed at any time for any reason.

It's not like I bought CDs anyway, but still.

Download as FLAC and store locally. Streaming is for people who are okay with owning nothing and being happy.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Instead of flying cars

With how a lot of people drive that is a good thing,

I miss Weatherstar (the tech the weather channel used to use for local forecasts) its was better then the shit they use now, (then again instead of weather they have TV shows about towtrucks and mining wtf).