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It can be especially annoying if you communicate in 3-4 languages. Sometimes it feels like the "smarter" things get, the stupider they are.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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steel-eel
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I miss windows XP, it really was the perfect version of Windows. While it's design hasn't aged the best, the software and functionality was top class, I had mine for several years and I managed to skip over the windows 7 generation (though I did end up falling for the tablet meme during this time frame that ended up being my main "computer" for a bit in school).
I miss when netflix wasn't shit and was the main go-to place for practically any show and movie. Ever since they fucked up there's been too many streaming fractions.
I miss when netflix wasn't shit and was the main go-to place for practically any show and movie. Ever since they fucked up there's been too many streaming fractions.
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I had a fun little netbook acting like an external HDD for torrenting Linux and FreeBSD isos (what else), but it got the Win 10 Black Screen of death and the Bios is password locked. Yay, it got bricked. Also imagine having <4 gigs RAM and a Celeron and having windows 8/10 on.
I may be just a super boomer, but Win 8 and Win 10 just actually feel like worse products. Sure, they support the fancy new stuff, but only because MS forced others to stop supporting the older OSs.
Heck, I feel like even the built in search is worse. It was retarded to put websearch into the start menu search. People would just open Chrome to do that anyway. It's kinda funny that on Win 7, I just basically hit the windows key, and just type in the stuff I want. Kinda like command line for retarded people. lol
What I really loved in XP is the fact that they still had the old minimalist Star Menu. That was nice. (Also arguably XP paint is the best iteration of the software.) Of course I remember being salty that they removed the DOS mode/16 bit support and it killed my games back then.
I may be just a super boomer, but Win 8 and Win 10 just actually feel like worse products. Sure, they support the fancy new stuff, but only because MS forced others to stop supporting the older OSs.
Heck, I feel like even the built in search is worse. It was retarded to put websearch into the start menu search. People would just open Chrome to do that anyway. It's kinda funny that on Win 7, I just basically hit the windows key, and just type in the stuff I want. Kinda like command line for retarded people. lol
While I am usually sperging against centralization, but yeah that was the point of Netflix back then. Now you would need to have like 5 separate subscriptions to get everything. Also their new content is not really interesting in concept. But that is not a tech issue.
My favorite thing about MS is basically nobody seems to be using the bloatware they add in, because everybody uses third party solutions anyway. I mean why bet the farm on a function that can be cancelled by MS or just abandoned when their next OS comes out. The biggest quality of life downgrade apparent for the average user from 7 is the lack of anti aliasing of the fonts.
What I really loved in XP is the fact that they still had the old minimalist Star Menu. That was nice. (Also arguably XP paint is the best iteration of the software.) Of course I remember being salty that they removed the DOS mode/16 bit support and it killed my games back then.
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Hated Windows XP when it first came out. Slow and clunky and full of security holes. In 2003, not a day went by when I didn't have to remove some ridiculous spyware or adware that had installed itself onto my system, pretty much. Thankfully, with SP2 in 2004 it seemed to straighten itself out and felt a lot more secure and less prone to freezing.
Though the slowness could have been an artifact of the horrific 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 we had at the time. God, that was an awful CPU. There was me all cock-a-hoop at having such a clockspeed in front of my school friends, and they're all, "so what, my 1100MHz Athlon can whup it." And it could. I got through many bags of copium that year.
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"It installed itself on my system, I swear!" Okay, whatever grandpa.
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That wasn't just a meme back in XP days pre-SP2. You see, it came with Internet Explorer 6 as default browser, and ActiveX set to run without notification. It was trivial for a compromised or dubious website to drive-by-install Browser Helper Objects ("toolbars") which could then silently download and install spyware and adware without notifying you or anything. You want to see a PC go to hell in real time, connect to the internet in current year on an XP release version box.
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Windows 2000 was the perfect version of Windows. WinXP was just 2k made to look like it was carved out of soap in a prison for pederasts.
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I miss when websites weren't deemed "problematic" and subject to endless DoS attacks.
I diss how I can get multiple scam calls a day.
It seems like Google wants AI to do all the talking for the "little people".
I diss how I can get multiple scam calls a day.
It seems like Google wants AI to do all the talking for the "little people".
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it really wasn't Netflix fucking up, Netflix is a victim of its early success.
Pre-netflix piracy was high, unauthorized streaming sites were a plenty (tvlinks, stage6 (even if it was a site trying to be legit), etc). Netflix came along and was able to offer almost all the content people wanted for a low monthly price, piracy declined by a lot as it offered what people wanted, for a price they wanted, and they were able to watch what they wanted when they wanted.
Then the businesses cargo cultists known as MBAs took note and thought "Hey people will be willing to pay us money if we take our shows off of Netflix and we can charge what ever we want!". Totally missing the point that people wanted one low price in a centralized location to consume their products, not split between Netflix, Disney+, Discovery+, Peacock, etc.
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So my 2010 Ranger finally bit the biscuit and I got a newer F-150. Jesus christ, I finally get what everyone's talking about with that fucking tablet built into the dash. I don't take out car loans so the newest vehicle I owned before this was a 2013. The guy at the lot kept trying to sell me on syncing my truck with my phone and his brain nearly imploded when I told him I have a dumb phone that can't sync with it. Why would I even want to sync my phone with my vehicle? He was talking to me like this was a major selling point. Holy fucking lol.
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Ah yeah, the Central Media Unit thingy that will totally not feel obsolete in a few years. I think in a work truck buttons beat touch screens anyway. Imagine or not, it seems to be the selling point for people who buy new cars. The shitty android tablet. lol
As a design note, those usually feel so tacky and lame. It remind me of how the old 8xxx series phones from Nokia suffered, because you had a beautifully crafted body with a shitty low res screen running the standard Nokia phone os.
I guess the synch is for the music and accessing the contacts on the phone so you can use it hands free.
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Why digitize cars like that and the tablet thing?
They worked just fine before Current Year.
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On some level it makes sense. There are a lot of options you can set due to the cars having more things in then. Not to mention you only need one screen because software can be changed for the language, unlike buttons.
On the other hand smart phones were the hype high tech product since '04 so gotta build on that. All the designers think with that allegory, most likely so it will make more sense for the user.
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I thought smartphones didn't take off until 2007 with the iPhone, and smartphone culture - smartphones being mainstream - wasn't a thing until later in the '10s?
Either way, I miss when smartphone, social media, and Internet Of Things cultures weren't things yet.
дядя Боря
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I miss when Amazon only sold books and had a good selection. Believe it or not, B&N have better selection on some things, now. It's like a circle of life.
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Yeah, it was in 2007. But I think gps navigation suites had a similar layout before. It's really the same design family.
Billy Beer
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What will happen first? New cars shitting out or screens and dashboards no longer being supported?
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Dunno. But you may get advertisements in them.
Ford Patented In-Car Ads Because We Live In Hell Now
I’m all for innovation in the automotive sector, but there are some technologies I simply cannot abide by, and Ford’s newly-patented billboard detector that can read ads and display them inside your car is exactly one of those technologies.
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Billy Beer
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Imagine driving and an advert for easting bugs is beamed to your car, that's connected to the Internet with microphones and cameras listening to your reaction.Dunno. But you may get advertisements in them.
Ford Patented In-Car Ads Because We Live In Hell Now
I’m all for innovation in the automotive sector, but there are some technologies I simply cannot abide by, and Ford’s newly-patented billboard detector that can read ads and display them inside your car is exactly one of those technologies.
"I'm sorry Dave, this car no longer operates because you're an anti-bug homophobe"