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

[Never Scored]

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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I've been reading about how to disconnect the internal wifi/cellular network antenna. I'll probably do it sometime in the next few weeks.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I remember pre-touchscreen you could basically write SMS-s in your pocket just with muscle memory. Oh also you could use the phone when you had your gloves on.

T9 was like running a telegraph, pretty decent. The pre-Android HTC(S710 I think) I used was a crap-Windows phone but it had the slide-out keyboard. It was so great, I could jut down notes while talking to someone without looking at the phone, on touch screen I'm hunt-and-pack. What kind of apps did the HTC have? I don't know, there was a shitty colored ball game, plus the screen was garbage, but it had document functionality, almost unlimited storage for SMS and the ability to call people!
Web browser? I wouldn't want to read anything on that shitty screen so I read Elfa.se catalogues on the toilet like normal people.

Yeah, it was in 2007. But I think gps navigation suites had a similar layout before. It's really the same design family.

Smartphones were around well before that it was just that they were targeted to a certain segment and priced as such. Ericsson and Nokia both being dominant at the time had their variants, it was just that the screen was bad(think Nintendo DS mush-touch with shitty colors and no resolution to speak of) along with no real software outside of what it shipped with. With exceptions, but they were, in my experience, largely a phone enabled PDA with everything that meant at the time. Just my opinion though.

Apple's genius move was to make the screen, touch and graphics not absolute garbage and price it towards a mass market instead of companies. Old smartphones were largely a company oriented phone, in my opinion. Some taco-haired cunts probably ran around with Ericsson baguettes in their pockets, point is that early smartphones existed alongside the common Nokia's and Ericsson's.

 

[Blamo]

I've been reading about how to disconnect the internal wifi/cellular network antenna. I'll probably do it sometime in the next few weeks.

Also, it is not a good idea to keep ports etc open. I am not aware if they could do anything bad to that car via wireless but assholes happen.

T9 was like running a telegraph, pretty decent. The pre-Android HTC(S710 I think) I used was a crap-Windows phone but it had the slide-out keyboard. It was so great, I could jut down notes while talking to someone without looking at the phone, on touch screen

Aww yeah. I really loved physical keyboards. I used to be into Mobile phones when the market was interesting and not just iPhone and it's endless clones.

I wouldn't mind the iPhone style Smart Phone, if it wasn't the only thing and it didn't had bad effects on the internet and culture in general.

What kind of apps did the HTC have? I don't know, there was a shitty colored ball game, plus the screen was garbage, but it had document functionality, almost unlimited storage for SMS and the ability to call people!
Web browser? I wouldn't want to read anything on that shitty screen so I read Elfa.se catalogues on the toilet like normal people.

For most users apps are... bookmarks. That's all. Considering mobile websites are bad on purpose now you have an "app".
You can really have good stuff, because it is a strong computing platform but for most people they just use it to access the 3 websites they use.

Smartphones were around well before that it was just that they were targeted to a certain segment and priced as such. Ericsson and Nokia both being dominant at the time had their variants, it was just that the screen was bad(think Nintendo DS mush-touch with shitty colors and no resolution to speak of) along with no real software outside of what it shipped with. With exceptions, but they were, in my experience, largely a phone enabled PDA with everything that meant at the time. Just my opinion though.

Yeah. Nokia, Blackberry etc. really had that game. I always wanted to buy a Nokia Communicator because it looked like a cozy laptop replacement. Also PDAs were nice. I remember playing doom with a stylus on a Windows Mobile PDA. Also man that interface was so much better than current smart phone crap.

I think when symbian etc got better you could really start installing apps. In fact Nokia could have had an appstore around 2000 just the leaders didn't saw the writing on the wall. That's early to mid 2000s.

(also the Nintendo DS and gameboy sure needs a spiritual successor)

Apple's genius move was to make the screen, touch and graphics not absolute garbage and price it towards a mass market instead of companies. Old smartphones were largely a company oriented phone, in my opinion. Some taco-haired cunts probably ran around with Ericsson baguettes in their pockets, point is that early smartphones existed alongside the common Nokia's and Ericsson's.

They basically took the iPod approach of finding something open, closing it down but making it polished and selling it in their ecosystem.
Steve Jobs really knew how to create a captive audience. He was a shrewd businessman. Also their design was top notch. I think the original and 3G iphone are still one of the prettiest phones.

Kinda how Microsoft basically pioneered closing the source of software and making people buy licenses.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Yeah, it was in 2007. But I think gps navigation suites had a similar layout before. It's really the same design family.

Also, it is not a good idea to keep ports etc open. I am not aware if they could do anything bad to that car via wireless but assholes happen.

Aww yeah. I really loved physical keyboards. I used to be into Mobile phones when the market was interesting and not just iPhone and it's endless clones.

I wouldn't mind the iPhone style Smart Phone, if it wasn't the only thing and it didn't had bad effects on the internet and culture in general.

For most users apps are... bookmarks. That's all. Considering mobile websites are bad on purpose now you have an "app".
You can really have good stuff, because it is a strong computing platform but for most people they just use it to access the 3 websites they use.

Yeah. Nokia, Blackberry etc. really had that game. I always wanted to buy a Nokia Communicator because it looked like a cozy laptop replacement. Also PDAs were nice. I remember playing doom with a stylus on a Windows Mobile PDA. Also man that interface was so much better than current smart phone crap.

I think when symbian etc got better you could really start installing apps. In fact Nokia could have had an appstore around 2000 just the leaders didn't saw the writing on the wall. That's early to mid 2000s.

(also the Nintendo DS and gameboy sure needs a spiritual successor)

They basically took the iPod approach of finding something open, closing it down but making it polished and selling it in their ecosystem.
Steve Jobs really knew how to create a captive audience. He was a shrewd businessman. Also their design was top notch. I think the original and 3G iphone are still one of the prettiest phones.

Kinda how Microsoft basically pioneered closing the source of software and making people buy licenses.

There were appstores of sorts, J2ME was the thing iirc and applications and games could be bought, but it was all a mess. What I meant with no software on company phones was that it was bought and loaded with what you needed. It was a work phone, not leisure phone like now. And if you think I'm just happy so see you, no, that's the work phone in my pocket.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

"Ecological" lightbulbs.

So, instead of a piece of glass and metal costing half a dollar, producing semi-natural light and easily disposable, you have a $3 apiece monstrosity producing sickly, weak light and pray to all that is holy it won't slip and break on the carpet or crack while still screwed in the lamp, because then you have mercury fumes polluting your apartment basically forever. It's extra fun when you have little kids who by their very nature break stuff all the time and will be crippled for life if they smash one of these while you're not in the house. Nobody I know bothers to dispose of them properly, they just dump them in communal dumpsters. It almost feels like some kind of cruel joke. And yeah, still produced en-masse by the PRC, who live by the "you get what you pay for" rule.

You can still buy old-style wolfram lightbulbs, but they're of the "safety light" variety previously sold in gardening stores, and their quality is so legendarily bad they deserve an article on Sankaku Complex. 1 in 3 have snapped wires out of the box, then you have 1 in 3 chance it will burn out instantly you turn it on, then it works for a week, tops. All made by PRC, too.


"Ecological" cars, and carbon emission limits.

Tankers transporting Chinesium all over the globe dwarf car CO2 emission by an order of magnitude. Idiots.

 

[seri0us]

"Ecological" lightbulbs.

So, instead of a piece of glass and metal costing half a dollar, producing semi-natural light and easily disposable, you have a $3 apiece monstrosity producing sickly, weak light and pray to all that is holy it won't slip and break on the carpet or crack while still screwed in the lamp, because then you have mercury fumes polluting your apartment basically forever. It's extra fun when you have little kids who by their very nature break stuff all the time and will be crippled for life if they smash one of these while you're not in the house. Nobody I know bothers to dispose of them properly, they just dump them in communal dumpsters. It almost feels like some kind of cruel joke. And yeah, still produced en-masse by the PRC, who live by the "you get what you pay for" rule.

You can still buy old-style wolfram lightbulbs, but they're of the "safety light" variety previously sold in gardening stores, and their quality is so legendarily bad they deserve an article on Sankaku Complex. 1 in 3 have snapped wires out of the box, then you have 1 in 3 chance it will burn out instantly you turn it on, then it works for a week, tops. All made by PRC, too.


"Ecological" cars, and carbon emission limits.

Tankers transporting Chinesium all over the globe dwarf car CO2 emission by an order of magnitude. Idiots.

But muh climate change doomsday!

 

[Ginger Piglet]

"Ecological" cars, and carbon emission limits.

Which don't apply to the elites, who shriek about climate lockdowns while private jetting all around the world to summits and lecturing us from the foredecks of their superyachts.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Which don't apply to the elites, who shriek about climate lockdowns while private jetting all around the world to summits and lecturing us from the foredecks of their superyachts.

If only the few chew veal while the others eat gruel, the environmental impact will be...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Is it just me, or does Current Year productivity software and OSes - especially on smartphones - somehow give the feel of only "loose" control over stuff? Like control in older software and OSes is more precise?

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

Is it just me, or does Current Year productivity software and OSes - especially on smartphones - somehow give the feel of only "loose" control over stuff? Like control in older software and OSes is more precise?

Not just you, you're right. Functionality is downright stripped from products over time these days because they want to move towards idiot-proofing things.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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.

I dunno, having my music and gps go through the head unit is nice. Android auto and carplay have eliminated the trash GPS in 99% of cars.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Functionality is downright stripped from products over time these days because they want to move towards idiot-proofing things.

I'm not sure it's entirely due to malicious motives. Part of it is just that everything's designed to be used on a phone, which means the UI has to be usable with one finger by a retard jaywalking across an 8-way intersection.

 

[AnOminous]

Ever miss that cute little knocking sound a 5.25" floppy drive made when you powered up the computer?

You will never hear anything like that again because it symbolized the sheer charm of early computer technology and being one of the people first in on it.

 

[Never Scored]

I dunno, having my music and gps go through the head unit is nice. Android auto and carplay have eliminated the trash GPS in 99% of cars.

I live on an island with one highway going across it. WTF am I going to do with GPS?

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

I live on an island with one highway going across it. WTF am I going to do with GPS?

Many NPCs use GPS whenever they drive. It doesn't matter if it's the grocery store they've been to dozens of times, gotta load up the GPS!

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

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.

You probably liked ME and 8 too.

I am not aware if they could do anything bad to that car via wireless but assholes happen.

I kind of doubt they bothered fixing that whole "people can control your brakes, etc." issue.

Watch how car hackers can disable brakes and steal your personal data | WeLiveSecurity

Modern cars are more and more dependent on computer systems. And guess what? They can be hacked.

www.welivesecurity.com

 

[moocow]

The amount of energy waste from inductive charging a car while it's driving. It hurts to think about. That's why I can imagine green retards attempting it. Just look at how many people fell for solar freakin' roadways.

It'd be about as entertaining as that hare-brained experiment of building a solar roadway the French actually carried out a few years ago. "Let's build a road out of solar panels! What could go wrong?"

Lots. Lots could go wrong. It was so spectacularly stupid only a pure diehard greenie could have ever dreamed it up.

 

[Blamo]

It'd be about as entertaining as that hare-brained experiment of building a solar roadway the French actually carried out a few years ago. "Let's build a road out of solar panels! What could go wrong?"

Lots. Lots could go wrong. It was so spectacularly stupid only a pure diehard greenie could have ever dreamed it up.

The interesting thing is that buying less plastic crap from China is never on the table. Like you don't hear them complain about all the landfill rated things like funkopops etc. Also all consumer electronics become less and less repairable and artificially obsoleted. That's green too somehow.

Heck, how would vegans even live without their precious fruits and nuts etc being transported across the globe. etc. I would gladly give up coffee and chocolate, if I can have fresh pork and locally sourced veggies etc. A vegan diet without soy is rather complicated to get together.

nu-Greens are really weird and are just corporate lobby at this point.

 

[kūhaku]

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.

I was interested in getting a Model 3 Tesla, but holy hell are there so many features that I just don’t want. They have an app you can use to remote control the car. And of course, it has a big ass tablet in the middle of the screen that you use to control half the functions in the car. I wish it had actual buttons and not touchscreen bullshit. I’m only considering getting this car because it has a decent range, is electric, and will last me at least a decade. I despise all this bullshit they’re bundling into it.

Ever miss that cute little knocking sound a 5.25" floppy drive made when you powered up the computer?

You will never hear anything like that again because it symbolized the sheer charm of early computer technology and being one of the people first in on it.

My current hard drive makes loud noises whenever I access stuff on it, and when the computer boots up. A lot of people would rather have it be silent but I think the mechanical sounds of it give it a certain charm. Getting feedback is always nice, modern day products remove feedback from things too much, such as cars.

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

I'm not sure it's entirely due to malicious motives. Part of it is just that everything's designed to be used on a phone, which means the UI has to be usable with one finger by a retard jaywalking across an 8-way intersection.

It's definitely not 100% malicious, we're thinking down the same road. It's all about idiot-proofing shit these days because literally everyone and their 80 year old parents/grandparents are now using technology, and we can't have people getting confused or breaking their devices.