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

jje100010001 said:
Watching that Tesla video where you can literally buy DLC for cars (a $2000 acceleration 'boost') makes the future with electric, 'smart' cars so much more ominous.

I know that it's not tremendously different from choosing optional add-ons when buying a car, or tuning and replacing parts to your car, but it just feels weird- that your car had the ability to do this all along, and you're merely buying the privilege to do so.
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Tesla deactivating some features on used cars after owners sell them privately

Tesla recharging for features of used Teslas
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Certain Tesla vehicles in the United States are having their functions remotely-deactivated after being sold on the used market.
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jje100010001 said:
Watching that Tesla video where you can literally buy DLC for cars (a $2000 acceleration 'boost') makes the future with electric, 'smart' cars so much more ominous.

I know that it's not tremendously different from choosing optional add-ons when buying a car, or tuning and replacing parts to your car, but it just feels weird- that your car had the ability to do this all along, and you're merely buying the privilege to do so.
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During a hurricane in Florida, I think, they enabled the cheaper models to drive longer distances. How much battery you can use was software capped, it's the same battery as the more expensive version.

Through tradition we accept that in software and hardware but it creeping into a cars basic functionality feels weird.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
During a hurricane in Florida, I think, they enabled the cheaper models to drive longer distances. How much battery you can use was software capped, it's the same battery as the more expensive version.

Through tradition we accept that in software and hardware but it creeping into a cars basic functionality feels weird.
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That's another thing I dislike about modern cars. I'm sure others besides Tesla are doing the same thing. GM has been inserting their cars with Onstar and a 4G hotspot for a while now. No doubt it would be easy to interface the 4G modem to the rest of the car's OBC for OTA updates that can potentially brick the car on command. I feel a lot safer knowing the car's computers are a fully isolated system with no outside connection other than manually connecting a OBD dongle to it to read/clear codes.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
The Blaster Worm. I remember that. I had it back in the day because XP SP1, and then came down with something called the Welchia Worm which was a worm that removed the Blaster Worm but fucked things up in its own way.
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I believe my XP laptop got blaster on Day 1 when installing the initial updates because my only option for that was to connect to the internet. Even though, I long since deleted it as obsolete, someone somewhere published a document that was an XP survival guide for day 1 that explained how to get those initial updates without being infected by Blaster. I want to say there was something called Sasser at this time, too, but I'm not sure if it was related to Blaster.

The office I worked at during this time period saw the network get infected by Welchia. I'm not sure what nasty things it was capable of doing, but I still recall how Welchia slowed down every machine it infected to the point that internet service on a 110 baud modem seemed like it would be faster.
 
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moocow said:
The solution was as @AnOminous describes -- airgap the machine, install the OS, then install the required patches from trustworthy physical media.
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And if you lived during this time, you remember the sheer jaw-dropping astoundment you experienced when you realized, what the EVERLOVING FUCK were these absolute RETARDS thinking when they released this? Did not a single person in this megalithic corporation even try to install this on an actual machine before releasing it? Who the fuck okayed this?
 
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AnOminous said:
And if you lived during this time, you remember the sheer jaw-dropping astoundment you experienced when you realized, what the EVERLOVING FUCK were these absolute RETARDS thinking when they released this? Did not a single person in this megalithic corporation even try to install this on an actual machine before releasing it? Who the fuck okayed this?
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Some bean counter whose only experience with software must have been using the office suite to look at numbers.

It would he cool to hear a post mortem about these projects. It is somewhat amusing that one of the most important piece of home computing software is a total black box.
 
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One thing I don't miss: unofficial toolbars for browsers.

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What was the POINT of all that when the official address bar and home page setting could do that?
 
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The Last Stand said:
One thing I don't miss: unofficial toolbars for browsers.

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What was the POINT of all that when the official address bar and home page setting could do that?
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I think a lot of people had the Google/Yahoo ones because back in the day, typing "Big Black Dicks" into the address bar wouldn't' search for "Big Black Dicks" and you'd get a DNS error instead. The Google toolbar gave you fast and easy access to "Big Black Dicks."
 
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The Last Stand said:
What was the POINT of all that when the official address bar and home page setting could do that?
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Two speculative reasons on my part:
  • Search engines and other companies having their own search bars as a way to quickly use their search facilities without having to visit www dot whatever first.
  • A source for bad actors to spread spyware/malware. I recall a customizable bar/skin combination known as Hotbar that promoted itself via banner ads with plenty of eye candy. What people didn't realize that it might have contained spyware along with the fact that it made itself difficult at best to uninstall.
 
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Blamo said:
Some bean counter whose only experience with software must have been using the office suite to look at numbers.

It would he cool to hear a post mortem about these projects. It is somewhat amusing that one of the most important piece of home computing software is a total black box.
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Yes, almost certainly, but was there not a SINGLE actual HUMAN at the wheel? Did not a single human say "hey I installed this and my computer immediately got infected with Blaster, isn't this kind of a thing?"

Yeah I know. The answer is no. That person did almost certainly exist, and had the sense to say "fuck it let someone else take the blame."

Because if you've ever been That Guy who pointed out how fucking stupid something your company was about to do was, and got fired for it, because you got blamed for it, because you were the one who pointed it out, you know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about.
 
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Madre Muerte said:
It has solitare, but with ads and forced online to spy on you.
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Twenty years ago, we called this adware and spyware and had antivirus software to get rid of it. Now, Kikerosoft makes the viruses and packages them with their software, so they're inseparable. Who would have guessed that the operating system itself would become the virus?
 
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Good day everyone. This is my first post on these fora.

Ten minutes ago I would have said BBS boards. I thought Leddit has killed them. Leddit has been unkind to me and I was looking for a different community. But I thought BBSes are dead. Then my brother, an avid CC fan, told me these forums exist, and I was jubilant to find out there's still a BBS-like message board out there. It's within my interest as well. I, once, was a lolcow.

Not to stave off-topic, I think what I miss the most are the anonymous AIMs such as Y! Messenger. The closest thing to these AIMs that we have today is Discord, which itself is not so anonymous. Still, it allows dirty MAPs to operate in it, so who's to say it's not anonymous.
 
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I fucking hate how phone screens (and smartphones in general) are getting bigger and bigger.
For several years I had an iPhone 5s and it was perfect. I never planned on replacing it because it was the perfect size, I could easily text with one hand while at work. Then Apple made my phone obsolete, and I switched to Samsung. My current phone (Samsung Galaxy A50) is larger than an iPhone X. Whenever I text I have to hold it in both my tiny Trump sized hands.

The kicker, Apple recently released an iPhone 12 "mini" which is essentially the same size as the 5s, but it's $1200. Fuck off.

If anyone knows any micro smartphones with relatively good specs please let me know.
 
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