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

[Kiislova]

Miss:
- Offline "just works" consoles
- Cheatcodes
- IRC
- Internet communities outside Reddit/FB/etc... (Hi Kiwifarms!)

Trend hate:
- DLC
- Think of the children/wahmen censoring
- Touchscreens on appliances/cars/everywhere
- Requiring phone number validation for everything

 

[Kenobi]

I miss when people didn't walk around with headsets that made it seem as though they were talking to themselves. I'd rather be able to effortlessly identify and avoid the weirdoes who actually do talk to themselves since they are almost always mentally ill, and it's an annoying enough habit that I'll shun them even if they aren't.

I also can't stand the way that you don't seem to be able to do a verbatim web search any more; now everything wants to be "clever" and tries to guess what you really meant. No, fuckwad, I typed what I really wanted to search for, because I'm not fucking exceptional. There are many things that are just literally impossible to search for now because of this.

Thats why you live in a nordic country then anyone who talks you you who is a stranger is either :
1. Drunk
2. Crazy

Also the Pi sucks and doesn't make you a "Maker".

Its great for things like making a car computer with just stuff you want on it or an mp3 player. When 80% dont know what c++ is or c#

Arduino ganggang where you at?!

Another thing i hate is "Slick shop website design" I just want to buy your fucking phone/laptop i dont want to scroll trough 10 pages of marketing wank.

 

[Kiislova]

I'll add to the "hate" category.

Bloated and overbloated web pages. No, you don't need to load 4MB of fonts and 2MB of JavaScript to show text.

 

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This, what possible use could I have for almost every website sending me notifications? Most of the time I'm there just to read an article that I'll never read again. I mean maybe just maybe if the latest tentacle midget amputee porn hentai showed up on xhamster or whatever I might be arsed to give a shit but...no, never mind.

You don't want to pay for content do you? No, it's very important that every website in the world be able to track you in one more way even if you don't actually read their site anymore.

I miss the widespread use of RSS feeds on websites, due to centralized platforms like Facebooks, Twitters, Reddits, YouTubes wanting to control discussion on the web.

Here's crunklord420's thread on RSS.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/rss-can-save-the-internet.52146/

There's a direct political motive there. It's no surprise that FiveFilters which provides a lot of excellent criticism of corporate media like the UK Guardian also provides a great set of RSS tools.

Speaking of cameras, I miss when one could easily take standard definition pictures and videos.

The 'Open Camera' app for Android (available from F-Droid) does a good job of making this available.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Miss:
- IRC

IRC is still going strong.

Trend hate:
- DLC
- Think of the children/wahmen censoring
- Touchscreens on appliances/cars/everywhere
- Requiring phone number validation for everything

Agreed.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Trend hate:
- DLC
- Think of the children/wahmen censoring
- Touchscreens on appliances/cars/everywhere
- Requiring phone number validation for everything

I absolutely hate phone validation, like, at least have the option for another way for those who don't have access to a phone. It's bonkers.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It's not really a trend but gosh I miss SGI. Man, those were neato computers. Of course, modern video cards have a lot of SGI's DNA in them.

Agreed. Back when computers, including Macs, were a sea of beige tin cans SGI was putting out some good looking things.

The next to last one is their Intel based workstation, it was decent and cheap starting at 3k. Not long after that they shipped them with Nvidia GPUs. Then they died.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Japan had some great computer case designs.

 

[kūhaku]

I will dogpile onto the IoT hate. Technology is great, but stop putting it in everything. Manual may be slower but it is consistent and does not malfunction due to software issues. I do not need or want a smart home, smart anything even. It's so worthless not to mention you make yourself vulnerable to being fucked with via hacking, and make your entire world shut down when the power turns off.

Fuck fingerprint scanning. I mistakenly did it on my phone a few years ago and I wish I never had, even disregarding my personal information paranoia using your finger or your face for your phone is fucking stupid. It takes like 2 seconds to type your passcode in, why give even more data to these tech companies than you already do just to get a few seconds saved when opening your phone? Kiss my ass.

Wireless shit is for the most part awful. I understand that some things need wireless, like wi-fi for phones and cellular data, but nothing else should need it. I am not going to fuck around with configuring shit for wireless "convenience" when I can just plug something in and save the trouble. Not to mention that most wireless things also need to be charged separately which is a massive pain in the ass. I will never understand wireless keyboards and mice, maybe unless you're using a laptop but that itself is "wireless" in nature so it comes with the package.

Generally anything that sacrifices usability and consistency for convenience is total trash fire. Tech illiterate people with money to burn buying high tech shit perpetuates this trend.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Not so much the technology but something people do with it, folks if you have a set of wired earbuds with a mic on them don't put the fucking mic in your mouth cause you think it makes you sound better on the other end cause it doesn't. It just makes you look like a jackass and sound like a muffled jackass.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

miss: Using the magnetic strip on credit/debit cards.

hate: Those stupid card chips. The shitty things never work the first time. And they're pushed on us like shitty CFLs were.

- Touchscreens on appliances/cars/everywhere

I don't think we'd like living in the Star Trek TNG world. Touchscreens are pretty much the only kind of interface left.

'Open Camera' app

yeah but that's still a smartphone app you have to download

(thanks for the tip though)

 

[thx1138]

The X68000 was a neat machine but did it see any adoption as a general purpose computer or was it just more of a games platform? I know it had a GUI based OS (Human-OS), but I'm not sure if the X68000 was anything other than a glorified console.

 

[Beluga]

I fucking hate face recognition, especially on phones.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

face recognition, especially on phones

I remember when someone wanted me to hold their phone to take a group picture. All these weird boxes showed up around their faces on the screen, which was really unsettling. What's the point?

Also China uses facial recognition for pretty much everything. Even getting toilet paper. It really is a cyberpunk dystopia.

 

[Beluga]

I remember when someone wanted me to hold their phone to take a group picture. All these weird boxes showed up around their faces on the screen, which was creepy.

Also China uses facial recognition for pretty much everything. It really is a cyberpunk dystopia over there.

It's also extremely dangerous.

Recently, I was in the car with a friend and she has one of the newer Iphones. When facial recognition is on and you get a notification it only shows who's the sender and the body of the text only if it recognises the owner's face, otherwise it just says "Whatsapp notification" or some shit like that. She was driving, got a text and wanted to just quickly see who was texting her. I obviously couldn't tell her as the phone wouldn't fucking show it to me. So, as she was driving she had to awkwardly try to put the phone in just the right way for it to work, which was basically right in front of her face because apparently it didn't recognise her profile. It's nuts. (Obviously don't text and drive kids)

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Automated payments for things such as tollways because it can be used to give someone a ticket for speeding. Example you do a fastpass that pings you at point A to get charged now depending if you go through a different point say point B they can use the time between those pings and say "nope you were going over the speed limit because it takes X amount of time unobstructed driving the speed limit and you were faster than it".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I hate internet ads in general, but especially annoying is the new trend of video ads that auto-start. As you scroll past it, it continues to play in a thumbnail which is really distracting. Even worse is how there is a countdown before an X appears to close it - if it even appears.

Another potentially infuriating trend is those ads that block the page behind it, like the pop up ads of yore.

 

[ForgedBlades]

From an aesthetic standpoint, this was the favorite case I have owned. Just the perfect amount of rice.

 

[Pissmaster]

Techmoan's really made me wish I knew about Minidisc back in the day. It's pretty neat and I'd really like using those in the car instead of fumbling around with my phone. In fact, CDs are still sort of preferable for the car, since it's easy to just slide one out of a visor wallet and pop it in.

It's also extremely dangerous.

Recently, I was in the car with a friend and she has one of the newer Iphones. When facial recognition is on and you get a notification it only shows who's the sender and the body of the text only if it recognises the owner's face, otherwise it just says "Whatsapp notification" or some shit like that. She was driving, got a text and wanted to just quickly see who was texting her. I obviously couldn't tell her as the phone wouldn't fucking show it to me. So, as she was driving she had to awkwardly try to put the phone in just the right way for it to work, which was basically right in front of her face because apparently it didn't recognise her profile. It's nuts. (Obviously don't text and drive kids)

Newer iPhones have some kind of infrared dot matrix thing where it makes a 3D model of your face and stores that as biometric authentication, and Apple pinky swears that they don't sell it or use it for any other purpose (lmao). They even got rid of the fingerprint scanner on all their newer phones in place of this, so if you wanna use a newer iPhone but don't like that face thing, tough shit, you gotta input a password every single time.

That was enough to break the camel's back and drive me to Android, despite using iPhones for years. Fingerprint scanners are fine, you just get used to picking up your phone a certain way and it becomes seamless. Apple getting rid of them in favor of a face modeler? Like, Google's got tons of creepy shit going on, but at least they don't try to hide it. Anyone who believes Apple isn't handing all your data straight over to the highest bidder is a fucking retard. They're the first company ever to hit a trillion dollars in estimated value, there's no way they're leaving all that money on the table.

The new camera technology for the Galaxy S20 sounds like a huge rape on the battery, production level cameras (loosely speaking here) on phones would need a power supply that can handle that constant cycle.

I hadn't heard about the S20 yet, so I looked it up and found this picture which seems like a parody but actually isn't:


It'd be so easy to just make one that's slightly bigger than the last and call it the "S20 Ultra Extreme" and then another named "S20 Ultra Extreme Plus"

 

[JustWhy]

I miss old software (and hardware obviously too), that just did simple thing - did what it supposed to do.

And I don't like one thing. Back then when you clicked on something almost in no time you get result (not counting cpu/hdd intensive tasks of course), without waiting 1-2 seconds for fancy UI animation to complete like in some modern equivalents of old programs. I hope that wouldn't be 'new trend' in programming to join already giant unnecessary bloat. Comically, modern sloppy standards hello world could take >=32MB compiled