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

[Madre Muerte]

When the new CPUs got introduced quite a lot, considering software showcased worked differently on for example on a 286 and 386.
I kinda miss tech product names that made some sense, like yeah a 486 is faster than a 386 or a Pentium 4 sounds better than a Pentium III.

Instead of basically being i3 i5 i7 for decades only seperated by their overtly long code name. Like I have a i7 desktop... that could pretty much mean anything. It really makes me cringe when I see advertisements just saying "laptop with i5 cpu" umm okay. That could mean anything. lol

You think old tech names made sense? OK lol

 

[Blamo]

You think old tech names made sense? OK lolView attachment 2334093

Bigger number means better product. Nowadays all of those would be called i3

 

[potato fan]

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,

it's funtionality was shit, before SP2 it was an unstable mess, it added almost no functionality over win2k yet had way higher hardware requirements, it had unindexed search, despite having HDD indexing which was turned on by default, it used NTFS which handeld user pemissions, yet by default all accounts were admin accounts anyways, because it was nearly impossible to use it as a daily driver on a limited account, it had a hidden built in Administrator account THAT WAS NOT EVEN PASSWORD PROTECTED, it had archaic graphics subsystem that could not utilize GPU to draw GUI, it was very prone to BSODing on driver issues. And worst of all it had serious security problems, I remember when making a clean install of XP and connecting to the internet made you get infected immediately with one of the worms using RPC vulnerabilities

literally the only reason most people think of XP as "the good one" was that MS fucked up Vista development, and XP had to be kept alive for years, resulting in a situation where relatively old OS was still "new" and the hardware progress made it so it could run fast on an average box. This and also the fact that Vista had some serious issues on launch, making it look even better in contrast.

e: also it suffered from the same thing that all pre-win10 versions suffer- even on a very fast hardware with tons of ram, if you ran something that taxed CPU, the GUI became slow, choppy or even froze. Even if you made explorer.exe run with high priority. One thing that win10 got right is keeping they GUI responsive even under heavy load, altho I bet the proliferation of CPU cores has helped here a lot.

 

[Blamo]

it's funtionality was shit, before SP2 it was an unstable mess, it added almost no functionality over win2k yet had way higher hardware requirements, it had unindexed search, despite having HDD indexing which was turned on by default, it used NTFS which handeld user pemissions, yet by default all accounts were admin accounts anyways, because it was nearly impossible to use it as a daily driver on a limited account, it had a hidden built in Administrator account THAT WAS NOT EVEN PASSWORD PROTECTED, it had archaic graphics subsystem that could not utilize GPU to draw GUI, it was very prone to BSODing on driver issues. And worst of all it had serious security problems, I remember when making a clean install of XP and connecting to the internet made you get infected immediately with one of the worms using RPC vulnerabilities

literally the only reason most people think of XP as "the good one" was that MS fucked up Vista development, and XP had to be kept alive for years, resulting in a situation where relatively old OS was still "new" and in the hardware progress made it so it could run fast on an average box. This and also the fact that Vista had some serious issues on launch, making it look even better in contrast.

XP was one of the first OS for Millenials who got their own computer. Broadband internet too was getting a thing there with some good games so in general it made it having good memories. Current kids will look back at 10 and feel the same.

I think 2000 was better as an OS. It felt more stable, in hindsight. Also it didn't feel so goofy, the Luna theme was really cheap in XP.

 

[Marissa Moira]

XP was one of the first OS for Millenials who got their own computer. Broadband internet too was getting a thing there with some good games so in general it made it having good memories. Current kids will look back at 10 and feel the same.

I think 2000 was better as an OS. It felt more stable, in hindsight. Also it didn't feel so goofy, the Luna theme was really cheap in XP.

Windows 10 doesn't have Encarta Mind Maze, therefore it shall always be inferior.

Also HOVER!

 

[AnOminous]

And worst of all it had serious security problems, I remember when making a clean install of XP and connecting to the internet made you get infected immediately with one of the worms using RPC vulnerabilities

I had exactly that, and you couldn't even last long enough not to get infected while specifically trying to install the security update. You had to download it on another already protected machine and then install it before connecting to anything. That really bad period was a pretty brief period of time, though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I had exactly that, and you couldn't even last long enough not to get infected while specifically trying to install the security update. You had to download it on another already protected machine and then install it before connecting to anything. That really bad period was a pretty brief period of time, though.

The fix for that was simple, pull the ethernet cable, use system restore(nice feature) to roll back a day then block RPC ports in windows before connecting back to the internet. I don't remember exactly what I did but I was a programmer back then so I kind of figured out what was going on. It was a curiosity and a minor hassle one afternoon.

 

[AnOminous]

The fix for that was simple, pull the ethernet cable, use system restore(nice feature) to roll back a day then block RPC ports in windows before connecting back to the internet. I don't remember exactly what I did but I was a programmer back then so I kind of figured out what was going on. It was a curiosity and a minor hassle one afternoon.

Luckily it was a fresh install on a new machine so I didn't even have to figure it out, just start over from scratch, then turn off RPC because I had absolutely no reason to want it on anyway. I think this was Blaster. Anyway whatever it was when I installed a network monitor, for like a week, I was getting slammed with attempts by this fucking thing to install from dozens of IPs every minute.

It was Comcast, so of course they didn't bother even trying to filter this crap.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

The fix for that was simple, pull the ethernet cable, use system restore(nice feature) to roll back a day then block RPC ports in windows before connecting back to the internet. I don't remember exactly what I did but I was a programmer back then so I kind of figured out what was going on. It was a curiosity and a minor hassle one afternoon.

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.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Although this isn't tech-related at all, but it does relate to cars, I don't like how some auto makers are obsessed with using synthetic leather for seats, to the point that some cars don't even offer real leather seats as an option at all. Two examples of that, IIRC, are the newest Toyota RAV4, and the Ford Mustang Mach-E, which both only offer synthetic leather for seats, while some of their competitors, i.e. the Honda CR-V, at least still offer real leather seats for people who want it.

Another thing that comes to mind about cars is the use of soy-based wiring, for the reasons of "protecting the environment", when it can lead to some nasty and expensive failures, if rodents were to chew on that said soy-based wiring. It's as if auto makers did that not to protect the environment, but to make sick $$$ on repairs when rats do end up chewing on wires.

Pleather usually handles moisture and UV light better than the real deal. Plus it means you can call your car "vegan" and get idiots in California to buy it.

 

[Blamo]

Pleather usually handles moisture and UV light better than the real deal. Plus it means you can call your car "vegan" and get idiots in California to buy it.

Then I hope they drive electric or ethanol because couldn't oil and natural gas be considered an animal product? In fact vegans pretty much can only burn and coal. Oh, also because practically everything has dino juice in it... living in an industrial society is basically using animal products. Oof.

 

[seri0us]

Then I hope they drive electric or ethanol because couldn't oil and natural gas be considered an animal product? In fact vegans pretty much can only burn and coal. Oh, also because practically everything has dino juice in it... living in an industrial society is basically using animal products. Oof.

Burn the coal pay the toll..

 

[moocow]

One thing that win10 got right is keeping they GUI responsive even under heavy load

The last two years of experience with Windows 10 compels me to giggle at this claim. Once total CPU utilization across all cores starts flirting with 90%, responsiveness completely tanks. I've seen the damned thing completely freeze for 15+ seconds then pick back up as if nothing had happened (work continued in the background, so it's not like the whole system froze; just the GUI did).

I remember when making a clean install of XP and connecting to the internet made you get infected immediately with one of the worms using RPC vulnerabilities

I had exactly that, and you couldn't even last long enough not to get infected while specifically trying to install the security update. You had to download it on another already protected machine and then install it before connecting to anything. That really bad period was a pretty brief period of time, though.

Windows Server 2000 was my favorite (lol) for this. If you booted up the installation disc and started a fresh installation on brand new hardware (which usually took 10-15 minutes) and made the mistake of leaving the ethernet cable connected to a port that could hit the internet, the fucking thing was infected before the installation was even finished. The solution was as @AnOminous describes -- airgap the machine, install the OS, then install the required patches from trustworthy physical media.

Microsoft has never failed to impress me with its grandmaster-level incompetence.

 

[The Last Stand]

I have an i5 that's better than some i7s too.

You think old tech names made sense? OK lolView attachment 2334093

With the next iteration of technology, do you prefer numerical names or monikers?

PlayStation is the only technology I know where they name each iteration by number. PlayStation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Xbox does OG, 360, One, Series X. I believe iPhone do a combination of monikers and numbers.

I would think that the higher the number, that's the later model. I understand having subsets of the same brand, but Apple overdoes it. At least they up the number with each successor. 8 is newer than 7.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The last two years of experience with Windows 10 compels me to giggle at this claim. Once total CPU utilization across all cores starts flirting with 90%, responsiveness completely tanks. I've seen the damned thing completely freeze for 15+ seconds then pick back up as if nothing had happened (work continued in the background, so it's not like the whole system froze; just the GUI did).

I've never had that with CPU 100% utilization across all cores/threads but when RAM utilization is at 95% or more then the Win10 GUI starts becoming choppy. When things starts to get choppy I know that Firefox is using 28GB of memory for reasons unknown.

 

[moocow]

I've never had that with CPU 100% utilization across all cores/threads but when RAM utilization is at 95% or more then the Win10 GUI starts becoming choppy. When things starts to get choppy I know that Firefox is using 28GB of memory for reasons unknown.

I'll concede it's entirely possible my machine has devolved to potato status via the traditional Windows bitrot process. I've been on the same Windows 10 install since mid-2019 when I built this thing. 2nd-gen Ryzen 7, 32GB of RAM, NVMe SSD system disk, but Windows has always looked at high-spec hardware and said "challenge accepted."

 

[Game master arino]

windows 10 doesnt come with minesweeper or solitaire. humanity is doomed

 

[Blamo]

windows 10 doesnt come with minesweeper or solitaire. humanity is doomed

Didnt it had a "free" Minecraft license when it was new?

 

[Madre Muerte]

windows 10 doesnt come with minesweeper or solitaire. humanity is doomed

It has solitare, but with ads and forced online to spy on you.

 

[jje100010001]

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.