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

ToroidalBoat said:
I've said it before, but it's BS how much system resources even simple software uses these days.

For example, a word processor in Current Year needs this:



10 years ago that was likely the requirements of a graphic-intensive game.
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That is factoring in overhead from windows and other programs. It should say up to 1GB FREE and a hard disk drive with 2,750 megabytes of uncompressed space available.
 
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It might sound too recent but I miss MP3 players with their designs and feel. Smarts phones are more convient but I still love that clickwheel on the original Ipod while smart phones are mostly the same designwise.

Records are nice until you have to move and find how awful they take up space and weight, I am wondering how many first time vinyl users going to realize the true nightmare of it.
 
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TV interfaces. I don't want apps, I don't want "eco-features", I don't want automatic dimming.

I want one thing out of a TV. I want it to display the images I feed to it with full brightness. PC monitors seem to still be pretty good when it comes to disabling all extra crap, but with a TV it's always a god damn battle to go through the laggy menus and sub-menus and alternative menus that are launched by another button to disable every "automatic" feature and just have the fucking screen turn on and be at a 100%.
 
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The market for simple TVs is practically gone. Display technology has improved to the point that simple TVs would be basically a commodity, competing on price with practically no margins. No manufacturer wants to be in such a market. So they have to pack the things with extra flashy crap to bamboozle people, subscription features, and maybe harvest their data to use as an additional ongoing revenue stream.

This is the downside of technological advancement: once certain goods become good enough and cheap enough, people stop making them. It's how they disguise inflation too -- something costs 2x more than it did 10 years ago, but it has lots of extra "features" so it is higher quality, so to economists it doesn't count as the same good getting more expensive. Yet the simpler, cheaper good isn't even on the market anymore so you're forced into buying the more expensive one anyway.
 
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Billy_Sama said:
It might sound too recent but I miss MP3 players with their designs and feel. Smarts phones are more convient but I still love that clickwheel on the original Ipod while smart phones are mostly the same designwise.
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you can still get hi fidelity "MP3" players (I use that in quotes b/c they offer a lot of other formats including ΣΔ...ie DSD etc)

some of em feel really nice in the hand, magnesium cases and such

but I hear ya, I'm from the pre-ipod days (had Diamond Rios for example...Steve Jobs was a Johnny come lately to me in terms of personal digital music players and it wasn't exactly unanticipated tech. The walkman and the Regency TR-1 before it already defined the personal format)
 
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cummytummies said:
TV interfaces. I don't want apps, I don't want "eco-features", I don't want automatic dimming.

I want one thing out of a TV. I want it to display the images I feed to it with full brightness. PC monitors seem to still be pretty good when it comes to disabling all extra crap, but with a TV it's always a god damn battle to go through the laggy menus and sub-menus and alternative menus that are launched by another button to disable every "automatic" feature and just have the fucking screen turn on and be at a 100%.
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I guess since cable is dying thanks to streaming services, TV manufacturers have to adjust with the times. Even so, streaming services are becoming what killed cable in the first place: a la carte "channels." You want to watch The Simpsons, subscribe to Disney. South Park? Subscribe to Paramount. You want HBO? That's extra as well. Those monthly subscriptions will add up over time. Networks know that streaming is the lucrative option, and are making the most of it.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I guess since cable is dying thanks to streaming services, TV manufacturers have to adjust with the times. Even so, streaming services are becoming what killed cable in the first place: a la carte "channels." You want to watch The Simpsons, subscribe to Disney. South Park? Subscribe to Paramount. You want HBO? That's extra as well. Those monthly subscriptions will add up over time. Networks know that streaming is the lucrative option, and are making the most of it.
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I barely watch any TV anymore, but I still pirate whatever I watch

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The Last Stand said:
What's the point of buying sports games brand new at launch when it'll be outdated within a year? Even worse with their extensive monetization and sticker price? And fuck 2K for starting that $70 MSRP for next gen games. Make the game $10 more for systems that are harder to find because of a chips shortage.
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Multiplayer and all their friends are going to move on to the next game. Same reason people buy Call of Duty yearly.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I guess since cable is dying thanks to streaming services, TV manufacturers have to adjust with the times. Even so, streaming services are becoming what killed cable in the first place: a la carte "channels." You want to watch The Simpsons, subscribe to Disney. South Park? Subscribe to Paramount. You want HBO? That's extra as well. Those monthly subscriptions will add up over time. Networks know that streaming is the lucrative option, and are making the most of it.
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This is why just yell YEEE-ARR and pirate everything.
 
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Gamepad said:
I got my shit on a NAS with Plex installed on it. It's got the Netflix vibe on it, and if they ain't happy with my local selection, they can always stream whatever else the service happens to offer.
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I fucked with Plex back in like 2010-2015, and for what it's worth it worked fine. But now I'm more at a state of having 12TB of movies and shows downloaded because they "looked interesting" and never watching any of it because I just don't care about movies and TV at all. What little I watch I do at the theatre (no multiplex, I support small business owners).
 
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I went to micro center and was asking about pc cases. They now only carry 2 models with 5.25" bays. Sorry goy you can't have physical media without a bunch of external spaghetti!

Idk. If you buy an older case, is there a way to replace the backplate?
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
i miss being able to put a chip in my gaming console and play burned games i got for free on the internet. it was simple. tried emulating games for the switch but i cant trust these third part sites with giving me the game files without also giving me a computer virus.
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I assume emulators sandbox ROMs enough that weird shit added to them isnt a big deal?
 
Gamepad said:
Define older. ATX is from the mid-90s. There's still plenty of modern cases with at least a single 5.25 external bay, just don't expect brick and mortar stores to make those the majority of their stock.
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I was considering buying a case from the 90s or 00s. Probably cheaper for one. Form factors I'm considering are ATX, mini ATX, or mini ITX.
 
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