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

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Its cool that you miss them in cars but I don't miss trying to change CDs while driving, getting CDs from stuck CD changers, and that one road bump or pothole that destroys the CD.

You can relive that nostalgia and add some mystery to it with the "why the fuck did the bluetooth playback stop working, is it because this is ~a haunted~ intersection?".

 

[PFM]

Online dating sites. If you used them 10-15 years ago, you'll know what's changed.

I've never used a dating site. What changed?

 

[Billy Beer]

I've never used a dating site. What changed?

It used to be a mutual understanding of two adults, that the intention of meeting was casual, no string sex. No drama, no issues, no clingyness. Just sex. Both sides had realistic expectations of the kind of people they could and would attract.

Nowadays dating sites are more about women with unrealistic expectations using dating sites as a back-pat from simps to make themselves feel better. There's hoops to jump through and a self inflated sense of entitlement. Politics and drama are rife (no right wingers or anti vaxxers is a frequent thing to see on profiles of women who also want breeding by bbc...). Even worse is that the expectation or want of intercourse is frowned upon, and if you don't meet these women with a view to a relationship or more, you're a catfish pervert alt right fuckboi.

Dating sites have become a mix between Instagram and onlyfans. It's not the end of the world, but it was a genuine avenue to meet women outside of social settings and bars. Not a replacement for it (which most women think it is) but a supplement. Messaging a few women during the week to organise a meet on a weekend, worked well on top of meeting women in bars.

Edit: almost every dating site profile wants you to have WhatsApp, kik Sc etc etc to message women on them to pad out their user numbers. Vs "here's my number, drop me a text or whatever" back in the day. Its more about showing off to other people that you have people interested in you, rather than just dating and fucking. Completely ruins the whole idea of online dating.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

@Hot Cup of Joe is right that they changed, though I dispute that it was merely sexual. I don't know what sites he was using. What I would say is that you got more real people on them, I had both decent hookups and a few long relationships from them. I made heavy usage of dating sites from the late 90s to around 2006. What changed? Once Facebook took off, I think we started to see fake profiles/bots on them. I remember having a Match.com profile (which I never used beyond a stub and never had a pic on it) and I would still get random messages from 'women' that were obvious bots.

Not long after the bot/spam social media era is when you started to see political checklists (I did notice a handful of these in the early 00s but they were rare) hoops you had to jump through. I haven't used or even attempted to use dating sites since maybe 2010.

 

[Never Scored]

Its cool that you miss them in cars but I don't miss trying to change CDs while driving, getting CDs from stuck CD changers, and that one road bump or pothole that destroys the CD.

I have never had a CD skip or get destroyed when I hit a pothole and I live in a place where the roads are notoriously riddled with potholes. Everything I had before 2008 had a tape deck. Maybe this was an issue in older cars that had CD players, or maybe if you had one of those fancy CD players that go in the trunk?

Anyway, I recently upgraded to a vehicle without a CD player, and I definitely miss it. I can put a shitload of MP3s on a usb stick and play it that way, but the fucking think won't let me browse music while the vehicle is in motion. I understand why that's the case in the city and stuff, I guess, but there have been times I've literally just been on a 20k stretch of highway with no one around and I wasn't allowed to switch albums. No lights, no stopping, no one ahead or behind, just a two-lane highway with barely anyone on it and I can't switch what I'm listening to without literally pulling over. I'd rather just have the ability to switch CDs tbh.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

online dating

I used to think online dating sucks.

Now it sucks even more, with "social" media and social "justice" thrown in.

 

[Billy Beer]

but the fucking think won't let me browse music while the vehicle is in motion.

What the fuck? That's lunacy.

Buy an mp3 player with blu-tooth and blu tooth to the car stereo, or fit a better stereo. I've not heard of a car stopping you from browsing music while in motion. How does it even know the car is driving? I would snippedy snipping a few wires at the back.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I absolutely do not miss old storage technologies. Give me flash all day. The average life expectancy of the harddrives I got in the late 80s up to the late 90s was around two-three years. For what they used to cost then that was insane. I can't even really remember the last time I needed a backup because of hardware failure. (and not because of me fat-fingering some command)

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

@Hot Cup of Joe is right that they changed, though I dispute that it was merely sexual.

It's dating sites for anyone 18+ or Tumblr for those above age that wants to groom minors and meet them in parking lots or vans.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I absolutely do not miss old storage technologies. Give me flash all day. The average life expectancy of the harddrives I got in the late 80s up to the late 90s was around two-three years. For what they used to cost then that was insane. I can't even really remember the last time I needed a backup because of hardware failure. (and not because of me fat-fingering some command)

Second this entirely, for the longest time I fell for the meme that SSD = unreliable compared to HDD but I have only ever had HDDs die on me and delayed getting a SSD for probably a few years longer than I should have.

There is this annoying trend to view old = good in all cases in the tech world, you see this on /g/ where there have been some threads waxing nostalgia about trackball mice that you to clean hair and/or dust out from every few weeks and slowly turned to shit even after cleanings. Take it from a KF old, they were garbage, don't listen to tech hipsters if they try to meme them as better.

 

[The Last Stand]

The Xbox (and 360) had a feature where you could rip CDs onto the hard drive. And play your soundtrack during gameplay. Some games even incorporated it from within. Very handy during GTA.

 

[Never Scored]

The Xbox (and 360) had a feature where you could rip CDs onto the hard drive. And play your soundtrack during gameplay. Some games even incorporated it from within. Very handy during GTA.

It used to be great for create a wrestler in WWE games.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Its not much of a tech trend but I miss going to most music, movie or game stores like FYE or even Gamestop back when they didn't have filler crap like Funko or other frivolous merch that I didn't care for. The resale store chain I use to go to before older Video games became so pricey and scare is stack to the brim with Funkos.

 

[AnOminous]

Take it from a KF old, they were garbage, don't listen to tech hipsters if they try to meme them as better.

They were pretty good for playing sniper in games with zoom/crosshair mechanics.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Its not much of a tech trend but I miss going to most music, movie or game stores like FYE or even Gamestop back when they didn't have filler crap like Funko or other frivolous merch that I didn't care for. The resale store chain I use to go to before older Video games became so pricey and scare is stack to the brim with Funkos.

Seeing it happen to my then-local Barnes and Noble hurt my soul. All the music and movies were crammed into a few tiny shelves while the part of the store they used to occupy was turned into plastic toy crap, which basically meant the entire back part of the store was covered in garbage.

You have no idea how happy I was when I moved and the new local Barnes and Noble had almost none of that shit.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

There is this annoying trend to view old = good in all cases in the tech world, you see this on /g/ where there have been some threads waxing nostalgia about trackball mice that you to clean hair and/or dust out from every few weeks and slowly turned to shit even after cleanings. Take it from a KF old, they were garbage, don't listen to tech hipsters if they try to meme them as better.

To be honest I prefare a trackball mouse but the old ones where awful, I use a Logitech MX Ergo and have had it for 3 or 4 years now and it's worked without issue and had to clean it out 3 times once when I spilled Tea all over it and two other times as just general maintenance but I think a 3rd is coming up soon.

But I freely admit that they are not for everyone.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Don’t know if this counts but I personally believe that Adobe flash player disappearing was a huge mistake and I will very much hold a grudge about it.

It sucks for the occasional good content that's now abandonware that won't ever be changed to run without flash. What I don't miss, though, is the periodic notifications that Flash needs yet another update to fix/patch the latest security flaws and vulnerabilities.

Its not much of a tech trend but I miss going to most music, movie or game stores like FYE or even Gamestop back when they didn't have filler crap like Funko or other frivolous merch that I didn't care for.

There was a place like that a block over from one of my prior workplaces that had pretty much everything one could want in music/entertainment and then-some without filler crap. Online sales, steaming, and downloads were their demise because they either failed to adapt or adapted too late to remain viable. Even changing to an FYE store didn't help them, and years later I believe their commercial space is still up for lease.

Seeing it happen to my then-local Barnes and Noble hurt my soul.

What sucked for me was receiving a gift certificate for the local bookstore, either B&N or Borders Books, only to have it go belly up before I could redeem it. Sadly, I wasn't surprised since physical copies of books seem to be less popular over time.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It sucks for the occasional good content that's now abandonware that won't ever be changed to run without flash. What I don't miss, though, is the periodic notifications that Flash needs yet another update to fix/patch the latest security flaws and vulnerabilities.


There was a place like that a block over from one of my prior workplaces that had pretty much everything one could want in music/entertainment and then-some without filler crap. Online sales, steaming, and downloads were their demise because they either failed to adapt or adapted too late to remain viable. Even changing to an FYE store didn't help them, and years later I believe their commercial space is still up for lease.

Flash was the one that asked you if you wanted to install a very important update, then killed all open browser, then maybe wanted to restart the machine and when that's done McAfee might be installed. I'm pretty sure it was Flash that did that for a while,

The video game store I usually went to sold music and AV stuff, it was really great. They didn't have much in the ways of shelves so PS1 games were flicked through just like music CDs. What made it fun was that a new release/addition could be something like two copies of Tecmo's Deception a year after its original release. Not used either, they only sold new stock. Flicking through the games a couple of times a month was worth it just to see what would show up.

 

[Elaine Miller]

It sucks for the occasional good content that's now abandonware that won't ever be changed to run without flash. What I don't miss, though, is the periodic notifications that Flash needs yet another update to fix/patch the latest security flaws and vulnerabilities.

Honestly flash disappearing destroyed a bunch of games on the App Store/websites that I enjoyed playing I actually think the updates were comforting, better know that something needs fixing rather than it just crashing on you randomly. Flash was so transparent & based about it’s various errors, I miss it. I miss updating it.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The Xbox (and 360) had a feature where you could rip CDs onto the hard drive. And play your soundtrack during gameplay. Some games even incorporated it from within. Very handy during GTA.

PS3 also had this but there weren't many games that allowed it. Loved playing Bayonetta and Wipeout with Overkill in the background. Shame Bayonetta only allowed this on the motorcycle level. I always forget Wipeout's soundtrack isn't Overkill's Ironbound.