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

Modern web development and the modern web is actual cancer. A single page is 2-3 megabytes on top of whatever other terrible unoptimized JavaScript files have to be loaded in through a CDN, and not too mention the array of botnet tracking scripts like Google Analytics. Everything is cluttered, the controls are always jittery because websites decide instead of having a normal scrollbar we need the heckin upboat endless PARALLAX scrolling! We also need to display 30 modals because fuck you, sign up to our newsletter you fucking worthless cattle.

And then you have frameworks like Electron that want to enable these retarded developers to make desktop software using Chromium. Great idea.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I had a Spectre (my first 4k TV) and it wasn't that great - the plug was hard wired to the TV, so if you moved it you dragged the dang cord with you everywhere. Menus were also slow and the video options not that good. I dont mind being able to connect to the internet on a TV but only for firmware updates. Spectres totally lacks this.

At this point, I would probably pay extra for a 'dumb' 4k tv of at least a mid range brand like Vizio, that only looks for firmware updates but has no 'smart' features. I use a chromecast with google TV as my media center anyway.
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Vizio makes more money from ads than they do from TV sales now, so they're definitely never going to look back.
 
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Finder said:
Every single icon now looks the same, or at least most of them. It's hard to tell at a glance which one I actually want to click, which isn't helped by the fact they're all very similar hard to distinguish colours.

Maybe it's me, but I really have trouble with this and am constantly opening the wrong thing unless I actively look at the program's name, because I am always getting the icons wrong.
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What absol-fucking-lutely grinds my gears is how Adobe just changed the colors of the icons in the newest updates. It used to be that each software had their own special colored icon so you can open them at quick glance: Photoshop = dark blue, Illustrator = orange, Flash = red, Dreamweaver = yellowish green, Premiere = light purple, Aftereffects = dark purple, Audition = green, etc. etc.

Now Premiere, Audition, Aftereffects, Animate (Flash), and Media Encoder are all the same shade of dark purple, so I'm prone to accessing the wrong ones all the time. This is a huge gripe among other longtime users, and Adobe's official statement is that they're trying to coordinate the products rather than separate them. Fuck that.
 
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Puff said:
40MP on a phone? Did consumers ever figure out that this particular number changes nothing besides how big the file is and how big you can print it out?
I guess digital "zoom" too.

Haven't ever paid attention to my phone camera. I tend to use a real one.
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My phone has a 108mp camera, I have no idea what the point of it is really.
BootlegPopeye said:
I had a Spectre (my first 4k TV) and it wasn't that great - the plug was hard wired to the TV, so if you moved it you dragged the dang cord with you everywhere. Menus were also slow and the video options not that good. I dont mind being able to connect to the internet on a TV but only for firmware updates. Spectres totally lacks this.

At this point, I would probably pay extra for a 'dumb' 4k tv of at least a mid range brand like Vizio, that only looks for firmware updates but has no 'smart' features. I use a chromecast with google TV as my media center anyway.
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I don't think "dumb" TVs will ever be a thing again in the North American Market sadly, ATSC 3.0 (the Over the Air standard for NA) supports over lay ads, tracking, and personalized ads, dumb TVs wouldn't be able to report back that shit. Its all bullshit. Marketers need to an hero (in minecraft)
Ryria said:
I miss the days of IRC in its prime. Sadly most people moved to Discord or whatever is the latest chat platform. Thankfully there are people like me who still use it as the main way to talk with friends, but the user base have been dwindling.
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The only thing Discord has over IRC is the fact that if I get disconnected I can read any conversations I miss. Other then that discord is trash.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Do new TVs still have that red-white-yellow NTSC/PAL input thing?

If not, that's something I miss on new TVs.
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they still do, though that's all they have left of the old connections (the RGB component ports and S-video are gone) but this might depend on which brand you get (though all the damn tvs are the same now so...)
 
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Mr. 0 said:
they still do, though that's all they have left of the old connections (the RGB component ports and S-video are gone)
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At least there's still the RWY connectors. Sucks if S-Video is going out.

Monocle said:
I miss the windows XP/7 DIP era.
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I still miss the Win 95/98/2000 era, but the XP era also has some nostalgia to it.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
At least there's still the RWY connectors. Sucks if S-Video is going out.


I still miss the Win 95/98/2000 era, but the XP era also has some nostalgia to it.
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I feel you there.

Imo Win2k had everything I could ask for in a GUI-based OS: rubust 32bit/64bit infrastructure taking advantage of the power of modern PentiumII+ processors in the back-end while providing both decent (tho not perfect) DOS emulation and full proper Plug and Play support as well as DirectX multimedia extensions for both productivity and games.

I really didn't mind Windows XP and especially Windows 7, both brought support for a lot of the features used today on a modern OS, but I really don't enjoy Windows 10 near as much, the smartphone-inspired GUI in particular sucks rancid Greer-p3n0r no matter what 'enhancements' Microshaft tries to add to it. At least i've got it MOSTLY operating the way I want it (Amiga style) but I still seriously miss the older OS revisions of MicroSoft's flagship OS.
 
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Toolbox said:
Yes technically, but the power in torque and control you can get from an EV simply cannot be replicated in current ICE technology if ever. Efficiency rates are poor too for gas to power conversion. But yes the only way to actually make an EV faster "in charging" than an ICE vehicle would be to have quick swapping battery stations, which would probably easily break down and gum up. It would also require a complete standardization of EV batteries, cutting the cash that could be made from proprietary solutions for chargers and battery packs which manufacturers love and won't stop loving because it means they can trap you in their walled garden.
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Turbodiesels do get kinda close tho. A 1.6 litre turbodiesel from a Reanult Clio has 200 Nm of torque at about 1,7k RPM IIRC. And here's another thing, where do you think all the electricity needed to meet demand of charging so many EVs would come from? If nuclear doesn't get more widespread and your area doesn't have a lot of renewable sources you are SOL in that regard, and the same fuel used to power cars before will be used to produce electricity! So even more inefficiency! What's that? You don't live in a flat area so a bike isn't that convenient and an electric car is too expensive? Then get an e bike that would probably costs as much as an old Honda Civic.
 
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Puff said:
40MP on a phone? Did consumers ever figure out that this particular number changes nothing besides how big the file is and how big you can print it out?
I guess digital "zoom" too.

Haven't ever paid attention to my phone camera. I tend to use a real one.
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Compared to most modern phones, the 808 actually does appear to have the quality it claims at least in part. Rather than it being a piss-tier tiny sensor like the 100+ megapixel super duper lens bs these days, it was about an inch across and the entire back of the device sticks out.
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Also had an actual shutter.

Whether or not this actually made it amount to anything near a dslr is a whole other question (no). But the image quality was actually good when it came out even if it performs terribly in anything other than full daylight.
 
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Cavalier Cipolla said:
Turbodiesels do get kinda close tho. A 1.6 litre turbodiesel from a Reanult Clio has 200 Nm of torque at about 1,7k RPM IIRC. And here's another thing, where do you think all the electricity needed to meet demand of charging so many EVs would come from? If nuclear doesn't get more widespread and your area doesn't have a lot of renewable sources you are SOL in that regard, and the same fuel used to power cars before will be used to produce electricity! So even more inefficiency! What's that? You don't live in a flat area so a bike isn't that convenient and an electric car is too expensive? Then get an e bike that would probably costs as much as an old Honda Civic.
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Small diesels are close to illegal in the US due to emissions regulations. It's tragic.
 
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Recently regained access to an old YouTube account from when I was in middle school all those years ago. This was the most recent video in my favourites playlist.


I've said it before and I'll say it again: man, I wish HTC didn't sell off its smartphone business to Google. I mean yeah, there's the HTC U12, but it's such a far cry from the halcyon days of HTC as a company.
 
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Maybe I don't miss monochrome monitors being the only thing you could have, but I DO miss the world where the hum of an amber monochrome VTxxx emulating monitor was the only sound in the room and it was just you and the Internet.

I miss that world so much, before we let absolute fucking retard mongoloid cunts on the net.
 
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Toolbox said:
Newer 'digital' car shifters.
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Saw this in a Ford recently and it just reminded me of that Star Trek movie actor dying from an asinine design in jeep models, where the shifter would just automatically click back into place and you could barely tell what it was set on. This is almost as bad, it doesn't move back to the center when turned, but the fact it's a nondescript circle just tells me this was the cheapest way Ford could figure how to make their shifters. It defies all concepts of safety and muscle memory.
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Imagine wanting to turn up the heat or radio and then you just reverse the car into a garage.

And why does every FPS now have to have character skins and emotes?
 
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