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

MarkofdaBOOG said:
I wish cars had cassette tape players and even cd players in them. My fucking new honda doesn't have a cd player or cassette player and I collect cds and cassettes. Obviously I can just bluetooth my phone but it would be more convenient to just pop my music in and let it play rather than look it up and play it on my phone.
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Why not use abcde to rip the CDs and put it on a 128gb flash drive? I also collect CDs and find it a lot more convenient.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
The good thing is it was probably designed by a silicon valley tech bro or an overworked pajeet so you know it's poorly thought out and you can sabotage it somehow for hilarious results.
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Step 1: Put a sticker of goatse over the QR code sticker on the thing...
Toolbox said:
ask why they were viewing people in the bathroom.
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It's China....
 
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Toolbox said:
What sucks is that for games they're pretty cool. Also forced some manufacturers to apply 120hz displays to certain laptops/desktop screens before it was a common trend, because it was a necessity to get 60hz to someone's eyes due to how 3d glasses work. The downside is your performance is practically halved due to two different angles of the world needing to be generated every other frame. If you can find a pair of nvidia 3d vision glasses and their corresponding IR sensor for cheap, there's a lot of different software to make games compatible with them.
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Those have been around for a really long time. I remember the Nvidia kit in the late 90's (came with some TNT/TNT2 models) and it was pretty cool as a novelty and it could be used on a surprising amount of games. Old CRT monitors could also crank the refresh rate way beyond their stated maximum and because gaming monitors wasn't really a thing yet this applied to all monitors. It was resolution dependent though.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Those have been around for a really long time. I remember the Nvidia kit in the late 90's (came with some TNT/TNT2 models) and it was pretty cool as a novelty and it could be used on a surprising amount of games. Old CRT monitors could also crank the refresh rate way beyond their stated maximum and because gaming monitors wasn't really a thing yet this applied to all monitors. It was resolution dependent though.
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Almost everything built after 2008 has seen a drop in quality, especially products that existed before 2008, like phones, TVs etc. There used to be a push for brownie points of who can design the most cutting edge tech, be it consoles, games, PCs, cars etc. That one-up-man-ship seems to have died out with the men. Now it's cost-effective, bland, grey, rubbish.

Devices are simpler to operate as a device, but harder to configure to personal, non-preset tastes. Old Windows was much harder, skilwise, to navigate and change, but was also more open to being changed, if that makes sense? baldurs Gate OG on PC allowed you to change voice lines, Character pictures and loading menu hints, to whatever you wanted. I'll never forget the look of confusion on my brothers face when he loaded his save, only to be met with the loading message "[Brother's name] You are a massive faggot"

Ah, the simpler times.
 
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Hot Cup of Joe said:
Almost everything built after 2008 has seen a drop in quality, especially products that existed before 2008, like phones, TVs etc. There used to be a push for brownie points of who can design the most cutting edge tech, be it consoles, games, PCs, cars etc. That one-up-man-ship seems to have died out with the men. Now it's cost-effective, bland, grey, rubbish.
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I remember when every year computers were getting faster and better, phones became smarter (the iPhone was the peak I guess), we had the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 which all great consoles although I never owned a PS3 or Xbox 360 myself. Look at gaming too we had Team Fortress 2 one of the best games ever which came out in 2007 and Left 4 Dead in 2008. I consider the sequel L4D2 to be great as well. Let's not forget that Valve went all in with Portal 2. To me things were still okay until 2012 but 2007/2008 was definitely a big turning point. One of the big reasons I love the 2000s era multiplayer Source engine games, aside from the fact that they had a lot of effort put into them, is that they have a feature which no other games have that being the ability to spray images and do voice commands. I don't think I've bought any games which were released after 2015 because they just suck now.

I'm not really a car person either but I hate how almost every car looks the same now. Curvy with no style.
 
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Automobile design is kind of shaped by regulations regarding vehicle and pedestrian safety. Those laws combined with the general preference on the part of consumers for height leads to a sea of bland looking crossovers/SUVs, with the only real way manufacturers have of making them look distinct being fucking around with the shape of the grilles and headlights.

That being said, I wouldn't say automobile design right now is that much more uniform than it was in the past few decades. People today are nostalgic for 80s sports cars, for example, because their wedge-like shapes and pop-up headlights set them apart from anything today. Back in the 80s though, that look wasn't unique. It was just the generic 80s sports car look.
 
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Amerimutt said:
I remember when every year computers were getting faster and better, phones became smarter (the iPhone was the peak I guess), we had the Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 which all great consoles although I never owned a PS3 or Xbox 360 myself. Look at gaming too we had Team Fortress 2 one of the best games ever which came out in 2007 and Left 4 Dead in 2008. I consider the sequel L4D2 to be great as well. Let's not forget that Valve went all in with Portal 2. To me things were still okay until 2012 but 2007/2008 was definitely a big turning point. One of the big reasons I love the 2000s era multiplayer Source engine games, aside from the fact that they had a lot of effort put into them, is that they have a feature which no other games have that being the ability to spray images and do voice commands. I don't think I've bought any games which were released after 2015 because they just suck now.
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It mainly went to shit because the extra power that should have been used for gaming, instead went to shitty ad trackers, cookie trackers and marketing data collection. Take a look at Crysis, released in 2005, and Half Life 2 (2006?), which were peak games that could only be run on very powerful rigs. All the power went to playing the game. Fast forward ten years and we have more powerful consoles and PCs, struggling to run a 10 year old game. The remake is a disaster when you compare them graphically, and not just because of laziness, but because a lot of the power is being used to spy/collect data. It's a damned shame.
 
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Hot Cup of Joe said:
Devices are simpler to operate as a device, but harder to configure to personal, non-preset tastes. Old Windows was much harder, skilwise, to navigate and change, but was also more open to being changed, if that makes sense? baldurs Gate OG on PC allowed you to change voice lines, Character pictures and loading menu hints, to whatever you wanted. I'll never forget the look of confusion on my brothers face when he loaded his save, only to be met with the loading message "[Brother's name] You are a massive faggot"

Ah, the simpler times.
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Skyrim can be made to do anything these days. When I'm not busy I'm going to replace the dragon fight music with the fight music from TOS.
 
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kukkia said:
Automobile design is kind of shaped by regulations regarding vehicle and pedestrian safety. Those laws combined with the general preference on the part of consumers for height leads to a sea of bland looking crossovers/SUVs, with the only real way manufacturers have of making them look distinct being fucking around with the shape of the grilles and headlights.

That being said, I wouldn't say automobile design right now is that much more uniform than it was in the past few decades. People today are nostalgic for 80s sports cars, for example, because their wedge-like shapes and pop-up headlights set them apart from anything today. Back in the 80s though, that look wasn't unique. It was just the generic 80s sports car look.
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I think part of the nostalgia for cars from the 80s and 90s comes from the experimentation and general quirkiness of many cars from that era. It was that time where cars were starting to get more computer systems integrated in and that sort of changed some design decisions. Computers were also being used to design them plus the use of wind tunnels to sculpt the overall shape.
 
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kukkia said:
Automobile design is kind of shaped by regulations regarding vehicle and pedestrian safety. Those laws combined with the general preference on the part of consumers for height leads to a sea of bland looking crossovers/SUVs, with the only real way manufacturers have of making them look distinct being fucking around with the shape of the grilles and headlights.

That being said, I wouldn't say automobile design right now is that much more uniform than it was in the past few decades. People today are nostalgic for 80s sports cars, for example, because their wedge-like shapes and pop-up headlights set them apart from anything today. Back in the 80s though, that look wasn't unique. It was just the generic 80s sports car look.
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Automobile design is also shaped to meet fuel economy requirements, which is why crossovers have the really sloped backs, namely the EV ones, to reduce drag for better fuel economy or battery range. Boxy cars are becoming fewer and fewer.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Automobile design is also shaped to meet fuel economy requirements, which is why crossovers have the really sloped backs, namely the EV ones, to reduce drag for better fuel economy or battery range. Boxy cars are becoming fewer and fewer.
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Pushing fuel economy to it's logically extreme extent is forced by regulatory bodies yet producing millions of cars to sell to people every two years is as green as can be apparently.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Remember when TVs didn't even have firmware?
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For a lot electronics you'd have to go a long, long way into the past to actually find them not running some kind of processor that doesn't run some kind of code. That's fine, hell even necessary. The problem is that stuff gets more and more complicated because the hardware limitations putting certain sanity limits in the way of people that think there's nothing wrong running a full linux distribution on an ARM processor embedded in an LED lightbulb have melted away. Even that is usually not even a problem until you buy a monitor which runs the OSD and soft-buttons in such an embedded monstrosity, and then you suddenly have a race condition hard-locking your monitor power-button and forcing you to pull the power plug because your computer went to sleep at the wrong moment. (Yes, I have owned such a monitor)

Firmware and microcontrollers in devices are fine. OTA often really shouldn't be necessary and if we lived in an enlightened society, we'd have straight-up laws limiting the processing power such appliances are allowed to have. That'd cut down a lot of security worries and corporate cyber dystopia BS right at that point because the tech-bros suddenly can't stuff your TV with javascript-heavy spyware anymore because your TV couldn't run it anyways. Also less chance for genuine bugs in your TV since it's entire existence on the firmware side isn't an abstraction-layer-house-of-cards deal anymore, put together by overworked pajeets communicating with chinese engineers via google translate.
 
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