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

[Boom Boss]

I miss Early 2008-2010 youtube

I miss being able to customize my channel's look, and being able to directly reply to videos.

3.5 and 5.25 in floppies had loading noises I liked, and when loaded Commander Keen, Captain Comic and Space Quest 1 awaited.

I miss Commander Keen. iD Games needs to remaster the entire series, and make a sequel.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I miss being able to customize my channel's look, and being able to directly reply to videos.

I miss Commander Keen. iD Games needs to remaster the entire series, and make a sequel.

I suppose some creators hated the reply girls and similar, but it was great. Now it would mean Susan Approved Right Think is criticised, which couldn't be contemplated. I remember I posted some song of some artist whose name I forget and an actual tranny who idolised the singer posted a reply. I found it strange. I didn't want to be mean, but s/he wasn't that good.

Commander Keen would look excellent whether a light remaster to catch the more retro minded or something that takes slightly more advantage of current tech.

 

[The Gifted Kid]

I irrationally miss CRT TVs and monitors. If I were a god and could manipulate the universe I'd make it so they were all still the standard.

 

[Boom Boss]

I irrationally miss CRT TVs and monitors. If I were a god and could manipulate the universe I'd make it so they were all still the standard.

I can't believe we still have to deal with input lag on modern devices.

 

[PinkEA223]

I irrationally miss CRT TVs and monitors. If I were a god and could manipulate the universe I'd make it so they were all still the standard.

I have a CRT in my bedroom. I honestly miss the days you could abuse your TV without breaking it.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

I irrationally miss CRT TVs and monitors. If I were a god and could manipulate the universe I'd make it so they were all still the standard.

I thought this too until someone explained it's shooting DANGER BEAMS (or whatever, I'm no genious) at your head. My paranoia took over and now I don't miss them.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

I thought this too until someone explained it's shooting DANGER BEAMS (or whatever, I'm no genious) at your head. My paranoia took over and now I don't miss them.

If your CRT is shooting DANGER BEAMS at you then you've done something really dumb with your monitor. My biggest gripe with them was that with the proper equipment someone could see what was on your screen from a few hundred feet away. The KGB used to do this outside of tech companies and government buildings in Europe.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I recently lost my work vehicle to an accident so I've been hoping between the ones that everyone else uses like a nomad of some kind. Because of this, I'm getting way to much experience with 2015+ vehicles.

I hate any car that forces me to go into a fucking touchscreen menu to change the temperature. When I'm driving I want to just turn the fan on or off without thinking. Just reach over and turn a knob instead of taking my eyes off the road to look through screens

Weird shifters. Every automatic car HAS to be unique these days. They have like a tiny feminine joystick and a weird flappy bit for the electronic parking brake. Just give me a steering wheel mounted arm I can pull down to put it into drive or a console shifter that's a straight line. View attachment 3232925
Look at this grubby guy he's perfect. You just pull back to put it in drive. No inputting the fucking Konami code if you want to take it out of overdrive.

Any car with an screen is going to be horribly outdated in 10 years at best, or the screen is going to be dark and broken from UV damage at worst. Touch screen UI design cues change so rapidly no car is going to look good from that perspective even if it's usableView attachment 3232945
Look at how awful this 2015 VW touch interface looks. I had to use one the other day and it feel awful to use. At least there's a real volume knob.

I hate it when people call me through their Bluetooth-connected phone in their car. It always sounds 5x worse than if they just put it up to their ear.

Automatic turn signals that blink for a lane change if you graze the stalk. If you didn't mean to touch it you're stuck looking like you're about to do a lane change for 3-6 blinks. Then, you might be inclined to push it back to the other side, which one turn will blink the other half of the lights 3-6 times, leave you in a endless loop of looking like a grandpa driver. They're confusing as hell and every manufacturer does it differently so I'll never get used to them.

RFID keys. They're very expensive to replace. I prefer a steel key I can make a copy of for 80¢. Push to start is not nearly as satisfying as turning a key.

Plastic everywhere over and under the engine bay. Why are they trying to hide the engine? Maybe to make it look bigger? Here's a modern LS 400 engine bay compared to a 1997 one with nice aluminum parts and a polished logo. Looks like actually craftsmanship:View attachment 3233003View attachment 3233004
So boring ew.

More aesthetically speaking, every car NEEDS to be a crossover these days. They're so ugly and I don't get it. Less comfortable than a mini van, uglier than a car, will never be actually taken off road. All that car just for one person most of the time.

I'll leave with one good thing: automatic headlights. Every car except for mine should have them because every other driver is a mongoloid who forgets to turn them on hours after dusk.

TLDR: Touchscreens force you to look at them for the simplest of tasks, shifters should just be in a straight line or steering wheel mounted, Bluetooth calling sounds like ass, auto headlights are great

To be fair, plastic covers in the engine bay do have a purpose. They keep dust and any other small debris out of the nooks and crannies of the valve covers. When you lift the hood on a drizzly day, you also have a layer of protection for any of the sensitive stuff.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I irrationally miss CRT TVs and monitors.

A few years ago or so, it was easy to find them really cheap at thrift stores.

Now I pretty much never see them anymore. Where'd they all go?

 

[The Gifted Kid]

A few years ago or so, it was easy to find them really cheap at thrift stores.

Now I pretty much never see them anymore. Where'd they all go?

Unfortunately a lot of them were probably thrown out or destroyed.

 

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If you're really feeling that nostalgic, usb floppy drives weren't that expensive last time I checked, I could imagine that they got rare though. Work perfectly fine at least in Linux.

I have one, and it works, but it's a little slim thing, and doesn't have quite the right sound even when reading/writing data, not being damped by a case and so on. It also does a weird thing where it kind of seems to seek round the disk every time you go to access something after it hasn't been used for a second or two. Useful to have though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a CRT in my bedroom. I honestly miss the days you could abuse your TV without breaking it.

I used to beat the shit out of my old TV. It had a faulty internal connection and would randomly turn to static which lead to many vigorous beatings.

If your CRT is shooting DANGER BEAMS at you then you've done something really dumb with your monitor. My biggest gripe with them was that with the proper equipment someone could see what was on your screen from a few hundred feet away. The KGB used to do this outside of tech companies and government buildings in Europe.

Was the proper equipment binoculars? Those work even on the newest OLEDs, I know this for a fact because my neighbors bought an OLED TV.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Was the proper equipment binoculars? Those work even on the newest OLEDs, I know this for a fact because my neighbors bought an OLED TV.

Nope, it was equipment that could pick up the EM radiation emanating from the monitor. The only time I heard anyone talking about it outside of certain groups was on an old episode of The Screensavers. The only way to protect against it was to have your computers in a Faraday cage.

 

[PinkEA223]

Unfortunately a lot of them were probably thrown out or destroyed.

I see all too many on the streets. I'd rescue them but one takes up enough space as is (though if someone threw out a VGA monitor that would be another story.)

Does anyone else miss Windows XP enough to try and build a PC off it? I tried but the parts are pretty particular.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I'm going to break from this thread's pessimism and look at the bright side. Storage has improved so much in the past 10 years it's not even comparable.

I also think computer mice are better than they were in the past. There's not a clamoring for ancient mice with trackballs that get full of hair and dust and have to be cleaned off. I remember pulling mine out and washing it with alcohol.

Another thing is that there are disadvantages to moving on from CRTs but I don't miss headaches from staring at the screen for too long that I used to get. I also don't miss them taking up my entire desk surface with a 200 lb monitor that you will break your back to move up a flight of stairs.

None of my CRT computer monitors lasted either. Every one of them eventually blew out or turned green or had other screen flickering problems. It is a big meme on 4chan now that they were some kind of solidly reliable piece of technology but they weren't using them day in and day out like us older kfers were when they were still all you had.

 

[Lookie-lou]

I miss graphics cards being cheap enough to justify upgrading every 2-3 years, and newer games actually needing it to look and run decent.

Only bonus I would get over my 4.5 year old Radeon Vega 64 in 1440p gaming [if I spent the $500 or so it would cost for a sidegrade, or a $1000 ransom for a real upgrade] is basically hardware Raytracing.

We really are not to the point yet where Raytracing can do magic that good visual artistry with traditional rasterised graphics techniques cannot mimic near enough for me to not care.

A few years ago or so, it was easy to find them really cheap at thrift stores.

Now I pretty much never see them anymore. Where'd they all go?

Where everything else in the cancerous collector bubble we've seen fester bigger and bigger over the last decade, into the hands of retro gaming enthusiasts who usually paid WAY too much for them. CRTs do wear as well, I remember dropping all interest in that magical 16:9 super CRT Trinitron made by Sony in the mid 2000s when I heard about their attricion rates, and that was before prices went through the stratosphere.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Another thing is that there are disadvantages to moving on from CRTs but I don't miss headaches from staring at the screen for too long that I used to get. I also don't miss them taking up my entire desk surface with a 200 lb monitor that you will break your back to move up a flight of stairs.

And sunlight destroying your ability to tell what's going on especially if it was a dark game/scene. This affected CRT monitors as well as CRT TVs.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I said it often in this thread but it bears repeating - CRTs fucking sucked. Yes, yes no pixels and all that but at the end of the day, even the high end ones were blurry. The early ones you could maybe repair if they went dead and the spare parts were still around, the later ones, forget about it, massive PITA. And they'd all eventually wear down and break. That's just what a CRT does. The parts have significant stress on them in normal operation.

I picked up an old and small CRT TV from an old woman in the neighborhood and hooked up an old Amiga for a a joke. Guess you could play on it but holy shit anything GUI was nuts in how blurry. (and no, the CRT is fine and it's even a late make, not some ancient thing) No wonder I used to get "computer headaches". I would not want to go back to that. I also distinctly remember looking for long times at the screen and then making pauses to look away and having to adjust how "detailed" reality looks. It's a wonder I didn't go blind.

That technology also just was kind of a dead end for modern requirements, too high power consumption and absolutely hopeless at ever reaching the insane resolutions and color depths modern LCDs are capable of. The only thing that sucks still nowadays is blacks with IPS; dark screens not ever being truly dark but very good monitors come pretty close. Excited about getting an OLED when that becomes economical.

And sunlight destroying your ability to tell what's going on especially if it was a dark game/scene. This affected CRT monitors as well as CRT TVs.

If you ever feel nostalgic for that, just buy a glossy LCD. I know it makes colors "pop" more but jesus, why would anyone actually ever make such.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

If you ever feel nostalgic for that, just buy a glossy LCD. I know it makes colors "pop" more but jesus, why would anyone actually ever make such.

They're not nearly as bad. Glossy screens suck though for that reason but back in CRT days, during Quake tournaments, I played with a reverse shirt setup due to time differences. The bottom of the shirt was fastened to the monitor(14") and then I put my head through the hole to look inside.
From the monitors perspective it would have looked like this

except it was a very poor and very sweaty version.

It is not something I miss but I should probably be an honorary Brazilian e-gamer.

 

[RainwaterDrop]

The modern trend toward unreplaceable batteries: annoying for phones and laptops, horrifying for medical devices.

I fucking hate this shit. Had a weird fucking glitch on my phone once, got a hard black screen and it didn't answer to any inputs, in an older model it wouldn't be a problem as I could simply open the cover in the back, take out the battery and put it back. But no, with this retarded shit I would need to take it to a Repair Center, where they would factory reset it as per protocol and charge me for the pleasure, just to do a quick fix. Luckily I gave the hard reset a shot and it worked at my last try, phone was working as usual after that, which was nice!

And sunlight destroying your ability to tell what's going on especially if it was a dark game/scene. This affected CRT monitors as well as CRT TVs.

Precisely, it's a problem with phones too. Colossal pain in the ass to change the brightness while out on a sunny day, had to walk inside a store and buy me a cola just so that I had time to sit and fumble around looking for a badly lit corner where I could see the damn button lol!