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

stupidpieceofshit said:
On the other end of the Chromebook spectrum you have extremely cheap laptops that are good enough for most school assignments for kids.
The laptops are basically disposable and kids will often destroy laptops (ether physical damage, stickers/markers, gross kid stuff, etc) by virtual of being kids. ChromeOS runs better then Windows on the specs of these laptops too. Making it ideal for schools (and parents) who dont want to/are unable to shell out a lot of money for laptops that will be destroyed by the end of the school year.
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Back in high school we had Dell Latitude 2120's and I have a soft spot for them since I used it to play shit like Quake or Half Life in my spare time or browsing the cwcki forums and tv tropes when bored.
I've been tempted to get one and refurbish it to windows xp just for nostalgia value
 
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I just had a song stopped mid listening in Apple Music, now it is gone from my library:

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Thankfully I do not pay for the service (I am in a family plan my mother in law pays for) and I still have my cd's (and a lot of music files from the high seas). Time to start bringing my iPod to work then.

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Doppelmonger said:
I just had a song stopped mid listening in Apple Music, now it is gone from my library:

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Thankfully I do not pay for the service and I still have my cd's (and a lot of music files from the high seas). Time to start bringing my iPod to work then.
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I haven't had a song disappear while I'm listening to it, but this has happened to me quite often on Spotify. I'll save a song to my library, and I'll go back a while later and it will be unavailable. I wonder why this happens. Is it payment and licensing disputes with the record companies?
 
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Doppelmonger said:
I just had a song stopped mid listening in Apple Music, now it is gone from my library:

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Thankfully I do not pay for the service (I am in a family plan my mother in law pays for) and I still have my cd's (and a lot of music files from the high seas). Time to start bringing my iPod to work then.

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Maybe it has something to do with Ian Watkins being a convicted child molester, although it would be a weird time to remove a band for that now.
 
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I've owned a bunch of cellphones in my life, but the only ones i feel any nostalgia for are the Nokia X3-02 and Sony Ericsson K810i. I liked those damn things. The smartphones i've owned were good, but felt (and still feel) like soulless blocks of glass


I also cannot comprehend what's so special or revolutionary about NFT'S. The more i read about them, the more retarded it sounds 🤷‍♂️
 
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I miss discettes and floppydiscs. There is just a feeling in using them you cant get today. Their size....the sound when they were read, the click when they went into the discdrive. Fuck USB and SD cards. So Soulless....i want the 90s computerworld back. It was fun back then. A computer had personality....zip discs were awesome aswell. Sturdy to grab on to.

Oh and windows 3.11 , 95 and MS-Dos. Fun Times.....fun Times !

Everything is so fucking polished and "plastic" these days.
 
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GloriousRapeRabbit said:
I miss discettes and floppydiscs.
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On the downside there was the slow speed, the low capacity, and also magnetic interference or even just squishing them a little can corrupt or erase data on those.

(What do you think of using audio cassettes in a tape player connected to the computer to store data?)
 
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veeeeeeeee said:
Tech on the whole just feels so flimsy nowadays. I think 2005-2010 was the ideal period of TV/phones/etc being small enough for easy transportation, but not so small that it shatters at the slightest whoopsie-daisy.

But I also have monkey gorilla hands so maybe that contributes to it :V
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See I totally disagree with this. Screen protectors for phones feel unnecessary now, I've dropped my cell phone straight on the street while riding a bike and there wasn't a scratch on it. Damage to the case but nothing happened to the screen. Same thing for my tablet, never any damage or scratches.

The new tech I wish would take off more is foldable smartphones. I miss flip phones ... It was nice how they showed the time on the outside, emails, without having to actually open it. But I don't actually want to step back in terms of technology .. I want to combine them but they are just too expensive.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
On the downside there was the slow speed, the low capacity, and also magnetic interference or even just squishing them a little can corrupt or erase data on those.

(What do you think of using audio cassettes in a tape player connected to the computer to store data?)
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As an old commodore faggot i can miss that aswell. Or not....the loading times were horrific but i can still miss the feeling of having a rack of cassette tapes with games on, going through them deciding what to play. The box artwork and manuals and all that....but i think that is more a general feeling of missing physical copies overall because....ye, the loading times sure were not pretty. So i dont miss using them...but i miss having them.
 
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Doppelmonger said:
I just had a song stopped mid listening in Apple Music, now it is gone from my library:

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Thankfully I do not pay for the service (I am in a family plan my mother in law pays for) and I still have my cd's (and a lot of music files from the high seas). Time to start bringing my iPod to work then.

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I got rid of Spotify Premium a few months back because I need to cut back on luxuries. I don't miss it anywhere nearly as much as I thought I would. And yep, I've had songs disappear on me too (although never mid-playback).

Between ripping my CDs, going through old HDDs and rediscovering the joys of Soulseek, I'm in no hurry to go back to paying for a music streaming service. Heck, once I have cash to spend on music again, it'll be going on CDs before hipsters ruin those for us. Secondhand CDs are already starting to creep up in price...
ComStar said:
The smartphones i've owned were good, but felt (and still feel) like soulless blocks of glass
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The smartphone peaked at the HTC Desire. It had buttons and was beautifully made. Sure the cameras are better on newer phones and 3G networks are on borrowed time... but modern phones don't feel much faster than my Desire did.
GloriousRapeRabbit said:
Oh and windows 3.11 , 95 and MS-Dos. Fun Times.....fun Times !
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Fucking around with sound card and CD-ROM drivers and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to try and squeeze out just enough RAM so that a game would run. Good times.
ToroidalBoat said:
On the downside there was the slow speed, the low capacity, and also magnetic interference or even just squishing them a little can corrupt or erase data on those.
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Sometimes the tape was perfectly cromulent, but the tape deck wasn't. Just ask anyone that tried wrestling with a ZX81 or ZX Spectrum back in the day...
 
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marvlouslie said:
Lack of headphone jacks on flagship smartphones and everything going wireless. Even though bluetooth has gotten better over the last decade, it still is just not as good as an actual physical connection.
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Every bluetooth speaker or headset I've heard sounds like absolute shit, even the supposedly "good" ones.
 
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