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

[ToroidalBoat]

I don't like this new BS trend of a device tied to the existence of a company with a required internet connection, so if the company goes down, the thing stops working.

Developers don't have the compsci background anymore but come from webdev or bootcamps.

So those who make software smartphone-y are like - or are - they who erode at what's left of urban "society" with "social media"?

 

[ks99]

Modern Warfare did not get this level of schoolyard hype.

Christ. Way to make me feel fucking ancient.

”gaming desks” ffs I had no idea these were such a thing till yesterday. Office shop was full of them. Along with standing desks. Hell even some contraption you put on your desk to make it feel like a standing desk.

[Electric] standing desks are actually incredible. It makes working on physical shit much more comfortable when I can simply raise or lower the surface as needed. Also, sitting for long periods of time like you would be doing otherwise while on the computer can lead to shit like blood clots and probably leg muscle atrophy. Gaming desks, however, sound like some faggot shit if the ugly ass chink gaming racer chair trend is any indicator.

I wish cars still had CD players. Have a decent collection that’s only gotten bigger over the years.

I will never buy a car with a giant iPad. Give me DIN or give me death.

Is it just me or does technological change seem more forced or "astroturfed" now?

Microsoft Pluton.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

[Electric] standing desks are actually incredible. It makes working on physical shit much more comfortable when I can simply raise or lower the surface as needed. Also, sitting for long periods of time like you would be doing otherwise while on the computer can lead to shit like blood clots and probably leg muscle atrophy. Gaming desks, however, sound like some faggot shit if the ugly ass chink gaming racer chair trend is any indicator.

This is absolutely true. A surprising amount of offices have them but people only think it's for adjusting the preferable height when sitting down. Showing them that they can raise the desk at will(and flip the monitor) really activates their almonds.

 

[AmpleApricots]

adjustable desks like this aren't exactly new either. I think I saw my first one in an office environment about 20 years ago. My guess is they might be even older than that. All the office ergonomics stuff really started in the 90s as far as I remember. In the 80s ergonomics meant having an ashtray next to your keyboard

 

[Car Won't Crank]

adjustable desks like this aren't exactly new either. I think I saw my first one in an office environment about 20 years ago. My guess is they might be even older than that. All the office ergonomics stuff really started in the 90s as far as I remember. In the 80s ergonomics meant having an ashtray next to your keyboard

That's kinda funny because car interior ergonomic design also sort of took off in the 90s with sports cars. In the late 80s, some cars started coming out with angled dashboards so that the HVAC, radio, hazards, and other typical buttons are easily accessible. Then in the 90s you started getting some cockpit like interiors.

 

[Picklechu]

Why is Google Chromebook a thing?

Such amazing feats like:
* Everything is on cloud
* Apps are curated on the Play Store
* A 800$ Chromebook has the specs of a 200$ laptop

It's marketed as this "lightweight computer" where you don't need hardware cause it's all on cloud/iot and you can game like on a 3000$ PC cause Stadia but it's all bs lol and they try to market it to tech illiterate people.

Honestly, the super-cheap chromebooks aren't bad. I have one as a travel laptop that I picked up for less than $150, and I run a handful of Android apps and a few things via Linux on it. It's cheap enough that it doesn't really matter if something happens to it, and it's easy to completely wipe everything if it ends up getting totally fucked for some reason. They're also pretty solid options for kids, old people, or people who don't really do much outside of browsers.

That being said, I agree with you on the high-end chromebooks. I guess you could just run stuff out of the Linux terminal on them, but at that point, you may as well just get a better laptop running Linux. I 100% don't understand the point of chromeboxes (Chrome OS desktops) either.

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.

CloudReady/Chrome OS Flex can also extend the life of older hardware, which is pretty useful for poorer school systems and small businesses.

 

[ditto]

CloudReady/Chrome OS Flex

I bought a cheapo no-name Windows laptop for travel, and Windows 11 was basically unusable on it. Installing ChromeOS actually made it useful.

Also Google have committed to Chrome OS support for over 10 years on some business laptop models. It's hard not to be tempted to try and make it a full-time environment.

 

[AnOminous]

I 100% don't understand the point of chromeboxes (Chrome OS desktops) either.

It might make sense if you were specifically developing for Chrome and didn't want to use some piss-weak shitbox to compile on before testing on the target.

 

[Doppelmonger]

I hate how most laptops (or all of them nowadays) come now with these fucking chiclet keyboards:


If it breaks, you have to tear down the whole computer and pray that the damn thing is not glued/soldered to the armrest (which is). I had a laptop in college made by HP with 3 faulty keys just outside of warranty and I had to plug in a usb keyboard to do homework because the one in the damn thing was irreplaceable without damaging the armrest. When someone wanted to buy it from me I was so relieved and with some of the money I got decided to upgrade my iBook G4, which carried me through the rest of the university.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

That's kinda funny because car interior ergonomic design also sort of took off in the 90s with sports cars. In the late 80s, some cars started coming out with angled dashboards so that the HVAC, radio, hazards, and other typical buttons are easily accessible. Then in the 90s you started getting some cockpit like interiors.

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My gripe about tech I love and hate is that beautiful gm inspired "futuristic" electronic gauge cluster is bost super cool and super sucks. Pros: It it's just for aesthetics, so it suits its purpose, it's highly visible, it's responsive. Cons: the sun kills it, the fuel gauge never worked from the factory (mine still doesnt) and if it breaks go fuck yourself. There are probably only several thousand intact replacement clusters in the entire world left and the Japanese straight send them to smol pc repair guys now if a cap blows and it's repairable since they run 700usd on ebay.

Oh and it's been mentioned but my secondhand 1980s lawn mower had the wonderful electronics rubber on its handle that degraded and turned to glue. I wonder how quick that happened with its og owner given it solely got used in the sun, poor bastard.

 

[Dolomite]

I miss keypad cellphones, particularly the ones manufactured by Nokia. I was obsessed with them back in the day.



IMO they're worth keeping as spare phones because they're less hasslesome even if their features are limited.

 

[Nice Guy]

I hate "disposable" vapes that contain lithium ion batteries. They're designed for single-use and usually end up in the trash or on the street even though the batteries can still be recharged and repurposed. I used to think it was just junkies who used em but they've kinda caught on in the mainstream.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

keypad cellphones

I used to have one I didn't use much. Shouldn't have gotten rid of it when I moved because it's historical.

 

[Catler]

I hate "disposable" vapes that contain lithium ion batteries. They're designed for single-use and usually end up in the trash or on the street even though the batteries can still be recharged and repurposed. I used to think it was just junkies who used em but they've kinda caught on in the mainstream.
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Products like this need to regulated out of existence. There is no justification for these to be legal, it’s purely pointless, harmful, excessive waste.

Same with this shit:

 

[IamnottheNSA]

I fucking hate that browsers don't respect my desktop environment's theme for scrollbars.
Firefox used to let you have a choice in that matter, until just recently. Now it's just like "would you like them to look like Mac OS X, vanilla GTK, Android, Windows 10 or Windows 11", and even THAT setting is hidden deep in about:сonfig.

At least I figured out how to style them yourself:
1. Download and install Custom JS scripts for Firefox 60+ and Thunderbird 68+. You would want to use install method 2.
2. Add the following line to your userChrome.js: userChrome.import("/userChrome/custom_scrollbars.uc.js", "UChrm");
3. Create the file called "custom_scrollbars.uc.js" in the userChrome folder - this is gonna be your style for them.
Here's mine, you can use it as an example: https://zerobin.net/?7bf34efd02c1d739#CoJZ9OLlZLlQOrpsNmbDIWTezhnHPbgr31Ezv+Ejdeg= - it makes scrollbars look like they do with Windows Classic theme. I might make a Windows Aero-themed scrollbar later.
Oh, and startup cache folder should be emptied out whenever you make a change to your script.

 

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Products like this need to regulated out of existence. There is no justification for these to be legal, it’s purely pointless, harmful, excessive waste.

Same with this shit:

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Big Clive did a few reviews on these. He's not a fan obv.

I can kind of see it making sense to produce some of these, if they have a situation where they're producing batteries that show up in QC as out of dimensions, or they don't reach the full charge they should, or they exhibit some other characteristic that suggests they might get explodey after a few charge cycles, rather than just immediately recycling the batteries. As long as most of them actually made it into e-waste, that is (unlikely). Someone in Clive's comments even suggested they might just be making them out of old Nokia 3310 batteries from e-waste (given the low charge capacities these things have by comparison to similarly sized cells).

 

[Space Cat]

I hate "disposable" vapes that contain lithium ion batteries. They're designed for single-use and usually end up in the trash or on the street even though the batteries can still be recharged and repurposed. I used to think it was just junkies who used em but they've kinda caught on in the mainstream.
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At least they have kiwi flavor...

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

At least they have kiwi flavor...

Kiwi bird, or kiwi fruit? You need to specify these things

 

[Mr. 0]

Kiwi bird, or kiwi fruit? You need to specify these things

kiwi birds are NAWT gay, stop calling them fruit

 

[Becky McDonald]

When I bought my "temporary" DSLR as a replacement for the one I'd been using for 6 years at that point, the majority (or at least a decent proportion) still used AA/LR6 batteries, such as the one I bought. Although slightly inconvenient in having to carry a box of batteries out to any event I attended, at least I can replace them near-instantaneously and I don't have to do any prior planning beforehand. Plus battery life from 4 batteries wasn't that bad; provided you're not shooting every second, it'll last a good hour or two.

When I looked for a full-time replacement camera in late 2019, about 18 months later, I was dismayed to find only 2 cameras out of about 50 on the market supported AAs, with almost every other camera having moved to a proprietary chargeable unit. Then the coof happened, I didn't go anywhere, and high-end cameras, SLRs, bridge cameras, and DSLRs powered by AAs are GONE. The only cameras left that support normal batteries are point-and-shoot compacts. Everything else is all powered by Li-Ion batteries, and a good chunk of them don't ship with spares, which you'd need if you want to cover an event without worrying about running out of juice, maybe even two for something that lasts a whole weekend. And you have to charge these both before and after using, which means you need somewhere to charge them in private so no-one steals them.

I just want a professional camera that takes standard batteries goddamnit.