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

[Instant_Pot_User]

Web 2.0 is shit, Web 3.0 will be shit. Can we just revert back to plain html webpages?

Come home to the Gemini protocol: serve a markdown dialect with opinions!!!!11!1!!

 

[Samuel Hyde]

Kids are missing out nowadays. I learned to code with books like these. Videos with pajeets doing the needful in Python just isn't the same as typing out an adventure game in BASIC.

I'll say this, the pajeets have upped their production values in the past few years. When I was younger tutorial videos on YouTube consisted of some 3rd worlder with a tenuous grasp of English typing instructions into notepad while EDM blasted away in the background.

Now they seem to copy & paste the well written scripts from western creators

 

[Right To Bear Blarms]

Every touch tone system in the world asking if I'd like to proceed in English or Spanish. Too many people figured out that pressing 0 would get you to a human so now pressing 0 just plays a message like "we understand you'd like to speak to a person but first waste your time poking around these menus where none of the options are even slightly helpful"

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't know the full story, but a couple high profile Black YouTubers were flagged for inappropriate gameplay. Worse, other Youtubers shared similar content and did not get penalized.

YouTube spent all this money and resources on social justice. Now they're being exposed for being hypocrites on their content policy.

YouTube had this issue with years, now the Black creators are speaking out on it because it's "race related." I don't even know what to make of it. It's all under the same umbrella.

It tries to be family friendly, but fails in every turn. That "under 18" notification BS is unnecessary.

 

[Becky McDonald]

I just want it in the original format and without shit missing. Unless it's Wesley Crusher in a crowd scene cameo, then pan and scan that shit.

The worst is when they crop something filmed in 4:3 and then base the remaster around it.

Like Seinfeld:

Or Back To The Future:

 

[Becky McDonald]

Double-post, but like I give a fuck.
Does anyone else think multi-display set-ups are pointless and a waste of money?

"But I can multitask!"
You still only have one mouse. All the shortcuts in the world won't save you any more time as you flip between screens. If you want to do two things at the same time, use the split-screen feature by dragging your windows to one side of the screen.

"But I can see things bigger!"
No, you can't. You see things zoomed in with black bars cropping off bits of the picture i.e. the physical monitor frame edges. If I wanted to see a picture obstructed by black bars, I'd build a makeshift prison cell around my desktop and force myself to browse through it.

"But it looks good!"
No, it looks fucking stupid. A single monitor, along with a plain black unassuming computer case is peak patrician. Three or more monitors arranged haphazardly along with a clear glass case that glows like a Pink Floyd concert makes you look like a tryhard faggot.

Maybe in a future where someone invents modular monitors that can display a full, uninterrupted picture across multiple screens will there be a point, but right now there legitimately isn't.

Me? I'm perfectly content with my single 1080p display. I do want to try 4K someday, but that day can wait.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Double-post, but like I give a fuck.
Does anyone else think multi-display set-ups are pointless and a waste of money?

"But I can multitask!"
You still only have one mouse. All the shortcuts in the world won't save you any more time as you flip between screens. If you want to do two things at the same time, use the split-screen feature by dragging your windows to one side of the screen.

"But I can see things bigger!"
No, you can't. You see things zoomed in with black bars cropping off bits of the picture i.e. the physical monitor frame edges. If I wanted to see a picture obstructed by black bars, I'd build a makeshift prison cell around my desktop and force myself to browse through it.

"But it looks good!"
No, it looks fucking stupid. A single monitor, along with a plain black unassuming computer case is peak patrician. Three or more monitors arranged haphazardly along with a clear glass case that glows like a Pink Floyd concert makes you look like a tryhard faggot.

Maybe in a future where someone invents modular monitors that can display a full, uninterrupted picture across multiple screens will there be a point, but right now there legitimately isn't.

Me? I'm perfectly content with my single 1080p display. I do want to try 4K someday, but that day can wait.

Depends on what you are doing. General boomer computer use not related to work, and general gaming sure you dont need multimontiors.
In most of the jobs I have had I need to reference multiple things at the same time/shortly after the next and move info from one app to another on a constant basis, a multi monitor allows me to have all or most of the screens up at the same time for easier switching and referencing. Split screen won't work for me because
1) there is not enough screen space (both resolution and physical size) in my work monitors for this to be done with just two apps
2) I need so many programs opened for reference with so much information on the screens doing the 4 way split would render everything basically useless.

 

[Catler]

I hate how eager phones are to turn on now, you barely look at them and they turn on. If I turn my phone off it's because I want it off and I don't want an accidental 0.1ms button press to turn it back on. I liked it better when you had to hold a button for a second or two.

Double-post, but like I give a fuck.
Does anyone else think multi-display set-ups are pointless and a waste of money?

"But I can multitask!"
You still only have one mouse. All the shortcuts in the world won't save you any more time as you flip between screens. If you want to do two things at the same time, use the split-screen feature by dragging your windows to one side of the screen.

"But I can see things bigger!"
No, you can't. You see things zoomed in with black bars cropping off bits of the picture i.e. the physical monitor frame edges. If I wanted to see a picture obstructed by black bars, I'd build a makeshift prison cell around my desktop and force myself to browse through it.

"But it looks good!"
No, it looks fucking stupid. A single monitor, along with a plain black unassuming computer case is peak patrician. Three or more monitors arranged haphazardly along with a clear glass case that glows like a Pink Floyd concert makes you look like a tryhard faggot.

Maybe in a future where someone invents modular monitors that can display a full, uninterrupted picture across multiple screens will there be a point, but right now there legitimately isn't.

Me? I'm perfectly content with my single 1080p display. I do want to try 4K someday, but that day can wait.

I have two displays, one for the task I'm working on and one to keep up documentation. I'd agree one display would be enough if the documentation was in book format, but it's a huge pain flipping between IDE/terminal and PDF viewer.

For the vast majority of computer users you're right though.

 

[Tingle]

Likely already said before but I especially miss old school forums and smaller communities where people actually knew each other and interacting felt more honest and genuine instead of cold and scripted, compared to modern forums and websites like reddit/twitter/4chan. Likewise for gaming servers (of which you can find virtually none today, save for playing HL2DM or CS:S with teenagers and Russians). Widening the ease of access to the World Wide Web was the worst thing to happen to it in the past 30-some years.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I have two displays, one for the task I'm working on and one to keep up documentation.

Why is it that nobody seems to have invented a software equivalent of "having two monitors"?
If I have two physical monitors I can easily maximize one window in one monitor and another on the other. But if I just have one super-wide monitor I'd have to manually drag the windows into place each time I wanted to swap what's in the left and right "panes".

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Depends on what you are doing. General boomer computer use not related to work, and general gaming sure you dont need multimontiors.
In most of the jobs I have had I need to reference multiple things at the same time/shortly after the next and move info from one app to another on a constant basis, a multi monitor allows me to have all or most of the screens up at the same time for easier switching and referencing. Split screen won't work for me because
1) there is not enough screen space (both resolution and physical size) in my work monitors for this to be done with just two apps
2) I need so many programs opened for reference with so much information on the screens doing the 4 way split would render everything basically useless.

When alt-tab gets messy it is also nice to only have the taskbar buttons on the relevant display.

Plus 16:10/9 for normal use and a 10/9:16 for documents/PDF or other things that are taller than they are wide. What people should miss are monitors that weren't made for multimedia or as absurd as it is multimedia that isn't made for multimedia screens.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

Double-post, but like I give a fuck.
Does anyone else think multi-display set-ups are pointless and a waste of money?
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Multi monitor is useful for work and documents, but dumb for everything else imo

 

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This image inspires a rant, not really about your monitor issue but more about internet videos. I was hoping that years of youtube commenters nagging "shoot the video of the drag race horizontally you numbnut" would gradually train the internet population to rotate their phones to capture wide views of wide action, but vertical video is just getting more prevalent. Social media apps are now designed specifically for users filming vertically, since the point of the platform is to capture and share video of people (i.e. yourself) and not situations, environments, objects, artworks, in their broad landscape glory. Action happens left to right more often than it happens up to down. Sure, holding a phone vertically is more comfortable, and this reality begs for a "record horizontal video while holding the phone vertically" feature.

 

[Old English Roast Beef]

Why is it that nobody seems to have invented a software equivalent of "having two monitors"?
If I have two physical monitors I can easily maximize one window in one monitor and another on the other. But if I just have one super-wide monitor I'd have to manually drag the windows into place each time I wanted to swap what's in the left and right "panes".

It sounds like you want to use hotkeys to automatically snap windows left and right, or use a tiling window manager.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It sounds like you want to use hotkeys to automatically snap windows left and right, or use a tiling window manager.

Something that have been driving me nuts for years with a multi-display setup is the inability to only, ONLY!!!, alt-tab through the windows/programs on the active screen.

 

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Why is it that nobody seems to have invented a software equivalent of "having two monitors"?
If I have two physical monitors I can easily maximize one window in one monitor and another on the other. But if I just have one super-wide monitor I'd have to manually drag the windows into place each time I wanted to swap what's in the left and right "panes".

Twenty years ago, this was probably 100% doable by running one of those 'X11 server as X11 client' jobbies twice on either side of the actual screen with an appropriately mangled XF86Config.

Nowadays, I'm sure the modern crowd would tell you to ask Red Hat to add this to Wayland.

This is a good case for actually using the tiling features on a tiliing WM.

 

[Stasi]

When alt-tab gets messy it is also nice to only have the taskbar buttons on the relevant display.

Plus 16:10/9 for normal use and a 10/9:16 for documents/PDF or other things that are taller than they are wide. What people should miss are monitors that weren't made for multimedia or as absurd as it is multimedia that isn't made for multimedia screens.
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I feel like the bottom part of the image is only an issue because 99% of people are retarded and don't know to tilt their phone sideways when filming a video.

 

[Instant_Pot_User]

I feel like the bottom part of the image is only an issue because 99% of people are retarded and don't know to tilt their phone sideways when filming a video.

I've seen people try to switch from filming in portrait to filming in landscape as they're filming. I have personal experience, as I've definitely tried to do that.

 

[Non-breath oblige]

Idk wtf happened to Facebook lately, or maybe no one I know uses it anymore, but holy hell I pulled it up recently (for short private boomer purposes) and they somehow cranked up the ad post machine so much that my home page now is like 95% littered with nothing but "sponsored" and "suggested" algorithm ad posts. I know they've been doing it for a long time, but my god I've never seen it this bad. Like almost every other post is whatever Facebooks version of TikToks are, some cringe post from a meme page I've never interacted with, a generic ad, or story highlights. The scary part is that its now styled in a way that just seems to naturally blend in with actual posts from human friends. At least before and on other places it's obvious to tell between algorithm post and real post from friends.

 

[Max Free]

I need to find a way to completely block out SEO websites from my search results. They are utter cancer and deserve nothing good. Just try googling "how to create new file in <Stupid-old-Linux-editor>" and see how many fucking results you get promising you to show it, it's in the fucking title and then proceed to give you a full basic-bitch tutorial on, like, how to start it, how to switch between modes and fucking shit, and in the end, show you one way to do it, but not the way you need it. Every website that provides you with more than one paragraph of information you specifically asked for needs to die.