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

Another Char Clone said:
This reminds me so much of high DPI "gaming" mice (I like high DPI). You need to install their software, register your mouse, to change the mouse DPI! But don't you want to sync your settings across multiple PCs? No, I'm not giving my email address for that, nor can I afford multiple gaming PCs.

I wish more mice would make it clear that they just work without needing to install additional bullshit, like having a button to change DPI modes.
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"Gaming" mice and keyboards both have this same issue. Some of the higher-end or enthusiast targeted ones have the ability to save configurations and macros onboard to skip requiring software, but the cheaper shit by Razer, Logitech, Steelseries, etc. all require proprietary software to change and save most config settings. These programs are almost always fucking filled with ads, run slow as shit, hog an unnecessary amount of system resources, and break half the time anyways.

What happened to making reliable fucking software?
 
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StickFruit said:
"Gaming" mice and keyboards both have this same issue. Some of the higher-end or enthusiast targeted ones have the ability to save configurations and macros onboard to skip requiring software, but the cheaper shit by Razer, Logitech, Steelseries, etc. all require proprietary software to change and save most config settings. These programs are almost always fucking filled with ads, run slow as shit, hog an unnecessary amount of system resources, and break half the time anyways.

What happened to making reliable fucking software?
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I bit the bullet and got Razer stuff a little while back, and while I think the hardware is actually decent, holy shit the software makes the experience like pulling teeth. The program won't even reliably show me the battery level for my mouse, and my headset which is also wireless was made with Xbox compatibility in mind only so it only connects via bluetooth in a basic way unless you use the absolute ass Microsoft Xbox signal converter usb and go through that.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
For the complaining software you mention, there are alternatives that don't require any logins or accounts. I switched out of necessity after moving everything to Linux. For 3D modeling, Blender, password manager, KeepassXC, virtualization, KVM with virt-manager. Bluestacks for android but I think that's windows only.
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If you want to design stuff in 3d but not 'model'. I really like OpenSCAD. But then again I think better as a programmer.
 
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Didn't Amiga OS have installers for drivers? I loved the way classic Mac OS just had you drag extensions into a folder and restart.
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Gawd, that sounds HEAVENLY compared to my early years. I would have given anything for this kind of convenience during the Windoze 3.1/95 era.

The days of "a dozen cryptic driver files all in the same folder", no/shit documentation and good luck autodetecting anything at all that wasn't very mainstream. Pity the poor bastard who tried getting a no-name soundcard or video card instead of a Sound Blaster or S3 Virge because the real things cost a motherfucking arm and a leg.
 
Tech trend I hate most right now is not being able to buy most electronics. I have been waiting for Raspberry Pis to open up for a year with no luck.

I know I could probably just find another brand of single board computer but none of them have the support, community, or documentation that Pi has.
 
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Some games are online-only. Okay, fine. Until the servers shut down and you cannot even access the game you bought. Battleborn being one such example.


All you have is a coaster.
 
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I miss true handheld gaming, Switch isn't quite the same. Mobile games though? Lol, lmao even.
 
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The Noise said:
Tech trend I hate most right now is not being able to buy most electronics. I have been waiting for Raspberry Pis to open up for a year with no luck.

I know I could probably just find another brand of single board computer but none of them have the support, community, or documentation that Pi has.
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I backordered 2 Pi 4 8GB back in July from Digikey. Arrive tomorrow, almost exactly 90 days. A week ago I got an email saying they wouldn't be here till January, apparently I got bumped up somehow. And their site is saying '52 weeks'

Still no sign of a Zero 2 W for any sane amount of money or backorder.

I ordered a Rock5 to check it out, might arrive someday. Probably long before I can get a Zero.
 
kainvnod said:
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.
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There's a huge market for "actually readable answers that actually answer the question". People could easily create websites packed with information and displace those fuckers who create bullshit bait articles and videos but surprisingly I've never seen a single site like that. What exactly is stopping this?

Is it Google that's artificially pushing shit sites to the top?

Is it the work needed to build such a site? I'd imagine it's relatively easy to specialize in one small area like "how to do stuff in MS Excel" and expand outwards. It's a lot of manual and tedious work for sure but the content is already out there, you just have to get an army of like college interns to comb through the Indian SEO bait shit articles and soyboy videos to pull the "answers" out of the pile of garbage and paste it onto your site.

Is it the business model and a hard time monetizing the site? I can't imagine it to be easy for the bullshit-filled "top ranked" answer sites either. How do they monetize handing out shit non-answers to an audience (whom I presume would click X when they cannot find the answer??? Instead of clicking on their affiliate links or whatever?) Surely there must be a way?
 
Activision-Blizzard is (seemingly) requiring users to verify their accounts with cell phone numbers. If you have a prepaid plan, Act-Blizz won't accept it. With 2K's recent hack, I'm hesitant to give them any personal information.
 
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