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I know, I was bitching about other crap that the OEM systems do. There's a very long list.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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That's at least good for when the interface is so utterly horrible that you're better off streaming from your phone that at least has voice controls.
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The elites are making screens shit on purpose to psyop us into using voice controls.
Honestly tho I would probably be fine with the screens if they were responsive and showed cool car information
Honestly tho I would probably be fine with the screens if they were responsive and showed cool car information
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Some do but that's usually reserved for performance trims of cars like the M sport or AMG versions. You get full engine data like oil temps, coolant temps, trans temp, even real time horsepower output. That sort of stuff would be useful to display on these screens.
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Quirky and cutesy error messages drive me up a fucking wall. Just tell me what the fuck when wrong. Faggoty "oopsie doodles sowwy the piggy wiggly oinked the cabelinos" is some puerile unprofessional horseshit. I want my program to do what I want, when I want it to, and nothing else, especially not show some childish fuckface handholding babytalk nonsense at me.
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Even terse error messages like BSOD KERNEL_DATA_IN_PAGE is better. It means Windows kernel accidentally paged itself, somehow. My win7 PC crashed, not sure if Win10/11 would still show messages like that.
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Win 10 has error codes at least, but every one I came across just returns generic "it could be anything" results when I try to look them up.
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A lot of them do but Honda doesnt do a very good job of masking that or accounting for it in their own software. There is also a way of just breaking out of the default Honda radio software and running whatever the fuck you want on those headunits but i forgot exactly how
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Yeah Mazda also uses some custom Android or Linux OS for their infotainment. Early on there were easy ways you could ssh into it and install your own apps and customize UI. Things no doubt have changed since the early days of the Kodo designed Mazda after they left Ford but I'm sure hacks still exist.
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I greatly miss CRTs.
They're heavy and bulky, but they surpassed every other screen until recently with the likes of OLED and microLED.
The switch to LCD in the 2000s, while understandable, those screens were fucking trash at the end of the day.
CRTs are also just very charming and have this nostalgic warmth to them that can't ever be placed.
They're heavy and bulky, but they surpassed every other screen until recently with the likes of OLED and microLED.
The switch to LCD in the 2000s, while understandable, those screens were fucking trash at the end of the day.
CRTs are also just very charming and have this nostalgic warmth to them that can't ever be placed.
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They used to be dirt cheep, and one could easily find them at thrift stores.
Now they're pretty much gone, except for overpriced online listings (AFAIK).
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This. Some games will always look better on a CRT as well. I have so many memories of gaming with my friend on this tiny Spongebob CRT. Splitscreen was horrendous but we loved it anyway. Simpler times.
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People who don’t like CRTs have no soul. I’m not asking you to use one everyday or anything, but you cannot genuinely tell me the soft glow of a CRT in the middle of the night is in any way comparable to the TVs we have now. Where picture quality and form factor improved, the unique charm of the old box TVs quietly buzzing and flickering completely died.
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I had CRT TVs for a good chunk of my childhood. I'm 20 now, will be 21 this year. Whenever I think CRT i immediately think PS2 games and Adult Swim. Nothing compares to it.
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Obsolete tech but I loved it, VHS rewinders. Could start watching the next movie without having to rewind the one you just watched.
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The Sony Trinitron line was amazing.
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My last CRT I had right up to 2010 because I remember playing Red Dead Redemption on it, fucking behemoth of a 32" JVC with component inputs I got for free from a guy at work and later gave it to another guy at work. Do I miss it? Sure if I wanted something to play my SNES on but I don't miss needing three people to haul that fucker up two flights of stairs.
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Journos could use "deepfake" to push The Narrative™. If that "fake alien invasion" theory is true, they could use it for that too.
So yeah, "deepfake" is a tech trend I may not be too excited about.
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I remember long nights on CRTs, occasionally glancing away from them to look out the window or across the room and having this weird feeling hit me of how "sharp" and "detailed" everything is, like your brain having adapted to the blurriness and then suddenly hit with the sharpness of reality. I also had a very short stint as TV repairman (when your TV broke you used to call a guy to fetch it and then repair it at his workshop and bring it back repaired, can youngsters even imagine? Yes I'm a thousand years old in minecraft years) and hold onto my last daily-driver CRT a long time until it really became impractical. I often had two CRTs running (connected to either one or two computers) and then a CRT TV or a stereo for distraction and generic sounds, something computers wouldn't be capable of in a very practical sense for another decade at that point. The power I consumed then would give me anxiety now but back then electricity simply was that cheap. It didn't matter.
With all that, I generally do not miss CRTs and I love obsolete tech otherwise. In my experience, most people that dislike LCDs just never owned a good one with a decent panel, good, even backlight and high pixel density. It's not one of the ~$100 1080p ones most people have and the real important stats of an LCD are often in the fine print that isn't advertised. CRTs can't compete. Seriously. Also the late model CRT TVs were an absolute BITCH to repair, mostly because manufacturers started outsourcing and stopped giving a shit. It all doesn't matter anymore because even the more nicely designed sets you won't find e.g. a spare flyback transformer easily anymore for and a CRT is something that just wears down. Just how it is.
That said, I still have an old Triniton screen, a big-ass Braun TV that was a high-end, status-symbol kind of device in the 80s and a small, old CRT TV an neighbor threw out. All in working, good condition. But that's only because I'm basically an old tech hoarder.
With all that, I generally do not miss CRTs and I love obsolete tech otherwise. In my experience, most people that dislike LCDs just never owned a good one with a decent panel, good, even backlight and high pixel density. It's not one of the ~$100 1080p ones most people have and the real important stats of an LCD are often in the fine print that isn't advertised. CRTs can't compete. Seriously. Also the late model CRT TVs were an absolute BITCH to repair, mostly because manufacturers started outsourcing and stopped giving a shit. It all doesn't matter anymore because even the more nicely designed sets you won't find e.g. a spare flyback transformer easily anymore for and a CRT is something that just wears down. Just how it is.
That said, I still have an old Triniton screen, a big-ass Braun TV that was a high-end, status-symbol kind of device in the 80s and a small, old CRT TV an neighbor threw out. All in working, good condition. But that's only because I'm basically an old tech hoarder.
It sounds dumb but when I was a small boy reading shitty SciFi stories one of my "future dreams" was one day having a conversation with an actual artificial intelligence so I have watched recent developments with great interest, just how home computers once really interested me when they weren't mainstream. While we still not really have a true, hard/general/however-you-want-to-call-it intelligence and things like ChatGPT while impressive (and really close to my dream) are basically just text predictors taking advantage of vast processing power, the vibe is very similar to that particular home computer time and I expect absolutely fascinating things to come. This technology will have a similar, massive societal impact to home computers, and things will never be the same as before, no matter the various level of denial some people have about it. (people had the same kinds of denial about computers and their future importance in the 80s, I remember it very well) What is really important in my opinon is that everyone *needs* to have access to it. Only a select few, powerful having this in their hands will be an dystopian nightmare. Beware of the gatekeeepers, they do not have your "safety" in mind.
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