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

[PFM]

I cant belive we have these phones with more computing power the we thought possibel in the 90's, yet as a gamingplatform my old gameboy is far superior when you compare what you can play on any 2023 phone vs a gameboy color
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Have you considered it's not the games or the platform that's changed so much as you not being a fucking child anymore?

 

[I Do Not Post]

I tried, they won't let me. You make fair points.

That's weird, I can generate mummies just fine.

 

[popsoda]

I'm going to echo my previous post regarding the absence of buttons on modern TVs/monitors and apply it to an even more ridiculous technological "advancement": the current state of centre consoles and radios in cars.

For how much crap authorities give us for using mobile phones while driving, the presence of an android tablet built in to the car for controlling many of it's functions really fucking spits in the face of this. For context I recently upgraded from a mid-2000s cheap car which had all the controls for the CD player, temperature control, dashboard features and hazard lights all located in the centre console with clearly labelled and obvious buttons that never move. Now my newer car has what is essentially a tablet computer in this place instead, with which I must navigate through at least 2 menus to do anything with the fucking thing. These menus are also all laid out different, I HAVE to take my eyes off the road to see what the fuck I'm doing. Not only is it a huge inconvenience, it's a serious hazard and I have no doubt it also costs substantially more from a manufacturing and maintance standpoint. WHY?!

And they give you funny little warnings like "please don't use me while driving ".
When the fuck else are you going to operate it? Are you meant to drive to the side of the road and park, so you can increase the sound volume?
"Let's find a convenient place to park, so I can pick the next song to play on my in-car stereo-machine".

Touch interfaces are tolerable when, and only when, you are in a situation where you can focus on the screen. Like, for example, when you're not driving a fucking car.

 

[seri0us]

It wasn't that long ago that Apple removing the headphone jack was universally disliked, but now everyone has some sort of wireless audio...

 

[AnOminous]

It wasn't that long ago that Apple removing the headphone jack was universally disliked, but now everyone has some sort of wireless audio...

I don't really talk on the phone enough to bother with headphones or those goofy Bluetooth earbuds, but I do play Bluetooth audio from it in the car. I still don't think it was time to do away with those and would be frustrated if I had to rely on shitty Bluetooth audio for anything, but it doesn't really affect me, unlike other dumb things Apple did like removing the function key row and replacing it with weird bullshit.

 

[StyxHexenHamster1350]

A while back I discovered that now firefox, by default, hijacks DNS requests and sends them to clownflare.

I discovered this because my local DNS (dnsmasq) which I use for blocking ads, stopped working. And after spending several hours changing settings on the DNS server with no luck. I then discovered that firefox has implemented what they call "Secure DNS" which is just a moronic name for using cloudflare's DNS instead of the system's configured DNS. And it's turned on by default.

"Secure DNS" my ass.

 

[DavidS877]

A while back I discovered that now firefox, by default, hijacks DNS requests and sends them to clownflare.

I discovered this because my local DNS (dnsmasq) which I use for blocking ads, stopped working. And after spending several hours changing settings on the DNS server with no luck. I then discovered that firefox has implemented what they call "Secure DNS" which is just a moronic name for using cloudflare's DNS instead of the system's configured DNS. And it's turned on by default.

"Secure DNS" my ass.

The more common term is "DNS over HTTPS" still retarded, still a bad idea.
As you probably found you can set a DNS entry like a TXT record ot force NXDOMAIN (but not an A record) for the fake address "use-application-dns.net" in your dnsmasq which will tell it to knock it off if you fail to notice on another firefox device. Sadly this is being supported by more retards and they decided to implement this misfeature over port 443 instead of using the supported port for TLS DNS and using your normal DNS server.

 

[lonelyshores]

Missed when youtube didn't block adblocker. Probably someway to circumvent having to watch an ad but just too lazy to look. Fuck adverts and fuck the govt.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Missed when youtube didn't block adblocker. Probably someway to circumvent having to watch an ad but just too lazy to look. Fuck adverts and fuck the govt.

See this thread

 

[teriyakiburns]

Sadly this is being supported by more retards and they decided to implement this misfeature over port 443 instead of using the supported port for TLS DNS and using your normal DNS server.

The claimed reason for using 443 is because it bypasses restrictions on the normal DNS ports and hides DNA requests amongst the other web traffic. It's dandy if you're stuck behind Chinese firewalls, but for everyone else it's just a pain in the backside.

 

[Creative Username]

The claimed reason for using 443 is because it bypasses restrictions on the normal DNS ports and hides DNA requests amongst the other web traffic. It's dandy if you're stuck behind Chinese firewalls, but for everyone else it's just a pain in the backside.

It's a good option for normies, which is probably why it's enabled by default. Normies aren't known for setting up custom DNS servers or changing settings from the default.

 

[Richard_Wetpasta]

I miss/want more clear tech that's not shit. Prison tech is aesthetically pleasing but usually cheap stuff.

I don't care that it slightly yellows over time
I want more of it.

 

[marvlouslie]

The fact that everyone and their mother has access to a 1080p HD camera on their phone and will absolutely record you and plaster it all over the internet for the most PETTY of bullshit. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, cameras on phones were a novelty and only took poor pictures. Now they're fucking everywhere, and I don't like it.

 

[TVB]

The fact that everyone and their mother has access to a 1080p HD camera on their phone and will absolutely record you and plaster it all over the internet for the most PETTY of bullshit. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, cameras on phones were a novelty and only took poor pictures. Now they're fucking everywhere, and I don't like it.

Flip phones and film cameras were still around and being used during the mid-to-late 2000s. By the recession happened, smart phones became the thing to take pictures

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

You know a thing I hate?

I hate how, two or three years ago, if I needed to do something - lets say, I needed a tool to extract images from a PDF file, for example. And I typed "free tool extract pdf images" in google, I'd get a bunch of results, some of them shareware, probably some open source stuff on github, etc.

Now, if I do the same thing? 50 pages of results that are all random websites offering to do it for me if I upload the files to them.

No, fuck you, I want to do it myself, and I don't want you monitoring me and selling the results to an ad company.

 

[DavidS877]

You know a thing I hate?

I hate how, two or three years ago, if I needed to do something - lets say, I needed a tool to extract images from a PDF file, for example. And I typed "free tool extract pdf images" in google, I'd get a bunch of results, some of them shareware, probably some open source stuff on github, etc.

Now, if I do the same thing? 50 pages of results that are all random websites offering to do it for me if I upload the files to them.

No, fuck you, I want to do it myself, and I don't want you monitoring me and selling the results to an ad company.

I find adding "github" or "Linux CLI" "command line" or similar can help at times, even if you want Windows, although maybe -stackoverflow if you don't want 300000000 wrong answers. I was trying to figure out how to directly convert a web page to an image and all I found was the online sites until I got the query right. Which then told me it was built into Firefox and Chrome via their APIs and/or Selenium.

Also, fucking stackoverflow. "How do I do X" "Well, you don't really want to do X, you want to do Y, here's how to do Y" no you fuck, I want to do X.

 

[Flatline]

The fact that everyone and their mother has access to a 1080p HD camera on their phone and will absolutely record you and plaster it all over the internet for the most PETTY of bullshit. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, cameras on phones were a novelty and only took poor pictures. Now they're fucking everywhere, and I don't like it.

One can't go outside without the fear of being shot and killed by some raving incel or becoming the subject of a random person's viral video on TikTok.

 

[11 Herbs and Spices]

One can't go outside without the fear of being shot and killed by some raving incel

By "incel" you mean nigger, right?

 

[TVB]

By "incel" you mean nigger, right?

Well Elliot Rodger was a jew. Unless, he was black and the white devils were lying about he being white

 

[AnOminous]

Well Elliot Rodger was a jew. Unless, he was black and the white devils were lying about he being white

Peter Rodger is a Jew? News to me. *checks Early Life* oh well his article is a stub.