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

[ZipDisk]

Verizon upgraded me from a 5 to a 7 because it kept triggering "safety warnings" on their end.
It sucked because they shipped it with a USB-C charger and the 7 used micro. Ended up having to buy an OEM online.
I hated the 7. The 5 had a removable battery.

Agent's problem is they're attempting self help when they should be demanding their carrier replace the phone on their dime.

 

[DavidS877]

I have no clue where to put this, so I'll rant here. My old phone recently started becoming physically unsafe to use. I had another phone on hand, pop the SIM card in and realize I have to use the old phone for activation if I want to keep my number. I cannot turn the old one on anymore and do not have a house phone. These retards have things set up in such a way you need a house phone or burner phone to keep a fucking phone number you paid for.

I hope my carrier's CEO gets an anal prolapse. Also hope whoever started the trend of soldered in batteries gets one. An infected one. It's probably Tim Cook, so he already has one.

Moving the SIM from phone A to phone B should keep your number. That was the whole purpose of SIM cards to begin with to decouple your account from the hardware.

Good to see cellular carriers are just as retarded as they've always been.

 

[ZipDisk]

Verizon even used to fuck with the antennas in their branded phones so you couldn't take the phone with you when you dumped verizon! They still badge their phones to this day.

 

[Never Scored]

I have no clue where to put this, so I'll rant here. My old phone recently started becoming physically unsafe to use. I had another phone on hand, pop the SIM card in and realize I have to use the old phone for activation if I want to keep my number. I cannot turn the old one on anymore and do not have a house phone. These retards have things set up in such a way you need a house phone or burner phone to keep a fucking phone number you paid for.

I hope my carrier's CEO gets an anal prolapse. Also hope whoever started the trend of soldered in batteries gets one. An infected one. It's probably Tim Cook, so he already has one.

I have literally never heard of taking a sim card out of one phone and popping it into another not working. I work at a job where I have to do this constantly. Is this some weird US thing or something?

 

[Toolbox]

Probably been said but I miss when every fucking device didn't need to constantly update almost every other day all the time. I cant open anything without it needing constant updates, same shit with games, I have to update a game every week to introduce new bugs because they realized I was having too much fun. Everything basically being "live service" and constantly needing work is infuriating and I am tired of having to constantly check why shits not working because of some stupid new update, or fix all my mods for games because of a minor update that somehow broke everything.

I intentionally avoid updating anything until it's more convenient just to do it/something finally breaks. That or I hear of some newly discovered security flaw so bad it'd be wise just to finally install an update for whatever it is. Haven't really had any problems with this so far.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

I have literally never heard of taking a sim card out of one phone and popping it into another not working. I work at a job where I have to do this constantly. Is this some weird US thing or something?

Ever thought about getting a phone with dual sim?

 

[Never Scored]

Ever thought about getting a phone with dual sim?

We have a lot of phones, and big commercial plans often come with free handset upgrades every couple years. I'm swapping sims from old phones to new phones, not swapping back and fourth in the same phone.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

One of these days a kid is going to die in a house fire directly caused by a forgotten, and now swollen, lipo battery, and that’ll finally be what motivates lawmakers to force batteries to be easily removable by the end user.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Probably the worst trend recently is sites removing the dislike bar.

I was working on my car recently. Went through several videos by people who were clickbaiting. Couldn’t tell immediately because I was on mobile. Fired up my desktop with the extension that allows me to see dislikes and saw that they were all less than 90% liked. Finally had to crack open the Haynes Manual, which isn’t as good because it’s all just pictures and text.

Another recent problem is Temu and something I call “Temu-fication” where sites like Amazon and eBay have to act more like Temu to compete. Amazon used to be bad with redeeming qualities. Now with Temu-fication it’s just bad.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Another recent problem is Temu and something I call “Temu-fication” where sites like Amazon and eBay have to act more like Temu to compete. Amazon used to be bad with redeeming qualities. Now with Temu-fication it’s just bad.

The moment western countries cut shipping subsidies from China this problem will evaporate almost overnight.

 

[Kiwi2Shoes]

Probably the worst trend recently is sites removing the dislike bar.

I was working on my car recently. Went through several videos by people who were clickbaiting. Couldn’t tell immediately because I was on mobile.

If you use an android device you should get YouTube ReVanced, It allows you to watch videos ad-free and additionally has lots of quality of improvements, including the Return YouTube Dislikes extension.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I have literally never heard of taking a sim card out of one phone and popping it into another not working. I work at a job where I have to do this constantly. Is this some weird US thing or something?

Turns out it was a prepaid phone. Fixed the problem by buying BYOD kit from the appropriate carrier.

 

[TVB]

Is it just me or do websites do April Fools jokes less now?

I'll always remember when Homestar did its series of April Fools jokes

http://hrwiki.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I loved the one Tumblr did in 2016.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The only big prank I saw this year was Bulbapedia (a pocketmon wiki) making everything greyscale.

 

[AnOminous]

I hope my carrier's CEO gets an anal prolapse. Also hope whoever started the trend of soldered in batteries gets one. An infected one. It's probably Tim Cook, so he already has one.

The very first iPhone had this, and that was the first I ever saw anything that stupid. I had a soldering iron and a YouTube video on how to do it but it's still stupid as fuck.

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I have literally never heard of taking a sim card out of one phone and popping it into another not working. I work at a job where I have to do this constantly. Is this some weird US thing or something?

American carriers have been known for years to SIM lock their phones to their own networks. It also doesn't help that for the longest time, America used to run two fundamentally different cell standards side-by-side.

 

[The Last Stand]

Another recent problem is Temu and something I call “Temu-fication” where sites like Amazon and eBay have to act more like Temu to compete. Amazon used to be bad with redeeming qualities. Now with Temu-fication it’s just bad.

Why does Temu exist? It's cheaply made, flashy products on a Chinese marketplace. I know I probably answered my own question. You know how many ads I see about Temu on a regular basis? First TikTok, now that crap.

 

[seri0us]

Isn't it "funny" how an iPhone from 10 years ago (iPhone 5/6) has equivalent or even easier disassembly than virtually every smartphone today?

 

[Product Placement]

Headphone jacks in TVs I miss. My 2022 Panasonic Oled is one of the last ones with it, the new 2023 LG C3 I got for another room lacks it. Just a nice way to watch TV during the night if you don't want to disturb others or if you have a better set of headphones than speakers. Forgetting all the downsides that come with Bluetooth audio, it's just cheaper to buy a extra long audio cable to convert a set of headphones to bluetooth for me.