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

[ToroidalBoat]

miss: cassette tapes,

hate: "digital oracles" (Siri, Alexa, etc)

 

[Captain Manning]

I'm guilty of it too, but it amazes me that shitty sound quality low bitrate MP3s (which were the best you could hope for unless you wanted like 10 high quality songs instead of 80 lower quality on your early MP3 players with like 8GB capacity) beat out a superior sound format, but I guess it's the same thing that happen to Betamax.

Very few people are actually audiophiles. I think the ability to store more songs on a more durable and cheaper player won out. My old ass ears can't really discern a qualatative difference over about 128 kbit/s, but I'll usually go with 256 kbit/s VBR because people swear up and down that's the sweet spot.

The secret to Minidisc wasn't the disc. The disc was arguably a liability. You got about 80 minutes, and the motor eats batteries. It was all about ATRAC, which was a really really REALLY good compression format that Sony developed to gave superior sound quality at lower bitrate over the mpeg compression of the day. When solid state storage prices fell, the writing was on the wall for the format.

 

[Megatorg]

BBS and Newsgroups in their heyday. The average IQ of the Internet has been taking a nosedive as more and more people get connected. With cellphones we are now in the age of the Kardashianweb.

That incompetent queue ball, Steve Ballmer, fucked up Windows so bad, I don't even really wanna use it anymore. There was nothing wrong with the interface of 7 and earlier. Microsoft changed it for the benefit of a mobile market they had already had their ticket punched in.

I miss Usenet. It would definitely need a new coat of paint if it made a comeback (it was all text, with the occasional encoded binary file), but the fact that it was decentralized and mostly censorship free was great. I am nostalgic for those days. Today's social media is monolithic and oppressive.



What's funny is that the "cheaper" ones still have removable batts. My Motorola e5 might not be the sexiest smartphone, but the batt is replaceable.

What was Usenet/Newsgroups exactly?

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

What was Usenet/Newsgroups exactly?

Usenet & Usenet newsgroups

 

[Pee Cola]

BBS and Newsgroups in their heyday. The average IQ of the Internet has been taking a nosedive as more and more people get connected. With cellphones we are now in the age of the Kardashianweb.

I'll see your BBS and Newsgroups and raise you a FidoNet.

 

[Adampants]

Whats up with these tech savy Millennial fucks ? They are always walking around with bluetooths talking lound and self importantly and wearing cloths from old navy. Usually they are consultants or property managers, either way they are annoying as fuck. I just the hope singularity is reached soon so AI can evovle and surpass the hip trendy tech savy millennial faggot.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

I miss tech which you bought, took home, hooked up and it just worked. I miss simple, intuitive technology that was designed with the end user in mind instead of being designed to have just one more useless feature than its competitors product.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I miss tech which you bought, took home, hooked up and it just worked. I miss simple, intuitive technology that was designed with the end user in mind instead of being designed to have just one more useless feature than its competitors product.

Like an Apple ][ ?

 

[Coffee Shits]

miss: cassette tapes,

hate: "digital oracles" (Siri, Alexa, etc)

The worst part is when they misunderstand your command, so you append "you dumb bitch" out of frustration, and, oh, OH, now she understands you perfectly, and she's quick with the snarky response instead doing of what you wanted her to do.

When I was walking through a brand-new Windows 10 installation recently all I wanted was that bitch Cortana to shut up shut up shut the fuck up SHUT UP WHERE IS MY DESKTOP YOU BITCH. YOU GLOWING, ARTIFICIAL BIIIIIITCH.

Ok I'm back to the command line now. I love you command line, all these fuckups are my own and not yours.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Ok I'm back to the command line now. I love you command line, all these fuckups are my own and not yours.

 

[a_lurker]

I miss Minidisc.
Could have caught on big.

I hate Apple and all their unavoidable proprietary bullshit.

I think I see what you did there. Wasn't minidisk annoying because everything had to be converted to Sonys DRM-ed out the ass format?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

YOU GLOWING, ARTIFICIAL BIIIIIITCH.

I still want to know what happens if you tell one of those things to kill itself or self-destruct...

 

[Peddler9822]

The UI on almost every video game, app, program, website, etc. post 2013 is absolute garbage. They focus more on style and stupid animations instead of making it intuitive and responsive. Also for some reason they like using more symbols then words now.

It took me two hours to figure out where the send button is in the text messenging app and email on my phone.

The UI on this forum isn't bad. XenForo is pretty good when the site owners and admins aren't stupid. Way better then looking at and navigating reddit.

What happened to using phpBB, XMF, and vBulletin anyway?

 

[ClipBitch]

I don't have a specific technology to whine about. Instead, I just miss durable technology in general. I've had to replace a ton of ancient appliances in my house over the last couple of years and they're all already having minor problems here and there. My new air purifier is less than a year old and I can hear the engine whine and fan wobble. Meanwhile, the old stuff like my fridge, washer or dehumidifier that were bought a thousand years ago are chugging along with literally no problems. I have an air compressor from my grandpas grandpa and it still works. Meanwhile, my mechanic friends new compressor for his shop has so many problems that he spends more time fixing than using it. Anyway, it makes buying anything a stressful experience because I know the fucker will break in short order. I've found that price and brand literally don't matter so that's almost no way to avoid it anymore. The only kind-of-solution I've found is to buy stuff that contains as little electronics as possible.

 

[ForgedBlades]

What Apple did to the phone market still pains me. I know that the consolidation of the industry to strictly slate design was inevitable and Apple was just the first to figure it out, but the era of weird and unique devices was just so damn fun.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I think I see what you did there. Wasn't minidisk annoying because everything had to be converted to Sonys DRM-ed out the ass format?

The annoying thing with Minidisc at the time was that transferring music to it meant recording it to the disc at normal speed, like copying a cassette tape. Burning a CD was so much faster. And easier. For best result with the MD it should be recorded using the TOSLINK port and that involves finding a something that plays CDs and have that port. Fortunately in 2000 there was a very popular Sony product on the market that could do it, the Playstation 2. It was still a pain in the ass.

 

[SpEd Kaczynski]

I miss tech which you bought, took home, hooked up and it just worked. I miss simple, intuitive technology that was designed with the end user in mind instead of being designed to have just one more useless feature than its competitors product.

In the same vein as that I miss "dumb" technology. Like I was looking at TV's the other day and every single one of them was a Smart TV that came with Netflix and a bunch of shit installed and had WiFi and all kinds of other bullshit. I just wanted a simple fucking dumb TV set and I couldn't find a single one.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The UI on almost every video game, app, program, website, etc. post 2013 is absolute garbage.

Not really a technology, but I'm not sure I like the "flat" style that dominates graphic design now. One example is the look of Windows 10. I miss when shiny, glass-like, and realistic was a thing. I also miss the older cartoony look of Windows 98 and Mac OS 9.

 

[Pee Cola]

In the same vein as that I miss "dumb" technology. Like I was looking at TV's the other day and every single one of them was a Smart TV that came with Netflix and a bunch of shit installed and had WiFi and all kinds of other bullshit. I just wanted a simple fucking dumb TV set and I couldn't find a single one.

Testify, brother! Smart TVs are bad and their manufacturers should feel bad. Sure it's only 37" and the power button is fucked (just have to turn it off and on at the wall ... no biggie), but imma keeping my circa 2007 Sony Bravia until it goes full autist. Even then I'll open it up in the hope that it's just a capacitor that's oofed; an easy fix for anyone with an internet, a soldering iron and a couple of shekels to buy a replacement cap.

Not really a technology, but I'm not sure I like the "flat" style that dominates graphic design now. One example is the look of Windows 10. I miss when shiny, glass-like, and realistic was a thing. I also miss the older cartoony look of Windows 98 and Mac OS 9.

For mine, XP was peak Windows UI. I eventually made peace with W7, but every UI from W8 onwards is fucking cancerous.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I would say I miss the reel to reel I used as a kid, but having flac files as long as I want erases that. Minidisk was nice in the 90s, but I prefered DAT. DAT could be 24 bit, so higher quality recordings than MD. As I think about it, the #1 technology I miss are guillotines.