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

Mechanical keyboards are fucking aids.

Do you know why? Not because they have any inherent quality issues..but because hipster faggots buy it, don't use fucking push to talk and then CONSTANTLY TAP THEIR FUCKING KEYBOARDS INTO THEIR FUCKING MIC.
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I think all these automatic updates (Windows is the biggest offender) is the fruit of tech nerds living out their rape fantasies.

Bill Gates ran with the pedophile and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Gates flew on Epstein’s jet, when Gates’ INTEREST INCOME could literally be quoted in “Gulfstreams per minute”.
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I think all these automatic updates (Windows is the biggest offender) is the fruit of tech nerds living out their rape fantasies.


Source.
This, Ubuntu's Snap packages have this and Kdenlive updated without my knowledge and for a while I was baffled as to why I couldn't render anything anymore until I installed the repository version and realised they updated it in the background to a broken version.
 
One trend I'm not a big fan of is tempered glass pc cases. I honestly don't see what makes them appealing. Shit also makes me feel they'll be worse than acryllic since while they may not get a scratch, it could gets its own share of bad cracks. @ArnoldPalmer mentioned glass is an insulator which for me makes me want to avoid most if not all cases since I've been more concerned over temps, especially with how how California can get thanks to some recent heat waves. The trend for tempered glass is making me wish the most we get with windowed cases is just acrylic unless that turns out to be no better in being an insulator.
 
I don't like how flashy PC parts tend to look, especially shit inside the computer where you're not really gonna see it once you're done. Why the fuck do you want your PC to be a distracting light show? What's wrong with just a plain boring looking case like this?
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Sure maybe it's a bit on the extreme side of boring, but personally once I'm done with setting something up I want it to just blend in and not really be noticed. I'm just building this for my flight sims and shit, I couldn't give a flying fuck it looks """cool""" by some retard's standards. The super flashy shit feels like it's for some dude bro who desperately wants to impress some girl just to cream her pussy, not for any sort of gaming reason.
 
One trend I'm not a big fan of is tempered glass pc cases. I honestly don't see what makes them appealing. Shit also makes me feel they'll be worse than acryllic since while they may not get a scratch, it could gets its own share of bad cracks. @ArnoldPalmer mentioned glass is an insulator which for me makes me want to avoid most if not all cases since I've been more concerned over temps, especially with how how California can get thanks to some recent heat waves. The trend for tempered glass is making me wish the most we get with windowed cases is just acrylic unless that turns out to be no better in being an insulator.
Tack on RGB everything, including RAM and fans/radiators.
 
Not a recent trend - especially now with the "software as a service" BS - but why is software so damn overpriced? Like Photoshop costing around $700, or professional rendering software like Maya costing over $1000? While it may cost a lot to develop, it costs next to nothing to manufacture copies. If software companies didn't charge so much for software, they could make more money - and less of what they call "software theft".
 
This is a relatively unknown issue, but I hate how pretty much all tech companies and software creators completely disregard color spaces. Apple and Adobe are the only companies that give a shit about this, and I have to commend both of them for optimizing every aspect of the user experience. They are unmatched when it comes to content creation and editing. Windows 10 does have some support, but you have to go out of your way to enable it, and it doesn't always exist. Linux is a fucking disaster and I can't think of any FOSS user interface that's been done correctly.
I have a computer monitor with the DCI-P3 color gamut. This color gamut is 25% larger than sRGB, which is the most common color gamut on computer monitors. It physically has more colors, particularly in the red, green, and yellow areas.
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Windows 10 has shit support, and every application just over-saturates the colors as a result, making them inaccurate, because the colors used in them only exist in the sRGB color space, and the software can't tell the operating system to maintain their accuracy when DCI-P3 or alternative color gamuts are present. Reds, greens, and some yellow becomes much more vivid. I don't mind the oversaturation, and actually find it to be quite pretty looking, but in terms of accuracy and proper utilization, it just doesn't exist.
If a game developer for example wanted to take advantage of this, they could stylize their game with these higher color gamuts in mind. They could accurately use all the colors in the sRGB space, but could also use the additional colors in higher gamuts for proper model/object representation (If you wanted flowers in a game faithful to real life, for instance). Every object would be properly colored and doing this you could improve immersion immensely (Psychologically speaking, using accurate colors would not form conflicts in your brain, and would "trick" it into thinking that the game is closer to, if not real life. If you see a common object in a game with inaccurate colors, your brain is going to subconsciously notice the inconsistency). This would also mean the experience would be consistent across different users.

Immersion in the future will be a combination of high frame-rates (>120 FPS), sync technologies (Gsync/Freesync) to eliminate screen tearing (Should be a standard feature on every monitor at this point), larger and more accurate color spaces, and higher resolutions such that pixels cannot be visibly differentiated. Apple knows what they're doing.
 
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If you use a prism, look at iridescence, or look at print colors, you can see that the primary colors of light are really red, "print green", and violet - in other words, the secondaries of print colors. If displays used those instead of red, a yellow-green, and "ultramarine", then display vs print - as well as color spaces - could be more consistent and natural, I think.
 
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Not a recent trend - especially now with the "software as a service" BS - but why is software so damn overpriced? Like Photoshop costing around $700, or professional rendering software like Maya costing over $1000? While it may cost a lot to develop, it costs next to nothing to manufacture copies. If software companies didn't charge so much for software, they could make more money - and less of what they call "software theft".
I hate that all this shit actually costs money. Windows operating systems used to come with WordPad, which was nice, but damn school assignments always required Word, which made documents incompatible with WordPad for some reason. I could never do my school assignments at home because of this fucking extortion. My family eventually gave me a copy of Word. Why the fuck couldn't Windows just make WordPad documents compatible with Word?

I still hate this shit, and whenever I need to type and send a resume I just use OpenOffice. Because fuck paying for a Word subscription when I barely use Word.
 
Schools should have no software requirements. As long as it looks good, who cares what it was typed on?

I also dislike how school papers always have to be double spaced, when pretty much nothing else is double spaced in real life.

(On my Mac toaster, the equivalent of WordPad is TextEdit.)
Back in the day when 99% of the time you submitted papers that were printed I agree. But now it seems online submissions is king, and even to this day formatting across word processors (even if they have .doc(x) comparability) can still be sketchy, bloody hell you still need to fight word at times.

I just wish Word and Publisher had a kid that combined the features of word (e.g. auto indexing) with the easier formatting and image placement of Publisher. Last time I had to make a manual for some staff at a former job it was image heavy and word was fighting me every step of the way, Publisher was more workable but I kept on needing to change the page numbers on the index page.

Most of the classes I had, it was single spaced or maybe 1.5.

I am assuming the teachers wanted double space so it looked less like a wall of words when they start reading the essays (also more room for making marks).
 
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Not a recent trend - especially now with the "software as a service" BS - but why is software so damn overpriced? Like Photoshop costing around $700, or professional rendering software like Maya costing over $1000? While it may cost a lot to develop, it costs next to nothing to manufacture copies. If software companies didn't charge so much for software, they could make more money - and less of what they call "software theft".

Overpriced!? Jeezy creezy it's a pittance now. One license of Photoshop used to be ~$2500, Maya on the other hand was really cheap at $10,000 but prepare to pay that again next year if you want the new stuff, same with Photoshop actually. Those programs are more accessible than ever legally and it's really great. Tell Autodesk that you're a student and you get it for free!

What seems like the only annoying part about the current cheap, cheap subscription(or free) model of Maya is that it can't be cracked to get rid of all the FlexLM bullshit.
edit: I mean you can't legally own it and get rid of that shit in the way that was possible in the past.

This is a relatively unknown issue, but I hate how pretty much all tech companies and software creators completely disregard color spaces. Apple and Adobe are the only companies that give a shit about this, and I have to commend both of them for optimizing every aspect of the user experience. They are unmatched when it comes to content creation and editing. Windows 10 does have some support, but you have to go out of your way to enable it, and it doesn't always exist. Linux is a fucking disaster and I can't think of any FOSS user interface that's been done correctly.

RGB is still a bit fucked in Photoshop AFAIK, there's something wrong with their math so using the LAB color space is advisable. I can't find it right now but there's a video that shows how RGB is bugged/broken in Photoshop by comparing a blend of two images in Premiere and Photoshop and looking at it with the color scopes, showing that there's something wrong in PS.
 
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Google results - at least with JavaScript off - are really getting annoying. Even more annoying than before, that is.

Google search in 2020 said:
Search results for "I just want to find this one thing":

Stupid "related" question 1?

Blah blah blah corporate approved answer 1.

Stupid "related" question 2?

Blah blah blah corporate approved answer 2.

Stupid "related" question 3?

Blah blah blah corporate approved answer 3.

So many "unfurled" results like that. So frustrating.

wat

What corporate buzzwords do they use to rationalize $10,000?
 
Schools should have no software requirements. As long as it looks good, who cares what it was typed on?

I also dislike how school papers always have to be double spaced, when pretty much nothing else is double spaced in real life.

(On my Mac toaster, the equivalent of WordPad is TextEdit.)

Double spacing is, or was, because it gave space for the interlineal notes and corrections that competent teachers used to do back when schools actually taught things and students actually paid attention to the red ink.

Also it's just easier on the eyes. Courts still require it because judges are often superannuated faggots with eyes like pickled onions.
 
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