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

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

Flat design is also much less demanding on the designer and fits the 2010s sensibility that beauty is dead.
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not to mention easier to read on a variety of displays, is smaller (combats bloat, lets older systems and lower specd systems "marginalized" and disadvantaged people can have better access to
also less chacge for cultural problems so easier I18N/L10N
bet they don't embed image tags...which is bad for the blind

marignalized, poor, cross cultural
Isn't that all stuff soy-designers are supposed to care about?
or does that go out the window when you want to latest apple product to make maximum alpha blades

 

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I wouldn't pay that for a phone if I were a fucking millionaire. Who pays $1200 for a goddamn phone? That's just some sick bullshit. If I'm even going to pay over $500 it isn't going to be for that kind of shit, either. It would be one of those waterproofed, indestructible motherfuckers.

Lol you could pay $500 for a Louis Vuitton phone case. I've met someone who did. It was difficult to refrain myself from correcting him

 

[Dread First]

I was digging through some old crates recently for a spare surge protector, and I came across my HTC Desire Z which was my daily driver in high school until I graduated and got a Samsung phone instead. This phone's got scratches all over the screen, the metal backing is scuffed up to hell and back, the rubberised plastic is scratched and dented in all sorts of places, the SD card slot broke off, and the battery in it is probably shot.

However, it still managed to hold up pretty nicely all things considered! The unit still turns on, the keyboard is still just as lovely to type on as it was 10 years ago, it feels nice in hand, all that good stuff. If the SD card slot didn't break off so many years ago, I'd probably try to get LineageOS or some older version of CyanogenMod on it for the sake of seeing what it's still capable of in 2020.

I really miss the late 2000s/early 2010s HTC, man. The phrase "quietly brilliant" really manages to evoke what I've always wanted out of a smartphone: a well-built piece of hardware that can withstand a beating while still being able to do everything that I need a smartphone to do. Plus physical keyboards are always worth having the extra bulk in your pocket. Sadly, it looks like this ass-backwards trend favouring devices with poor longevity is here to stay.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Sadly the handled console era is truly gone with the 3DS producing end.
How Nintendo popularized the idea with the Game Boy and ended the same? That answer probably will never be found.

 

[Toolbox]

I was digging through some old crates recently for a spare surge protector, and I came across my HTC Desire Z which was my daily driver in high school until I graduated and got a Samsung phone instead. This phone's got scratches all over the screen, the metal backing is scuffed up to hell and back, the rubberised plastic is scratched and dented in all sorts of places, the SD card slot broke off, and the battery in it is probably shot.

However, it still managed to hold up pretty nicely all things considered! The unit still turns on, the keyboard is still just as lovely to type on as it was 10 years ago, it feels nice in hand, all that good stuff. If the SD card slot didn't break off so many years ago, I'd probably try to get LineageOS or some older version of CyanogenMod on it for the sake of seeing what it's still capable of in 2020.

I really miss the late 2000s/early 2010s HTC, man. The phrase "quietly brilliant" really manages to evoke what I've always wanted out of a smartphone: a well-built piece of hardware that can withstand a beating while still being able to do everything that I need a smartphone to do. Plus physical keyboards are always worth having the extra bulk in your pocket. Sadly, it looks like this ass-backwards trend favouring devices with poor longevity is here to stay.

The death of the easily replacable battery is one of the biggest tragedies of the nu-smartphone era as well. The excuses range from waterproofing to component space but it's definitely hypocritical. "Be green" but generate as much tech waste as possible. It's the biggest reason you can't make a smartphone last these days. Other than planned obsolescence through software slowdown.

 

[TheSimpShow]

Voice activated phone call menus, or automated phone menu systems.

Anything "AI" when it comes to interactivity, it's always garbage and I swear the Turing Tests are more a test on how a majority of the population are actually NPC's rather than the efficacy of your shitty markov-chain, you stupid faggots.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Anything "AI" when it comes to interactivity, it's always garbage

For that matter, I hate any machine that pretends to be a person. You go to the ATM and put in your card, and it says "Thank you for sticking that in me." It reminds me of those 19th-century automobiles that were made up to look like horses - who exactly are they trying to fool?

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

I miss pocket computers, it seems like they were going places with things like the Zipit, the OQO Model 2 and the Open pandora. These days they're low-power Arm-based SBC's, expensive chinese garbage like the GPD or outright scams like the Pyra. A shame too, I woud pay a large sum of cash for a pocket PC that can emulate Gamecube and isn't absolute garbage.

As for new tech I don't like the current development of VR. I've seen it, I've played it and the whole experience just seemed like an overpriced motion controller with a screen glued to your face. Maybe I'm getting too old but I just don't get it.

 

[Never Scored]

There are some similar things such as the Gemini, but the issue is Microsoft has given up on mobile so anything you buy is going to have an Arm Desktop version of Linux, which I am writing this from now, which is still kind of in its infancy and the repositories don't have a whole lot in them, or Android. That being said, I am using the new Ubunutu release designed for Raspberry Pi 4 and it does have a Gamecube emulator in the official repositories.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

"Thank you for sticking that in me."

AI made porn when?

 

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The death of the easily replacable battery is one of the biggest tragedies of the nu-smartphone era as well. The excuses range from waterproofing to component space but it's definitely hypocritical. "Be green" but generate as much tech waste as possible. It's the biggest reason you can't make a smartphone last these days. Other than planned obsolescence through software slowdown.

This has hit laptops so much harder, though. If you go Apple you might be able to stretch a phone out to five or six years with a battery replacement, Android? The thing will be ludicrously insecure even before the battery kicks it.

As much as some like to slag off Chromebooks, I still regularly use one nearly a decade old daily. Admittedly, it's running MrChromeBook's replacement UEFI firmware and vanilla Devuan now* as they go out of support for Chrome OS after about five years, but if it had one of those shitty soldered in internal batteries it never could have held up until now.

* some mad bastards install Windows and even Mac OS X on Chromebooks. Seems unwise

 

[AmpleApricots]

ARM SoCs could be cool if they weren't buried in black-box patent bullshit from head to toe and made by companies who just want to push the next one out of the door and otherwise don't care.

I miss how well you could know an operating system in detail, down to writing small hacks and patches for stuff. Nowadays even Linux is such a fat-assed and fast moving target that maintaining a patch becomes a full-time job. Also dependency hell and fat userland software. On my gentoo system these days, every update feels like fighting the upstream maintainers from putting crap onto my machine I don't want. With binary distros my guess is it's completely hopeless.

On the other hand, DIY-hobbyist computers have never been easier and cheaper to do. It's fun to screw around with simpler OSes like CP/M.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

* some mad bastards install Windows and even Mac OS X on Chromebooks. Seems unwise

The high end Chromebooks I can see sure, infact its insane to pay as much as you would for a high end chromebook and not install a full OS on since ChromeOS is so limited. The only thing Chromebooks are for (IMO) are cheap throwaway computers for schools, young kids, "I just want to use the electric mail and the bookface" people.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I was digging through some old crates recently for a spare surge protector, and I came across my HTC Desire Z which was my daily driver in high school until I graduated and got a Samsung phone instead. This phone's got scratches all over the screen, the metal backing is scuffed up to hell and back, the rubberised plastic is scratched and dented in all sorts of places, the SD card slot broke off, and the battery in it is probably shot.

However, it still managed to hold up pretty nicely all things considered! The unit still turns on, the keyboard is still just as lovely to type on as it was 10 years ago, it feels nice in hand, all that good stuff. If the SD card slot didn't break off so many years ago, I'd probably try to get LineageOS or some older version of CyanogenMod on it for the sake of seeing what it's still capable of in 2020.

I really miss the late 2000s/early 2010s HTC, man. The phrase "quietly brilliant" really manages to evoke what I've always wanted out of a smartphone: a well-built piece of hardware that can withstand a beating while still being able to do everything that I need a smartphone to do. Plus physical keyboards are always worth having the extra bulk in your pocket. Sadly, it looks like this ass-backwards trend favouring devices with poor longevity is here to stay.

I had an HTC android phone that had the little optical dot on the home button that could be used to easily scroll through and copy characters/words/phrases in text which is BULLSHIT when normally done on a touchscreen. It was like a reverse optical mouse.

And I don't even get how it's still so.... eh. Sony had this back in 2007 in the least

and yet, other than some small increase in durability, has seemingly not improved since then.

That's the weird thing, OLED had been just around the corner since the 90's up until when it actually came out, it just didn't work but someone was always showing something. The first OLED screen I saw for sale was the size of a large phone, cost ~$13,000, was meant to display pictures(they looked nice...) from a memory card and this might have been ten years ago. I don't know what was the problem(s), though I think one problem was that a color component in the OLED had a short lifespan. Probably the blue one.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

when soys started taking over the tech industry

What is it with "soysites" being so JavaScript heavy?

 

[Soylent_Guzzler]

I was digging through some old crates recently for a spare surge protector, and I came across my HTC Desire Z which was my daily driver in high school until I graduated and got a Samsung phone instead. This phone's got scratches all over the screen, the metal backing is scuffed up to hell and back, the rubberised plastic is scratched and dented in all sorts of places, the SD card slot broke off, and the battery in it is probably shot.

However, it still managed to hold up pretty nicely all things considered! The unit still turns on, the keyboard is still just as lovely to type on as it was 10 years ago, it feels nice in hand, all that good stuff. If the SD card slot didn't break off so many years ago, I'd probably try to get LineageOS or some older version of CyanogenMod on it for the sake of seeing what it's still capable of in 2020.

I really miss the late 2000s/early 2010s HTC, man. The phrase "quietly brilliant" really manages to evoke what I've always wanted out of a smartphone: a well-built piece of hardware that can withstand a beating while still being able to do everything that I need a smartphone to do. Plus physical keyboards are always worth having the extra bulk in your pocket. Sadly, it looks like this ass-backwards trend favouring devices with poor longevity is here to stay.

I watched that video and it was blatantly obvious how things have changed since then. that entire video shows cool and useful features, most of them anyway. Truly useful little touches that make life easier.. today most phones focus on useless features like a bigger screen, faster processor (Honestly if they cut out all the bullshit from taking up computing power, we wouldn't need such huge processors and RAM for a phone to be reasonably fast), uselessly large megapixel cameras, stupid "features" that could be added by a simple app from play store. The ad itself is another chapter, it is just 9 minutes of explaining the features of their product if you cut out the corporate jargon. most ads today just play some soulless track in the background as there is weird 3d animation and overdone graphics floating across the screen. I'd rather they spend time and money trying to make a good product hardware-wise and use stock Android instead of using those resources to add software "features" - manufacturer skins are terrible - and making those terrible adverts. they have come so far in terms of adding features, but I am still waiting for the day they put optical zoom in mass market phones. No not the flop ones

I had a Lumia 520 I bought 7 years ago and my brother a Moto E he bought 6 years ago. My 520 had something like half a gb of ram and it worked well. It had a very sharp camera despite having only 5 megapixels. Had a physical shutter button for the camera. The rectangular feel was great. The Moto E, though, was years ahead. 5MP camera, rubberized and curved back so you can hold it well, Android Kitkat. It felt premium. These days? Metal/glassy back so you can drop your phone and buy a new one. Also, Android KiKat was the best looking android.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Rust trannies rewriting stuff poorly that's been working for decades at this point just to get their name on some github project.

Wayland - While I agree that X is sort of messy it just works and has a ton of good software, which Wayland can't really claim after more than a decade. The year of the Linux desktop will be the year when Wayland will be a viable replacement for X. (i.e. never. Also stop trying to turn Linux Userland into a shitty, monolithic Windows knockoff. I'm looking at you, RedHat.)

Too much reinventing of the wheel going on. Worst thing is, the new wheel everyone is supposed to use often isn't even round.

 

[AnOminous]

Rust trannies rewriting stuff poorly that's been working for decades at this point just to get their name on some github project.

This has actually made me hate Rust even though I have no actual opinion on Rust itself other than it seems like a meme language.

 

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This has actually made me hate Rust even though I have no actual opinion on Rust itself other than it seems like a meme language.

Unemployed programmers always do this though. Is it really worse if they're doing it in Rust dressed in nothing but bulging ladies undergarments?

Yes. Yes it is.

 

[AnOminous]

Unemployed programmers always do this though. Is it really worse if they're doing it in Rust dressed in bulging ladies undergarments?

Yes. Yes it is.

Especially when something in a package you actually use gets replaced with some Rust shit that doesn't fucking work and you have to go back and replace it with the original shit.