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

Why do you own a kindle? I have lots of books taking up space, but it's worth it. Amazon has the right to remove any books your purchase, and they have done so in the past.

"We won't do it again, we swear."
If you pay for books, you might as well own them. Or just lend some from your local library.

If you enjoy a kindle thats fine I guess. I just think people should stay away from them when you don't really own the product.
Just buy a kindle then pirate the boots or buy them from somewhere that just gives you the physical file. Of course that requires actually knowing how to plug a USB stick into your computer (assuming these people know how to turn it on).
 
I miss flip phones and slider phones. Seriously thought they were the coolest shit to have in highschool.
Smartphones will never live up to the personality of J2ME era feature phones IMO

Speaking of J2ME... I miss Opera Presto, and when the Internet wasn't reliant on Google's JS engine and websites reimplementing functionality with frameworks and a billion externally loaded resources. Websites don't need to be a fucking app.

Oh and Discord killing off Web 1.0 for good in a way. Most smaller circles jumped ship circa 2017. A lot of people changed attitude around this time too :/

(also wait... circa means "around" because the root is the same as circus I think, lol)
 
I have a Galaxy 10, and some of the basic things like flashlights, notifications lights, and voicemail are no longer standard: they're 3rd party apps you have to manually install, which is bullshit.
I still have a Galaxy S7, and it's stuff like this that makes me terrified of the idea of it breaking down because it's as if newer smartphones are becoming more actively hostile towards the user.
 
I still have a Galaxy S7, and it's stuff like this that makes me terrified of the idea of it breaking down because it's as if newer smartphones are becoming more actively hostile towards the user.

That's because they are. Losing the headphone socket was just the start. Basically they are designed to be planned obsolescent trash that also hoovers up all your personal information and sends it to Apple and/or Google and/or the Chinese government.
 
Smartphones will never live up to the personality of J2ME era feature phones IMO

Speaking of J2ME... I miss Opera Presto, and when the Internet wasn't reliant on Google's JS engine and websites reimplementing functionality with frameworks and a billion externally loaded resources. Websites don't need to be a fucking app.

Oh and Discord killing off Web 1.0 for good in a way. Most smaller circles jumped ship circa 2017. A lot of people changed attitude around this time too :/

(also wait... circa means "around" because the root is the same as circus I think, lol)
And what do you know, Discord is about to be bought out by Microsoft the same way they did Skype. Shame Congress is allergic to the Sherman act in the 21st century.
 
I hate phone drones. You know, the people who tie their self-worth to owning the latest iPhone MMXIV or whatever the fuck. I hate those people, and hope they drop their $900 phone into an active volcano, and then chase after it.

I recently learned that Apple News pushes notifications of news articles to these phones, by default. You have an entire nation that is being informed by clickbait headlines, beamed directly into their brains, in a manner that they do not know how to turn off.

I hate this technology and and I hate these people.
 
I can only assume some one who was involved in that part knew some one who lost a hand or finger, had a finger injury that caused scarring that caused permanent damage to the finger print pattern (i.e. permanent scarring) or, had cancer with chemo treatment involving the common chemo drug capecitabine which can cause finger print change or removal.
At least on my phone you can unlock with pin by swiping down on the screen(press power, swipe down). I've noticed that when I've boozed my hands with sanitizer the fingerprint reader refuses to let me in.
Or prise the flash memory out and put it into something else.
That's generally encrypted through a TSM; I would assume, so I don't think it would do any good.
And it's much easier to get a new password than a new fingerprint. Biometrics are a bad idea in general.
Same with security questions. There's that very old and tired joke that you need to remember to change your mothers maiden name every three months.

Pro tip for super-secure passwords: mix words from different languages in with locations, names or other nonsensical stuff. "SecureÄppleBlyatMaradona" easy to remember, hard(er) to crack. Throw in some in-joke words or misspellings that you find funny and things get really hard. Way better than biometrics in my opinion.
 
Last edited:
Why do you own a kindle? If you enjoy a kindle thats fine I guess. I just think people should stay away from them when you don't really own the product.
There are much better e-readers out there not encumbered by Amazon bullshit. I like my Onyx Boox Note 3 despite the retarded spelling. Big screen, dual-color backlight, pen, runs regular Android (and supports Play Store and sideloaded apps), lots of storage, and cheerfully eats all the formats available on my friendly neighborhood Library Genesis mirror. Pricier than the el-cheapo Kindle model, but it's a much better product.
 
Why do you own a kindle? I have lots of books taking up space, but it's worth it. Amazon has the right to remove any books your purchase, and they have done so in the past.

I should have been more precise. I meant the Kindle app, not the device. It's just a (non-amazon) android tablet. I would never trust a branded Amazon device after I made the mistake of buying a Fire once. I had it for about 1 day before I returned it - a disgusting amount of advertizing you couldn't take off of it, bloated awful launcher that was a pain to change - concluded it was not worth it.
 
Fingerprint sensors are not infallible. It's possible to steal a fingerprint from, say, a glass or similar using a piece of blu-tack and use that to unlock the sensor.

Then again, if anyone ill-intentioned has unfettered physical access to your device, it is already compromised. If need be they could just flash it with a custom BIOS or Android / iOS version that just happens to have the security measures dummied out. Or prise the flash memory out and put it into something else. If they have unfettered physical access to you as well, what's to stop them waterboarding you until you agree to unlock it for them or spill the password or pin.
As far as I'm concerned if somebody gets a clean imprint of the right finger that's still legit and functionally the same as the real finger, it's like if I left my password written on a post-it note and somebody got in using that. Attempt limits do nothing to stop that form of breach, they only really stop casual intruders from checking all the obvious passwords and their permutations, and so far as I know nobody's doing the fingerprint equivalent of that yet. It aggravates me that this tech is sold as some upgrade in security because fingerprints are unique, but at least on android the system is still set up as though I could have the fingerprint version of "password1" or "12345" and need to be protected from myself.
 
Last edited:
I can go the rest of my life without having to look at the obnoxious gamer/battle-station aesthetic that plagues a lot of modern PC parts today, I'm sick to death of everything needing to include RGB because apparently some people value pretty lights over actual performance, just give me something that doesn't assault my eyes every time I boot the damn PC up for god's sake.

Come on tech companies, does RAM of all fucking things REALLY need RGB on it?

Christmas lights are needed to do those 170WPM coding challenges, apparently.

cursed.png
 
Back