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

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Shit like this is why I hate new cars. Supposedly it's about improving driver safety by preventing distraction, but that excuse falls a bit flat when so many of the "driving aids" they've added actually reduce driver concentration

Agreed. The newer center consoles/screens that require touch to change the radio station, or make other instrumentation adjustments seems like they're more of a distraction than the low tech dials and knobs were.

The worst has to be the vehicles with the "entertainment centers" in the seats for the people sitting behind the front seat. Each person listening to their own thing seems like an inevitable distraction from the cacophony of different sounds unless they come with headphone jacks to make that a non-issue.

That's the biggest problem with modern-day vehicles: so-called safety features or the development of vehicle autonomy have created more issues with driver attention to the road than they have solved. Meanwhile, the price to purchase these vehicles and repair them when these new components go bad has skyrocketed.

 

[The Last Stand]

What's the point of television? Who even watches TV anymore thanks to streaming? Also, why does streaming services have ads?

 

[topsikrets]

What's the point of television? Who even watches TV anymore thanks to streaming? Also, why does streaming services have ads?

1&2. old people who leave it running 24/7
3. to explicitly waste your time

 

[AnOminous]

Agreed. The newer center consoles/screens that require touch to change the radio station, or make other instrumentation adjustments seems like they're more of a distraction than the low tech dials and knobs were.

That shit drives me nuts, especially when even the high-end cars have absolutely shitty touch screens that soon get dirty and practically unusable. Even ancient radios with mechanical push buttons to change station merely required pushing a single button, or at most, turning a knob.

Fucking idiots. Get this trash out of our cars.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

you can't admire the black lint that builds up on the internal rollers with optical mice.

There is a scroll wheel on modern mice. Roll it, eat some peanuts, continue rolling it. After a couple of years there will be finger gunk down there.

 

[Michael Janke]

the home button on phones being removed is starting to annoy me. i still have an iphone 8 because of that.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Who even watches TV anymore thanks to streaming?

People who like the over the air channels that broadcast older (if not better) shows and don't want to pay monthly streaming fees to more and more content providers, perhaps?

Although it's not to waste time as @topsikrets said, I've noticed I'm productive working from home if something plays in the background whether TV, Radio, or an old time radio series available online.

That said, even I find myself watching TV less because most current programs are worse than crap and one can only watch old programs so many times before they become too repetitive or boring.

In conjunction with what might have been stated previously about newspapers putting online content behind paywalls is those papers who put the most ordinary/mundane content behind those paywalls such as high school sports scores. Given how many scores can be found free elsewhere (social media, team athletic sites, etc.), this seems like a dumb money grab attempt by the media outlets more than anything else.

 

[Never Scored]

People who like the over the air channels that broadcast older (if not better) shows and don't want to pay monthly streaming fees to more and more content providers, perhaps?

Man I wish my ota stations showed older shows. One is all procedural cop dramas, the other one is CBC, so it's all shit terrible low budget Canadian shit about indians and minorities.

 

[The Last Stand]

Some images now use the .webp extension instead of .png, .jpg or .gif. I don't know why. There's a handy tool to fix it, but it's an annoying restriction.

 

[Testament]

I guess It sort of counts, but why do all the buttons now say "got it!" instead of "OK"? I miss when things just said OK, it feels like its trying to hard to be quirky or something. Maybe I'm just nitpicky.
Another annoying thing is how Covid info and cases is shoved into every app now. When I open the weather app, I wanna see just weather, not know about people under the weather.
....terrible joke, I apologise.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Some images now use the .webp extension instead of .png, .jpg or .gif.

I noticed that too.

It sucks when an image file is replaced with a WEBP file, even when the URL says it isn't. After the pic is downloaded, it's unusable because it's a stupid WEBP. Older browsers may not be impacted though.

WEBP here.

WEBP there.

WEBP everywhere.

 

[The Last Stand]

The several BLM forced ads after George Floyd's police encounter.

It was EVERYWHERE. Abrasive in some cases.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I guess It sort of counts, but why do all the buttons now say "got it!" instead of "OK"? I miss when things just said OK, it feels like its trying to hard to be quirky or something. Maybe I'm just nitpicky.

The 'childish language' thing is all over now, even the word 'app' personally annoys me, though it isn't as bad as the cutesy shit you mean. Even some programs I like, like Brave, have some of this. Click on the shield tab, it says "Cross-site trackers and other creepy things blocked" - how about you just tell me what the 'creepy things' are instead of using fucking baby talk?

 

[Billy Beer]

The several BLM forced ads after George Floyd's police encounter.

It was EVERYWHERE. Abrasive in some cases.

Shuttind down game servers and online services because of politics made me fucking MATI IRL.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

That shit drives me nuts, especially when even the high-end cars have absolutely shitty touch screens that soon get dirty and practically unusable. Even ancient radios with mechanical push buttons to change station merely required pushing a single button, or at most, turning a knob.

Fucking idiots. Get this trash out of our cars.

Haha you expected your car to last 20 years?

Good fucking luck. In the day of forced obsolescence, you won't see more than 2 years out of your car without its onboard computer getting bloated with pointless bloatware and the hardware failing.

Can we add planned obsolescence to the list?

 

[seri0us]

Can we add planned obsolescence to the list?

isn't this half of the thread

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The 'childish language' thing is all over now, even the word 'app' personally annoys me, though it isn't as bad as the cutesy shit you mean. Even some programs I like, like Brave, have some of this. Click on the shield tab, it says "Cross-site trackers and other creepy things blocked" - how about you just tell me what the 'creepy things' are instead of using fucking baby talk?

This is why you use noscript or something like it along with Privacy Badger. Now you know exactly what is being blocked and it's all in plain language. Silly talk in the context of computers is fine when you're helping someone understand how to do something on their device. Some people just remember things better if you say an antivirus is a shield against nasty digigerms. Treating all your users like they only understand the concept of a virus if you call it a digigerm is stupid and patronizing.

Not joking about unironically telling someone a virus is basically an evil monster. Older people and kids have trouble understanding the proper terms, so you need to condense it into concepts they understand. Maybe tell grandpa they are digicommies.

Shuttind down game servers and online services because of politics made me fucking MATI IRL.

On the bright side, it has a chance of telling the younger gamers that they deserve better. They deserve a server browser and the ability to make their own servers.

 

[The Last Stand]

Terms of use, code of conducts for websites and services were meant to be universal rules to protect the companies from liabilities and the end users by using their services. Now they're politicized to where any little thing can be a violation and you get shafted if need be. Double standards.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Terms of use, code of conducts for websites and services

It seems they're usually just an American or Western thing.

I don't like BS of "by using this site you agree to these terms", which may not be legally binding anyway.

 

[Toolbox]

the home button on phones being removed is starting to annoy me. i still have an iphone 8 because of that.

I have a feeling the whole obsession with removing buttons is more a decision to make every penny they possibly can, but are capacitive touch "buttons" even cheaper than their mechanical counterparts?