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

[seri0us]

And why does every FPS now have to have character skins and emotes?

 

[The Last Stand]

Although I miss new TVs not being "smart" internet-connected things, I don't miss the CRT beyond some nostalgia.

Heavy, the picture itself can degrade over time, very vulnerable to "burn-in", takes up a lot of space, heavy...

I remember the static hiss it would make when turning it on. Sometimes, you could even stick a piece of paper on the screen.

I miss eMachines.
They had some really good PC bundles.
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I miss Windows XP. It felt modern. Retro modern.

 

[Toolbox]

Although I miss new TVs not being "smart" internet-connected things, I don't miss the CRT beyond some nostalgia.

Heavy, the picture itself can degrade over time, very vulnerable to "burn-in", takes up a lot of space, heavy...

These days, the heaviness issue could be mitigated by essentially just combining a lot of smaller crts into a bundle and 'making' it one screen. But then you introduce other problems.

For example look at how small some of them got.

This was from 1984.

 

[moocow]

I'll probably get some hate for this, but I've had it with all the crypto currency scams. It seems like after BitCoin took off it just set off a few dozen other scams/money laundering schemes. The shit crypto mining did to the GPU market was bad enough.

I have yet to see any legitimate non-scam use for cryptocurrency that didn't involve a week of delays getting actual real money transformed into these magic fucking tokens, transmitted "instantly" for a "modest" fee but having to wait 10+ minutes for a warehouse full of single-purpose machines gobbling up enough the electricity to power a small city to "confirm" the transaction.

That or getting immediately robbed with no possible recourse and a community of helpful people helpfully telling you "you should have known better lol."

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'll probably get some hate for this, but I've had it with all the crypto currency scams.

I don't get how "cryptocurrency" or "NFT" even work, but I think the idea of all-digital money isn't exactly a good idea. What if there's internet outage for some reason, or one just can't get online for whatever reason?

It reminds me of electronic locks on doors.

 

[spastic_bag]

Webshit wrapped in kiosk-mode browsers being called "apps" and being required to operate basically everything and anything electronic. Thankfully, one can still find coffeemakers that don't need WiFi, but for how long

 

[Toolbox]

I don't get how "cryptocurrency" or "NFT" even work, but I think the idea of all-digital money isn't exactly a good idea. What if there's internet outage for some reason, or one just can't get online for whatever reason?

It reminds me of electronic locks on doors.

I don't believe the concept of crypto *entirely* relies on the internet, as you could transfer offline so it's just about as fiat as the stock exchange in that way. But if a solar flare did come around we'd have bigger problems than money, anyway.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don't believe the concept of crypto *entirely* relies on the internet, as you could transfer offline so it's just about as fiat as the stock exchange in that way. But if a solar flare did come around we'd have bigger problems than money, anyway.

"We're just passing through but I have my dead-granddaugther here in this thick-thot locket. A Saudi paid $11,000 for that picture of h her ass back then and we think this pysically copy of the digital is worth something, maybe at least it could buy us some petrol and cans of food, what do you say?"

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I have yet to see any legitimate non-scam use for cryptocurrency that didn't involve a week of delays getting actual real money transformed into these magic fucking tokens, transmitted "instantly" for a "modest" fee but having to wait 10+ minutes for a warehouse full of single-purpose machines gobbling up enough the electricity to power a small city to "confirm" the transaction.

That or getting immediately robbed with no possible recourse and a community of helpful people helpfully telling you "you should have known better lol."

I mean in theory I like the idea of not being beholden to the government and its edicts, but in actual practice I don't see alot of this affecting things for the better in ways that matter.

 

[Picklechu]

Something else I truly don't get is internet-connected locks for people's houses. The only thing I want being able to open my locks is my own physical key.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Something else I truly don't get is internet-connected locks for people's houses. The only thing I want being able to open my locks is my own physical key.

The internet connected smart home trend in general is pretty dumb. You can connect wall warts to the internet, your garage door, security cameras, lightbulbs and more. It's ridiculous.

 

[Toolbox]

The only IOT shit I can understand are automatic lights/rgb because you can format them to do things when you're not home to make it seem like you are. Decent security potentially. And they probably can't listen to you. hopefully.

 

[Picklechu]

I can understand getting certain lights, security systems, and maybe thermostats for IoT stuff. Stuff like locks and doors (unless it's like an AirBnB or something), refrigerators, washing machines, faucets, etc is just stupid.

I'm just waiting for someone to get their refrigerator hacked to be honest.

 

[The Last Stand]

I was rewatching some old Ratchet & Clank trailers.

Game trailers back then actually used in-game footage. Nowadays, everything is pre-rendered that may not even look like the final product.

 

[seri0us]

I'm just waiting for someone to get their refrigerator hacked to be honest.

It's already happened apparently

 

[Toolbox]

It's already happened apparently

Imagine the cognitive dissonance required to see an article titled "how not to get your fridge hacked" and not think that it being connected to the internet it the problem in and of itself. Most IOT devices would make much more sense as local network devices instead of needing to be connected to the internet, but that prevents data harvesting so you can't have that.

 

[moocow]

Imagine the cognitive dissonance required to see an article titled "how not to get your fridge hacked" and not think that it being connected to the internet it the problem in and of itself. Most IOT devices would make much more sense as local network devices instead of needing to be connected to the internet, but that prevents data harvesting so you can't have that.

I still have no fucking clue what an "internet-connected refrigerator" even does. It's supposed to be a big box that gets cold inside when I feed it electricity and makes the stuff I put inside it also get cold.

What does the internet-connected stuff even do? Remind me to buy milk or something? Because I can tell whether I need to buy more milk by looking at how much milk is in the refrigerator when I open the door. There's lights and everything, and it's really easy to see what's in there. With my Mark 1 Eyeballs(tm). If there isn't any milk, or there's just a little bit left, it's time to buy more.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

You can connect wall warts to the internet, your garage door, security cameras, lightbulbs and more. It's ridiculous.

you can format them to do things when you're not home to make it seem like you are

If you ever see "Century 21 Calling" (or the MST3K riff of it), you can see that back in the mid 20th century, it was thought that one day people could remote control stuff with ordinary landline phones. So the idea of appliances being connected isn't new, although maybe not in the disturbing way of Current Year "IOT".

 

[The Last Stand]

I still have no fucking clue what an "internet-connected refrigerator" even does. It's supposed to be a big box that gets cold inside when I feed it electricity and makes the stuff I put inside it also get cold.

So you can tweet about your new soy recipe or watch some news. Duh!

If you ever see "Century 21 Calling" (or the MST3K riff of it), you can see that back in the mid 20th century, it was thought that one day people could remote control stuff with ordinary landline phones. So the idea of everything being connected isn't new, although maybe not in the clownish way of Current Year.

Like the Jetsons?

I won't miss Internet Explorer. That was shit even back in the day.

 

[Toolbox]

I still have no fucking clue what an "internet-connected refrigerator" even does. It's supposed to be a big box that gets cold inside when I feed it electricity and makes the stuff I put inside it also get cold.

What does the internet-connected stuff even do? Remind me to buy milk or something? Because I can tell whether I need to buy more milk by looking at how much milk is in the refrigerator when I open the door. There's lights and everything, and it's really easy to see what's in there. With my Mark 1 Eyeballs(tm). If there isn't any milk, or there's just a little bit left, it's time to buy more.

The selling point for smart fridges has almost solely been on their massive, stupid looking tablet style displays/touchscreens.


This article covers some of the marketing jargon. It's essentially what you've described. The main point of it's feature set could be entirely replaced with you taking a picture of your fridge interior before shopping.