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

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 worst aspect about those smart fridges is knowing that the resources used to design it, engineers, marketers, manufacturers and even distributors, could all have been used to design a product that, I dunno, lasts longer than 6 years? But no, longer-lasting appliances cut into profit margins and we can't have that!
 
The selling point for smart fridges has almost solely been on their massive, stupid looking tablet style displays/touchscreens.

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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.
I point at them and laugh everytime I see one. Then I look at the price tag and laugh harder. Anyone stupid enough to pay for one of these deserves to have all their food spoil after it's taken over as a botnet/bitcoin miner and run into the ground.
 
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.
Just the whole idea that NFT bros have that the internet is as sure a foundation as the ground that we stand on, without any thought for how fragile it is (which is demonstrated by DNS outages, for example), is something that really pisses me off. Sure, the internet is incredibly convenient for many things but once you start holding people's real-life money by using computers to communicate with each other over the internet that is when it gets dangerous.
 
Sure, the internet is incredibly convenient for many things but once you start holding people's real-life money by using computers to communicate with each other over the internet that is when it gets dangerous.
There are problems with crypto but that's not really a huge one. Any large enough amount can be kept on paper and retrieved whenever and if everything comes back up again. If SHTF for real fiat isn't going to be worth shit either.
 
I point at them and laugh everytime I see one. Then I look at the price tag and laugh harder. Anyone stupid enough to pay for one of these deserves to have all their food spoil after it's taken over as a botnet/bitcoin miner and run into the ground.
Sad part is, these will be pretty much the only ones available in stores in a few years.

Want a fridge that doesn't advertise woke netflix show and doesn't lock while displaying the ad? Good luck.
 
Want a fridge that doesn't advertise woke netflix show and doesn't lock while displaying the ad? Good luck.
And that's why you need governments regulating this crap. But they're either still stuck in an age where sending a fax is a resonable thing to do and don't understand the problem or are paid off by the very manufacturers to allow it. No in-between.
 
I wish cars had cassette tape players and even cd players in them. My fucking new honda doesn't have a cd player or cassette player and I collect cds and cassettes. Obviously I can just bluetooth my phone but it would be more convenient to just pop my music in and let it play rather than look it up and play it on my phone.
 
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I'm so glad 3d glasses were a fad that died out fast.
Hate to break it to you, but 3D glasses will never, ever stay in their well-deserved grave no matter how many stakes through the heart and consecrated wafers we use. "The Metaverse" is next, remember?

I sort of miss the 90s era when you could shove a cassette-tape shaped adapter into your shitty Buick Regal from the 70s and play CDs through it. Anyone remember that?
I used to do that with an Apple iPod. The only time I ever enjoyed an Apple product.
 
I sort of miss the 90s era when you could shove a cassette-tape shaped adapter into your shitty Buick Regal from the 70s and play CDs through it. Anyone remember that?
They still make those.
You even have more fancy types now, with integrated mp3 players or Bluetooth:
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I'm so glad 3d glasses were a fad that died out fast.
What sucks is that for games they're pretty cool. Also forced some manufacturers to apply 120hz displays to certain laptops/desktop screens before it was a common trend, because it was a necessity to get 60hz to someone's eyes due to how 3d glasses work. The downside is your performance is practically halved due to two different angles of the world needing to be generated every other frame. If you can find a pair of nvidia 3d vision glasses and their corresponding IR sensor for cheap, there's a lot of different software to make games compatible with them.
 
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And that's why you need governments regulating this crap. But they're either still stuck in an age where sending a fax is a resonable thing to do and don't understand the problem or are paid off by the very manufacturers to allow it. No in-between.
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Oh god it's literally here!

(Scan QR code - watch ad - get ply of paper)
 
I hate the fact that CD/DVD drives are disappearing from PCs. They've been disappearing from laptops for a few years now but now they're going from desktop towers too. I still use CDs/DVDs either to play (games, music or movies), backup data or even transfer files or even operating systems to older systems. Some older computers struggle to boot from a memory stick and only work when the OS is on a disc.
 
What sucks is that for games they're pretty cool. Also forced some manufacturers to apply 120hz displays to certain laptops/desktop screens before it was a common trend, because it was a necessity to get 60hz to someone's eyes due to how 3d glasses work. The downside is your performance is practically halved due to two different angles of the world needing to be generated every other frame. If you can find a pair of nvidia 3d vision glasses and their corresponding IR sensor for cheap, there's a lot of different software to make games compatible with them.

I also liked the 3d tech for old 1950s style 3-d movies, though Id prefer to watch those without it being so dependent on the TV itself. Be nice if it didnt matter what TV I had, but it would work in 3d with certain types of glasses. I know a few blu-ray releases that did that (Friday the 13th part III) but not many.
 
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