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

ngl finding out there was a winamp button has gotten me listening to shit off archive more
and I'm pretty sure I have a suitably vintage winamp on some external anyway lol
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Guess I'm retarded then. The first usage in computer circles, at least according to Wikipedia, goes back to the 80s. Going from hatred to annoyance now that I know it's just more sci-fi reference nerd shit. What's wrong with grasp or understand?
>literally trusting Wikipedo about anything
It's from Stranger in a Strange Land, a 1961 novel by Robert Heinlein.
 
I don't like this trend of software on Linux using their own updating mechanisms and/or packaging like flatpak. In my opinion, there's only three ways software should be distributed on Linux: through repositories, actual packages like deb files, or via source code. But this new trend spits in the face of everyone else who have worked hard over the decades to create top-notch software management: maintainers, developers, and end users. Keep the nightmare of software management to Windows!
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I don't like this trend of software on Linux using their own updating mechanisms and/or packaging like flatpak. In my opinion, there's only three ways software should be distributed on Linux: through repositories, actual packages like deb files, or via source code. But this new trend spits in the face of everyone else who have worked hard over the decades to create top-notch software management: maintainers, developers, and end users. Keep the nightmare of software management to Windows!
The real joke is that these packs often don't even work properly if you don't have the perfect system for them, basically just making assumptions about what software libraries at what versions you have and not have and not including absolutely everything, so in practice they don't even fix the problem they were intended to solve, just adding another layer of shit to take care of, basically.

Dependency hell is a real thing but flatpaks are not the solution. The solution as so very often is to write less shit software.
 
Be careful about things with bluetooth, some things have their bluetooth wide open for anyone to see and connect to. A friend of mine gets their new fancy speakers hijacked on the reg (they live in a buzy area though, if you live somewhere out in the country it might not matter to you).
Bluetooth is pretty much insecure by design. Only use it for things you wouldn't mind doing in public. For sensitive data it's a big no. Or even one better, don't use it to begin with. Don't even load the firmware.
 
Bluetooth is pretty much insecure by design. Only use it for things you wouldn't mind doing in public. For sensitive data it's a big no. Or even one better, don't use it to begin with. Don't even load the firmware.
Yeah, usually you can just opt out of it but in this case there was no way of controlling it and that wasn't included in the description when my buddy bought the thing.
 
I'm not a big fan of modern streaming supremacy. I don't mind streaming content, but I just miss having more options and the prominence of downloading content, because sometimes you revisit something and it's either annoyingly hard to find or just isn't really available anymore. A part of me thinks this contributes to centralization of the internet as well, because people are no longer their own archives in a sense and content is being stored more and more on central services.
 
Halo 3 closing its servers made me realize something about multiplayer games today.

Games now often lack a pre-game lobby, post-game lobby, split-screen, player count, even VOICE CHAT. Hell, customization is now barebones thanks to monetization.

Nowadays, you get into a lobby, play and get disbanded right after the game concludes. It's rare to encounter voice chat; lobbies are dead quiet.
 
Fax machines should not had been obsolete. They are still useful to send papers and forms in the highest quality.
They're still around for that very reason. Sometimes scanning and e-mailing a document isn't acceptable. Scanning the document to a computer and sending it through a fax modem is a-ok though. Funny how that works...
 
They're still around for that very reason. Sometimes scanning and e-mailing a document isn't acceptable. Scanning the document to a computer and sending it through a fax modem is a-ok though. Funny how that works...
Only to be received by another fax modem and saved digitally in a fax management system.

Like some kind of glorified node-to-node eMail with no physical paper.
 
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