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

[BroccoliBrain]

People used to take pride in themselfs, there culture and society because they felt they where responsible for a little bit of it, now they dont have that so they are starting to seek out what little things they do feel they can have pride in, even if they are highly abstract concepts and devote more and more of there free time obsessing about it.

This is probably why so many people come off as autistic (in the internet sense) these days. I think the desire to be part of something combines with our individualistic culture, our desire to be special, in a way where we've ended up with adult childrem proud of their Lego sets at age 32 and subreddits for the best drinking water over something that's actually uplifting or fucking useful because having a wall of Funkos is easier to achieve than becoming a trusted local doctor.

 

[Campbell-Duo]

Maybe, and it must be because of the huge map as well, but I can't accept that a crappy cartoony 2D metroidvania takes up more space than Assassin's Creed 1.

I know kiwi farms is full of autists but now we got autists who dont know how games work trying to act like they do also hollow knight got 2 expansions/updates so that made the size bigger too. The launch size was around 5-7 gigs.

 

[Pissmaster]

One tech thing that never really happened outside of like, one keyboard I saw ages ago, was how Bluetooth syncing to multiple devices was never a thing. I remember seeing a keyboard that had a physical switch so you could have it synced to up to three different computers, but like, I'd love a physical switch on my headphones and controllers that lets me bounce them between my things. The whole rigmarole of Bluetooth syncing never got much better than it was when it was new, either.

And speaking of a tech trend that did go away, power switches. Holding a button to shut stuff off sometimes just doesn't work. Hell, I have an old Fitbit that has a sealed-in battery, and no way to turn it off. You just have to throw it in a drawer and wait for the battery to die. That's one way to perform planned obsolescence.

 

[Phimosis Jonisis]

I miss Early 2008-2010 youtube

 

[AmpleApricots]

old Fitbit

to be fair a lot of modern microcontrollers have such efficent deep sleep modes that them staying in these modes or being physically disconnected from the battery barely makes any difference and then you start factoring the cost (of complexity and "part that can break") a physical switch puts you in. Not saying that's the case with that particular device, just in general. Otherwise - wouldn't be a good corpo spy device if it could be turned off, eh?

 

[Toolbox]

One tech thing that never really happened outside of like, one keyboard I saw ages ago, was how Bluetooth syncing to multiple devices was never a thing. I remember seeing a keyboard that had a physical switch so you could have it synced to up to three different computers, but like, I'd love a physical switch on my headphones and controllers that lets me bounce them between my things. The whole rigmarole of Bluetooth syncing never got much better than it was when it was new, either.

And speaking of a tech trend that did go away, power switches. Holding a button to shut stuff off sometimes just doesn't work. Hell, I have an old Fitbit that has a sealed-in battery, and no way to turn it off. You just have to throw it in a drawer and wait for the battery to die. That's one way to perform planned obsolescence.

It's such a shame fitbit had to be the company that absorbed Pebble. Have they even done anything with e-paper screens or did they just take their dying company to prevent anyone else using their tech?

 

[Pissmaster]

to be fair a lot of modern microcontrollers have such efficent deep sleep modes that them staying in these modes or being physically disconnected from the battery barely makes any difference and then you start factoring the cost (of complexity and "part that can break") a physical switch puts you in. Not saying that's the case with that particular device, just in general. Otherwise - wouldn't be a good corpo spy device if it could be turned off, eh?

I brought up the Fitbit because there's no actual way to turn mine off. Like, it doesn't just go into sleep mode, it actually has a blinking light on the inside of it that flashes constantly until it dies. So you have to either keep it on its charger, or in a drawer when you're not wearing it.

It's such a shame fitbit had to be the company that absorbed Pebble. Have they even done anything with e-paper screens or did they just take their dying company to prevent anyone else using their tech?

Probably the latter. It gets worse, actually - Google bought Fitbit, and Fitbits demand you make an account and use a phone app to use it at all. So, Google got some of my personal health information from a few years ago. I haven't put the damn thing back on since. Smartwatches and fitness trackers are trojan horses.

 

[AnOminous]

Fuck you webp.

 

[AnOminous]

The point of watercooling is making temperature spikes more even and allowing larger cooling fan solutions in a given space. Your pc can only generate a specific amount of heat unless you are overclocking, so putting a heatsink/100mm fan combo on is exactly the same as a watercooling loop with a 100mm fan on it. The only difference would be if the watercooling loop let your case internal temps be lower due to better airflow and the ability to wick the heat into the cooling loop before it could spike high enough to cause issues temporarily.

I have a general strategy of actually underclocking at least for some purposes. I have a fairly goofy video card, a GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, because during the crypto wars, it was one of the few that fell into my price point, fairly middle of the road, no hyper-inflated price because of crypto bullshit, will do anything I actually want.

That said, it's still CUDA-capable, so I wondered can I actually mine crypto on this? And yes. I revved up my tiny mathbrain that even a liberal arts law faggot like I still have, and found out wow, I actually can. And the most efficient was actually running it below clock speed, so it only occasionally speeds up the fan, and trying to conserve wattage, because you're paying for that.

I was surprised by this, because I have talked some mad shit about GPU mining and how it is completely worthless, but this mid-range card paid for itself three times. It literally paid for the computer I bought to put it in, even including the part where I went full retard and had to pay someone else to fix my mistake. (Imagine the stupidity of USING THE WRONG SCREW to mount the motherboard and literally shorting it out and you were lucky you picked a motherboard that just instantly said "wtf you doin nigga" instead of dying.)

ETA: also this is a Gigabyte B365M DS3H. I have always been a fan of Gigabyte boards, but this entered my favorites list because I made every imaginable mistake in trying to build this machine, and this board survived all my retardation, from literally shorting it out when installing it to other physical blunders worthy of a Three Stooges movie. This general line of boards is amazing.

 

[No. 7 cat]

3.5 and 5.25 in floppies had loading noises I liked, and when loaded Commander Keen, Captain Comic and Space Quest 1 awaited.

 

[AnOminous]

3.5 and 5.25 in floppies had loading noises I liked, and when loaded Commander Keen, Captain Comic and Space Quest 1 awaited.

I have a special place in my heart for that repeated clicking of a 5.25 drive.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a general strategy of actually underclocking at least for some purposes. I have a fairly goofy video card, a GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, because during the crypto wars, it was one of the few that fell into my price point, fairly middle of the road, no hyper-inflated price because of crypto bullshit, will do anything I actually want.

That said, it's still CUDA-capable, so I wondered can I actually mine crypto on this? And yes. I revved up my tiny mathbrain that even a liberal arts law faggot like I still have, and found out wow, I actually can. And the most efficient was actually running it below clock speed, so it only occasionally speeds up the fan, and trying to conserve wattage, because you're paying for that.

I was surprised by this, because I have talked some mad shit about GPU mining and how it is completely worthless, but this mid-range card paid for itself three times. It literally paid for the computer I bought to put it in, even including the part where I went full retard and had to pay someone else to fix my mistake. (Imagine the stupidity of USING THE WRONG SCREW to mount the motherboard and literally shorting it out and you were lucky you picked a motherboard that just instantly said "wtf you doin nigga" instead of dying.)

ETA: also this is a Gigabyte B365M DS3H. I have always been a fan of Gigabyte boards, but this entered my favorites list because I made every imaginable mistake in trying to build this machine, and this board survived all my retardation, from literally shorting it out when installing it to other physical blunders worthy of a Three Stooges movie. This general line of boards is amazing.

Over here the electricity prices have been insane so I don't think mining is profitable. That is just a way to say that wind power doesn't work if there's no wind. They said that could never happen when they built them and shut down the reactors. My electricity bill almost tripled this winter and I wasn't even hit that hard.

Technology I miss: Nuclear reactors. Fucking women, soyboys, communists and hippies...


Gigabyte is good, I'm not brand loyal at all but they often end up having what I want at a price that is fair.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I have a special place in my heart for that repeated clicking of a 5.25 drive.

Tick, tick, tick to my memory on something external. 3.5 on the Olivetti (20 meg hard disk) itself was a bit too fast of a noise. It had Ports of Call on the main menu. Arms from or to Freetown for 1 million dollars on a rotting ship was my go to. Sure it sank after a few voyages and no repair, but money was made. Before the Olivetti in 1991 I could only some sort of shooter on some Atari console whose name escapes me.

I remember once looking at some sort of text list of downloadable games, a colleague of my Dad would download them. Among the wonders was Falcon 3.0, F117A Stealth fighter (I searched to clarify the name and lo and behold it is on Steam, purchasing that the moment is post is made, Col. Gadaffi and the geography of Libya became familiar as I dropped stealthy Freedom on the Libyans and it will be again), 688 Attack Sub, Commander Keen, Captain Comic, Space Quest 1, Kings Quest, etc.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss Early 2008-2010 youtube

Now it's dislikes hidden, videos categorized as "YouTube Kids" have comments disabled, "exceptional" search engine, and of course excessive "Community Guidelines" of soy.

3.5 and 5.25 in floppies

I don't miss how volatile those things were. Just getting squished a little in a binder in a backpack can wipe the data on a floppy.

 

[AmpleApricots]

it actually has a blinking light on the inside of it that flashes constantly until it dies.

This must be that californian engineering I heard so much about!

Over here the electricity prices have been insane so I don't think mining is profitable

If you are a fellow euro (and not from the east) then yeah no, mining isn't ever profitable, except if you can steal electricity. Americans don't understand this because they pay a pittance in electricity. (4-7 times less in some cases) People think european living is fancy and it often is but there are hidden costs.

I have a notebook with kinda goodbad inbuilt speakers and for some obscure reason that's probably absolutely random and non-reproducible the floppy loading noises most emulators shit out sound amazing through it, almost like the real thing. (and I have the real thing too) I like to pretend I inserted a floppy into the notebook. If you're really feeling that nostalgic, usb floppy drives weren't that expensive last time I checked, I could imagine that they got rare though. Work perfectly fine at least in Linux.

 

[Shiawase]

Now it's dislikes hidden, videos categorized as "YouTube Kids" have comments disabled, "exceptional" search engine, and of course excessive "Community Guidelines" of soy.

YouTube's controversial dislike censorship has had unintended repercussions, like inciting the creation of browser extensions to right the wrong.

This one even has some pleasurable color options:

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

I miss Early 2008-2010 youtube

I remember discovering YouTube in march 2006 after I got my first laptop and accidentally connected to an open wifi source. I also discovered Sammie Rhodes around that time, so I don't know which memory is fonder.

 

[Papa Pizzaria]

I'm going to break from this thread's pessimism and look at the bright side. Storage has improved so much in the past 10 years it's not even comparable.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I recently lost my work vehicle to an accident so I've been hoping between the ones that everyone else uses like a nomad of some kind. Because of this, I'm getting way to much experience with 2015+ vehicles.

I hate any car that forces me to go into a fucking touchscreen menu to change the temperature. When I'm driving I want to just turn the fan on or off without thinking. Just reach over and turn a knob instead of taking my eyes off the road to look through screens

Weird shifters. Every automatic car HAS to be unique these days. They have like a tiny feminine joystick and a weird flappy bit for the electronic parking brake. Just give me a steering wheel mounted arm I can pull down to put it into drive or a console shifter that's a straight line.
Look at this grubby guy he's perfect. You just pull back to put it in drive. No inputting the fucking Konami code if you want to take it out of overdrive.

Any car with an screen is going to be horribly outdated in 10 years at best, or the screen is going to be dark and broken from UV damage at worst. Touch screen UI design cues change so rapidly no car is going to look good from that perspective even if it's usable
Look at how awful this 2015 VW touch interface looks. I had to use one the other day and it feel awful to use. At least there's a real volume knob.

I hate it when people call me through their Bluetooth-connected phone in their car. It always sounds 5x worse than if they just put it up to their ear.

Automatic turn signals that blink for a lane change if you graze the stalk. If you didn't mean to touch it you're stuck looking like you're about to do a lane change for 3-6 blinks. Then, you might be inclined to push it back to the other side, which one turn will blink the other half of the lights 3-6 times, leave you in a endless loop of looking like a grandpa driver. They're confusing as hell and every manufacturer does it differently so I'll never get used to them.

RFID keys. They're very expensive to replace. I prefer a steel key I can make a copy of for 80¢. Push to start is not nearly as satisfying as turning a key.

Plastic everywhere over and under the engine bay. Why are they trying to hide the engine? Maybe to make it look bigger? Here's a modern LS 400 engine bay compared to a 1997 one with nice aluminum parts and a polished logo. Looks like actually craftsmanship:
So boring ew.

More aesthetically speaking, every car NEEDS to be a crossover these days. They're so ugly and I don't get it. Less comfortable than a mini van, uglier than a car, will never be actually taken off road. All that car just for one person most of the time.

I'll leave with one good thing: automatic headlights. Every car except for mine should have them because every other driver is a mongoloid who forgets to turn them on hours after dusk.

TLDR: Touchscreens force you to look at them for the simplest of tasks, shifters should just be in a straight line or steering wheel mounted, Bluetooth calling sounds like ass, auto headlights are great

 

[Shiawase]

I recently lost my work vehicle to an accident so I've been hoping between the ones that everyone else uses like a nomad of some kind. Because of this, I'm getting way to much experience with 2015+ vehicles.

I hate any car that forces me to go into a fucking touchscreen menu to change the temperature. When I'm driving I want to just turn the fan on or off without thinking. Just reach over and turn a knob instead of taking my eyes off the road to look through screens

Weird shifters. Every automatic car HAS to be unique these days. They have like a tiny feminine joystick and a weird flappy bit for the electronic parking brake. Just give me a steering wheel mounted arm I can pull down to put it into drive or a console shifter that's a straight line. View attachment 3232925
Look at this grubby guy he's perfect. You just pull back to put it in drive. No inputting the fucking Konami code if you want to take it out of overdrive.

Any car with an screen is going to be horribly outdated in 10 years at best, or the screen is going to be dark and broken from UV damage at worst. Touch screen UI design cues change so rapidly no car is going to look good from that perspective even if it's usableView attachment 3232945
Look at how awful this 2015 VW touch interface looks. I had to use one the other day and it feel awful to use. At least there's a real volume knob.

I hate it when people call me through their Bluetooth-connected phone in their car. It always sounds 5x worse than if they just put it up to their ear.

Automatic turn signals that blink for a lane change if you graze the stalk. If you didn't mean to touch it you're stuck looking like you're about to do a lane change for 3-6 blinks. Then, you might be inclined to push it back to the other side, which one turn will blink the other half of the lights 3-6 times, leave you in a endless loop of looking like a grandpa driver. They're confusing as hell and every manufacturer does it differently so I'll never get used to them.

RFID keys. They're very expensive to replace. I prefer a steel key I can make a copy of for 80¢. Push to start is not nearly as satisfying as turning a key.

Plastic everywhere over and under the engine bay. Why are they trying to hide the engine? Maybe to make it look bigger? Here's a modern LS 400 engine bay compared to a 1997 one with nice aluminum parts and a polished logo. Looks like actually craftsmanship:View attachment 3233003View attachment 3233004
So boring ew.

More aesthetically speaking, every car NEEDS to be a crossover these days. They're so ugly and I don't get it. Less comfortable than a mini van, uglier than a car, will never be actually taken off road. All that car just for one person most of the time.

I'll leave with one good thing: automatic headlights. Every car except for mine should have them because every other driver is a mongoloid who forgets to turn them on hours after dusk.

TLDR: Touchscreens force you to look at them for the simplest of tasks, shifters should just be in a straight line or steering wheel mounted, Bluetooth calling sounds like ass, auto headlights are great

I will add one! What in the world happened to the headlight high-beam switch on the floor, left of the pedals? Going between new and old vehicular transport many times, I have definitely decided the foot switch is preferable - Both hands can stay on the wheel. If the pedals are being used correctly in an Automatic, the left foot has nothing much to do anyway.

The only devil advocate exception might be a slow traffic situation in a Manual where you are using the clutch a lot, but also need to flash the brights. Well, manuals are pretty much extinct on the market now, so there goes that excuse.

Also: If the switch develops a fault, it is an easy replacement; there is no dismantling of a steering column. Just a few simple screws down in the footwell.