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

[Return of the Freaker]

WTF is this shit?


Fucking Microsoft. I don't see any way to get rid of it. I think it might just be whatever add in they used to stick covid data in windows

 

[Bonesjones]

There was actually an AMD chip circa 2007 that you could unlock the "crimped" cores on (it was a quad core they were selling as a dual) by soldering or removing a pin, something like that.

I hate liquid coolers. Or moreso I guess I hate the needless application of them in so many stock builds. Is liquid cooling objectively the best cooling? No, not for every application. Liquid coolers have pumps that go bad. They have fans that wear out faster. They have controllers that shit the bed. And you've added all those potential failure points into your cooling to...run your prebuilt at stock speeds?

There was one that you could overclock by reconnecting a laser cut trace with a pencil line. Then the Athlon line that they couldn't make enough lower tier cpus for so they just released working 4 cores as 3s.

Ironically, liquid coolings best benefit is for smaller cases, since you could theoretically use a daughterboard to mount the cpu and gpu to a single waterblock.

 

[The Foxtrot]

RGB ricing is awful IMO. I would rather focus on the screen than have random lights change beside me. I find it looks awful almost every time I've seen it and I don't see the point in using up even more electricity just for oooh shiny

The only RGB I use is for my keyboard, and that stays a solid red. Black plastic and red RGB lights on my keyboard makes typing a lot easier, especially later on at night. And I like the aesthetic it gives (my box, monitor, mouse, and headset are all black), like some sort of Sith Empire look.

 

[thejackal]

There was one that you could overclock by reconnecting a laser cut trace with a pencil line. Then the Athlon line that they couldn't make enough lower tier cpus for so they just released working 4 cores as 3s.

Ironically, liquid coolings best benefit is for smaller cases, since you could theoretically use a daughterboard to mount the cpu and gpu to a single waterblock.

that was the one I had in mind, thank you.

The coolest fucking build I ever had was a "Shuttle" brand this was back in 2008. It was E8400 wolfdale (the legend herself) with a 7200 rpm drive, 8 GB ram and I think an 8800 GT. It could run Crysis pretty fucking well when I had it all tuned up. It was an ITX build that had a proprietary "Ice" (their branding) self contained cooler.

This is it, they are still making the little boxes:



It's aheat pipe, not really sure how it works but it's very efficient and involves some sort of liquid. I took my build on the NYC subway to use at work sometimes back then and once or twice one of the post 9/11 mandated bag searches got a very amused cop when I pulled it out of my backback.

 

[Picklechu]

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WTF is this shit?

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Fucking Microsoft. I don't see any way to get rid of it. I think it might just be whatever add in they used to stick covid data in windows

I noticed that a few days ago, but didn't bother to click on it; it's been different every day.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

There was one that you could overclock by reconnecting a laser cut trace with a pencil line.

That was the Athlon(K7/K and it was a resistor that was missing. The surface of the ceramic packaging made it super easy for a graphite pencil to grip and stick, it took seconds to unlock the CPU. Nvidia did something similar with the second generation GeForce/Quadro, meaning that you could mod the consumer hardware into the much more expensive professional hardware. Combined with an unlocked Athlon it made for dirt cheap portable 3D workstations that made SGI cry.

 

[Registration]

Early mobile games like java were kinda nice. Nowadays it is gacha or ads platforms....

 

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(Yeah I know your example is a parallel and this is a serial but you could also do something similar with parallel cables.)

I did that in reverse, using a regular parallel cable I thought was a LapLink cable. Which was kind of retarded on reflection.

 

[BelUwUga]

that was the one I had in mind, thank you.

The coolest fucking build I ever had was a "Shuttle" brand this was back in 2008. It was E8400 wolfdale (the legend herself) with a 7200 rpm drive, 8 GB ram and I think an 8800 GT. It could run Crysis pretty fucking well when I had it all tuned up. It was an ITX build that had a proprietary "Ice" (their branding) self contained cooler.

This is it, they are still making the little boxes:

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It's aheat pipe, not really sure how it works but it's very efficient and involves some sort of liquid. I took my build on the NYC subway to use at work sometimes back then and once or twice one of the post 9/11 mandated bag searches got a very amused cop when I pulled it out of my backback.

Ignore the arrows and colors in your post. It's just a hunk of metal with thermal paste between it and the processor. You can do different patterns, multiple inputs/outputs, and get super autistic about it:

However you choose to engrave your specific hunk of $0.25 worth of aluminum is going to be maybe a $0.02 difference in cost of machine time. Those fan/radiator combos are component parts that you can easily spec things like a specific pipe layout with any kind of quantity. Conveniently a very common way of joining these components is cheap/standardized seamless pipe that is easy to bend and joined by solder. It would be a bit of a quality indictment if your assembly contractor cannot master bending and soldering. I also have to say as a metallurgical-sperg/machinist I strongly approve of the all-metal construction. Do it right once and you've done it flawlessly.

Sadly there's just no market depth on things like this. Other than thermal paste and maybe some flux, I have literally everything I would need to make a similar cooling system on hand. Arguably better since my radiator is twice the size, I know I have 10x the pumping power/telemetry, and I have enough tubing to run a big coil through the freezer. All-in it's maybe like $125 worth of components if you pay retail. For something like that to be worthwhile I would need to charge like a grand to make the initial setup worthwhile. For a tiny bit more effort someone wanting to work on this can make big money doing cheeky stuff at places like a data-center.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Is it just me or does technological change seem more forced or "astroturfed" now?

 

[byuu]

Is it just me or does technological change seem more forced or "astroturfed" now?

Every retard seems to be desperate for some tech billionaire to come out and solve all the world's problems for them. So they force themselves to pretend some stupid new product will make everything better.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Is it just me or does technological change seem more forced or "astroturfed" now?

Not really, there's just a push to centralize (sometimes vital) services through software and that's annoying and very, very worrying.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Subscriptions instead of licences

 

[Dirk Willems]

I hate that some guy named Rohith Sreedharan can send out around 400k emails by accident: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
The only reason to use GitHub anymore is to self-promote, it's more like linkedin than a real platform. Seriously, how did nobody see this coming?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

You obviously haven't been inudated with the ads for the toaster oven version of the Juicero, Tovala

Somehow I missed this until sitting in my hotel room today and getting multiple tv ads for jewcero 2.0. Quite literally. I get the impression the food sent to retards- I mean customers can easily be cooked without needing some internet toaster oven that could easily be tied to social credits to stop you from being able to cook goy boxes

 

[neverendingmidi]

Somehow I missed this until sitting in my hotel room today and getting multiple tv ads for jewcero 2.0. Quite literally. I get the impression the food sent to retards- I mean customers can easily be cooked without needing some internet toaster oven that could easily be tied to social credits to stop you from being able to cook goy boxes

Man, and here I hoped the ads disappearing off social media meant it had died stillborn. Must've gotten more venture capital.

 

[cybertoaster]

In light of the new diablo that takes, I'm not fucking kidding here, $110,000 to fully max out a character I say I'm missing the time you would pay for a game and get the full game instead of this shit.

I don't like "Smart" home devices. You're taking something that functioned as intended for decades, if not longer and adding in an unnecessary layer of bloat. I like having devices that you can fully control without apps and where you don't have to worry about security or privacy like you do with every device that connects to the internet.

This shit isn't even smart, that thing amazon sells pales in comparison to this microwave from the 90's

You obviously haven't been inudated with the ads for the toaster oven version of the Juicero, Tovala

Holy fucking shit why this exists? why they need such a huge team to sell a shitty toaster oven with a QR scanner? who gives this almost $70m in funding?

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Fucking Microsoft. I don't see any way to get rid of it. I think it might just be whatever add in they used to stick covid data in windows

Disable telemetry and well, basically everything.

There was one that you could overclock by reconnecting a laser cut trace with a pencil line. Then the Athlon line that they couldn't make enough lower tier cpus for so they just released working 4 cores as 3s.

I thought it was the crappy dies that had unstable cores that got sold as 3, not good 4 cores with one crippled.

IIRC it was a lottery and many times the 4th core was unstable which is why it got sold as 3.

Is it just me or does technological change seem more forced or "astroturfed" now?

Dont see people changing electronics as often as before, plenty I know have had the same phone for 4 years, same PC for half a decade, etc...

There's no need to upgrade that often anymore, the gains aren't as massive as before.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I hate that some guy named Rohith Sreedharan can send out around 400k emails by accident: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
The only reason to use GitHub anymore is to self-promote, it's more like linkedin than a real platform. Seriously, how did nobody see this coming?

The world needs to wall India off from the normal internet.

 

[♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️]

My Dad was a rather successful business owner and it seemed like most of the day when he was home when I was a kid he was conducting business calls on his Blackberry. When I was a kid the Blackberry seemed like a piece of Alien Technology on par with the Needler from Halo... I was determined to buy one of my own when I got my first job- as a status symbol more than anything.

I turned 14, the legal age to work in my old homestate, way past the point in time where Blackberrys were a historical relic on par with a physicla butter churner or a Nagant M1895. I've always fucking hated Iphones- the first phone I ever had was something called a "LG Chocolate" that I enjoyed. After that it was bottom-of-the-bargain bin fliphones until I bought a Xiami Redmi Note 8 Pro in 2020, until I replaced *that* for the experimental PinePhone I run Arch Linux on in late 2021.

 

[Dirk Willems]

The world needs to wall India off from the normal internet.

Absolutely, they are slowly raising the AI score on everything Indian by sheer numbers. I regularly see Indian/Chinese suggestions and ads everywhere, despite never having shown any interest whatsoever.

I like your book, by the way.