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

[Car Won't Crank]

I wanted to learn stick, but my mother refused to teach me and my dad died before he could. It's hard to find a way to do it without knowing anyone.

I miss iPods, solo ones. Ones with no touch screen, just the wheel. I hate using some service on my phone and just getting ads.

Watch a few youtube videos on how a manual transmission works, understand how the clutch is operated by the master and slave cylinders and how the clutch pedal translates that movement, then buy a cheap manual car and start driving.

 

[lemonsensei]

I wish cars still had CD players. Have a decent collection that’s only gotten bigger over the years.

 

[Catler]

I could also go full-on MATI in this post about CVT boxes - how literally all of them are hot garbage, and how they're bestowing horrible driving habits on an entire generation of drivers

I used to drive manual, but got a car with a CVT last time I was in the market. I like it a lot, a lot more than traditional automatics. It's smoother to drive and easy to live with, I have no complaints at all about it.

I suppose the only real issue is when other people drive my car who have never used one, they end up going way too fast because it sounds different than they're used to and picks up speed too easily.

 

[Stasi]

I don't know where else to post this - I am on holiday in a shitty Easter European country and I've discovered a whole new level of virtue signalling.

You know the little header on your smartphone where it tell you which mobile carrier you are using? Mine has been replaced with "SlavaUkraini". I DO NOT CONSENT TO THIS CYBER RAPE!

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I wanted to learn stick, but my mother refused to teach me and my dad died before he could. It's hard to find a way to do it without knowing anyone.

Buy a cheap moped, dirt bike or anything like that. You'll figure out gears and how/when to switch them by feel and noise.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I really miss the fact that consoles had interactive menu's that play ambient music. The last console I find to have done it was the Wii U. They would play an interesting ambient song and everyone decades later will recall their childhood when they are immersed into this cool gaming experience when booting up a console.

The fact that the Nintendo Switch had no ambient menu is really disappointing. I also remember at a time Playstation 2 and the original Xbox had ambient menus, then 7th generation comes and they get rid of that and it all becomes dull. Technology felt more welcoming back in the day, these ambient menus remind you of the awesome experience you're about to have.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I really miss the fact that consoles had interactive menu's that play ambient music. The last console I find to have done it was the Wii U. They would play an interesting ambient song and everyone decades later will recall their childhood when they are immersed into this cool gaming experience when booting up a console.

The fact that the Nintendo Switch had no ambient menu is really disappointing. I also remember at a time Playstation 2 and the original Xbox had ambient menus, then 7th generation comes and they get rid of that and it all becomes dull. Technology felt more welcoming back in the day, these ambient menus remind you of the awesome experience you're about to have.

I believe the PS3 also has the ambient mood screen through some option in the XMB. The music player visualizers are also cool if that counts as ambiance.

 

[AnOminous]

I wanted to learn stick, but my mother refused to teach me and my dad died before he could. It's hard to find a way to do it without knowing anyone.

I miss iPods, solo ones. Ones with no touch screen, just the wheel. I hate using some service on my phone and just getting ads.

Your parents were both gay.

I used to drive manual, but got a car with a CVT last time I was in the market. I like it a lot, a lot more than traditional automatics. It's smoother to drive and easy to live with, I have no complaints at all about it.

I only drove manual because I had to because the only car I could afford at the time was a cheap junker Toyota with manual. I was never terribly good at it, and I hate parking at a stop sign on a hill, especially with some dipshit directly behind you.

 

[The Last Stand]

I've complained before about sports games being always online. NBA 2K literally POSTS their server shutdown dates ON THE MANUAL.



Yet it encourages their playerbase to spend real money to compete online for a year AT MOST.

E for Everyone my ass.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Just saw the Xbox One S homescreen and half the interactive tiles were attempts at getting your money with the largest tile taking you to the store. The tiny tiles were your games and apps. It's like the Fire boxes where there is ad space except you paid $300+ for the machine.

Kubernetes is a trend I hate. It enables terrible behaviors in the tech world and feeds the San Francisco tech bro culture that eats companies from within. Managers see it as a one click app installer that can remove operations employees from the company if they hire one dev who took a crash course.

USB-C is nice, though.... when people actually follow the standard.

 

[mensch]

Huge phones for the last 5 years. I don't know anyone who likes this phablet trend. I'm still running a Samsung Galaxy from 2016 and people are constantly saying "I love your phone" and asking me where they can get one. Bitch this is literally 6 year old tech and it feels better to use than most phones released since. I also find the latest Android 12 UI totally alien and horrific compared to the old faithful version my phone has.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Huge phones for the last 5 years

bigger = better is a surefire way to market to normies. It's not always true. That's also how they sell these absolutely tremendous computer screens that'll darken half the room while having very poor resolution basically making it impossible to read letters smaller than your hand.

 

[seri0us]

I also find the latest Android 12 UI totally alien and horrific compared to the old faithful version my phone has.

I found it so awful that I actually had to wipe my phone and install the last version of Lineage OS that's based on Android 11.

 

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I only drove manual because I had to because the only car I could afford at the time was a cheap junker Toyota with manual. I was never terribly good at it, and I hate parking at a stop sign on a hill, especially with some dipshit directly behind you.

I've always found this pretty straightforward if you don't mind cranking the handbrake on before coming entirely to a stop. More of a pain if it's one of those rotating handle parking brakes you have in the dash in vans and trucks.

Apparently some older manual Mercs and Citreons had manuals with foot activated parking brakes. That sounds like the opposite of fun.

 

[Staffy]

Fuck glass pc cases, it's a faggot design and whoever invented the concept in the first place is a faggot that likely enjoys 24/7 dicking. Most of the designs too suck and make it complicated to install a second hard drive. And who the hell cares about obnoxious rgb lights which are the pinnacle of attention deficit tards?

 

[kūhaku]

Fuck glass pc cases, it's a faggot design and whoever invented the concept in the first place is a faggot that likely enjoys 24/7 dicking. Most of the designs too suck and make it complicated to install a second hard drive. And who the hell cares about obnoxious rgb lights which are the pinnacle of attention deficit tards?

As long as its just replacing the metal with glass, its fine in my opinion. I like being able to see my PC's guts every now and then when I look over (dislike RGB however). For sure though it is a luxury and I don't know why all cases have to start making glass on the sides, I wish they'd make more regular closed cases. I think the real menace here is RGB

 

[Stasi]

Windows update and associated fuckery really drives me up the wall. They have done the best they can to make the entire thing as anti-consumer as possible and taken all control out of the user's hands. Not being able to disable updates is bad enough but I've found Windows actively fucks with drivers to the point of forcefully reverting/reinstalling user installed drivers.

I have a couple of AMD machines and Windows really hates the AMD software and graphical drivers, and keeps reinstalling the windows ones. AMD have a whole support page on their site which basically says "its not us, its Windows, soz not soz, pls complain to Microsoft".

Apparently you can block it through the group policy if you have windows pro, but you don't have access to that on Windows home. I need to do some more digging on how to fix this issue (if its even possible).

 

[byuu]

Fuck glass pc cases, it's a faggot design and whoever invented the concept in the first place is a faggot that likely enjoys 24/7 dicking. Most of the designs too suck and make it complicated to install a second hard drive. And who the hell cares about obnoxious rgb lights which are the pinnacle of attention deficit tards?

I don't understand why this stuff is so widespread now.

Case modding made sense when people regularly went to LAN parties and could show of their sweet custom case with a window cut in and fluorescent tubes inside.

 

[Staffy]

I don't understand why this stuff is so widespread now.

Case modding made sense when people regularly went to LAN parties and could show of their sweet custom case with a window cut in and fluorescent tubes inside.

Tell me about it. I like having cases where I can easily put my hard drives in. Mine isn't a glass case but I had to work on a relative's rig and thanks to how it's designed, it's pretty hard to find a spot to put the drive and it was more of a hassle to find the connectors, compared to the usual rigs from back then.

Not only that these glass panes can break and shatter badly. So good luck if your hand slips while you're carrying it, you have to worry about glass shards instead of chipped paint and dents.

This whole trend is autistic and I fucking despise it.

 

[seri0us]

Not only that these glass panes can break and shatter badly. So good luck if your hand slips while you're carrying it, you have to worry about glass shards instead of chipped paint and dents.

that's why i like the idea of acrylic side panels more