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Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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I also see the appeal of those: people have dreamed of flying since the dawn of history.
Sucks that reality may be able to make such a drone thing suck, not to mention the excessive rules of the modern world potentially limiting the uses of such things.
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Do it, you won't regret it.
Hate to say it but limitations do a good job in scaring away normies, even better when you can circumvent them.
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REEEEE REEEEEE REEEEE never put a tranny in charge of anything I mean oops, oh you meant that other kind of tranny.
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Oddly enough, that's about the noise they make.
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I hear bad things about them though... like manufacturers programming in fake 'gearshifts' to keep retards happy. I'm sure that's really great for reliability. The things should be constantly sitting at the most economical engine speed unless you're actively accelerating or have just lifted off the brakes in which case they should be adjusting to somewhere on the line between economy and maximum power as quickly as possible depending on the throttle position. Hell, they did it with vacuum hoses back in the day
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I checked out a Chromebook from the library and when I tried to bring it back they told me to keep it. Very weird, and now I'm stuck with a glorified tablet that's still being administered by the library so I can't even log into anything or watch porn without them knowing it.
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A few weeks ago I tried putting a reasonable Linux distro on a Chromebook and when it started to not work out I didn't even bother continuing since it has pretty shit specs like a mere 32GB for internal storage.
ditto
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Remember those "TV-B-Gone" remotes you could buy to turn off TVs in public areas? We need those, but for drones.
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CVTs aren't exactly exotic. They've been around since the 1960s, and they've been fitted to mainstream vehicles for at least the last 20 years.
That said, the problem with CVTs is twofold:
1. Lack of proper care and maintenance.
2: One of the biggest manufacturers of CVTs, Jatco, make shitty transmissions period.
Case in point: Honda Fit aka Jazz. I know the Fit was late to the party in the USA, but in other parts of the world there are plenty of early-mid '00s Fits out there still running around on their original Honda-made CVT boxes. Ofc the secret to keeping them going this long is changing the fluid every couple of years and using the correct fluid, which is no different to keeping a traditional epicyclic auto tranny running for as long as possible.
Now dual clutch transmissions... that's a completely different story.
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That's actually a good idea, it's not even that difficult to carry out. (found this after a quick search)
BTW, nowadays there are phones out there with an IR blaster so you can shut off TVs for free, everywhere.
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It can suck when comments are disabled on YT vids on major happenings, like they're saying "here's what we want you to hear, no opposing views allowed". And the trend of disabling comments seems to be spreading to the whole site. Like I said, it shouldn't be a surprise if one day they disable comments on all videos (or visible likes).
I think it depends on what drones are being used for. Open public stuff is one thing, private stuff is another.
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No, I don't want YouTube Red, thank you very much.
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I didn't know Chromebooks were still a thing outside of being regulated to bullshit cheapo laptops for kids. I figured tablets took over that niche by now.
Speaking of which, you remember netbooks?
I never owned one, but that's definitely something I don't miss. Cramped keys and such poor build quality that you could feel plastic rubbing up against itself when you opened and closed them. I remember the absolute cheapest ones couldn't even run Windows XP, and used some ropey Linux OS. Man, at the time, just save up a couple hundred more dollars and buy a cheap Dell.
Speaking of which, you remember netbooks?
I never owned one, but that's definitely something I don't miss. Cramped keys and such poor build quality that you could feel plastic rubbing up against itself when you opened and closed them. I remember the absolute cheapest ones couldn't even run Windows XP, and used some ropey Linux OS. Man, at the time, just save up a couple hundred more dollars and buy a cheap Dell.
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My x11e chromebook reminded me of those old netbooks. Cramped perhaps, but those original eeePCs still had better feeling keyboards than most modern laptops. Friend had an eee 701 that he used for tuning his car, worked good with the VAG-COM software even under Wine on Linux and really pretty fast for most things (with ion3 as a WM) apart from complex webpages of the time.
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In mobile devices, I miss features like physical buttons and switches and sliders (not so much keyboards), blinkenlights that notified you of messages and battery life, and foldable/slide-out mechanisms. Not too practical, but they made phones and handhelds feel like engineered devices rather than standard issue dopamine slabs.
One example is a friend who had an LG Optimus F3 for a few years. It had a physical home button with a light around it that you could program to flash or glow in different colors for different notifications. Out of the box it was blue for Facebook/Twitter, green for Vine (this was some years ago) etc. This is a cool idea that more phones should rip off.
Related: Another cool idea that someone on Kiwi thought of before me is a physical brightness control on modern devices (a slider or dial to conserve space maybe). I keep my brightness low to conserve battery and because it's easy on the eyes, so I'm always tweaking it. Of course modern tech is designed with the core idea of "loot the serf's money and run". Why would tech be designed to help you?
One example is a friend who had an LG Optimus F3 for a few years. It had a physical home button with a light around it that you could program to flash or glow in different colors for different notifications. Out of the box it was blue for Facebook/Twitter, green for Vine (this was some years ago) etc. This is a cool idea that more phones should rip off.
Related: Another cool idea that someone on Kiwi thought of before me is a physical brightness control on modern devices (a slider or dial to conserve space maybe). I keep my brightness low to conserve battery and because it's easy on the eyes, so I'm always tweaking it. Of course modern tech is designed with the core idea of "loot the serf's money and run". Why would tech be designed to help you?
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I used (use, it's still here somewhere) to have something very similar, an MSI U100. I actually really loved that computer and did more aftermarket modding on it than it was worth. I really liked the size and it was quite an useful device, I never tried running windows on it though and opted for a very lightweight linux setup customized to that computer's capabilities, which probably colored my experience.
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Now many years later, getting a 60% keyboard, putting my PC into a Node 202 desktop case and getting a 13.3" 2k screen just confirmed that I just really like small computers. There's a specifc aesthetic and feel about a preferably silent computer that fits into a tiny corner these imposing towers with their massive fan and RGB setups don't give you. Computer towers were a mistake. Or maybe I'm a covert minimalist?
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Also, did Formula 1 banning CVTs have any affect on the development of them?
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There were ones that could run WinXP pretty well but most importantly it could run Heroes of Might and Magic in a tent at night, with good battery life that allowed for watching a movie or a show as well.
I've posted about them before but the Fujitsu Lifebook was really nice and horrendously expensive compared to the netbooks. €2000+.
The ones I used had a Core2 and the model in the picture have a turnable screen to make it into a tablet. A fat tablet, but a tablet none the less. Running WinXP so it doubles as a pretty useless tablet. All of them weren't 2005 butt ugly though, some looked really nice. Could play Unreal Tournament 3 at low@20fps.
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Seems that whenever there's a promotional video or ad for some tech scam or some overly optimistic prediction of future technology, there's always this "epic" classical-y music playing. You know what kind of music I mean? I like calling it "the BS theme".