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

[The Last Stand]

Obviously wired earbuds. Obviously the market is there for wireless earbuds for sports and doing menial chores around the house, but if I'm just chilling I don't care about the wire. I'd rather get it caught sometimes than have to worry about charging another device every fucking day.

Maybe it's me, but earbuds and headphones are sensitive. I cannot go a year at MOST without having to replace them.

I despise the trend of slapping a touchscreen on everything. I dread the day when too many brain-damaged Zoomers and whatever feral children coming after their generation are making decisions on tech that we just do away with keyboard and mouse altogether and my living hellscape is complete. Touchscreen typing is the single most infuriating daily interaction I have with technology.

You know how many times people try to touch my laptop screen thinking it's touchscreen? I should put a sticker on it saying: "NOT A TOUCH SCREEN."

 

[nah]

Also, what are those little japanese flip phones called? I keep forgetting, this is the third time i am asking about them online.

Gara-kei, aka Galapagos-style phones.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Android has been through so many iterations and has so many skins but I STILL have not seen arrow keys on any official version of android either by google or any (((manufacturer))). I cannot believe this shit, just think, all those developers/programmers/coders/trannies working away their fingers to the bone and the cannot think of such a simple feature? Some unpaid contributor somewhere understood it years ago, but not the so called experts. Is it not in their budgets/guidelines or something? Are they not adding this feature in their OSes on purpose? Lineage is the only version of android I've seen navigation keys for, and it was just too good. used it on a piece of shit chinese relabelled phone. It made life so much easier. Then I bought a new phone and despite all of its gizmos n shit i didn't feel at home because of the lack of those arrows.
Text selection is shit on android, too. the menu for selection pops up if it wants to. it shows the options it wants to. sometimes 'select all' isn't there for some reason. other times 'copy' doesnt show up.
are phones a jewish conspiracy to dumb down the general population, make them more subservient by forcing those dumb things down our throats? You konw, boil the frogs slowly?

Also, what are those little japanese flip phones called? I keep forgetting, this is the third time i am asking about them online.

The beauty of the HTC Desire and early android phones similar to it was the "track ball", it was just a small optical sensor that you swiped your thumb over but it worked great for text. Nowadays if there's a letter wrong in a word or long url fixig it is like trying to unfuckup clingfilm.

 

[DavidS877]

The beauty of the HTC Desire and early android phones similar to it was the "track ball", it was just a small optical sensor that you swiped your thumb over but it worked great for text. Nowadays if there's a letter wrong in a word or long url fixig it is like trying to unfuckup clingfilm.

On Android for years I've used "Hacker's Keyboard", one nice thing is it actually has arrow keys. And things like 'Control-A' (select all)work, once you enable it.

 

[Xarpho]

Maybe try https://www.universalmediaserver.com
Its been my solution to watching stuff over LAN for the last few months.

I don’t think my TV is “smart” enough, it would need an external box either way. I have a Samsung Blu-ray I got back in 2017 for a song, so I can either purchase a disc burner (which doesn’t look especially inexpensive) or invest in some of media box that lets me play my own files.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Flash gaming online


Newgrounds, addictinggames, miniclip arcadetown etc

 

[DavidS877]

I don’t think my TV is “smart” enough, it would need an external box either way. I have a Samsung Blu-ray I got back in 2017 for a song, so I can either purchase a disc burner (which doesn’t look especially inexpensive) or invest in some of media box that lets me play my own files.

1 Raspberry Pi, 1 install of Kodi(OSMC, LibreELEC, OpenELEC or just normal Linux).
The problem being actually trying to find a Pi these days.

 

[Basil Julep]

1 Raspberry Pi, 1 install of Kodi.
The problem being actually trying to find a Pi these days.

Libreelec is a pretty good distro. I had to use 9 on a rasberry pi 3 but libreelec 10 work well on raspberry pi 4.

I have some odd issue where on boot it doesn't always pick the first HDMI output. 4/5 times it does but sometimes it seems to pick the other one which is super annoying.

Has anyone had experience with other kodi distros for raspberry pi?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Flash gaming online

I like this one flash game called Bump Copter that one could download in the '00s. I still have the Flash file on my toaster system.

(Also back in the '00s, Flash animation was usually the only way to see "video" online that wasn't potatocam footage.)

 

[ditto]

arrow keys on any official version of android

Hold down space on the iPhone and the keyboard becomes a giant trackpad to control the cursor directly.

It's so damn handy but noone seems to know about it.

 

[Soylent_Guzzler]

Hold down space on the iPhone and the keyboard becomes a giant trackpad to control the cursor directly.

It's so damn handy but noone seems to know about it.

Shit you are right. I use it a healthy amount (works on GBoard too). It works in a pinch, but i would still prefer arrow keys. For coarse navigation I can just click on or around the word i want to edit, it is the final 2 characters that really matter. in GBoard if you don't move your finger in the exact way the keyboard expects, it takes you to keyboard selection menu instead which is where i end up most of the time. you can't move your finger too slow. i usually put it in that mode by moving it very fast and then doing a fine adjustment

also on the same topic, you can press backspace and slide your finger to the left from there to erase entire words (JewBoard)

Gara-kei, aka Galapagos-style phones.

Danke, these are the ones

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Clearly labeled buttons on the front of monitors/TVs. Why must we have to frisk the screen to find where the buttons are hidden behind it, then inevitably push all the wrong ones before finally managing to increase the volume? Why are conveniently placed buttons now limited to old/cheap shitty screens?

Pictured: a more practical time.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Pictured: a more practical time.

I'll go you one better:



Samsung still makes good business monitors.

 

[byuu]

Clearly labeled buttons on the front of monitors/TVs. Why must we have to frisk the screen to find where the buttons are hidden behind it, then inevitably push all the wrong ones before finally managing to increase the volume? Why are conveniently placed buttons now limited to old/cheap shitty screens?

Pictured: a more practical time.

If it weren't for the obsession with tiny bezels you could hide a ton of physical controls under a lid on the front.
Those lids did have a habit of breaking off, though.

 

[Boom Boss]

Flash gaming online


Newgrounds, addictinggames, miniclip arcadetown etc

I like this one flash game called Bump Copter that one could download in the '00s. I still have the Flash file on my toaster system.

(Also back in the '00s, Flash animation was usually the only way to see "video" online that wasn't potatocam footage.)

BlueMaxima's FlashPoint is a giant archival of flash games and other browser games running on similar tech. Also, there are still flash sites like Newgrounds running flash games too.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

I'll go you one better:

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Samsung still makes good business monitors.

I don't understand why they can't do the same with higher end gaming-tier monitors, I can't find any.

If it weren't for the obsession with tiny bezels you could hide a ton of physical controls under a lid on the front.

Why even hide them? It's time to end button-shaming.

 

[seri0us]

Why even hide them? It's time to end button-shaming.

because the lids / hidey holes are really cool?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don’t think my TV is “smart” enough, it would need an external box either way. I have a Samsung Blu-ray I got back in 2017 for a song, so I can either purchase a disc burner (which doesn’t look especially inexpensive) or invest in some of media box that lets me play my own files.

If it's made after 2010 it should natively support DLNA allowing you to just play videos from a network share on your PC.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's hard to explain, but it kind of feels like more recent software has a tendency to be less precise or more limited somehow.

Or in other words, more recent software can feel like it's "watered down" somehow. Also new software feels more smartphone-ish.

 

[ditto]

It's hard to explain, but it kind of feels like more recent software has a tendency to be less precise or more limited somehow.

Developers don't have the compsci background anymore but come from webdev or bootcamps.

I know it's not fair to compare a random web dev with Terry, but these physics simulations would've been within the abilities of most programmers 20+ years ago. Ask a 2022 dev to write the same and it would be some abomination of CSS and tears.