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

[Densetsu]

To add to this:
It's insane how the general public has been goaded into genuinely believing you don't need an optical disc drive in this day and age.

Of course, CDs have fallen out of favour, but you're telling me these retards stream everything? They have no backup plan in case they lose their internet connection for a day or two? I couldn't fucking imagine using a computer and not installing some of my old physical copies or popping in a Blu-Ray or two, either to emulate modern consoles or simply to watch a movie/box-set ad free and uncut.

I still have a giant stack of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. It's trivial to rip them to your computer for easy playback but it's also just as easy for hard drives and SSDs to fail. Not to mention that optical media is still a good offline backup option if you keep the discs in good shape. They can't be wiped easily by transient magnetic fields, which is nice.

These issues are all avoided on the dev's end with dedicated servers, and the players are happy because their experiences can be tailored to them based on what server they pick. Tryhards can play with other tryhards, the casuals can find a community for themselves, and the players who like "playgrounds" to fuck around in also have dedicated servers they can play on. I don't know ANYONE who thinks skill-based matchmaking is fun or a good idea since it encourages a 50/50 win rate for everyone most of the time. I really wish I knew what the appeal of forcing matchmaking in games is, it takes away too much freedom from the players.

Because you can balance your entire game monetary model around forcing players to hunt for those coin-flip 50/50 results, and by preventing any real overall community you can easily make them continue on to the obligatory sequel in 2-3 years.

I still miss dedicated community servers that weren't password protected. You could easily find new communities with accompanying websites or IRC channels and meet interesting people that you could then carry through to other games. Now the only ones that remain are somehow disgusting brony servers or absolutely bizarre and otherwise degenerate niche communities.

 

[Inebriated Raccoon]

I miss the days when games were $30 to $40 and were released as a complete game. I’m aware that modern-day games are more graphically intensive and require more complex coding; however, the least they can do is release a complete game. They won’t because they need the quartely profit to appease their investors.

It’s irritating to see them release an incomplete game and expand it (aka complete it) through dlc. It’s even worse when the dlc is paid.

So, now they want you to bay $60 for an incomplete game and an additional $20 to get the rest of the content that should’ve been included in the base game anyway.

 

[nah]

Dedicated servers for multiplayer games. Most games don't even give you this option anymore but I'm aware it's still rarely around in modern games like CSGO and some other relics of the Source engine.

Matchmaking is an endlessly cancerous and consumer-unfriendly practice I cannot see it justified. How is matchmaking in multiplayer games a good business practice? You have to host the servers yourself, you have to make an algorithm for matchmaking, and you (apparently) have to moderate people when they're jerks to each other. I genuinely don't get why this is the go-to for your usual deathmatch/objective shooters.

These issues are all avoided on the dev's end with dedicated servers, and the players are happy because their experiences can be tailored to them based on what server they pick. Tryhards can play with other tryhards, the casuals can find a community for themselves, and the players who like "playgrounds" to fuck around in also have dedicated servers they can play on. I don't know ANYONE who thinks skill-based matchmaking is fun or a good idea since it encourages a 50/50 win rate for everyone most of the time. I really wish I knew what the appeal of forcing matchmaking in games is, it takes away too much freedom from the players.

I strongly believe that the Blizzard Lawsuits against Korean Starcraft broadcasters and tournaments are the reason games shifted from separate dedicated servers to matchmaking hosted by them. At the time this was going on, I had read that the large reason Blizzard lost IP rights to Starcraft tournaments is that by releasing the software as a standalone entity, only the license of the software itself and related art put out by Blizzard was covered by IP rights, not third party material such as tournament merchandise (which is what Blizzard was largely after). So when Starcraft 2 came along and Blizzard made everything hosted on their servers, they were in a much better position to strongarm the tournament and broadcasting companies that wanted to continue hosting said tournaments and broadcasts in an official capacity. This then set precedent for other AAA developers, which has continued through today. Now I said that I strongly believe this, because my memory is fuzzy and I don't remember what lawsuit it was against which Korean company, and this is probably me grasping at straws at the time this was happening and wasn't stated in any official capacity.

As for content, I hate the trend of requiring a phone to use a service. I know the privacy-invasive reasoning behind it, but on the security side, if I set a password for a service that can be brute forced before they get locked out of the system, then I wasn't planning on using your service seriously anyway.

 

[Densetsu]

I had to do a bit of sleuthing to find a relatively cheap atx case with lots of 3.5in bays. The best one I found and the one I settled on is the Cooler Master N400. It's a back to basics case no frills and space for 8 HDDs under $100 usd.

I was looking at that or an NR200 but I couldn't find any within driving distance and all the online stores promised 3-6 week delivery from a Genuine Very Grammatically Correct 100% True American Citizen retailer. I chose to not do the needful and instead chose to redesign my build a bit.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Recently went shopping for a new computer case and it's downright criminal how few hard drive bays case manufacturers get away with including. My old case has 5 hard drive bays and space for potentially 4 5.25" drive bays, as well as space for 3 or 4 SSDs. These days I was lucky to find a case with a single 5.25" drive bay and 3 hard drive bays. I guess it's assumed that if you want to hoard storage space or have more than two hard drives you'll just get a NAS instead.

And the hilarious thing is that cases are still as big as ever, they're just using all the now-unused space to stuff in more case fans. But my old case has just as much case fan slots as this new case, I don't get it.

Yep, even 5.25 drive bays are getting extremely rare.

As for HDDs, they take 1-2 bays away because the motherboards have 1-2 M.2 slots on them now and case makers are mostly forgetting about 3.5 inch drives and assuming everything will be an SSD

 

[Nabeshin]

I didn't found a exactly forum thread for this, so I think this is the closest thread for this opinion.

I hate the modern old/retro gaming scene in general. You see online "a lot" of development consoles, pre-release builds and more online becoming articles or lengthy youtube videos but the retro-community doesn't archieve it(like the software, manuals, high-resolution photos) because of petty reasons.

So when a retarded person like this one (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...pment_kit_and_made/)(https://archive.ph/iw3fk) could easily restore it if someone from the community had uploaded a drive-image/disk on any archive site.

This also doesn't apply just for people like the one above, it would apply to dev-machines which the HDD is dead, you would be able to get a new drive, re-image it and make your station to work again.

If I become relatively rich someday, I plan to do exactly that, buy an expensive dev machine, image everything and upload online for free just to devaluate everyone else dev-machine as a lot of "refubrished" ones with modern HDD, RAM and more would surface online.

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

To add to this:
It's insane how the general public has been goaded into genuinely believing you don't need an optical disc drive in this day and age.

Of course, CDs have fallen out of favour, but you're telling me these retards stream everything? They have no backup plan in case they lose their internet connection for a day or two? I couldn't fucking imagine using a computer and not installing some of my old physical copies or popping in a Blu-Ray or two, either to emulate modern consoles or simply to watch a movie/box-set ad free and uncut.

You have a point. I myself still have my own little collection of discs but have gotten used to just this instant gratification of fucking everything, y'know?

Ah well.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Miss:

Transparent plastic on electronics. It made the tech feel more badass because, you can see the chips and know they are doing their jobs. Also it made everything less of a "who knows what magic makes this work" and makes you interested in learning how it works.

Hate:

-Websites that have harsh retarded maximum limits on password complexity. I've seen it where you can only have a maximum of 8 characters. Have you ever heard of a fucking pass phrase where you just type in a sentence with no spaces? Have you ever heard of lastpass/etc or just fucking copy pasting it from a text file? Just because a bunch of idiot grandmas shit up your tech support because they think they can remember something long and then can't, don't fucking open a wide door for everyone else to suffer.

-Websites that force you to use a small password but claim to have some algorithm that works really well that say, logs your IP the first time and then compares it based on IP blocks, so you can supposedly travel around a few close cities but as soon as you get out of that range, you can't log in without 2FA. This sounds great but have you ever heard of a VPN or a business that has to do work on a VPS? You are gonna log in from vastly different "locations" all the time. What's worse is if you are too "far" off your original IP, they fucking lock you out of everything, no 2FA check at all, you just get locked out. Whenever they have this "feature" you can't turn it off in advance, it's hard-coded into their platform.

 

[spastic_bag]

Mobile phones that were actually designed. I still fondly remember my chonky Nokia 3510i with its weird button shapes and daring orange stripe, the traslucent-blue-on-solid-white body and phosphorescent bezel on the 3100, the faux crome edge and satisfying clap of an N97 closing. And even the ones I didn't own, like whatever fucking Transformers yoga the N93 was doing, or the girls can cellphone too L'Amour series. Sony Ericsson's whole deal. The charming hideosity of Vertu. Hell, even the brave mess that was the Xelibri series.

Now it's basically down to how the cameras are arranged on the back of a featureless black rounded rectangle.

 

[Susie Sumner]

Now it's basically down to how the cameras are arranged on the back of a featureless black rounded rectangle.

And let's not forget the size of those things, now days everything looks like a tablet from 2010, phones barely fit in your hand comfortably and probably some pockets. Apple's Mini phones seem to be the only ones that are still hand-sized but they will probably be discontinued from how little they sell.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Websites that have harsh retarded maximum limits on password complexity

What website have you seen that does this? Invariably it's the other way around and they want some retarded 20-letter password including 5 characters from the Unicode Supplementary Plane, just for some one-off shopping cart that has never heard the concept of a guest checkout.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

And let's not forget the size of those things, now days everything looks like a tablet from 2010, phones barely fit in your hand comfortably and probably some pockets. Apple's Mini phones seem to be the only ones that are still hand-sized but they will probably be discontinued from how little they sell.

this, i hate how large phones are. i want a phone i can throw in my pocket and not worry about it. most phones dont fit in my pocket and even the ones which do weight as much as a brick.
i got an apple mini since it was the smallest smart phone i could get from my current provider. it's iphone so the os sucks, and everything being locked down is horrible, but i made the trade off since every other phone was the size of a small tablet.
if people would just be civilized and use an actual computer for web surfing and watching videos while religating phones for calls and texting the world would be a slightly better place.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

My offline, fully licensed and paid-for copy of MSWord just got an update adding monetization. "Click here to subscribe to Microsoft Editor!"

I think it was Adobe acrobat that did something similar the other day at my job when I simply wanted to flip a file 180 degrees because a client scanned their document upside down. TFW simple tasks such as rotating files 90 or 180 degrees is a pay-for feature.

Floppy disks I don't miss at all.

I liked the old LS-120 SuperDisks and I still have my USB drive and diskettes. Backward compatability with regular 3.5 inch floppies was also nice. Knowing the technology has been officially dead for nearly 2 decades, however, is sad and makes me think I should get the data off my SuperDisks before it becomes impossible to do so.

 

[Samuel Hyde]

This is a slightly obscure example of nu-tech eating itself. Back in about 2015 YouTube had a cool feature where you could group channels into different folders called "Collections". Channels could be filtered into multiple different collections so you could organize topics like Tech, Politics, News, E-Sports, etc with your subscriptions. But that feature was too powerful so YouTube removed it.

The reason they gave apparently was because they re-wrote the backend. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense since this feature shouldn't need too much more than a channel ID and a folder name.[0] Realizing this was a mistake YouTube is trying to fix the damage by improving the subscription feed with a feature of the same name [1] but its going to use AI and your watch history instead of letting you organize things as you want them to be organized.

Of course I shouldn't be too surprised since so many young people these days evidently don't understand how a file system works at an abstract level. Link to a funny ycombinator post where they try to defend that trend [2] (Yes, I wrote this post intentionally in that style)

Edit: screwed up the links trying to match Ycombinator format.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/5qarcb/why_did_they_remove_the_subscription_folder_thingy/
[1] https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/12/09/youtube-subscriptions-feed-collections-test-creator-insider/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526

 

[seri0us]

This is a slightly obscure example of nu-tech eating itself. Back in about 2015 YouTube had a cool feature where you could group channels into different folders called "Collections". Channels could be filtered into multiple different collections so you could organize topics like Tech, Politics, News, E-Sports, etc with your subscriptions. But that feature was too powerful so YouTube removed it.

The reason they gave apparently was because they re-wrote the backend. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense since this feature shouldn't need too much more than a channel ID and a folder name.[0] Realizing this was a mistake YouTube is trying to fix the damage by improving the subscription feed with a feature of the same name [1] but its going to use AI and your watch history instead of letting you organize things as you want them to be organized.

Of course I shouldn't be too surprised since so many young people these days evidently don't understand how a file system works at an abstract level. Link to a funny ycombinator post where they try to defend that trend [2] (Yes, I wrote this post intentionally in that style)

Edit: screwed up the links trying to match Ycombinator format.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/5qarcb/why_did_they_remove_the_subscription_folder_thingy/
[1] https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/12/09/youtube-subscriptions-feed-collections-test-creator-insider/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526

I remember when they got rid of annotations because "it wouldn't work on mobile" AKA "we're too lazy to figure out a solution for it that even serious n00b thought of"

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

I didn't found a exactly forum thread for this, so I think this is the closest thread for this opinion.

I hate the modern old/retro gaming scene in general. You see online "a lot" of development consoles, pre-release builds and more online becoming articles or lengthy youtube videos but the retro-community doesn't archieve it(like the software, manuals, high-resolution photos) because of petty reasons.

So when a retarded person like this one (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...pment_kit_and_made/)(https://archive.ph/iw3fk) could easily restore it if someone from the community had uploaded a drive-image/disk on any archive site.

This also doesn't apply just for people like the one above, it would apply to dev-machines which the HDD is dead, you would be able to get a new drive, re-image it and make your station to work again.

If I become relatively rich someday, I plan to do exactly that, buy an expensive dev machine, image everything and upload online for free just to devaluate everyone else dev-machine as a lot of "refubrished" ones with modern HDD, RAM and more would surface online.

People in all hobbies don't archive shit anymore, and the younger people don't know shit ever existed, to boot. I wanted to reference some old OOP books for a certain hobby recently, they had been scanned and uploaded everywhere 15+ years ago, now most of it was just gone. As soon as people made the switch to YouTube/Facebook over the real internet, people stopped archiving things. It's ironic that hobbies have never been bigger, but the actual heart of them is slowly eroded away.

 

[teriyakiburns]

People in all hobbies don't archive shit anymore, and the younger people don't know shit ever existed, to boot.

And even those that do archive are only really hoarding. They rarely share anything, other than the fact they have the data.

 

[Kosher Dill]

And even those that do archive are only really hoarding. They rarely share anything

Or if they do it's just a Youtube "archive channel". Congratulations, you just crushed your media quality to dust.

 

[Fools Idol]

I miss the color beige, I miss when the front panel actually had a purpose and I miss that shitty wooden desk that we all had the computer on.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Or if they do it's just a Youtube "archive channel". Congratulations, you just crushed your media quality to dust.

That, too. A 40mb zip file of jpegs gets recompressed into a 10mb pdf file, graphics be damned. Nobody hosts video or audio clips, they dump it on YouTube and it gets smashed flat. Nobody knew that the death of piracy and archiving would be complete apathy toward the material.