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

RainwaterDrop said:
I'm cut from that cloth as well, everything I use is as offline as possible bar stupid shit like games on my phone. I only update when things are getting really bad, otherwise I stick with them as long as my stuff isn't glitching harder than a poorly modded game lol!

Even today, there are plenty of good free solutions that work just as fine as the paid ones, I mostly use free software and I've been fine. The one time I got fucked was when I had to edit some PDFs and spent an entire day looking for an editor that wasn't freemium, using the online ones wasn't an option as having fucking documents leaking around is never a good look. That was the day I found out that printing to PDF on my PC works just as fine without any of the stress, but I'm still on the lookout!


I don't think this will last, all it takes is a storm for you to have a functionally bricked device. Not to mention how lack of functionality, say, a glitchy connection, also leads to that. It will probably stay on the long term for some services and products, but eventually most companies will realize there isn't a need to put literally fucking everything in the cloud once they experience that for themselves!

The only roadblock between the users and this SaaS horseshit is precisely the fact that most people don't try and learn about tech. There is so much free, accessible stuff out there a click away, yet most are content with staying still, open to any horseshit these companies will try to pull. I think it's more of a problem with Google nowadays, if you know where to look and learn, it's easy. If you don't, Google makes it fucking impossible by promoting horseshit all the way to the top of search results. Fuck, I was trying to find a specific movie to watch, one that isn't even old (came out in 2008) and it was a livid fucking hell to find it for download anywhere, to the point I was almost dusting off my old DVD player and buying an used copy, couldn't find the damn thing fucking anywhere. I would have been fucked if not for checking one of my trusted websites, this new web only gets worse by the day!
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IP Laws are such arbitrary horseshit. "Can't patent a recipe or printed circuit, but you CAN patent an algorhytm in a program".
I asked a cute lawyer in a bar about patent law: "Don't ask me, those freaks aren't allowed to talk to real lawyers."

Apparently, a 'Real Lawyer' can practice law in any/all cases. Murder defense, family law, divorce, even tax arbitration and domestic trade contracts... But not Intellectual Property.
That's a level of jewery that even lawyers despise.
 
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Orange Rhymer said:
IP Laws are such arbitrary horseshit. "Can't patent a recipe or printed circuit, but you CAN patent an algorhytm in a program".
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Actually you can't directly patent an algorithm. There are a number of ways of slithering around this that were mostly invented by the Federal Circuit, but it seems every time the Supreme Court has reviewed those lately, they've cut them back more and more.

The general rule is if you can make up a bunch of bullshit that it isn't an algorithm but a "process" that you're patenting, you can patent it. This is why there is so much patent troll litigation over absolute bullshit like the idea of pushing a button being patentable, i.e. "one click ordering," or any similar crock of shit invented to confuzzle the shrunken senile minds of boomer patent judges.
 
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I completely detest the trend that everything has gone wireless as a default. For instance, why do I need a wireless mouse or keyboard when they're constantly a foot away from my processor at all times? I don't want to mess around with batteries or charging anything.

I understand people have different setups, and it's great to have the option of going wireless for many of them. But insisting on it for everything, no questions asked, is very frustrating for me as an individual consumer. It should be the specialty option and not the default for everything.
 
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Schwarzwald said:
I completely detest the trend that everything has gone wireless as a default. For instance, why do I need a wireless mouse or keyboard when they're constantly a foot away from my processor at all times? I don't want to mess around with batteries or charging anything.

I understand people have different setups, and it's great to have the option of going wireless for many of them. But insisting on it for everything, no questions asked, is very frustrating for me as an individual consumer. It should be the specialty option and not the default for everything.
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A few days ago the Linus Tech Tips topic was being filled with an autistic mini slap fight of wire vs wireless.
I think something like the Logitech G903 is the best choice it allows you to go wired, wireless, and a charging pad that allows the mouse to be charged as your using it in wireless mode (But you still have a USB cable from the pad to the computer).

That being said, work wise I hate wireless, between batteries, people losing their dongles all the time, and just opening it up to more random stupid issues, I do what I can to just give out wired mice and keyboards at work when people ask for new keyboards and mice. At my Employer normal batteries are not even stocked or purchased by IT, but is considered "general office supplies" and is kept with the other stuff (Paper clips, markers/pens, etc) and yet instead of going to that area or hounding down the office managers they go after IT if they need batteries.
 
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I miss lan parties. Everyone's grown up with kids and responsibilities and shit. So am I for that matter.

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We can't go back, can we? Not even just for a weekend?
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Leaving the computer side panel off for cooling purposes, now that takes me back. You can tell these are old pictures because none of them are wearing dresses.
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I often left it off because I just didn't have it. I even once had a computer in a literal pizza box (not the case style that is sometimes called that).
 
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I open up Betterbird to get this in my browser tab.

The wikipedia model of ebegging is NOT one to follow, anyone who does is out of touch with reality.

No one uses an ad blocker to get bypassed, they use it to block ads. Get the fucking hint.
 

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I miss Atom. It got "sunsetted" yesterday, and it sucks. There has been some forks, most notably Pulsar. Pulsar, which, as I expected, is ran by at least 1 tranny bronie faggot. Why is it that they are the best at doing shit like this? I need to move to VS Code.
 
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I miss Atom. It got "sunsetted" yesterday, and it sucks. There has been some forks, most notably Pulsar. Pulsar, which, as I expected, is ran by at least 1 tranny bronie faggot. Why is it that they are the best at doing shit like this? I need to move to VS Code.
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Atom's still there, I have it open right now.
Thanks for the info on the fork though
 
Something I miss: easy to sign up for accounts on various websites that just required an email or username and password instead of your social security number, date of birth, phone number, driver's license, 3 top secret recovery questions about your personal life, 2 factor authentication, pictures of your dick and 50 other things. I also miss people using hand held cameras that were just a camera and not a phone, gopros still fill that niche a bit I guess.


Something I hate about modern tech: the move towards cloud computing and total abandonment of local hardwere in favor of distant datacenters (especially in business). One of the things I used to like was being able to set up your own device and have control over what parts make up your pc/server/system (actually putting your hands on it and feeling it's a real thing) but things are increasingly stored on remote servers and configured via a gay UI on a cloud. The bullshit mandatory configuration whenever you install a new copy of windows 10 or when you open edge for the first time is also infuriating and takes forever.
 
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I miss being able to buy PC games on a disc rather than downloading them off Steam. My internet simply isn't fast enough to download large games, so there's a lot of stuff I can't play. There are probably still a few PCs out there that take CD-ROM, but I'm not so into gaming that I'd want to spend extra on a PC for it.
 
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