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

Toolbox said:
I know there are DIY options, but they are the minority and without a lot of design knowledge to make your own things, the stock products available in that category generally seem crappier. Looking into this though it appears you can use at least some products from companies that try to push a proprietary hub or app, how hit or miss is this?
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ZigBee is standardized and they usually say something like "ZigBee 3.0 certified". But there might be some special snowflake functions that won't work.
 
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Not all logitech stuff is good but a lot of it is. Logitech is so fuckoff huge that their peripherals have their own silicon and I don't think there's anything as battery saving as a result. I bought a logitech pebble that sees light to medium use a bit more than a year ago and it's still on it's first and only cheap, no-name AA-Battery. I never bother turning it off. Beware of fakes though, especially via amazon which seems to have gone completely down the shitter. I got better customer support from aliexpress. (obv. don't buy "logitech" products from aliexpress tho)
 
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Not all logitech stuff is good but a lot of it is. Logitech is so fuckoff huge that their peripherals have their own silicon and I don't think there's anything as battery saving as a result. I bought a logitech pebble that sees light to medium use a bit more than a year ago and it's still on it's first and only cheap, no-name AA-Battery. I never bother turning it off. Beware of fakes though, especially via amazon which seems to have gone completely down the shitter. I got better customer support from aliexpress. (obv. don't buy "logitech" products from aliexpress tho)
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I’ve been using a Logitech k400+ as my keyboard since 2019, and it still has the original batteries.
 
Stasi said:
I hate the overall degradation in quality of modern tech either through planned obsolescence or just incompetence.

I complained about my new thinkpad keyboard crapping out with only minimal use in another thread. I was going to sell it because I couldn't be bothered to replace the keyboard but decided to do some searching online to see if there was any fix. Found some guy with another lenovo laptop with exactly the same problem who suggested reseating the keyboard ribbon cable. Maybe too early to celebrate but a few days after reseating mine the problem seems to have disappeared.

How shitty is your assembly and QC that you aren't connecting fucking ribbon cables properly out of the factory.
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A-Stump said:
I have an $11 Logitech keyboard I've puked on, thrown, spilled countless beers on, and smacked against the wall trying to kill a bug and it's chugged on for years
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I can relate so much. I have a Compaq CRT from probably around 2001 that I've assaulted, put magnets on, spilled shit on, damn near everything, and it still works perfectly. Keyboards I still have from around that time have pretty much been used as paddles and they still work 100% even if missing some keys. Hell, my nearly 20 year old XP desktop I'm fairly certain has been kicked into a fucking wall, and it's chugging along like a charm.

Give me a new TV/monitor, mouse, keyboard or fucking high end laptop and that shits gonna be dead in 6 months to a year, and that's with me no longer being a rage filled teenager. They don't make damn near anything like they used to.


On the side of some optimism though, I will never go back to the fucking days of corded headphones if it's not attached to a workstation computer. While a lot of people are unaware assholes with them, wireless headphones are an absolute fucking godsend compared to that shit. I'm listening to music or background noise damn near 24/7, gone are the days of having to buy 47 $1 pairs or 1 $50 set and praying the cord doesn't break in a month. Wireless ones do eventually lose the ability to hold a charge, but in my experience any buds that are $30+ will give you well over a year of constant use, which is significantly cheaper and more convenient for me in the long run.
 
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Apple, why did you remove the home button from all your devices? You know how hard it is to explain to somebody to try to navigate back to the Home Screen or close apps using touch control?
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And just like with so many of their other ass backward decisions, apples mistakes trickle out into the rest of the market. You'd struggle to find any phone not from a no name chinese brand that still has a home button.
 
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I miss CD's, burning CD's, and just physical media in general.
No worrying about trusting your data to a cloud service, no electrical issues destroying your data
I purchased some BD-R's and a bluray disc reader/writer for backup of files, after reading that BD-R's should be good for 15+ years, longer if you keep recovery data saved on the disc as well.
It's not quite a tape drive in terms of gb/dollar ratio, but it'll do
 
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I miss CD's, burning CD's, and just physical media in general.
No worrying about trusting your data to a cloud service, no electrical issues destroying your data
I purchased some BD-R's and a bluray disc reader/writer for backup of files, after reading that BD-R's should be good for 15+ years, longer if you keep recovery data saved on the disc as well.
It's not quite a tape drive in terms of gb/dollar ratio, but it'll do
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speaking of, I miss having an optical drive bay in pc cases. Sure it means better airflow I guess, but still.
 
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
speaking of, I miss having an optical drive bay in pc cases. Sure it means better airflow I guess, but still.
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My current PC case has one, you just have to remove a metal plate to get to it and actually use it. I'm currently not actually using it, but I made a point of getting one in case I actually need it.
 
I miss when operating systems used to look absolutely gorgeous and weren't flat plains of minimalist shit.

They used to be pleasing to use, with wonderful sights and sounds. It was an absolute joy to boot them up.
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Stasi said:
I hate the overall degradation in quality of modern tech either through planned obsolescence or just incompetence.

I complained about my new thinkpad keyboard crapping out with only minimal use in another thread. I was going to sell it because I couldn't be bothered to replace the keyboard but decided to do some searching online to see if there was any fix. Found some guy with another lenovo laptop with exactly the same problem who suggested reseating the keyboard ribbon cable. Maybe too early to celebrate but a few days after reseating mine the problem seems to have disappeared.

How shitty is your assembly and QC that you aren't connecting fucking ribbon cables properly out of the factory.
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This is why you put down the $100 for a made in Kentucky Unicomp New Model M
 
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Searching, the concept, seems to be shifting from free-form text entering to an all-or-nothing coalescing what you type into a list of four or five suggested tags per word. It seems to happen on only a few random web sites right now, but I can easily see this extending to enterprise software systems like CMSes. Filtering search terms into tags might not seem like a big deal, but I see some issues when choosing a word as a tag:
  1. Your choice of word matches the creator's choice, because the ones I've seen don't offer any synonym support.
  2. Your spelling matches the tag creator's spelling, e.g. "color" vs "colour".
  3. Your conjugation matches the creator's conjugation. Anybody who's had to deal with a pajeet's e-mail will attest to this.
  4. What constitutes as a word is up for debate. For example, I prefer "web site" while many others prefer "website" and a very rare minority in my experience will use "web-site".
  5. If users are allowed to add their own tags, then the above can change over time and become even more convoluted.

But at least with this system in place, Argarawal and Melissa (Xim/Xur) won't have to work too hard on the implementation.
 
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