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

[Never Scored]

Personally I don't pirate unless the game is retardedly expensive, or is impossible to aquire through legal channels.

Seriously I'm not paying $100+ dollars for a game from 20 years ago that everyone had.

For me if a game is new and I really want to play it I'll generally buy it, but if it's a decade+ old I'm pirating that shit. A lot of times at that point it's a game I can't even get from the publisher anymore (Air Fortress, Faxanadu) or a game I've bought so many times I don't really feel the need to shell out money for it again(Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2).

 

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Also looks like the N64 had a reputation of being childish* back then. I didn't know or care and liked N64 anyway.

Pussy faggot. You couldn't play a man's game like Spyro the Dragon

(I am considering buying the remaster at the moment, but I'm not sure if my system will run it well)

 

[thog]

Here's an incomplete list:

I hate chiclet keyboards because you can't find any modern laptops that don't have those pieces of shit. Even the best ones are still terrible in comparison to your typical laptop keyboard from 10-15 years ago, but the normie retards that control the market have decided that they like these shitty tile keyboards with barely any tactile feedback because they look nice.

I hate the fact that most devices no longer have batteries that can be easily removed. I believe this is both to make phones as slim as possible to appeal to normies who only care about form, and also to artificially shorten the lifespan of a phone by making the battery very difficult to replace.

I hate how the 3.5mm jack has been removed from almost all phones. Now, I need to buy a shitty easily breakable adapter from Apple or Google or somewhere just to listen to music in my old car or on my hifi system.

I hate how modern websites consume so many resources because soydevs make them way more complicated then they need to be. It's not hard to make basic HTML and CSS look nice, please just use that. Not everything needs to be animated and sparkly and shit.

I hate how most professionals have decided to use Zoom for all online communications after 2020. I have to use this unencrypted piece of chink spyware that pipes my data into China just to talk to my doctor or therapist over the internet. The Chinese government and the US government most likely know how to brainwash me now, if they didn't already.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

I hate how most professionals have decided to use Zoom for all online communications after 2020. I have to use this unencrypted piece of chink spyware that pipes my data into China just to talk to my doctor or therapist over the internet. The Chinese government and the US government most likely know how to brainwash me now, if they didn't already.

To be fair its competitors Slack and MS Teams are both steaming piles of electron shit (I believe Zoom is also electron based too, but isn't eating all your RAM for no reason).

But yes I agree with you.

Also Electron just needs to go the fuck away.
Teams eat ram like no one's business and MS' official response is basically "LOL BLAME CHROME"
Discord eats my RAM and will often have graphical glitches for me.
Everything based on Chrome is just horrible for the web and the freedom of the web much like when IE6 ruled the web for close to a decade.
I have issues with almost every electron based app I have ever used.

 

[anustart76]

Here's an incomplete list:

I hate chiclet keyboards because you can't find any modern laptops that don't have those pieces of shit. Even the best ones are still terrible in comparison to your typical laptop keyboard from 10-15 years ago, but the normie retards that control the market have decided that they like these shitty tile keyboards with barely any tactile feedback because they look nice.

I hate the fact that most devices no longer have batteries that can be easily removed. I believe this is both to make phones as slim as possible to appeal to normies who only care about form, and also to artificially shorten the lifespan of a phone by making the battery very difficult to replace.

I hate how the 3.5mm jack has been removed from almost all phones. Now, I need to buy a shitty easily breakable adapter from Apple or Google or somewhere just to listen to music in my old car or on my hifi system.

I hate how modern websites consume so many resources because soydevs make them way more complicated then they need to be. It's not hard to make basic HTML and CSS look nice, please just use that. Not everything needs to be animated and sparkly and shit.

I hate how most professionals have decided to use Zoom for all online communications after 2020. I have to use this unencrypted piece of chink spyware that pipes my data into China just to talk to my doctor or therapist over the internet. The Chinese government and the US government most likely know how to brainwash me now, if they didn't already.

I fully agree with all of this and would like to add the loss of the SD card slot in most phones.

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I hate how most professionals have decided to use Zoom for all online communications after 2020. I have to use this unencrypted piece of chink spyware that pipes my data into China just to talk to my doctor or therapist over the internet.

Zoom supposedly offers encrypted calls. The catch is that the encryption keys are generated in Beijing. So basically, your Zoom calls aren't encrypted.

 

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Zoom supposedly offers encrypted calls. The catch is that the encryption keys are generated in Beijing. So basically, your Zoom calls aren't encrypted.

yeah bro xi jinping is listening to you pee

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Zoom supposedly offers encrypted calls. The catch is that the encryption keys are generated in Beijing. So basically, your Zoom calls aren't encrypted.

Health care seems to love Zoom, my work (in the health care field too) is trying to push our telehealth appointments to it.
I never got to see the "back end" but my IT director stated that we could view a ton of stats about the computer, and connection the patient was on (even if it was their own computer, some actual useful for troubleshooting like network speed, other not so much and makes me question what zoom actually collects)

This was shorty after Zoom was caught sending paid accounts that they swore would say in US servers were being sent to Chinese servers.

But no one seems to give a fuck.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Health care seems to love Zoom, my work (in the health care field too) is trying to push our telehealth appointments to it.
I never got to see the "back end" but my IT director stated that we could view a ton of stats about the computer, and connection the patient was on (even if it was their own computer, some actual useful for troubleshooting like network speed, other not so much and makes me question what zoom actually collects)

This was shorty after Zoom was caught sending paid accounts that they swore would say in US servers were being sent to Chinese servers.

But no one seems to give a fuck.

For all the kvetching about HIPPA you'd think massive hospitals would do proper auditing instead of just trusting ad for end to end encryption bro. I'm sure a basic sweep with wireshark would reveal what's happening with Zoom as it's used.

 

[Throng of Titans]

Simple and effective website layouts. Everything nowadays is buried under layers of pretty but useless crap, slow pages, and pointless features that break when whatever trendy program they run on stops getting supported.

Headphone jacks on phones. That's just plain evil.

Physical media for uses other than collector purposes. It's nice to know I for sure have a game or movie, don't need the internet to to play or watch it, and don't have to worry about it getting retroactively censored or such.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

For all the kvetching about HIPPA you'd think massive hospitals would do proper auditing instead of just trusting ad for end to end encryption bro. I'm sure a basic sweep with wireshark would reveal what's happening with Zoom as it's used.

The agency that oversee HIPAA "enforcement" (if you can call it that at times), basically said darning lockdowns they are not going to be enforcing HIPAA for video chat platforms other then this: " Facebook Live, Twitch, TikTok, and similar video communication applications are public facing, and should not be used in the provision of telehealth by covered health care providers." for "The remainder of the " COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency."

Also Hospitals / healthcare workers are some of the worse when it comes to HIPAA (and InfoSec in general), the amount of times I see staff put PHI/PII in subject lines of an otherwise encrypted email is insane. Previous job I had I first day I walked though and medical billers/coders were logging in to their computers with out passwords (and no, there were no smart cards or what not, it was just passwordless AD accounts).

 

[Thiletonomics]

Apparently, GM had the dumb as fuck idea to remove the physical headlight switch in the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado, meaning that you have to access a menu in the infotainment system to change the light settings:



And Mercedes-Benz is continuing to go all-out Overkill on screens in their cars, with this being the 2024 E-Class's interior:

 

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Apparently, GM had the dumb as fuck idea to remove the physical headlight switch in the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado, meaning that you have to access a menu in the infotainment system to change the light settings:

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And Mercedes-Benz is continuing to go all-out Overkill on screens in their cars, with this being the 2024 E-Class's interior:

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American cars have been utter shit ever since the oil crisis in the 1970s. Them continuing to be utter shit surprises no one. Mercedes have always been the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" of cars.

 

[anustart76]

Apparently, GM had the dumb as fuck idea to remove the physical headlight switch in the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado, meaning that you have to access a menu in the infotainment system to change the light settings:

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And Mercedes-Benz is continuing to go all-out Overkill on screens in their cars, with this being the 2024 E-Class's interior:

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This seems like a safety hazard. Better to have physical switches in case the screen fails.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

This seems like a safety hazard. Better to have physical switches in case the screen fails.

Laughs in Tesla interior ergonomics and design with total lack of buttons.

 

[AnOminous]

Apparently, GM had the dumb as fuck idea to remove the physical headlight switch in the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado, meaning that you have to access a menu in the infotainment system to change the light settings:

This lunacy needs to be actually made illegal.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I hope they're using the right kind of touchscreen panel. Last thing you want to happen cruising down the highway is the thing suddenly registering phantom touches.

 

[2023 poster]

Computers and laptops with progressively more and more things, such as RAM, SSD space, the CPU, or battery integrated onto the fucking motherboard, with no option to remove, replace, or upgrade as you need. Oh sure it makes the device nice and thin for all the dumbass normies with noodly arms who whine how bulky their computer/phone is. But now if you want or need to upgrade it or replace a part, you've traded away you're ability to swap out hardware just to save... what a pound of weight? A couple inches of bag space?

This is especially bad when it comes to RAM on laptops. It literally doesn't take up that much space, but in making it integrated, now when a user insists how much they absolutely have to run Chrome with 100+ tabs for the benefit of their workflow, I can't just put in an order for an extra 20 dollar RAM chip and slide it in, but instead have to recommend a whole new device. Watching computers slowly slide the way of the phone market in the name of planned obsolescence is just a clown world agony I could do without. The worst part is the user and client companies couldn't give less of a shit no matter how much they bitch of how much tech keeps expanding in cost for them with every passing year.

 

[Another Char Clone]

This is especially bad when it comes to RAM on laptops. It literally doesn't take up that much space, but in making it integrated, now when a user insists how much they absolutely have to run Chrome with 100+ tabs for the benefit of their workflow, I can't just put in an order for an extra 20 dollar RAM chip and slide it in, but instead have to recommend a whole new device. Watching computers slowly slide the way of the phone market in the name of planned obsolescence is just a clown world agony I could do without. The worst part is the user and client companies couldn't give less of a shit no matter how much they bitch of how much tech keeps expanding in cost for them with every passing year.

Its also because it is becoming harder and harder to design reliable electronics. They rather have a shit ready to ship than have something stable that can be messed with. At the frequency DDR5 RAM is running, they'd rather not have any random factors introduce impedance mismatches, and just bake the drive strength tuning values into the firmware in the factory. Likewise for CPU.

Pretty sure SSDs and batteries are just shitty cost savings decisions, look at the cents saved on muh eMMC!

 

[Croaking Spider]

The things I miss and the things I hate kinda run together.

- Not having a physical manual come with a physical copy of a game. Opening a case and seeing a slip of paper with a QR code or a URL where a booklet used to be fucks me up in a strange way. I still have my manual for Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. It's 183 pages of game information, world lore, information about the races, and all sorts of shit. The thing is a fucking tome. I remember Morrowind having a pretty thick manual as well.

-The internet has essentially been condensed to a network of apps as far as mass usage goes. Smaller niche forums and websites have all been merged into a Reddit blob.

- RGB lights taking over pretty much everything in the PC industry. I just want a GPU and case that aren't going to fucking glow. It's one thing when it's optional, it's another when it comes with it.

-Fuck the mass adoption of Discord. I'd rather be a fucking boomer and go back to Ventrilo or Teamspeak, but those are basically moonrunes to most people these days.

-The focus on optimization being lost as time progresses. Since storage is now relatively cheap, file sizes keep getting larger and larger. The advent of PC gaming came about from 1st and 2nd generation coders trying to balance what they could achieve in terms of presentation with the hardware that was available at the time.

The "Doom runs on everything" meme is a testament to how well optimized the game was to run on the hardware at the time. Kind of an aside I suppose, but here's a video that skims the idea. The title is kind of clickbait, but the subject matter gives a good perspective of why people treat John Carmack like a techno-wizard.