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

Gender: Xenomorph said:
Everything being so fucking bloated and loading screens galore.

Used to be a problem for adobe suite; 10 fucking minutes to open up any program... The thing opens up, ages after syncs and checks for updates (why would we ever do that in the bg), checks the cloud etc etc.
Now Visual Studio does the same. Won't even bother touching VSCode.

Remember when you could double click an icon and a tool would open 5 seconds later?
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Crack that shit then
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Patrick Bait-man said:
I miss when our computers greeted us with sounds like this:

Starting with Windows 8, they removed the startup sound; then came Windows 11, which returned it but it's minimal and barely audible. Most Linux distros don't have anything at all. macOS I'll give major props to for keeping theirs (which is an oldie they've tweaked since it's introduction), it still sounds great today.
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Worth noting that Brian Eno composed the Win95 startup sound.
 
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Not sure if this is the right topic but....

Why is it that my Windows 98 PC boots up fast and loads text files almost instantly, but modern windows and linux boot slow and take seconds to load simple text files?

In game consoles I at times miss when on and off were binary. Sometimes the addition of things like "sleep mode" or "hibernation" causes issues, like I've legit thought consoles died when really they just entered some weird hibernation state and I had to hold down the power button. This has happened with PCs as well actually.
 
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skykiii said:
Not sure if this is the right topic but....

Why is it that my Windows 98 PC boots up fast and loads text files almost instantly, but modern windows and linux boot slow and take seconds to load simple text files?
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I don't know? My linux machine boots up in about a minute and ten seconds and can load text files instantly.
 
Daytime running lights on cars fucking suck. The problem isn't so much the headlights themselves but the people who use them. These idiots are always driving at night without turning on their headlights. At least GM forces you to always have auto headlights. To add to that, the stupidly overpriced LED lights cars use that cost hundreds to replace instead of swapping out an 8 dollar bulb. I remember the big deal being they didn't have to be replaced as much as a traditional bulb, but these things break 5 years into their "10 year lifespan." I'd rather do the shitty bulb every 3 or 4 years.
 
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skykiii said:
Not sure if this is the right topic but....

Why is it that my Windows 98 PC boots up fast and loads text files almost instantly, but modern windows and linux boot slow and take seconds to load simple text files?

In game consoles I at times miss when on and off were binary. Sometimes the addition of things like "sleep mode" or "hibernation" causes issues, like I've legit thought consoles died when really they just entered some weird hibernation state and I had to hold down the power button. This has happened with PCs as well actually.
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tl;dw modern software is poorly written.
 
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Larry Potterfield said:
To add to that, the stupidly overpriced LED lights cars use that cost hundreds to replace instead of swapping out an 8 dollar bulb. I remember the big deal being they didn't have to be replaced as much as a traditional bulb, but these things break 5 years into their "10 year lifespan."
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That was a huge problem when household LED bulbs started becoming commonplace too. They were rated for a hundred thousand hours or something insane and the cob might've lasted that long, but the rectification/power section would get hot and burn out in a matter of months.

It's only in the last few years that they seem to have sorted it out.
 
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skykiii said:
Not sure if this is the right topic but....

Why is it that my Windows 98 PC boots up fast and loads text files almost instantly, but modern windows and linux boot slow and take seconds to load simple text files?

In game consoles I at times miss when on and off were binary. Sometimes the addition of things like "sleep mode" or "hibernation" causes issues, like I've legit thought consoles died when really they just entered some weird hibernation state and I had to hold down the power button. This has happened with PCs as well actually.
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I was about to blame having the OS on an HDD, but Windows 10 takes a moment to start things on my SSD. This might be my fault because I refuse to do a clean install. Still going to blame Microsoft because I can.
 
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A new tech trend that I absolutely loathe:

It seems to me that every new application has instead become some kind of web front-end for something running on someone's cloud server. I always thought the lemming-like worship of the "cloud" was an obvious astroturfed trap, and it amazes me that businesses raced to stick their nutsacks in Amazon's vise. They dumped all their internal web talent, threw all their processes and data onto servers that they do not control, and now pay through the nose for things that were *solved problems* a few years back,. Every time my workplace's azure servers get hacked or their gitlab goes down, I keep mentioning that I have all that stuff (email, fileservers, a gittea server) that I run as a side hobby project on any of my websites. (Not that I want to be a sysadmin, but there were entirely competent sysadmins that used to mange these things.) (I realize there are many security things that would need to be locked down to play that sort of role. 90% of business security pain seems like it could be solved by keeping to a backup schedule, but there is a 10% that is important. But here's the thing: cloud vendors *don't care* and don't actually put much effort into that problem. It's principle agent disasters all the way down.)

This is especially bad, and especially cancerous in the field of AI: Look at anyones "AI app" or "AI startup", and you almost never find something that you can actually run on your own hardware. It's always some pile of hardcoded spaghetti paths in some docker container with a dial-out to some megacorporation's servers, where the actual AI logic lives. If the internet goes down, so does your "application". If megacorp decides it wants to shut down their server or change their API, your "app" stops working.

Contrast with something like Calibre or VLC media player - freaking nukes could down the power-grid, and I could (after some fiddling with a battery inverter) play my music or read my books on *my computer* with *my data*.

Lemmings, all of them. I can't believe how thoroughly the PERSONAL computer revolution is being betrayed.
 
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Larry Potterfield said:
Daytime running lights on cars fucking suck. The problem isn't so much the headlights themselves but the people who use them. These idiots are always driving at night without turning on their headlights. At least GM forces you to always have auto headlights. To add to that, the stupidly overpriced LED lights cars use that cost hundreds to replace instead of swapping out an 8 dollar bulb. I remember the big deal being they didn't have to be replaced as much as a traditional bulb, but these things break 5 years into their "10 year lifespan." I'd rather do the shitty bulb every 3 or 4 years.
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Matt Damon said:
That was a huge problem when household LED bulbs started becoming commonplace too. They were rated for a hundred thousand hours or something insane and the cob might've lasted that long, but the rectification/power section would get hot and burn out in a matter of months.

It's only in the last few years that they seem to have sorted it out.
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On my 05 Hyundai if I want my fog lights on during the day, I have to switch that on, though I think they did that because they aren't LED.
 
Larry Potterfield said:
Daytime running lights on cars fucking suck. The problem isn't so much the headlights themselves but the people who use them. These idiots are always driving at night without turning on their headlights. At least GM forces you to always have auto headlights. To add to that, the stupidly overpriced LED lights cars use that cost hundreds to replace instead of swapping out an 8 dollar bulb. I remember the big deal being they didn't have to be replaced as much as a traditional bulb, but these things break 5 years into their "10 year lifespan." I'd rather do the shitty bulb every 3 or 4 years.
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The LED based DRL trend going off the deep end was kicked off by the wavy light design on the Audi R8 back in 2006. It was a pretty new design in lighting and everyone else jumped on it to this day. It has been tried and overdone to this point and they're another added expense as the car ages.

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Agent Abe Caprine said:
I was about to blame having the OS on an HDD, but Windows 10 takes a moment to start things on my SSD. This might be my fault because I refuse to do a clean install. Still going to blame Microsoft because I can.
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It can also depend on what's plugged into the computer. I boot from an SSD and it takes a minute but if I yank the old internal HDD and whatever usb disks/pens that are connected it is waaay faster.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
It can also depend on what's plugged into the computer. I boot from an SSD and it takes a minute but if I yank the old internal HDD and whatever usb disks/pens that are connected it is waaay faster.
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I almost always have a controller plugged into the Windows 10 computer. That may be the culprit. There's also a program(SCPtool) on it for making PS3 controllers work that I haven't gotten around to replacing. Outside of being abandonware, it works fine. Why fix what isn't broken?
 
Hyperbola said:
It seems to me that every new application has instead become some kind of web front-end for something running on someone's cloud server. I always thought the lemming-like worship of the "cloud" was an obvious astroturfed trap, and it amazes me that businesses raced to stick their nutsacks in Amazon's vise. They dumped all their internal web talent, threw all their processes and data onto servers that they do not control, and now pay through the nose for things that were *solved problems* a few years back,
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Blame the bean counters.
For some stupid reason in bean counter land paying a "Small amount" in perpetuity is better then paying a large lump sum that will last 5 to 10 years (or even longer) that would equal to be cheaper per month and in total cost of labor. And when you decommission the server you could even sell out to recoup (some parts like SSD/HDDs may be excluded due to infosec) some of the money you can't do that when you're tied to xaaS. Your XaaS sucks and you want out? Good luck trying to get your data to move some xaaS providers lock your data as part of the agreement (or at least they did when this bullshit started).
 
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stupidpieceofshit said:
Blame the bean counters.
For some stupid reason in bean counter land paying a "Small amount" in perpetuity is better then paying a large lump sum that will last 5 to 10 years (or even longer) that would equal to be cheaper per month and in total cost of labor. And when you decommission the server you could even sell out to recoup (some parts like SSD/HDDs may be excluded due to infosec) some of the money you can't do that when you're tied to xaaS. Your XaaS sucks and you want out? Good luck trying to get your data to move some xaaS providers lock your data as part of the agreement (or at least they did when this bullshit started).
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Worse than that; it's also the legal types wanting to push liability for servers getting "hacked" off to another company that's willing to take the risk.
 
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