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Be nice if there was open-sourced versions you could get or install if there isn't already. They can be nice.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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You sorta can diy them. Basically find any camera that has RTSP capabilities and mount it at the front door. Pipe the stream into a foss nvr software like Frigate and turn person detection on. The older Wyze cams can be modified with firmware to enable this for cheap wifi enabled cameras.
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I hate to be a "you can do that with a Pi" person, but I've seen quite a few implementations, with additional alerts served through email, SMS, and I even saw one through telegram. I've seen some Wyze implementations, but also generic $20 logitech webcams with some additions added. I'm sure the exact thing can be done with other cheap small form factor computers. Though at this point we're just talking about normal surveillance cameras and not specifically doorbell. I saw one fella set theirs up to greet people by their name if he had their photo on file. Creepy, but interesting. Definitely a porch package thief deterrent when the camera is talking to you.
MotioneyeOS is also pretty neat if you like single-board stuff.
ATI Escapee
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Buttons plz. Tactile feedback. Please
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Reolink has one now. It's not open source but it's not cloud. Obviously like all of the finest stuff made in China you'll want to block it at the router. But it seems like it should be able to do all local stuff with the backend of your choice.
I don't have one yet, as I still need to get the conduit to the front door.
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Those are all fair game too. I brought up those wyze cube cams because they're cheap, easy to waterproof and mount discreetly. The wifi antennas in them are also decent for a relatively easy front doorway mount. Foss firmware like openmiko will also block it from phoning home if you have no router with firewall capabilities.
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I don't think I miss tech by itself, I miss the feelings I had when tech was special, for me that was seeing the first Prince of Persia running on some 80286 IBM PC in the accounting office, and later one of the Test Drive games. That was jaw dropping for a kid, and completely out of the possibilities of my family too. I think it kept being fascinating until around the Nehalem period (for the younger dudes, that's Intel generation before the Sandy Bridge 2600K stuff). Back then there used to be crazy tech demos (for the time), mostly by Nvidia, they removed all of them that had chicks in skimpy clothes from the site.
There is a rather large nostalgia community on YT and online with people building PCs with old CPUs and GPUs, Voodoo cards from 3DFX are highly prized for example.
As for new trends I hate, I don't think I hate anything, more that it disappoints me. I don't want 450W GPUs at 1600 Euro, I don't want AI that lies about objective reality, I don't want CPUs that run at 100C under load by design, VR is meh, TVs I don't even use, dunno.
There is a rather large nostalgia community on YT and online with people building PCs with old CPUs and GPUs, Voodoo cards from 3DFX are highly prized for example.
As for new trends I hate, I don't think I hate anything, more that it disappoints me. I don't want 450W GPUs at 1600 Euro, I don't want AI that lies about objective reality, I don't want CPUs that run at 100C under load by design, VR is meh, TVs I don't even use, dunno.
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Too late to edit the post, Gamer's Nexus coincidentally made a video about one of the unreleased Voodoo cards with 4 GPUs on it, it's a pretty good watch. This is the intersection between two eras in GPUs, Nvidia is about to take over, with ATI also releasing some of its best regarded series soon, while 3DFX will slide into oblivion (and in Nvidia's portfolio).
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I miss RSS. I know it still exists, but not in the way it used to. Major news websites have killed it altogether, and it was the tits to fire up my RSS reader every morning with a cup of coffee and read the news like a boomer with a newspaper.
At this point I'm still stubbornly using it, but only for a couple of things - the Mysterious Universe podcast (because two smartasses discussing all manner of things woo) and the KF Telegram. (because I refuse to use or install that shit)
I don't even use a reader anymore, I just use blogtrottr and get new items as emails.
I just miss it. Now you have to go to websites because there often isn't even a truncated feed, and they get to farm your clicks and besides that, "news articles" are usually just some shitty video slideshow made for toddlers. And beyond that, big name social media sites have just about made it go extinct.
At this point I'm still stubbornly using it, but only for a couple of things - the Mysterious Universe podcast (because two smartasses discussing all manner of things woo) and the KF Telegram. (because I refuse to use or install that shit)
I don't even use a reader anymore, I just use blogtrottr and get new items as emails.
I just miss it. Now you have to go to websites because there often isn't even a truncated feed, and they get to farm your clicks and besides that, "news articles" are usually just some shitty video slideshow made for toddlers. And beyond that, big name social media sites have just about made it go extinct.
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I've been trying to find a replacement RSS reader myself, but a lot of them offer shit I don't want. I'm still using FeedDemon after all this time..I miss RSS. I know it still exists, but not in the way it used to. Major news websites have killed it altogether, and it was the tits to fire up my RSS reader every morning with a cup of coffee and read the news like a boomer with a newspaper.
At this point I'm still stubbornly using it, but only for a couple of things - the Mysterious Universe podcast (because two smartasses discussing all manner of things woo) and the KF Telegram. (because I refuse to use or install that shit)
I don't even use a reader anymore, I just use blogtrottr and get new items as emails.
I just miss it. Now you have to go to websites because there often isn't even a truncated feed, and they get to farm your clicks and besides that, "news articles" are usually just some shitty video slideshow made for toddlers. And beyond that, big name social media sites have just about made it go extinct.
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How is that working nowadays? I thought it's built in browser piggy backed on IE7, or I could be wrong. Unless it can be configured to use your default browser? It's been nearly a decade since I last used it, I can't recall if that was even an option.
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Works completely fine, haven't adjusted any of the configurations at all. The built-in browser works great and I'm able to download audio directly off it. For my very simple needs it works great.
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Just reinstalled it, and it's trying to use IE on my machine but I can in fact change the default browser, so shit opens in Brave instead. 10/10 would recommend.
Time to fall in love with the internet again and hunt down dem RSS feeds.
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I'll have to swap it over then so its more efficient. Thanks for taking a peek. Welcome back to the internet comrade.
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It should be trivial to make a program that parses websites without RSS and convert it to RSS format, the only problem is paid content. I could imagine a program that runs locally with your RSS reader that does exactly that, with plug-ins to handle websites in a non-standard format. Most bigger websites should have standard formats to handle accessibility for text-to-speech.I miss RSS. I know it still exists, but not in the way it used to. Major news websites have killed it altogether, and it was the tits to fire up my RSS reader every morning with a cup of coffee and read the news like a boomer with a newspaper.
At this point I'm still stubbornly using it, but only for a couple of things - the Mysterious Universe podcast (because two smartasses discussing all manner of things woo) and the KF Telegram. (because I refuse to use or install that shit)
I don't even use a reader anymore, I just use blogtrottr and get new items as emails.
I just miss it. Now you have to go to websites because there often isn't even a truncated feed, and they get to farm your clicks and besides that, "news articles" are usually just some shitty video slideshow made for toddlers. And beyond that, big name social media sites have just about made it go extinct.
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What if tech really is approaching the limits of what's physically possible*, and the future of computers is just more processors and more things done with existing electronics - like new "social" trends such as new "social media" crap and more done with AI?
In other words, while scifi may portray a future like Star Trek or going "energy beings", what if modern world is pretty much as far as tech can go, aside from more AI?
*(at least aside from genetic engineering and nanotech)
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Tren Shapiro
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Fine with me. Very rarely do I have a problem where the solution is more processing power and not better software.
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Looking at new tvs, and all the higher end ones lack a headphone jack. Think only the Panasonic ones still do have them, and they aren't even sold in many parts of the world. Fuck wireless headphones, sound worse and needs charging , rather just have a long cable .
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Exactly why I went back to it. Another use is the federal court PACER system has rss feeds so you can filter them and get instant notifications on cases. If you want. I haven't been doing it lately, though it was kind of fun to have all of Russhole Greer's cases on instant notify.
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YT continues the quest to get ever crappier: now on the front page, the first suggestion is always an unblockable ad video.
new YT:
- only likes visible
- ads, ads everywhere
- worse search engine
- vids on front page picked based on "monetization" or "social engineering"
- promotion of The Narrative™ and censorship of "wrongthink"
- YT "influencers" may fixate too much on "monetizing"
- a lot of SJW and "politically correct" stuff because Clown World
- "Try YouTube Kids ... Comments are turned off. Learn more"
- there's that bland flat "smartphone" look all over the site
- site doesn't even load without JavaScript
old YT:
+ rating videos with stars or at least visible dislikes
+ less advertising
+ better search engine
+ videos on front page based on what's being watched most
+ less censorship and no "The Narrative™ Says" blue boxes
+ not as much fixation on "monetizing"
+ much less "politically correct" stuff before Current Year
+ no comments disabled because the algorithm "detects kids stuff"
+ more customizable personal pages
+ more functional without JavaScript
- only likes visible
- ads, ads everywhere
- worse search engine
- vids on front page picked based on "monetization" or "social engineering"
- promotion of The Narrative™ and censorship of "wrongthink"
- YT "influencers" may fixate too much on "monetizing"
- a lot of SJW and "politically correct" stuff because Clown World
- "Try YouTube Kids ... Comments are turned off. Learn more"
- there's that bland flat "smartphone" look all over the site
- site doesn't even load without JavaScript
old YT:
+ rating videos with stars or at least visible dislikes
+ less advertising
+ better search engine
+ videos on front page based on what's being watched most
+ less censorship and no "The Narrative™ Says" blue boxes
+ not as much fixation on "monetizing"
+ much less "politically correct" stuff before Current Year
+ no comments disabled because the algorithm "detects kids stuff"
+ more customizable personal pages
+ more functional without JavaScript
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