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The terms for allowing your games in a marketplace would need to change to reflect that. Many games weren't able to become BC on Xbox One because of licensing restrictions. Some developers involved with older games are defunct.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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Oh, various different things over the years. I had to convert some WMA files to MP3 the other day and was looking for some kind of simple utility program that would do it with less hassle than VLC. But as usual, every search result on every search engine for like the first fifty pages is fucking ESL pajeets trying to get you to pay them to convert files in a web browser.
Such programs used to be easy to find, plentiful, and free. Now it's become a huge pain in the ass.
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I wanted to suggest easy drag and drop programs with GUI(and a settings screen) that could batch convert WMA to MP3 but the only thing I can think of is ffmpeg and that's command line. That's what I used for a couple of albums in WMA.
I know the feeling though. And WMA is the worst.
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ffmpeg
The swiss army chainsaw of media conversion. With apologies to PERL.
If you can figure out how, it can probably do just about anything.
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Yeah, and I'm not averse to command line stuff in principle, but when it's a program I use maybe one or twice a year, it's really nice not to think "Oh Christ, now what were my options here again? How the hell did this syntax work?" and all that shit every time I want to use it. Those are the situations where it's really nice just to have a simple little GUI.
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I'm sure this has been said already and is definitely unoriginal, but i miss flash animation working normally without needing the extra steps and i hate tik tok.
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I don't do anything really complicated so it's usually just 30 seconds on stackexchange or whatever and some pajeet already answered that. If I do something fairly commonly I just alias it to some two letter command.
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Software developers disregarding Docker's microservice philosophy to create bloated, difficult to debug containers. Doing it properly requires the developer to actually learn containerization concepts and networking which many of them can't be bothered with. What you get is a container running multiple services nigger rigged together which can't leverage the benefits of containerization. The philosophy is to containerize each part of the application and have them talk to one another via (often virtual) networking or a socket. This enables you to update and scale pieces of your stack instead of its entirety. It also allows your containers to be ephemeral if you've set your storage backends properly. By putting everything(the webserver, the webapp,cron job, database) in one container, you lose all this and create a mess.
Gitlab's docker container is atroctious. It treats a container like a Linux VM and runs Chef inside itself. Gitlab wasn't designed for containerization and its own Linux install is pretty garbage. What you get is one container that has 7+ services running on it, has one massive config file, and runs Chef inside itself to trigger a reconfigure where it reads the massive config and regenerates configs inside itself. I've seen containers where the devs build the webapp in the container and serve the application. They make no effort to move the compiled webapp to a container with only the necessary dependencies. Instead they have a 1+ GB container with all the development packages. Even worse are the non-commercial projects that bake in Nginx and certbot instead of using a separate container. You have to modify the Dockerfile to remove Nginx if you're using your own reverse proxy or don't need a LetsEncrypt cert.
This reminds me of the competency crisis. The devs (and ops) don't seem to have Linux experience, don't actually understand containerization, and treat it as a package manager to make development easier for themselves. In the end it creates a web of problems and eliminates the benefits of containerization in favor of unqualified or lazy devs.
Gitlab's docker container is atroctious. It treats a container like a Linux VM and runs Chef inside itself. Gitlab wasn't designed for containerization and its own Linux install is pretty garbage. What you get is one container that has 7+ services running on it, has one massive config file, and runs Chef inside itself to trigger a reconfigure where it reads the massive config and regenerates configs inside itself. I've seen containers where the devs build the webapp in the container and serve the application. They make no effort to move the compiled webapp to a container with only the necessary dependencies. Instead they have a 1+ GB container with all the development packages. Even worse are the non-commercial projects that bake in Nginx and certbot instead of using a separate container. You have to modify the Dockerfile to remove Nginx if you're using your own reverse proxy or don't need a LetsEncrypt cert.
This reminds me of the competency crisis. The devs (and ops) don't seem to have Linux experience, don't actually understand containerization, and treat it as a package manager to make development easier for themselves. In the end it creates a web of problems and eliminates the benefits of containerization in favor of unqualified or lazy devs.
Because devs are lazy, this is the lastest cool thing, and it makes their life easier but yours more difficult if they do it wrong. For people new to self hosting who aren't deep into containerization or Linux, it's extremely off-putting the second something goes off script.
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I'm an old C-nile, but this is my problem with contemporary containerization. It's an excuse to make your build process unimaginably fragile. I'm not sure I'll ever be persuaded that the benefit outweighs the cost.
If there's a case for containers, it's this. The fucking LetsEncrypt model is literally: "Oh, just give us root on your webserver. NBD." And they claim this improves security somehow.
No. Fuck you. At this point, HTTPS is a only-when-necessary thing for me.
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There are pretty large benefits if done properly but the problem is you need someone who knows how it all works since its yet another layer of abstraction. Kubernetes is even worse. Employers don't like hiring operations resources and developers hire other developers because they don't understand how to interview for ops positions. This then creates problems since the dev in charge of operations doesn't know what he's doing. It's apparently a new strategy to get into the software engineer industry if you can't pass a leetcode interview since ops has lower coding standards. This has caused a flood of failed aspiring software engineers to apply for devops and learn the bare minimum to pass an interview. You see a lot of full stack + CI-CD + cloud job openings for $120k/yr which is hilarious.
Try using DNS auth instead. Caddy supports this with modules for your provider and I think certbot has some level of support for it. You just need to generate a restricted API key for it to use. Caddy v2 is worth looking into if you're reverse proxying a lot of self hosted services. Don't use the json config format, though.
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Yes, I understand that this is how containerization is sold to corporate. And yes, I imagine that on global-tier systems, some degree of such is called for on some level. But it's like you say, the industry is sick, sick, sick. The "benefits of containerization" are almost always eclipsed by other/better strategies, like identifying and replacing underperformers on staff. I find that when people actually try to reify these alleged benefits in real-world scenarios, there are almost always better solutions.
My entire development employment experience has revolved around cutting out bloated layers of abstraction to the delight of my clients, save the time I spent at [Fortune 500 company] on [database server software], so I am incredibly biased on this matter. But I'm also someone who has written his own toy Linux distro several times over, so I get the weird packaging nonsense case for containers, I'd just resolve it by rolling my own distro.
Thanks for the DNS auth idea. That feels so much more sane. My understanding of LetsEncrypt came from its early release, which was incredibly underwhelming.
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Good luck with that.
I was tasked with keeping in budget while expanding operations. A lot of the infrastructure was made as simplistic as possible. The replacement engineer tried implementing Kubernetes for everything. Turns out he didn't actually know what he was doing and he was using premade kubernetes manifests to deploy common data analysis solutions. This was the same guy who cost our team $12k in logging costs because he misconfigured an AWS Lambda and didn't track the resources he owned. When he moved to another team, we were unable to manage the clusters which were not maintained since deployment and weren't deployed in Terraform. We ended up destroying them and implementing the systems elsewhere. Problem is Kubernetes is a meme with a very specific use case and meme technologies get picked up by hipster tech guys and management who thinks it'll save them money. The meme technologies made by big tech get implemented by engineers at other companies to pad the engineers' resumes so they can get into FAANG. It ends up fucking over everyone else but the FAANG sociopathic culture has metastasized.
Keeping things simple seems to turn off the soydev interviewers, no matter how ingenious the setup is.
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I had no earthly idea GoldWave still existed
Can a brother hook me up with a Cool Edit 95 serial?
I've been using Goldwave since I was a child. it's an alternative to Audactiy to me.I had no earthly idea GoldWave still existed
Can a brother hook me up with a Cool Edit 95 serial?
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Docker solves a problem that shouldn't even exist in the first place
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I don't have much that I miss, because everything I used to love about the past, I still use today. As long as there are emulators and I can still pirate software, movies and music I'm good. I still have access to old (non-IOT) appliances and cars and I happily stick to them. When I want to speak to someone I call, text or Whatsapp them. I think smart watches are fucking retarded so I don't have one.
What I hate is the stuff that has become unavoidable, mainly the Internet shit:
1. The whole race for data thing is very transparent and makes me lose hope for humanity. It's probably already been brought up numerous times, but here's some specific examples I've encountered:
A. I really don't like how every single website requires some kind of sign up or will just flat out ask for your information. Recently I was looking up professional post grad courses for a relative, and rather than just display the details of the courses such as duration or admission requirements, they put a contact form where you fill in your name, phone number, email address and ID so they can contact you with the info. It was so infuriating that I just closed the site.
B. Now every store from Clothing to Gadgets to fucking Walmart asks whether you want your receipt emailed, SMS'd to you or just printed. It legitimately scares me that the option even exists. People will actually choose email/SMS and then wonder why there's an uptick in spam emails/phone calls since they bought that cute blouse last week.
C. I have to create an account for every single piece of software I use at work, and pretty much all of them force you to consent to receiving "emails about news, offers and new products" in addition to the terms and conditions. Some even ask weird questions like how many employees your company has and their phone number. Like wtf. Whatever happened to just entering your license key? Now fucking Autodesk and Hilti need to know whether I prefer halal or vegetarian food?
It's manageable because it's my work email and our IT guys are very good at filtering spam, but on an individual consumer level, I will never buy licenses from any of these scumbag companies. They can migrate permanently onto the cloud and I'd happily pirate the 2019 versions. Fuck every single one of them.
D. I will admit for a lot of this stuff I just went along with it because of convenience before my eyes were opened by how disgustingly pervasive and shameless it all is, but I'm happy to say I never fell for the AI grift.
Fuck Chat GPT and fuck Bing AI. I will never ever use the former as long as you need an account to do so, but MS has forced the latter into Edge to the extent where simply scrolling up or down on bing search opens up BingAI, which I don't remember installing or agreeing to. It was so bizarre the first time I saw it.
It's so scummy how you're being forced to use stuff nowadays, which brings me to my next gripe with modern tech:
2. The way software developers try to trick you into clicking things you obviously don't want to click. I'm talking things like :
A. Very tiny x buttons on pop up ads while clicking literally anywhere else on the screen opens 3 separate webpages with new ads.
B. Fake "Close" buttons that are larger and highlighted over the real close button that open more ads instead of exit.
C. I have IObit uninstaller installed to remove stuff that require "admin access (whatever the fuck that means considering it's MY laptop)" to remove, and pretty much everyday it prompts me to install an update. The Continue button is made bold while the Cancel button is almost transparent. A minor inconvenience for the service, so everyday I click Cancel, but then it responds with an "Are you sure" dialog. Now here's where I think it gets scummy. Normally when you opt to cancel or end something, the prompt is presented such that you pick the affirmative and or highlighted option, as in, "Yes I want to cancel, fuck off". E.g.:
So by default we're primed to go for the highlighted, affirmative answer. These motherfuckers at IObit know this, so they write "Click continue to update" in small text, swap the functions of "Continue" and "Cancel" and again make the Continue button bold, knowing that you'd naturally click Continue as in "Yes continue to cancel this update". You'd have to click the unhighlighted, smaller Cancel button to actually cancel the update, which is the opposite of what you'd have to do in other software. Now this fucks me up because I always have to focus extra hard when I cancel in other software.
I think it's so retarded because I can't imagine what the endgame with all of this is. "Hah! I tricked you into clicking on this ad. Now give me money". "I tricked you into installing this software. Now just leave it there. Don't stop the download or uninstall it". Is that what they had in mind with this? Are there people who, after getting tricked into walking into a store they have no interest in, would pull out their wallets and start shopping rather than just walk out annoyed at having had their time wasted?
3. Why are the cookie options for every website:
Accept All
See preferences
????
Where the fuck is "Reject All"? And related to that, why is it so easy to create an account for anything but you have to do the equivalent of going on a LOTR style quest to delete it? It amazes me that this stuff is even legal.
4. Newer devices come with all these insane specs, but they never feel faster. With the exception of near instant booting with SSDs, everything seems barely faster than it was 10 years ago. I'm not an expert but I suspect it's because they load new phones and computers with useless crap that defeats the purpose of having all that extra capacity. It's insane how my big bro used to own a PC with 1GB total in storage and we did everything on it, but my 128GB phone has 18.6GB reserved for "system data,", without which thephone can't even run. It's crazy how both my old laptop with 4GB Ram and my current work one with 16GB ram both hover around 85% in Ram and CPU utilization most of the time. Now even Microsoft Edge takes like 1.7GB of Ram when you have a couple tabs open. There are always a billion background apps running that I don't see the need for.
It feels like starting with a 3 litre pot and then making a newer, bigger pot every year, but pre-filling it with enough crap that there's always 3 litres of available space. By year 7 you're bragging about your 24 litre pot that isn't effectively better than your first 3 litre one.
5. I hate social media in general because of how much it encourages narcissistic behaviour, but (at least for now) they're easy enough to avoid by just not having an account, though some of them have started this bullshit where you can't even view the site without an account. I don't give a shit as I'll just never go there if it becomes mandatory. I wish more people would resist this shit so these companies realize they can't get away with just anything.
From Asimov to Phillip K. Dick to the guys who wrote The Expanse, we are warned time and time again about the logical end to this fetishization of tech, convenience and commercialization of everything, and yet we seem content with running at full speed towards that end. I hate it so much.
What I hate is the stuff that has become unavoidable, mainly the Internet shit:
1. The whole race for data thing is very transparent and makes me lose hope for humanity. It's probably already been brought up numerous times, but here's some specific examples I've encountered:
A. I really don't like how every single website requires some kind of sign up or will just flat out ask for your information. Recently I was looking up professional post grad courses for a relative, and rather than just display the details of the courses such as duration or admission requirements, they put a contact form where you fill in your name, phone number, email address and ID so they can contact you with the info. It was so infuriating that I just closed the site.
B. Now every store from Clothing to Gadgets to fucking Walmart asks whether you want your receipt emailed, SMS'd to you or just printed. It legitimately scares me that the option even exists. People will actually choose email/SMS and then wonder why there's an uptick in spam emails/phone calls since they bought that cute blouse last week.
C. I have to create an account for every single piece of software I use at work, and pretty much all of them force you to consent to receiving "emails about news, offers and new products" in addition to the terms and conditions. Some even ask weird questions like how many employees your company has and their phone number. Like wtf. Whatever happened to just entering your license key? Now fucking Autodesk and Hilti need to know whether I prefer halal or vegetarian food?
It's manageable because it's my work email and our IT guys are very good at filtering spam, but on an individual consumer level, I will never buy licenses from any of these scumbag companies. They can migrate permanently onto the cloud and I'd happily pirate the 2019 versions. Fuck every single one of them.
D. I will admit for a lot of this stuff I just went along with it because of convenience before my eyes were opened by how disgustingly pervasive and shameless it all is, but I'm happy to say I never fell for the AI grift.
Fuck Chat GPT and fuck Bing AI. I will never ever use the former as long as you need an account to do so, but MS has forced the latter into Edge to the extent where simply scrolling up or down on bing search opens up BingAI, which I don't remember installing or agreeing to. It was so bizarre the first time I saw it.
Simple search
Scroll up just once and suddenly you're here:
Scroll up just once and suddenly you're here:
2. The way software developers try to trick you into clicking things you obviously don't want to click. I'm talking things like :
A. Very tiny x buttons on pop up ads while clicking literally anywhere else on the screen opens 3 separate webpages with new ads.
B. Fake "Close" buttons that are larger and highlighted over the real close button that open more ads instead of exit.
C. I have IObit uninstaller installed to remove stuff that require "admin access (whatever the fuck that means considering it's MY laptop)" to remove, and pretty much everyday it prompts me to install an update. The Continue button is made bold while the Cancel button is almost transparent. A minor inconvenience for the service, so everyday I click Cancel, but then it responds with an "Are you sure" dialog. Now here's where I think it gets scummy. Normally when you opt to cancel or end something, the prompt is presented such that you pick the affirmative and or highlighted option, as in, "Yes I want to cancel, fuck off". E.g.:
I think it's so retarded because I can't imagine what the endgame with all of this is. "Hah! I tricked you into clicking on this ad. Now give me money". "I tricked you into installing this software. Now just leave it there. Don't stop the download or uninstall it". Is that what they had in mind with this? Are there people who, after getting tricked into walking into a store they have no interest in, would pull out their wallets and start shopping rather than just walk out annoyed at having had their time wasted?
3. Why are the cookie options for every website:
Accept All
See preferences
????
Where the fuck is "Reject All"? And related to that, why is it so easy to create an account for anything but you have to do the equivalent of going on a LOTR style quest to delete it? It amazes me that this stuff is even legal.
4. Newer devices come with all these insane specs, but they never feel faster. With the exception of near instant booting with SSDs, everything seems barely faster than it was 10 years ago. I'm not an expert but I suspect it's because they load new phones and computers with useless crap that defeats the purpose of having all that extra capacity. It's insane how my big bro used to own a PC with 1GB total in storage and we did everything on it, but my 128GB phone has 18.6GB reserved for "system data,", without which thephone can't even run. It's crazy how both my old laptop with 4GB Ram and my current work one with 16GB ram both hover around 85% in Ram and CPU utilization most of the time. Now even Microsoft Edge takes like 1.7GB of Ram when you have a couple tabs open. There are always a billion background apps running that I don't see the need for.
It feels like starting with a 3 litre pot and then making a newer, bigger pot every year, but pre-filling it with enough crap that there's always 3 litres of available space. By year 7 you're bragging about your 24 litre pot that isn't effectively better than your first 3 litre one.
5. I hate social media in general because of how much it encourages narcissistic behaviour, but (at least for now) they're easy enough to avoid by just not having an account, though some of them have started this bullshit where you can't even view the site without an account. I don't give a shit as I'll just never go there if it becomes mandatory. I wish more people would resist this shit so these companies realize they can't get away with just anything.
From Asimov to Phillip K. Dick to the guys who wrote The Expanse, we are warned time and time again about the logical end to this fetishization of tech, convenience and commercialization of everything, and yet we seem content with running at full speed towards that end. I hate it so much.
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I hate the trend of putting the bare minimum of ports on TV's. Samsung is the worst. For the cost, like nigga, I expect more than 2 ports! And they only have one composite port "red yellow white", and almost never have a VGA port. Even a basic bitch Onn Walmart monitor has a Vga port but this 75 inch TV doesn't? Also the optical audio port is dying out. I hate it so much bros