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

[Señora Airi]

I hate how everything has to have a 'cutesy' and 'fun' error message now.

Not just tech; there's several businesses that have cutesy close signs (saying closed but awesome, or something to that nature).

 

[AnOminous]

knowing them it'd boil down to "there are demons on my computer"

There are, though.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

knowing them it'd boil down to "there are demons on my computer"

 

[Scuffed Marisa]

I hate modern OS designs and by proxy all modern software. To me the look and feel of Windows 98 was the perfect environment. Its corporate, serious, seemingly sterile carapace made it possible that with use the machine starts to feel truly yours. It's hard to explain. The seriousness of the design organically takes on an intimate and comforting familiarity very easily. This was to an extent carried over to Win XP with a classic theme. Nowadays everything genuinely looks and feels like it's made for pajeets and retarded children. Too many bright lights, colors, gimmicks. It appeals to the savages who like shiny trinkets.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

i agree but i think it's more late 90s corporate style vs. modern corporate style, a lot of companies are going for that overly minimal look for all of their shit, whether food brand or operating system interface

 

[Wisseau]

It's been undoubtedly mentioned before, but I absolutely hate how with every generation of MS OS, there's less options for user customization, as well as privacy.

I know I'm not smart enough to tweak Win10 back to how Win7 was in terms of user-friendliness, but I'm smart enough to rip out most of the telemetry and run a few programs that kill some of the more invasive parts of the OS (eg: Win advertising games and MS store apps whenever you open up your start menu). Hell, I've killed Edge with Revo Uninstaller.

I just want things back to the way it was before companies saw dollar signs in their eyes and realized how much money they could make selling off user data.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

I like the Galaxy S3 but it's way too big for me. Even my S3 mini is just slightly too big for my hands.
The iPhone 4 I was using was no joke the perfect fit for my girly hands, it's square shape meant I could rest it on my pinkie finger while still being able to touch the top of the screen with my thumb because of the tiny size it was so good.

The Galaxy S5 was the last perfect Samsung phone.

Had all of the goodies. Removal battery, IR blaster, SD card slot, etc.

The S7 was the last good Samsung smartphone. "Sealed" battery but it could be replaced with tools. SD card slot as well.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

Sealed" battery but it could be replaced with tools

i wish id known this, my battery gave out on me a few years ago and i ended up just replacing the phone, i fucking hate microUSB type c charger shits

 

[888Flux]

i agree but i think it's more late 90s corporate style vs. modern corporate style, a lot of companies are going for that overly minimal look for all of their shit, whether food brand or operating system interface

make it look like Apple

but GAYER

 

[Gargamel]

i agree but i think it's more late 90s corporate style vs. modern corporate style, a lot of companies are going for that overly minimal look for all of their shit, whether food brand or operating system interface

Not only minimal, but tons of wasted space too.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

diss:

A new trend that can be disturbing is suggested responses. Really generic stuff like "Sounds great!" or "Okay, see you then.", etc.

There's also "predictions" of "what you want to type" as you're typing.

miss:

I also miss plain HTML email online. I don't know of any online email service that doesn't require JavaScript to work now. GMail used to be one, but today they dropped support of that for the JavaScript heavy version that's loaded with ad elements -- even in the hundreds or more like with YT -- and has both of those annoying features.

 

[GreenJacket]

Smash smartphones. Break smartphones. Roundhouse kick a smartphone out of someone's hand. Toss smartphones into gravel machines. Launch smartphones into the ocean. Play hackey-sack with a smartphone. Download malware onto smartphones. Use smartphones as target practice. Expose smartphones to an MRI. Turn smartphones into IEDs.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

To me the look and feel of Windows 98 was the perfect environment.

What about plain text, like DOS or those early '80s "microcomputers"?

smartphones

While I don't miss really slow dialup internet, I miss how in the '90s, cellphones weren't as common as they got in the '00s.

 

[TVB]

While I don't miss really slow dialup internet, I miss how in the '90s, cellphones weren't as common as they got in the '00s.

Including flip phones

 

[frozen_runner]

I fucking hate that computer programs are "apps" now. Applefags ruin everything.

 

[TVB]

I fucking hate that computer programs are "apps" now. Applefags ruin everything.

Weren't they called apps before iPhones became a thing? Applications (being short for apps) were thing during a time home computers became a huge things during the 80s, 90s and 2000s

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

Weren't they called apps before iPhones became a thing?

Programs

 

[TVB]

Programs

Still, they're the same thing

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Including flip phones

Apple

IIRC, the "smartphone" didn't really go mainstream until around 2010, after the iPhone came out in 2007. Also I thought those "flip phones" were annoying back in the '00s.

Weren't they called apps before iPhones became a thing?

Programs

Or software.

 

[TheDataHorder]

Still, they're the same thing

partly, they achieve the same goal (some at least) and are usually programmed in the same way (unfortunately its shit programming)
but how they are designed and what they run on are very different
apps are designed to be as simple as possible and run in what's called a sandbox, a limited environment that limits access to the rest of the device.
think of the camera on your phone, apps have to ask your phone for access to it which in turn asks you if you want to give the app access to your camera.
contrast this on your laptop where things are less restrictive, apps can view system files and access your laptops camera without asking you for permission. (on windows the light on your camera is controlled by the program itself not windows)
while they seem similar, they are very different.