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

[Mysterious Figure]

Isn't it "funny" how an iPhone from 10 years ago (iPhone 5/6) has equivalent or even easier disassembly than virtually every smartphone today?

I tried to repair a modern Motorola phone a few months ago, and the bastards fucking superglued everything together. I just bought a new phone from a different company.

 

[Cougar Pump]

Headphone jacks in TVs I miss. My 2022 Panasonic Oled is one of the last ones with it, the new 2023 LG C3 I got for another room lacks it. Just a nice way to watch TV during the night if you don't want to disturb others or if you have a better set of headphones than speakers. Forgetting all the downsides that come with Bluetooth audio, it's just cheaper to buy a extra long audio cable to convert a set of headphones to bluetooth for me.

These little BT receiver/sender units are great and cheap. They market them for cars but plug it straight into headphones and they'll power them for ages unless they're some high impedence monstrosities.

 

[Checkerboard Hero]

I miss Xfire, I could connect to all my Enemy Territory homies.

 

[Toolbox]

I tried to repair a modern Motorola phone a few months ago, and the bastards fucking superglued everything together. I just bought a new phone from a different company.

Got one of moto's flip phones as they're chink made thus way cheaper than the options from, say, Samsung, who also do the exact same shit in a product 2-3x the price. How egregious is it really versus a phone from them or any of the bigger chinkshit brands? Some of their options are actually pretty good these days, if you can actually get your hands on them.

 

[The Last Stand]

When products say they're "water resistant," yet people have an expectation that those devices are completely waterPROOF. It should go without saying that one should try to avoid liquid contact to technology as much as possible.

 

[AnOminous]

When products say they're "water resistant," yet people have an expectation that those devices are completely waterPROOF. It should go without saying that one should try to avoid liquid contact to technology as much as possible.

Patrick S. Tomlinson threw a tantrum when he took his "water resistant" thousand dollar phone swimming in a cenote and amazingly it stopped working.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

It also sucks when there is always that one stupid screw that will not come out, even when the others do.

Try all you want, all the screwdriver does is erode the top of that screw, as it remains firmly in place.

That's one of the best interview questions you can give a technician. How do you undo this? It demonstrates creativity.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The battery was swelling.

a house fire directly caused by a forgotten, and now swollen, lipo battery

A little swollen isn't necessarily a big threat (hopefully), but if the battery gets really bloated (from electrolyte between the plates breaking down into gas), it can easily lead to shorts in the battery that means thermal runaway that means fire.

that’ll finally be what motivates lawmakers to force batteries to be easily removable by the end user

How do you undo this? It demonstrates creativity.

Why do they make lithium ion batteries hard or impossible to remove anyway? Especially that soldering thing. That's BS.

 

[anklyscr]

Not read all 200 pages so it's probably been said before but.

Fuck this phone apps as a service shit. No I'm not paying 10 quid for some low level light app or whatever.
Don't do an update and then pivot to a AAAS monetisation method. Because that's the quickest way for me to delete that application and anything else you make off my phone.

Seriously I've seen 120 dollar per year subs for fucking filter apps or some other trivial shit.

 

[AnOminous]

Why do they make lithium ion batteries hard or impossible to remove anyway? Especially that soldering thing. That's BS.

Because they're scummy greedheads who want to force you to buy another item when the old one would work fine if they didn't deliberately break it. That should be consumer fraud and be actionable at a class action with triple damages.

 

[The Last Stand]

I had to agree to a ToS to play a single player game. SINGLE PLAYER.

 

[Book Thief]

I hate how every social media website has replaced exact dates with approximations. Like, instead of "Posted April 12 2019," it's "Posted 5 Years ago." Bitch, I want an exact fucking date, not some vague time-frame bullshit.

Why is it like this? Are people too stupid to figure out dates?

 

[JT Marlin]

Next laptop will be:

https://frame.work/

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I had to agree to a ToS to play a single player game. SINGLE PLAYER.

Seems the trend of TOSes and EULAs for sites and software started in America, and could still be a mainly American thing.

I hate how every social media website has replaced exact dates with approximations.

Another way Idiocracy is becoming reality? Also it may be possible to find the exact date by hovering the cursor or clicking on the approximation, but why the extra steps?

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

I hate how every social media website has replaced exact dates with approximations. Like, instead of "Posted April 12 2019," it's "Posted 5 Years ago." Bitch, I want an exact fucking date, not some vague time-frame bullshit.

Why is it like this? Are people too stupid to figure out dates?

I like this "posted 5 years ago" stuff if and only if you get the full date and time on hover and/or you get an option to change the way timestamps are displayed

 

[Stanley Ipkiss]

I hate how every social media website has replaced exact dates with approximations. Like, instead of "Posted April 12 2019," it's "Posted 5 Years ago." Bitch, I want an exact fucking date, not some vague time-frame bullshit.

Why is it like this? Are people too stupid to figure out dates?

It's so that you'll click the post/tweet/video if you wanna see the actual date.

They would tie you up, strap a phone to your face and set it to auto scroll Facebook/Twitter/Tiktok if they could get away with it, but for now they'll just have to settle for using every slimy trick they can think of to maximize "engagement".

 

[OneMillionRPM]

I hate how every social media website has replaced exact dates with approximations. Like, instead of "Posted April 12 2019," it's "Posted 5 Years ago." Bitch, I want an exact fucking date, not some vague time-frame bullshit.

Why is it like this? Are people too stupid to figure out dates?

Probably because social media is all about showing you the newest stuff and forgetting about it a day later, so by showing you a relative age instead of the date, they hope you see the "2 days ago", go "oh this is old ", and ignore it. Showing you the absolute date might cause you to think for yourself (a big no-no), figure it's not that old, and interact with it.

What pisses me off most about this is that it makes it impossible to date a post from a screenshot.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

The moment western countries cut shipping subsidies from China this problem will evaporate almost overnight.

Sadly some tards in Congress will call that racist then cash checks from Alibaba

If you use an android device you should get YouTube ReVanced, It allows you to watch videos ad-free and additionally has lots of quality of improvements, including the Return YouTube Dislikes extension.

Good to know

Why does Temu exist? It's cheaply made, flashy products on a Chinese marketplace. I know I probably answered my own question. You know how many ads I see about Temu on a regular basis? First TikTok, now that crap.

Temu exists to dumb absolutely SHIT tier Chinese consumer trash into the US and EU marketplace

When products say they're "water resistant," yet people have an expectation that those devices are completely waterPROOF. It should go without saying that one should try to avoid liquid contact to technology as much as possible.

People are retarded. Wristwatches used to be marketed as "Waterproof"

Then, tards started flooding and destroying their watches due to stupid shit like not screwing or pushing on the crown after setting the time and hopping in water and lawsuits started.

A few years after this idiocy started, the term "Water Resistant" arrives and becomes standard.

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

Why does Youtube keep periodically changing its UI? They did it again and this time they moved the description and comments boxes (including the like/share/save to playlist bar) to the side and made them tinier while using all of the extra space for suggested videos nobody cares about. Reading comments is also now a pain in the ass because it's way to the side instead of in the center and you can't read them if your playlist (or live chat apparently) tab is open since the playlist now covers both the comments and description boxes. Who is this even for? Mobile Youtube already has its own site so it's not like this is some cost-saving attempt to combine both the desktop and mobile formats. Is this really just a shameless way to force us to click on more videos (and get more ads)? Fuck the pajeet CEO of youtube.

On the topic of Youtube, the YT Music site also sucks ass because it's that type of site that doesn't let you use the normal right click toolbox

 

[HahaYes]

Why does Youtube keep periodically changing its UI?

The new YouTube UI is a fucking sin and you should use Invidious wherever possible anyways. Way too many sites keep changing their UI in the most god awful ways possible. It's like sites with high traffic want to make their users stab forks in their eyes after spending 10 seconds interacting with it. I'd wager it's to get more visit time while a user is looking around trying to find where the fuck to go to get what they want, or they're so brain rotted they genuinely thing their upgrades are improvements despite changing core features so drastically.