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

[Womble of Wimbledon]

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.

My motorola smartphone has held up reasonably well despite being insanely cheap compared to other phones, even OPPO phones were 3-4x more expensive. At that price point it really doesn't matter so much if it packs up after a few years. Even the most robust smartphone doesn't have a very good lifespan due to planned obsolescence.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

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

Google needs to give those front end monkeys something to do otherwise they start throwing fits and toppling trashcans in the mess halls.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

My motorola smartphone has held up reasonably well despite being insanely cheap compared to other phones, even OPPO phones were 3-4x more expensive. At that price point it really doesn't matter so much if it packs up after a few years. Even the most robust smartphone doesn't have a very good lifespan due to planned obsolescence.

My Moto X4 lasted about 5 years. Only replaced it because I had to. The Samsung A135U is pretty decent so far. Great battery life. Also has a headphone jack and supports SD cards. If the battery was removeable, it'd be a 100/10. Why the hell do cheap phones have more features than phones that cost as much or more than my gaming PC?

 

[anklyscr]

Fucking windows updates.
This might not be the place for it but I'll rant anyway.

fucking cunt corp. Sorry microsoft have done some sneaky fuck update on my pc. Turned it off last night and I've come home from the mines to find the display port isn't working.
45 mins of fucking about later and I've got it back only to find some soulless pajeet has put some ads in my start menu and fucked with the setting program.again.

so now I've got 15mins of helldivers before bed and having to go down t'pit again tomorrow.

people involved in this update are the advertisers and marketeers of the computer world.

 

[geckogoy]

i occasionally lose a bit of unsaved space station 13 work because my windows VM rebooted itself for updates, fortunately nothing important

 

[The Last Stand]

Google needs to give those front end monkeys something to do otherwise they start throwing fits and toppling trashcans in the mess halls.

Google needs a tech support number. It's ridiculous how there's NO way to contact them.

 

[Creative Username]

Google needs a tech support number. It's ridiculous how there's NO way to contact them.

what makes you think such a tech support line would actually be useful

 

[Testament]

Likely been mentioned time and time again, but everything becoming oversimplified akin to a mobile layout. More rounded to the point everything will just become a circle-shape by year's end. Not to mention every site wanting to copy Twitter's X's awful, cramped layout..
As for physical hardware? I really hate the feeling of Computers and Laptops being shafted more and more for stuff like Chromebooks and tablets and such.
I don't want something similar to a smartphone, I'd like a computer. I want to do more than just internet browser and take pictures. Typing on a phone is rather annoying with the clumsy touchscreen which either wont register touches or registers it as everything at once. Rarely anything inbetween. I miss when a tablet was known more as the drawing pad you hook to the computer, not the Apple device.
MATI? Maybe I am a bit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Google needs a tech support number.

what makes you think such a tech support line would actually be useful

I had some BS issue with a cellphone service awhile back. Their call center was in French Guyana. I was on hold for hours before they just dropped my call. I imagine Google technical support would be a similar experience... that is, if you could even get on the speak-to-agent line. Seems tech companies usually don't like speaking to customers.

Sucks when one has to call a phone service about something that can't be solved with automated options, but one has to play "20 Questions" with a stupid bot that handles the automated options. A bot that always says BS like "I'm sorry, I didn't get that" or "I know you want to speak to a representative, but..." and other such BS like that.

 

[Man at Arms]

AI, all it does is copy other things it reads and "sees"

Without human creation it's nothing. It's retarded and not needed for anything other than killing jobs and kilig people

 

[The Last Stand]

Tech companies: PLEASE stop outsourcing your tech support to Indians! I can hardly understand them with their thick accent 80% of the time. Through personal experience, when working with them, they don't leave adequate notes or give much effort for you to fix.

 

[BirdUp]

Please enable Javascript and reload the page.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Automatic Emergency Braking systems are continuing to show that false positives are still a thing, as the NHTSA has upgraded their investigation into AEB false braking incidents in Honda Accords and CR-Vs. So far, there have been over 2800 reports (and some people even made multiple reports of false braking incidents), with 93 injuries and 47 crashes also reported.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Please enable Javascript and reload the page.

I miss when email could work in plain HTML.

Also in the new JavaScript heavy GMail, one cannot even copy and paste text in the main screen where emails are listed, which is BS.

 

[Real Mayun]

I miss having more opportunities to use a program without it asking me at some point to go online.

I miss Flash and all the great software people put hours into that just doesn't run any more.

I miss when Best Buy, y'know, a computer store, had a wider selection of mice and keyboards, and more wired models with numpads that don't have crappy actions.

I miss when MacBooks and other laptops had removable batteries, RAM, and other components.

I miss when Apple didn't make it look like you screwed up your monitor replacement to teach you a lesson for not respecting their DRM, making you look like an incompetent craftsperson.

I miss when Apple didn't shuffle around the settings/preferences as much.

I miss when tech companies trusted laypeople to set the white balance on their cameras instead of making red sunsets appear yellow and washing out POC.

I miss when the Roland Sound Canvas and JV-1080 samples were unavoidable in so many situations, and when the former practically WAS the sound of MIDI.

I miss when wireless headphones, game controllers, etc., with their latency weren't the only option in many cases.

I miss when young women didn't use "tech" as shorthand for "social media."

 

[Demonslayer1776]

This, a thousand times this. It grinds my gears when people simply turn their brains off when a computer gets involved with a process. Normally smart people see a computer system and decide that it's too complex, too esoteric to learn the difference between Alt-Tab and Alt-F4.

The worst part is that this issue has even spread to lower level IT staff.

We had to move all of the end users over to new Windows profiles when moving them to Azure AD. The help desk team was taking extremely long per person sometimes hours. It turns out that they were logging the user into OneDrive, waiting for all of the files to upload, which was often ~50 gigabytes, and doing nothing during the process. The amount of time it took to get them to understand that they could just drag and drop the documents folder on the PC was infuriating.

I get that help desk is an entry level position, but they really should know how to perform basic operations like moving files.

The iPhone and it's consequences have been a disaster for computer literacy.

 

[Real Mayun]

This, a thousand times this. It grinds my gears when people simply turn their brains off when a computer gets involved with a process. Normally smart people see a computer system and decide that it's too complex, too esoteric to learn the difference between Alt-Tab and Alt-F4.

People who use computers every day for work, school, and/or play never bother to learn ctrl-C/cmd-C, or anything else that would save them time and a trip from the keyboard to the mouse.

 

[neverendingmidi]

People who use computers every day for work, school, and/or play never bother to learn ctrl-C/cmd-C, or anything else that would save them time and a trip from the keyboard to the mouse.

I was almost chewing the wall dealing with a younger co-worker. Not only did he not seem to be able to grasp ctrl-C/ctrl-V when transferring files between drives... he couldn't grasp using the shift key to select multiple files at once. I explained it. I showed it. He went "oh... huh." And went back to drag and drop again.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

[AnOminous]

I was almost chewing the wall dealing with a younger co-worker. Not only did he not seem to be able to grasp ctrl-C/ctrl-V when transferring files between drives... he couldn't grasp using the shift key to select multiple files at once. I explained it. I showed it. He went "oh... huh." And went back to drag and drop again.

Dealing with literal retards mentally incapable of understanding basic concepts is so fucking frustrating. WHY WHY WHY CAN'T I JUST MURDER THEM?

 

[HahaYes]

The worst part is that this issue has even spread to lower level IT staff.

I was almost chewing the wall dealing with a younger co-worker.

I've been fixing shit for the better part of my whole day so far at work because FOUR SEPARATE PEOPLE colossally cocked up something that took less than 5 minutes to identify, and is the "your job for literal downies 101" level of basic stuff they missed. If I had the opportunity to I'd drop them all off the nearest fucking cliff. IT should have stayed gate kept to people whos main hobby is pissing around with it in their own time instead of these lazy money grubbing faggots sitting around with their thumb up their ass all day doing nothing. Lord forgive me I'm a hairs breadth away from going on a tard rage.