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

[Takayuki Yagami]

DDR5 RAM + LED Color: None (Newegg)

Thank you.

 

[The Last Stand]

I know of a boomer employee who refused to open a PDF file because he thought it was a paedophile.

You know, I feel bad for Adobe. PDF stands for Portable Document Format, now it's a pseudonym that means "pedophile" to skirt from YouTube's ad friendly censorship.

 

[AnOminous]

This is hardly a new trend at this point, but is there a single modern set of desktop RAM sticks that don’t have RGB lights at this point? I’ve just discovered that the ones in my computer are fucked and I’d like some sticks of DDR5 that don’t glow like a pride parade.

Here you are, just wanting some RAM and for some reason you get some RAM RANCH instead.

I just wanted memory, I didn't want some ass-fucking homosexuality! Welcome to modernity.

 

[DavidS877]

I don't know if this is tech or web, but asking you all your information for everything.

I have an electric car, it's not a Tesla, and now I can use some Tesla chargers but I still want to sign up for other vendors to have easy access.

First most of the apps whine when I give them approximate location. I only need to see if there's a charger in this city you don't need to tell me how many meters I am from it.

They all want my email, fine. Name... why? phone number? also why? address... no really WTF. Credit card and it's address...

How about I give you a bunch of fake shit and just a privacy.com card that I can enter any address and zip code. Fuckers.

Same thing trying to buy a gift card. The company has a web store but for some reason they don't sell their own gift cards. So they expect you to go to another site and enter all your information. Well, guess I'm not giving one of your cards am I.

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

So boys... Whatcha think about Louis Rossmann?

 

[jray4559]

So boys... Whatcha think about Louis Rossmann?

He's an outrage channel for Redditors and Wikipedia lefties. It's always the exact same "corporations bad" take on any and all tech-related news. I watched him for a little bit but I got tired of hearing the same damn thing every single video. It's become too fandom-like for my taste. I will always like him, though, for taking down redditors and basically calling them stupid after their API protest clusterfuck. It's his version of the antiwork interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYij7Ic5p8k

 

[Combustion Engine]

So boys... Whatcha think about Louis Rossmann?

He makes grapheneos-monkeys go rabid and obsessed enough to go through every video of his, frame by frame, looking for evidence and that's all you need to know. But on a more general perspective, making what is equivalent to reaction videos brings in views (and that's also one of the few types of informative media many people can digest nowadays), can't blame him too much for pivoting away from mostly repair videos and the occasional mental breakdown over apple spying on him or NYC being hell on earth, and instead using a popular channel to discuss some topics the average braindead "content" creator on YouTube ignores, even if that means just reading blog or reddit posts and sometimes being too loose for the sake of outrage. Bonus points for having an account on that one evil website.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[Microsoft Authenticator on a "smartphone" is] mandatory to log into the work computers

So the old way of just using a password to log in (like on Windows XP) is becoming a thing of the past now?

I really do not like how "smartphone" BS seems to be taking over every facet of everyday "normie" life now.

 

[DavidS877]

So the old way of just using a password to log in (like on Windows XP) is becoming a thing of the past now?

I really do not like how "smartphone" BS seems to be taking over every facet of everyday "normie" life now.

No, you need your password too.
Luckily some companies allow you to use your own non-MS TOTP app. I'm not sure if this is better or worse than the days of physical Secure ID tokens... since I'm up to like 12 different TOTP codes between work and personal stuff.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Luckily some companies allow you to use your own non-MS TOTP app.

So in order to work in that world of cubicles in Clown World, you need a "smartphone" now? As if cubicle realm wasn't sucky enough...

 

[DavidS877]

So in order to work in that world of cubicles in Clown World, you need a "smartphone" now? As if cubicle realm wasn't sucky enough...

Well, you can leave it at work if you never work remotely. You can simply turn it off when you don't need it for work. Plenty of options.

I get paid enough I'm not actually going to complain.

 

[mr_negativity]

So boys... Whatcha think about Louis Rossmann?

He is a narcissistic douche. Never trust anyone who gives unsolicited advice and wants to be your therapist, life coach or E-daddy. His old videos were chock full of that kind of content. Meanwhile, he's constantly venting on how someone, be it a person, corporation or government is currently screwing him over and how he's the victim. It gets old really fast.

Worse yet, you click on one Rossmann video and his videos are stuck in your recommendations forever.

 

[boards of canada]

I really do not like how "smartphone" BS seems to be taking over every facet of everyday "normie" life now.

Because it constantly tracks their location and records them. If you make it pretty much mandatory or at least a huge necessity then they'll be forced to have these tracking devices on them 24/7 like chipped pets.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Because it constantly tracks their location and records them.

Usually I avoid using a "smartphone" because I'm used to the older way, but it's a very good thing I do not carry one around 24-7.

What if the "smartphone" was pushed and "socially engineered" so that people would voluntarily and unknowingly submit to tracking?

 

[boards of canada]

Usually I avoid using a "smartphone" because I'm used to the older way, but it's a very good thing I do not carry one around 24-7.

The only place to access the internet when I was younger was the computer. I plan for it to stay that way until I die. I am proud of having no clue how to operate that thing. And being able to write out whole sentences on the T9 keypad without looking.

What if the "smartphone" was pushed and "socially engineered" so that people would voluntarily and unknowingly submit to tracking?

It allowed the internet to have a stronger grip on people's social lives, and I suppose lives in general. Computers and the internet were a fringe thing back then and I knew people in my life who were completely offline and lived their life without the stuff. As more people went online, we got to where we are now. And you know how it is now.
This thread makes me feel so damn old.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The only place to access the internet when I was younger was the computer.

The usual way I live is still like the '90s or '00s overall. Almost all of the vidya I've bought is physical copies. When I make a call at home, the landline is the default way. The internet is normally something I sit down for, I don't carry around a "smartphone" 24-7, and I never made an account for any "social media" site: not even MySpace.

Also wow does using the 'net on a "smartphone" suck ass. The "mobile versions" of sites are always less functional, "smartphone" browsers seem to be less customizable, that "typing" with a touchscreen is so slow and so easy to make typos with, there's the constant and endless "autocorrect" BS... how do "normies" even put up with all that crap?

And I miss when the 'net was a novelty and more of a "nerd" thing.

 

[Cave Fisher]

The most honest answer I can give you is simply that the model by which microsoft makes the bulk of its​

revenue, the sale of hardware and software, has stopped being a viable means to hold up the sheer weight of its own ass.

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In attempt to delay the inevitable collapse of itself, microsoft is making best efforts to reinforce its profit​

margins by switching their main mode of profit from the sale of hardware/software to the sale of user data to third party organizations.

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Microsoft has thusly done everything they can to further expand the volume and flow of user data into their​

hands by turning what was once an acceptable and functional OS into the biometrics equivalent of an industrial oil pump; consequently leaving little to no room for other processes making any computer not built to kill a small god run like a fat kid jogging over quicksand.

Makes sense, selling tech alone in an age where nobody really does more with their computer than scroll, play games, or watch porn, can't really sustain big companies like microsoft anymore, especially as the tech gets too good to upgrade in a way that matters, that's why nobody really makes gadgets anymore, and why actual ownership is slowly being phased out in favor of licenses, subscriptions, and permissions to use both software and hardware. The game has changed to storing and selling away all the data they can get out of their customers to keep the money flowing and themselves afloat.
Why else would they steer the internet from a place you had to physically sit down to use on your freetime, to an inescapable cloud around yourself while constant cellphone use is integrated more and more into daily life? Why else would they make a new shitty version of Windows when 10 was ostensibly supposed to be the last? You can make a lot of money by intentionally bloating something down with spyware then selling a new and improved version that's just the same but worse so that they feel they HAVE to upgrade.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why else would they steer the internet from a place you had to physically sit down to use on your freetime, to an inescapable cloud around yourself while constant cellphone use is integrated more and more into daily life?

Can you imagine how much better this world now could've been, had Apple never released the iPhone in 2007? Or at least if was a market flop and that trend met an early end?

 

[DavidS877]

Can you imagine how much better this world now could've been, had Apple never released the iPhone in 2007? Or at least if was a market flop and that trend met an early end?

Well.. you never know.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Well.. you never know.

Looks like the only certain way to prevent "smartphone culture" from taking off would be to somehow go back in time and prevent cellphones from becoming a mainstream thing.