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The world really could've been a better place had the iPhone never been released.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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This is going to be pretty specific, but some friends of mine actually use vrchat privately just to have watch parties of shit. It does add to the experience being "in the room" with them instead of us just in a call through discord or something (we live reasonably far away from each other.)
But the people who make VR are retarded. Every time I brush the dust off my headset, fucking something needs an update or an account login. If you were dumb enough to own a facebook headset, that means signing into favebook, updating facebook, connecting it to your pc, signing/updating steam, then signing into VRchat. Which requires you to have everyone's favorite, 2FA.
Some people may not be able to picture how retarded that is, so let me spell it out. You have to take off the headset, pull out your phone, log into the stupid fucking authenticator, memorize the number pattern (because you can't fucking see that pattern with the headset on), then enter in the code using the virtual keyboard, which is like entering it into a normal keyboard using a pair of chopsticks from 2 feet away. Oh, also those types of "standalone" headsets will try to turn themselves off after 5 seconds of not detecting anything from the "forehead on headset" detector bump, and will have a mini seizure recursively unfucking the program stack putting the headset back on. This is not a feature you can turn off because fuck you.
Why does it feel like technology is now designed by people who will never fucking use it in their lives? I feel like you would fix bullshit like this by just making them have to use their own shittily designed softare for 6 months after making it. It would solve a lot of issues.
But the people who make VR are retarded. Every time I brush the dust off my headset, fucking something needs an update or an account login. If you were dumb enough to own a facebook headset, that means signing into favebook, updating facebook, connecting it to your pc, signing/updating steam, then signing into VRchat. Which requires you to have everyone's favorite, 2FA.
Some people may not be able to picture how retarded that is, so let me spell it out. You have to take off the headset, pull out your phone, log into the stupid fucking authenticator, memorize the number pattern (because you can't fucking see that pattern with the headset on), then enter in the code using the virtual keyboard, which is like entering it into a normal keyboard using a pair of chopsticks from 2 feet away. Oh, also those types of "standalone" headsets will try to turn themselves off after 5 seconds of not detecting anything from the "forehead on headset" detector bump, and will have a mini seizure recursively unfucking the program stack putting the headset back on. This is not a feature you can turn off because fuck you.
Why does it feel like technology is now designed by people who will never fucking use it in their lives? I feel like you would fix bullshit like this by just making them have to use their own shittily designed softare for 6 months after making it. It would solve a lot of issues.
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I'm not normally terribly impatient but there is something fucking infuriating about how a "smart TV" always has the laggiest piece of shit OS on it known to man and that there is absolutely no way to just bypass it entirely and use it as, essentially, a monitor. I have an old laptop connected to said "smart" TV that I use as my YouTube/streaming machine [because I can block ads much easier that way and it's easier to navigate and also the YouTube app for TVs is cooked-over dogshit] because I got annoyed with the lag, the crashing, taking forever to notice inputs, etc. Thing is though, in order to select the correct input [the laptop] I still have to navigate the fucking shitty OS/UI on the TV no matter what. Sometimes it will switch over to the correct, active input on its own but even that takes approximately 30-45 seconds. If I have to navigate to the correct input myself, it takes often times over a full fucking minute.
And this wouldn't normally bother me but the fact that it's not loading anything pertinent to me is more infuriating. Is it loading the apps, settings, etc? Well, partially, but the first thing to load [and the thing taking up the most time] is a thousand fucking ads for shit I would never watch, that I'm not convinced ANYBODY wants to fucking watch. It's taking up more than a full minute of my time to load fucking ads, some of which autoplay and are loud as fuck. Oftentimes it's some normie capeshit or whatever. It's even worse when it's February or June so you get bombarded with "BLACK STORIES" or fag shows/movies.
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It's petty as fuck but it really is annoying, if it were loading up basically anything that is actually of use or of interest to me it'd be one thing, but it's just taking forever because it's bogged down with ads for shit I have not the slightest interest in.
And this wouldn't normally bother me but the fact that it's not loading anything pertinent to me is more infuriating. Is it loading the apps, settings, etc? Well, partially, but the first thing to load [and the thing taking up the most time] is a thousand fucking ads for shit I would never watch, that I'm not convinced ANYBODY wants to fucking watch. It's taking up more than a full minute of my time to load fucking ads, some of which autoplay and are loud as fuck. Oftentimes it's some normie capeshit or whatever. It's even worse when it's February or June so you get bombarded with "BLACK STORIES" or fag shows/movies.
Relevant meme:
It's petty as fuck but it really is annoying, if it were loading up basically anything that is actually of use or of interest to me it'd be one thing, but it's just taking forever because it's bogged down with ads for shit I have not the slightest interest in.
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I think I haven't really watched broadcast TV in years, and I usually think of TV sets as monitors for vidya and PCs.
"I believe he means television, sir. That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year two thousand forty."
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Simplification of the dashes is getting popular and as result, they are harder to read. I had to drive on one of those mini cars from Renault and looking at this cluster while using it made me angry.
Is the engine overheating? Do I really have 2/6th of a gas tank left? Why do the rpm counter needs a light show everytime it revs up and down? Why do I need to be reminded constantly that I'm driving a Renault? And good luck if the sun hits directly the cluster, now it got harder to read. And in the night it's uncomfortable to look at thanks to all the lights it has.
I'll also stick to old cars for now.
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I have a similar experience. My previous pair of Bose headphones I use for my desktop computer were wearing out, so I bought a new pair for about $430. While they are nice and functional, they require running on batteries and don't charge through the headphone jack, so every time I take them off, I have to remember to plug in them in to a USB port.
Why? Who the fuck looked at the functionality of headphones being powered through the audio jack and said, "Nah, that's too convenient. Make it run off batteries that are charged through a second cable instead."? Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be drawn and quartered via ATVs.
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Driving down the highway and I want see where the nearest rest stop is. I go to the maps app on my android auto and press on the search button. It says you can only voice search when the car is in motion. I press the microphone button in the search bar specifically for looking up locations in the google maps app. I say "rest stop", and it starts playing a song called "rest stop" on spotify.
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The "map app" I like is looking up the location on a PC or laptop, and then drawing a "stick map" on a scrap of paper: which roads to go down, and then destination address.
(that was the way back in the day)
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I despise this shit so much. My TV is a sub par Samsung tv from 2021 after my dumb tv decided to die on me. Held out for years because Smart tvs are dog shit. Who really gets excited to use TV interfaces that are just marketing to begin with? I have yet to meet a normie that loves smart tvs.
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The infrastructure engineer at my company sent out a mass email on Friday, 'we'll be rolling out Win 11 over the next week on everyone's machine.'
I (jokingly) replied that I'm good, and that Windows 11 is, in some words, fucking shit.
Update went through out of hours, numerous driver issues already. Knew it was coming.
The worst part, I'll have to have the same conversation with a dozen or so people over the next week, while the spastic responsible ducks everyone on Teams.
I (jokingly) replied that I'm good, and that Windows 11 is, in some words, fucking shit.
Update went through out of hours, numerous driver issues already. Knew it was coming.
The worst part, I'll have to have the same conversation with a dozen or so people over the next week, while the spastic responsible ducks everyone on Teams.
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1) GPS navigation apps suck worse than ever now - I don't remember them sucking this badly until around like a year or so ago. Randomly wanting to take you on longer routes that go in loops and make no sense whatsoever, often wanting to take you the wrong way on one way streets, suddenly changing routes on you right when you're about to make the turn, etc. I know sometimes these things would happen for forever, but now they seem regular in my experience on several devices, and I would really love to know why they suddenly just suck so much now. Part of me wants to believe a conspiracy that this AI boom has caused these companies to just put the entire GPS workload onto AI, but I obviously don't know. Point being, Google Maps, Apple maps, all terrible now, and regularly unreliable and unstable. I funnily enough don't have these problems with Organic Maps (the FOSS maps application), but the actual map locations themselves need work. It's slowly getting better over time though.
2) I might have bitched about this ITT before, but Nvidia just announced the RTX 50 series, so - the general acceptance that graphics cards should just cost $1K now when the same class of cards some years ago used to cost half that. GTX 1080Ti was $699. RTX 3080 was also $699. RTX 4080 - $1,200. But now Nvidia graces everyone by making the RTX 5080 cheaper for only $1,000, and it's now only half the performance of the halo product, when that was not the case before that I'm aware of with the 80 class. As for AMD, I fully expect them to do the same thing they always do - overprice it out the gate, wait until everyone bashes it, then lower the price to something slightly more reasonable a few months later.
I'm a tech boomer, and the GTX 1080ti is the best card ever made. I'll keep mine until it stops working, and even then I'll probably try and repair it if at all possible.
3) I hate Discord with a passion, and basically everyone that insists on using it instead of almost anything else. I don't even need to explain that Discord is a breeding ground for degenerate groups that like loony troons, and the kids - sometimes both at the same time.
Speaking of which, just going to beat a dead horse with this:
4) Windows 11 - it's still fucking trash. I don't care if they now have an Enterprise LTSC build that supposedly doesn't come with all the bloat, and probably makes it slightly easier to disable all the stuff that should be opt-in rather than opt-out, not gonna. Them putting all that CoPilot/AI shit in it, the screencapping of stuff you use, etc. It's all just so gross. Now that's not to say Windows 10 is great either, but 11 just sounds like the worst fucking thing ever. I support somebody that has a few Windows 10 computers, and I still don't know what I'm going to do when it goes EOL.
2) I might have bitched about this ITT before, but Nvidia just announced the RTX 50 series, so - the general acceptance that graphics cards should just cost $1K now when the same class of cards some years ago used to cost half that. GTX 1080Ti was $699. RTX 3080 was also $699. RTX 4080 - $1,200. But now Nvidia graces everyone by making the RTX 5080 cheaper for only $1,000, and it's now only half the performance of the halo product, when that was not the case before that I'm aware of with the 80 class. As for AMD, I fully expect them to do the same thing they always do - overprice it out the gate, wait until everyone bashes it, then lower the price to something slightly more reasonable a few months later.
I'm a tech boomer, and the GTX 1080ti is the best card ever made. I'll keep mine until it stops working, and even then I'll probably try and repair it if at all possible.
3) I hate Discord with a passion, and basically everyone that insists on using it instead of almost anything else. I don't even need to explain that Discord is a breeding ground for degenerate groups that like loony troons, and the kids - sometimes both at the same time.
When it comes to IT stuff you know is going to go badly, always get that shit in writing that you explained the problems that would happen, and they wanted to proceed anyway. I started doing that, actually saved my ass a few times. Same thing when it comes to companies not wanting to spend the money on necessary costs to keep your IT operations going smoothly.
Speaking of which, just going to beat a dead horse with this:
4) Windows 11 - it's still fucking trash. I don't care if they now have an Enterprise LTSC build that supposedly doesn't come with all the bloat, and probably makes it slightly easier to disable all the stuff that should be opt-in rather than opt-out, not gonna. Them putting all that CoPilot/AI shit in it, the screencapping of stuff you use, etc. It's all just so gross. Now that's not to say Windows 10 is great either, but 11 just sounds like the worst fucking thing ever. I support somebody that has a few Windows 10 computers, and I still don't know what I'm going to do when it goes EOL.
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Have you tried Yandex Maps/Navigator? They're probably optimized for CIS countries, just curious how they'd work at your place.
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I have not heard of this. That said I have tried the Yandex search engine in the past though - really not a fan of it since outside of Russia, it felt less usable than the likes of DuckDuckGo (quite a few search results all in Russian, etc).
But I'll say the fact that Yandex search, the last time I used it, didn't try to shove AI assistance in my face the way both Google and Brave do now, their GPS app is probably better than Google Maps.
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There are many ways to do a "futuristic" design. Removing information is total bullshit.
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Hyper specific work tech:
If they dont make a furnace big enough to heat an area, you can "twin" two of the same furnace so they run at the same time. In the past you used to just take the thermostat wire and tie together another thermostat wire that goes to the second furnace and mirrored the first furnace.
Now the boards in furnaces are so advanced you have to install a wiring harness in both and program the board. It gets even more retarded if you add on air conditioning. Adds a good 30 minutes to an already long job.
The boards are a lot easier to work with though if you use them normally, but they are adding bluetooth functionality, so if you have to replace a board you have to connect with your phone and install the specific furnaces firmware.
If they dont make a furnace big enough to heat an area, you can "twin" two of the same furnace so they run at the same time. In the past you used to just take the thermostat wire and tie together another thermostat wire that goes to the second furnace and mirrored the first furnace.
Now the boards in furnaces are so advanced you have to install a wiring harness in both and program the board. It gets even more retarded if you add on air conditioning. Adds a good 30 minutes to an already long job.
The boards are a lot easier to work with though if you use them normally, but they are adding bluetooth functionality, so if you have to replace a board you have to connect with your phone and install the specific furnaces firmware.
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Even old cable TV doesn't do that.
I suppose one way to get around that problem would be to have all the sound go through a sound bar with its own dedicated remote.
But the way better solution is just to get rid of the Amazon TV.
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Game menus have become more simplified to the bare minimum, either to cut costs (but that's literally bean-counter levels of cost-cutting), because "it's an indie game" (although AAA games are doing this too), because today's game devs don't know how to create menus anymore, or because they just don't care. Here's a comparison of menus in the past, to today:
Here's Dynasty Warriors 8's main menu:
And compare that to Dynasty Warriors 9's menu, which is an example of the simplified menu style that is becoming more and more common:
Here's Dynasty Warriors 8's main menu:
And compare that to Dynasty Warriors 9's menu, which is an example of the simplified menu style that is becoming more and more common:
