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

[Almighty Space Duck]

a Pinecil is $26

Is that from - https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/ ?
Do orders ever arrive from there? Because it seems so cheap compared to Amazon and the like.

 

[stares at error messages]

I just realised that iPods were discontinued back in in 2022 and nobody noticed. In retrospect an iPod by the very end was just a small iPad and then you'd probably want a phone instead of just a small iPad. I understand why they were discontinued at this point, but there were such a cultural icon ten years ago that I'm was surprised no one said anything when they were discontinued. End of an era.

 

[DavidS877]

Is that from - https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/ ?
Do orders ever arrive from there? Because it seems so cheap compared to Amazon and the like.

Yea, they ship from China. It's been too long to track my last order so I'm not sure how long it took. But shipping can be high so Amazon free shipping might be better.

Make sure to get the v2.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Yea, they ship from China. It's been too long to track my last order so I'm not sure how long it took. But shipping can be high so Amazon free shipping might be better.

Make sure to get the v2.

$11.99 shipping to UK which isn’t bad at all really since it’s from China. Comes in at £35 delivered for the v2, stand and shipping. Stuck it on PayPal since if it never turns up I can take it up with them.

Thanks for pointing out the pinecil, was going to drop £80 on the TS101.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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

The 5080 is a massive jump from the 1080ti....

I think a new video card every 4-5 years is extremely reasonable

 

[56 others]

The 5080 is a massive jump from the 1080ti....

I think a new video card every 4-5 years is extremely reasonable

Honestly my 980 held up until 2023 before new games realy started bogging it down.
You can pick up a 4070 from a good brand for around $600.


Tax: Has anyone ever taken a good photo with a non-samsung android phone? I cannot for the life of me remember a photo I took on one in the past 12 years I was happy with, but any I've taken with an android are amazing. I have a Motorola G100, it has 4 cameras, no matter what I do the photos look like ass. On the other hand, the 4K video recording is amazing on this phone. What the fuck am I doing wrong?

 

[Betonhaus]

I just realised that iPods were discontinued back in in 2022 and nobody noticed. In retrospect an iPod by the very end was just a small iPad and then you'd probably want a phone instead of just a small iPad. I understand why they were discontinued at this point, but there were such a cultural icon ten years ago that I'm was surprised no one said anything when they were discontinued. End of an era.

an iPhone SE is basically an iPod touch with extra bitys

 

[Fallow Tallow]

Honestly? I just miss when stuff used to feel interesting and exciting. That faded about twenty years ago.

 

[Michael McDoesntexist]

Yup, I'll turn on my box fan so it's blowing the visible fumes away from my face and call it good for the most part. I don't begrudge anyone who would rather not breathe that shit in, I smoke cigarettes so that ship's sailed for me but people over on Reddit act like you need a gas mask, Tyvek suit and an extractor fan in a dedicated negative pressure room to solder and it's just ridiculous overkill. I keep one of those trays people use for bolts/screws for all of the stray chunks of solder that like to fly around.

It's really not bad, and soldering is easy to learn. Whether you prefer it or crimping, we can all agree that either is a better choice than scotch locks, which all those kits use to make wiring "easy." Also more people need good heat shrink in automotive applications. Unsealed wires in outdoor devices make for future electrical gremlins. And personally, I'd wrap any loose wires in split loom or tesa tape for added protection.

 

[Green Man]

It's really not bad, and soldering is easy to learn. Whether you prefer it or crimping, we can all agree that either is a better choice than scotch locks, which all those kits use to make wiring "easy." Also more people need good heat shrink in automotive applications. Unsealed wires in outdoor devices make for future electrical gremlins. And personally, I'd wrap any loose wires in split loom or tesa tape for added protection.

Absolutely love heat shrink tubing, it's so much better than fucking about with electrical tape, most of which is pretty shitty nowadays I've noticed. I work on cars often and while I can appreciate a good terminal crimp or butt connector, they're used in applications where they don't belong quite often. They tend to be the lazy way out in most cases and are particularly not good for splicing wires or connections which will be moved around or subject to mechanical stress often. Then you've got Bubba who wants a new head unit in his truck and uses wire nuts with no tape, no shrink-tubing, nothing, just raw-dogging it.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

I just realised that iPods were discontinued back in in 2022 and nobody noticed. In retrospect an iPod by the very end was just a small iPad and then you'd probably want a phone instead of just a small iPad. I understand why they were discontinued at this point, but there were such a cultural icon ten years ago that I'm was surprised no one said anything when they were discontinued. End of an era.

I was actually nostalgic when it happened, but I understood why they did it. I still use an iPod touch 3G on my car instead of my phone. It's in dire need of a new battery, but the 3rd party replacement ones that I've seen on sale doesn't inspire me too much confidence.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I actually miss video games coming in cool boxes with manuals and posters

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I just realised that iPods were discontinued back in in 2022 and nobody noticed. In retrospect an iPod by the very end was just a small iPad and then you'd probably want a phone instead of just a small iPad. I understand why they were discontinued at this point, but there were such a cultural icon ten years ago that I'm was surprised no one said anything when they were discontinued. End of an era.

The iPod didn't really look like an iPod for a number of years now. The "iPod Classic", with its rectangle screen and clickwheel (the original one from 2001 and all derivatives) was discontinued back in 2014. The iPod touch was a great choice when the difference between the two was a few hundred dollars, yet you still got all the awesome parts—Google Maps with touchscreen (though didn't work without Wi-fi), music, MOVIES, and the growing library of iOS apps and games.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

i miss buttons and switches
i bought a mirror not that long ago with inbuilt lighting
when i hooked it up a blue circle started to glow in the lower center of the mirror
for some reason didnt even crossed my mind that a mirror will have sensor control
theres just no feedback with this shit so they have to add that annoying beeping just so you can tell you touching glass did something or not

 

[Sharpeteer]

I just realised that iPods were discontinued back in in 2022 and nobody noticed. In retrospect an iPod by the very end was just a small iPad and then you'd probably want a phone instead of just a small iPad. I understand why they were discontinued at this point, but there were such a cultural icon ten years ago that I'm was surprised no one said anything when they were discontinued. End of an era.

When I was younger, I liked the first few iPod Touch models because they were an iPhone but cheap enough to where I could buy one. The last one I had was the 4th generation.

But as I got older, the only iPods I really liked were the original "Classic" models. Once the last iPod Classic got discontinued, that was really the end of the iPod for me, as at that point, the iPod Touch didn't make any sense in my use case, and it was plain boring.

There were definitely some YouTube channels that made some noise when the last iPod Touch was discontinued. But I think the reason you didn't hear a whole lot of noise about that was because a lot of people just didn't really care about the iPod Touch at that point. The old classic models are the iconic ones everyone remembers.

Speaking of music on a portable device, remember Google Play Music? You could upload your music library to that and stream it all on your phone. I liked it way more than something like Spotify because it was your music from your collection. When they got rid of that, I went back to having music stored locally on my phone.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I miss mobile apps being free.

Now every app has a $5 monthly subscription, or $30 premium or whatever. I'm not paying $$$ for something you copied off of somebody else. And app stores push these expensive apps above free, better alternatives.

Same for mobile games. Remember when 100 gems used to cost $0.50? Now everything costs $5 minimum, it's ridiculous. For example! Multiversus (not mobile) expects you to pay $3 for a recolored skin. ABSURD!

What pisses me off more is that normies pay for these and support these, and will champion them as "good deals", when obviously they're not! But it doesn't matter if 1 smart guy doesn't spend, cause 10000 idiot will!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss mobile apps being free.

As if "smartphones" couldn't get even more annoying. And in a world where almost naught but air and sunlight are free* in a crap economy with BS cost of living, that's bad.

* For now that is. If big corporations could find a way to charge you for air and sunlight somehow, they most likely certainly would.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I miss mobile apps being free.

Now every app has a $5 monthly subscription, or $30 premium or whatever. I'm not paying $$$ for something you copied off of somebody else. And app stores push these expensive apps above free, better alternatives.

Same for mobile games. Remember when 100 gems used to cost $0.50? Now everything costs $5 minimum, it's ridiculous. For example! Multiversus (not mobile) expects you to pay $3 for a recolored skin. ABSURD!

What pisses me off more is that normies pay for these and support these, and will champion them as "good deals", when obviously they're not! But it doesn't matter if 1 smart guy doesn't spend, cause 10000 idiot will!

I noticed it when it from "free" to "GET", meaning nothing's truly free and there's always going to be some bullshit in-store purchase, with only a few rare, niche exceptions.

I work at a copy & ship store these days and it's appalling how many people can't print out even the simplest of labels (for things like Amazon returns) and have to get gouged in-store to do it there.

I understand that the "printer subscription" stuff scares normies off, but get a real printer! They're not expensive and a simple black-and-white laser printer will pay for itself within a year. And since everyone seems to be materialistic and buying inexpensive crap, then you might as well get those mini-thermal printers for smartphones that that are less than $20 if you just want to print out labels anyway.

 

[Sharpeteer]

I miss mobile apps being free.

Now every app has a $5 monthly subscription, or $30 premium or whatever. I'm not paying $$$ for something you copied off of somebody else. And app stores push these expensive apps above free, better alternatives.

Same for mobile games. Remember when 100 gems used to cost $0.50? Now everything costs $5 minimum, it's ridiculous. For example! Multiversus (not mobile) expects you to pay $3 for a recolored skin. ABSURD!

What pisses me off more is that normies pay for these and support these, and will champion them as "good deals", when obviously they're not! But it doesn't matter if 1 smart guy doesn't spend, cause 10000 idiot will!

Even worse to me are the apps that you were more than happy to pay for and you did so, but the developer got greedy and learned that they could just change it to a subscription model instead, and revoke your license in the process.

I don't care if the monthly payment would have been cheap. It's the principle that matters in my mind - you paid for a perpetual license to use that application, and taking it away from people so you could start charging them forever is gross.

It's not that I'm against paying for software. I bought the license for DaVinci Resolve Studio for my computer. I'm against paying somebody forever for software that doesn't really require that.

I understand that the "printer subscription" stuff scares normies off, but get a real printer! They're not expensive and a simple black-and-white laser printer will pay for itself within a year. And since everyone seems to be materialistic and buying inexpensive crap, then you might as well get those mini-thermal printers for smartphones that that are less than $20 if you just want to print out labels anyway.

I genuinely put buying a laser printer as one of my best financial decisions. I use it mostly to print eBay shipping labels, and I only have to buy replacement toner cartridges once every few years.

I look back on the days of having to replace ink cartridges once every few months as incredibly wasteful.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Maybe its me being retarded but is it too hard to ask to have a mobile game without the modern ad plague?
I just found out you could port Balatro for free if you had a PC copy and that works like a charm.
But even Tetris and Bejeweled have the plague of online advertising and faggy mobile game setups, admittedly im being niggercattle for just going off the shitty google offerings but i recall a decade ago apps for both that just worked even without wifi that i played at work.