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

[xXthrowawayaccountXx]

1) I hate those TVs with the second screen that delivers ads too, but I really can't complain too much about it because you're not paying any money for it. Yeah it's garbage and I would never get one, but since you paid no money into it, I can't really say much. Save a couple hundred bucks and get a TV that doesn't do this, and just be sure to never connect it to the internet, then this shit won't ever happen. Ruined an LG TV I used to have by allowing it to update over the internet. Will never make that mistake again.

That's not the issue. It doesn't matter if you buy this particular TV, it matters if enough niggerfaggots buy it and every other TV brand on the planet just copies it wholesale, and soon enough the only place you are getting a TV without this bullshit is by dumpster diving. It's the Apple headphone jack thing all over again. Soon enough you will get at most one brand remaining that's a hold over until even they decide to apple-ify because of a higher up.

This rant is brought to you by: Me trying to repair newer vs older dell laptops.

 

[Sharpeteer]

That's not the issue. It doesn't matter if you buy this particular TV, it matters if enough niggerfaggots buy it and every other TV brand on the planet just copies it wholesale, and soon enough the only place you are getting a TV without this bullshit is by dumpster diving. It's the Apple headphone jack thing all over again. Soon enough you will get at most one brand remaining that's a hold over until even they decide to apple-ify because of a higher up.

This rant is brought to you by: Me trying to repair newer vs older dell laptops.

Really, the best I can say in this scenario is to stop being nigger cattle, and have a little self-respect and not sell yourself out to these shady, greedy advertisers for what is probably a really crappy TV in the first place.

I'm a big fan of the older Dell Precision Workstation laptops. They were super easy to work on. And I would argue still very useful to this day. The newer ones are complete crap though, designed to look like Ultrabooks.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Needed somewhere to rage. I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

And if you have an account, you may have to send a code to a "text message" or email to do something. And if a thing requires account for something, that means that said thing could become unusable if internet and/or company goes down (doesn't even need be disaster).

For example...

Literally every single Xbox One/Series console will eventually become a paperweight - they all require a Microsoft account to initialize the console, and these machines aren't supported forever, so yeah, the day they can no longer connect to MS' servers is the day every single one of those consoles becomes useless.

 

[byron]

I hate the new tech trends of requiring a fucking account for everything. Even physical hardware.

I recently bought a new microwave and I noticed a bunch of them advertised internet connectivity.

I didn't research what it would be for, but now I'm curious - what exactly does an internet-connected microwave do that a regular microwave doesn't do?

It's not like I need to be notified on my phone when my burrito is done. It's not like there'd be utility in using my phone to turn the microwave on. It's not like the internet is needed to set the clock. It's not like I need downloadable system updates, because there's no new feature you could possibly add to a microwave (has anyone ever even used that popcorn button??)

 

[cain_destroyer1]

I recently bought a new microwave and I noticed a bunch of them advertised internet connectivity.

I didn't research what it would be for, but now I'm curious - what exactly does an internet-connected microwave do that a regular microwave doesn't do?

It's not like I need to be notified on my phone when my burrito is done. It's not like there'd be utility in using my phone to turn the microwave on. It's not like the internet is needed to set the clock. It's not like I need downloadable system updates, because there's no new feature you could possibly add to a microwave (has anyone ever even used that popcorn button??)

Guessing it is for updating microwave settings for certain products. Example: hotpockets changes their recipe, so the microwave updates to change the settings on the hotpocket button. Either that or it secretly mines crypto when not in use.

 

[byron]

the microwave updates to change the settings on the hotpocket button.

There's a hotpocket button??

Well, like I said, has anyone ever actually used the popcorn button? I never have. Wouldn't use a hotpocket button either.

I just looked it up and the only somewhat interesting feature is that you can scan a barcode with your phone, and then your microwave will program the cook time automatically.

That's still retarded, just because you have to unlock your phone, open the app, and point the camera at the hotpocket. It might actually be useful if an over-the-range microwave had a laser barcode reader mounded on the bottom. That way, you'd swipe the hotpocket under the microwave to read it.

The bottom line is, I'm not using my phone to talk to my microwave. It's far more efficient to tap a button on the microwave.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Speaking of microwaves, I do not like how one cannot set exact times anymore. Press "3" and it starts for 3 minutes? I like the analog dial with a real bell when it hits 0.

that popcorn button

I just set it to a high number and wait nearby until the popping stops, before interrupting the cooking.

 

[Zeftax]

What exactly does an internet-connected microwave do?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

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what's that from?

 

[Zeftax]

what's that from?

G-Force

 

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And that's why I will never buy smart appliances.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

what exactly does an internet-connected microwave do that a regular microwave doesn't do?

Join a really cool botnet.

 

[Frak_Binatra]

i kind of wish smart phones never came about. we lost a whole market of sweet tech. sony had a killer line of mini PC's

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

i kind of wish smart phones never came about. we lost a whole market of sweet tech. sony had a killer line of mini PC's

This tech could have been really cool if it matured like smart phones.

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

Guessing it is for updating microwave settings for certain products. Example: hotpockets changes their recipe, so the microwave updates to change the settings on the hotpocket button.

All it needs is a QR code reader and an app to make it work to become the Juicero of microwaves.

And that's why I will never buy smart appliances.

Germans were right, electro mechanical appliances are the way.

 

[Anteater Alien]

I hate new PCs, the way that they look. I don't know if this makes me sound retarded and frankly I don't care but I think most people are blinded by baby sensory RGB lighting than the actual capabilities of the computer they're buying.

No, you don't need a living aquarium and 46 epilepsy strobing lights inside of your PC build in order to run Minecraft or whatever. Your fish are hoping you pull the plug and end their light pollution filled suffering.

You don't need to spend extra money on animated tranime decals spinning inside of your PC. Nobody cares, nobody will care, and nobody has cared. You're dealing with severe male patterned baldness and instead of prioritizing your physical wellbeing you want everyone in a 50 mile radius to know you jerk off to barely legal hentai waifus.

PCs never needed any of these modifications. They all run the same. Nobody's looking at your PC for more than a minute. You don't need any of these upgrades. It drives me up the damn wall.

 

[stares at error messages]

As if smartphone haven't gotten bad enough with Samsung's folding phones, Huawei went "HOLY MY LINGLONG" by making a tri-folded phone, using obviously stolen Samsung technology, and then selling it for a whopping $2800:

Huawei should add a microwave heater to the phone so you can cook your raman and use your phone as a paper weight at the same time.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Anyone else getting more and more irritated by the amount of LEDs and LED panels in public spaces? I can't go to a simple restaurant without either in my face. I don't want to watch the news or sportsball game while I eat. And I certainly don't want to look at tacky LED light setups

 

[Hellwalker]

Why is every "Dark mode" always some light-colored gray? I swear to god every single dark mode option for anything, whether it be a website or dedicated piece of software, is light gray. At least use a dark gray like the older UI for Steam. Why must I be forced to see this awful fucking color? Even the Farms has this problem.

 

[stares at error messages]

I don't like how new devices can need them to work, like LED bulbs or remote control vehicles. What's really stupid about dependencies on "apps" is that there's no easy way to back them up, if the "smartphone" goes down you can lose access to whatever the "app" is needed for, and if the "app" is pulled from the online store, you can't download it again. That's a big tech trend I diss: everyone and their dog having a "smartphone", and so many people being "smartphone zombies" now. I miss "smartphone" as a novelty.

That's a good point. That's probably done deliberately to force people into replacing otherwise perfect devices.

I just hate apps because it makes things too complicated. I don't need an app to tell me when the drill battery is out of power. I already know that when the dill starts lagging. There is this modern obsession with numbers and graphs for meaningless metrics. I walk a lot and it doesn't matter how many steps I took, yet there is this obsession with fit bits and activity trackers. It doesn't matter. The things are not even accurate because just moving your arms while sanding in one place increments the counter. Since the numbers generated are inaccurate they are really measuring nothing and are just creating the illusion of being highly informed. All of this app gimmick just makes things more frictive to use because it introduces another pedantic step. Using these products is masochism.