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

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Jhonson the Two said:
You know what I miss eldritch horrors AI art. There was something interestingly unnerving about them, like a fun uncanny valley thing. You could still feel the machine behind if it make sense.
Today's AI still do weird shit but not as alien as it was and the gap is closing fast, I find it a little sad.
(I'm not talking about arstists using ai for help or the fun of it)
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AnOminous said:
You can still deliberately make eldritch horrors and probably should.
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There's a YouTube channel where they do just that:

 
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Jhonson the Two said:
You know what I miss eldritch horrors AI art. There was something interestingly unnerving about them, like a fun uncanny valley thing. You could still feel the machine behind if it make sense.
Today's AI still do weird shit but not as alien as it was and the gap is closing fast, I find it a little sad.
(I'm not talking about arstists using ai for help or the fun of it)
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The era of ai video where you would get crazy shit was to short. People growing mysterious stumps and limbs, objects folding into dimemsions that haven't been discovered yet. All that crazy stuff.

It's impressive how good ai videos have gotten in such a short time but we got robbed of the fun stuff.
 
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Sharpeteer said:
Normie meme but it works, and gets the point across.

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I miss when game developers were able to legitimately brag about how impressive their game optimization is. One example that comes to mind is the Nintendo 64 port of Resident Evil 2 fitting onto a cartridge. Also on the flip side, while the original Crysis was super unoptimized (relying on single core lol), it was so graphically impressive at the time, and it took a really long time for other games to catch up in terms of graphics.

Now you need ridiculous amounts of VRAM and even system RAM just to play basic-ass current day games that do not look impressive enough to warrant such requirements, and these devs will not stop complaining about they simply cannot make an optimized game, when it has been done so much more impressively before. Whether it's because these developers are incompetent, lazy, or just flat out outsourced (which likely means both), these games require so much when you get a result that leaves much to be desired in terms of being impressed.

And if you're going to make a super unoptimized piece of shit, make it so groundbreaking that other games will be fighting to try and catch up to your product, but that's never what happens.
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The "Normie meme" works for me. The dev with the head with a power strip plugged into itself made me spit my coffee. :lol:

Thread tax: I miss LG phones. I fucking hate Android 15/One UI 7.
 
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When people decorate their laptops or consoles with stickers.

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That looks tacky as hell.
 
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Went into my phone keyboard setting to change something. Found an option called "smart key detection." Turns out, it was fucking with the hit detection based on what it thought the next letter was, but it was just straight up wrong. This caused me to keep spelling have as "habe" and I thought I was just being a clumsy moron.

I fucking hate it when my tech thinks it knows better than me. Shut the fuck up, stop trying to predict things for me, I do not care, you are a fucking machine and should shut up.
 
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Kujo Jotaro said:
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Why does anyone need or want a touchscreen on their pc case? Also, building my first pc since 2020 and it's a massive pain in the ass finding components that aren't rgb. Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I don't care what my pc looks like as long as it runs fine.
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I've seen artists online put their own artwork on the case, and honestly I would be interested in doing that myself. Animating some kind of scene on the side as an extra customization.

But that's like, 20$ worth of cool. Not an extra 300 fucking dollars on a case.
 
Literally every single one of these Sony/Microsoft/PC/etc gaming shows that replaced E3 suck. Now I'm not implying that any of these AAA games are amazing, or worth your time, or worth the purchase a retardedly expensive graphics card, but so much of these shows are now garbage-tier indie game slop.

Somebody there needs to tell all these devs to stop chasing their dreams, because they fucking suck at what they do.

innocent jogger said:
The "Normie meme" works for me. The dev with the head with a power strip plugged into itself made me spit my coffee. :lol:

Thread tax: I miss LG phones. I fucking hate Android 15/One UI 7.
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The LG Wing was cool. I mean, I didn't like it enough to buy it, but it was cool.

And I think that was a lot of the problem - their phones were cool, but nobody bought them. The last LG phone I really liked was the LG V20, and I had it for a little while. I liked that you could replace the battery by simply removing the back cover.

I miss Sony Ericsson, specifically the Xperia Play phone. Was really wanting a follow up to it, but it sold like shit, and Sony abandoned it pretty much immediately. Sad.
 
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Kujo Jotaro said:
I don't care what my pc looks like as long as it runs fine.
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I'm the same way. My daily driver has a white GPU but everything else is black, and my RAM has RGB on it which I can't be bothered to turn off. I care so little about aesthetics that I don't really even do desktop wallpapers, I just make it black and call it a day. But this bad boy will run anything I throw at it at a nice 120 FPS at max settings, no framegen required (for now).

For my NAS though, nothing is RGB. It's got a blue power LED, and a red LED on the motherboard. It's mostly the gayming stuff that's got all the flash and flair.
 
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Kujo Jotaro said:
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Why does anyone need or want a touchscreen on their pc case? Also, building my first pc since 2020 and it's a massive pain in the ass finding components that aren't rgb. Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I don't care what my pc looks like as long as it runs fine.
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That's exactly why I went out of my way to look for a PC case that wasn't seethrough.

I might have gone with a seethrough case if it was one of those colorful bubbly cases that looked like it was from the 2000s tho. I would have totally gone with a Y2K looking case for a PC with 2020s components.
 
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Made In Lovely Kin said:
Ai abominations are the most fun you can have when fucking with the tool. I do hate how corporatized ai has become (if it wasn't already)
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Kujo Jotaro said:
Why does anyone need or want a touchscreen on their pc case?
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I can barely tolerate it on my fucking phone. Who thought it was a good idea to combine the controls, a thing that you touch constantly, with the screen you need to look at? Remember how your parents used to yell at you for putting your grubby hands on the TV screen because it'd leave hand prints? That generation produced tech that forces you to view everything you do through smudged screens.

Also, it's super easy to fat-finger the wrong button on a touchscreen, which makes me want to snap my phone in half. It's so backwards in terms of user interface. A keyboard and mouse make it so you rarely need to dedicate UI space to controls. Now most programs have to plan around a touchscreen keypad taking up the bottom 40% of the screen whenever someone needs to enter data. It's a massive cancer that's getting ported to everything because it's slightly cheaper to install a fucking touchscreen than it is to manufacture buttons and knobs (looking at you, car manufacturers!).

Hell, I sperg the fuck out over speakers without a volume knob. Sometimes I have mixed company over, and if I hear the Ducktales theme start autoplaying, I don't want to rely on Windows responding to system inputs to lower the volume before I find out which version of the song it is.
 
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Another annoying car interior design trend that is gaining traction is adding longer screens that are placed further back on the dash to use as the cluster and for other information. Some of those screens even stretch across the whole dash. Here's two examples of this:

2025 Ford Expedition:
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Ford also changed around some of the controls to incorporate them into the GIANT ASS SCREENS. The knob on the left is to change the car to RWD/4WD mode, instead of the lights. Ford moved the light controls to a touchscreen menu, copying what GM did with some of their cars. Ford also copied Polestar by making the steering wheel controls unlabeled:

If you're wondering how that left-field introduction factored in, perhaps you'd like to fiddle with the Expedition's headlights. You reach down and to the left, as you would in most modern cars, spin the dial, and—oh no, you've changed the vehicle's drive mode and activated the four-wheel drive! In its infinite wisdom, Ford decided to put the drivetrain controls where the headlight ones used to be—and where your muscle memory still thinks they're located. Want to adjust the headlights? That's now done via the central touchscreen by pressing a small tile that Ford placed in the magical land of Narnia (the bottom-right corner).

Silly decision-making continues from there. The widescreen display just below the windshield is largely empty; granted, you get camera feeds when you engage the turn signals, but this real estate could be better utilized in literally every other situation. Looking for a tachometer, a pretty standard inclusion for a car? You can only see it in Sport mode, and even then, it takes up maybe 20 pixels and requires opera glasses to read, like a postage stamp on a Times Square billboard.

The steering-wheel buttons are devoid of labels; to see what they do, you must rest a finger on said button and let the screen show you its intended function. Even the steering wheel itself feels a bit off. Squircles are slowly becoming commonplace as dashboard design adapts to its flatscreen future, but that doesn't mean we like 'em. Yes, the Expedition is quick, but not quick enough to earn the Ford GT's tiller.
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The newly launched 2025 Xiaomi YU7:
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I still don't understand how the YU7 got over 250k orders after the launch. Are the Xiaomi Stans just as crazy as how Tesla Stans were during the time of Tesla's peak?
 
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I still don't understand how the YU7 got over 250k orders after the launch. Are the Xiaomi Stans just as crazy as how Tesla Stans were during the time of Tesla's peak?
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Good question, I wonder if these 250k orders include sales to fleet companies or if they cook the book sales?
 
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