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

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I miss just using big SD cards, the fuckers that don't get lost if you drop them in a crowded areas.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Here's another one, going onto youtube with my phone and then blacking out the screen and guess what's still playing? Whatever it was I was playing on youtube!

 

[Null]

Javascript as anything other than a way to make HTML more responsive is a fucking meme and JavaScript developers will one day face their own Nuremberg trials, complete with rope.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It could be nice if 5" floppy drives were still a thing.

That way really old software - assuming it has not yet decayed - could still be accessed.

Javascript as anything other than a way to make HTML more responsive is a fucking meme

I vented on that very issue over in the "things that piss you off" thread.

Especially annoying is when a site is blank without JavaScript.

 

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It could be nice if 5" floppy drives were still a thing.

That way really old software - assuming it has not yet decayed - could still be accessed.

You can buy a new sealed 5 1/4" unit today. Admittedly, it might have some decay of belts and plastic but people have replacements for these things. A lot of this software has been archived to places like Archive.org.

To the extent that it isn't, technology to do low level magnetic scans that can be reconstructed to read data from disks that even a brand new 5 1/4" floppy drive couldn't read has advanced and got cheaper a lot in the past decade. As a benefit, that allows devices that can do that to read data off every bizarre format that various manufacturers developed back in the day.

Here's another one, going onto youtube with my phone and then blacking out the screen and guess what's still playing? Whatever it was I was playing on youtube!

Install F-Droid (Google Play for good applications), install 'NewPipe'. Does the job.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

Everything having a fucking app. Especially retail brands who already have perfectly functional WEBSITES that negate the use of a fucking app.

Target? Get the target app!!! Joannas? App!!! Why this. Theres no benefit in wasting space by downloading an app. None!! Most if these apps are fucking cloud run so you need an internet connection to use them. And if you have access to the internet then just use the website.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Similar to what @Syaoran Li was saying about stuff moving online, another tech trend I don't like is moving classes or testing all online. For example, the city I'm in IRL made it so you can't get a food handling license in person anymore. Nope. Instead, you have to learn the stuff and do the test for the card all online.

As for online school, I took an all-online class once. Not only did I miss stuff, do poorly, and not really learn anything, I can't even recall what the class was about now.

I get the need for convenience, but not everyone has an internet connection and the latest web browser, even in tech-oversaturated Current Year. And some learn stuff better the old offline way.

 

[Absolutego]

I hate that I now have to go to specialty stores or online to get a basic fucking switch or a router that isn't some awful consumer trash with an exclusive management app instead of letting me telnet into it.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Any Internet of Stuff thing. There is no reason for your lightbulb, washer, dryer, stove, refrigerator, shaving razor, toothbrush, hairdryer, blender, etc etc etc to have Internet connectivity. None.

All of them should’ve been mocked as hard as the Juicero.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

I miss when websites used to have little sections where you can download things like wallpapers and desktop icons.
Usually it would be for a game/movie/book/show/toyline.
Does anyone remember this?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Does anyone remember this?

In Current Year there's draconian terms of service saying "you can't download anything from the site." Which brings me to the next tech-related trend I dislike: TOS and EULA everywhere.

It's one thing if the terms or agreement is granting permission to uses not covered by limits on copyright, but such legalize can try to limit your use of whatever it's to beyond the scope of what copyright law protects. Website terms especially -- although I usually only see Western or American sites trying to impose overly restrictive terms. And why does it seem like everything has to have a EULA or TOS anyway? Even vidya has that, when back in the day you just turned on the console and played the game.

At least under American law, you can't just say "by using this you are agreeing to be bound by these bullshit restrictions."

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Yet, even if there is adequate notice and a reasonable opportunity to review terms and conditions, there is no guarantee, at this point in the evolution of the law, that terms and conditions which are simply posted on the site will create a valid contract.

If your customer did not (or did not need to) accept your terms before using your site, purchasing your product, or utilizing your software, they are not bound by your Terms of Service.

 

[French Erotic Film]

I miss when websites used to have little sections where you can download things like wallpapers and desktop icons.
Usually it would be for a game/movie/book/show/toyline.
Does anyone remember this?

Yeah I remember those, sometimes they had those stupid mouse cursors available to download. I wonder if anyone actually bothered with those.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

I don't get anything about cell phone "notches", just have a bezel to keep the phone's camera on. There is absolutely no reasons to use anything else other than get people to consume more product.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

I miss my Sirius XM MP3.

 

[XYZpdq]

The annoying thing with Minidisc at the time was that transferring music to it meant recording it to the disc at normal speed, like copying a cassette tape. Burning a CD was so much faster. And easier. For best result with the MD it should be recorded using the TOSLINK port and that involves finding a something that plays CDs and have that port. Fortunately in 2000 there was a very popular Sony product on the market that could do it, the Playstation 2. It was still a pain in the ass.

Talk radio LOVED minidisc. On mono you'd get two hours out of it, it blanked and re-recorded with no effort, shit was sooooo cash. Basically perfect for recording a show to replay later.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I legit miss payphones and I hate cell phones. It's absolutely impossible to escape work or family now, you are always being tracked.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I hate cell phones.

In case it's not clear already, I'm not too much of a fan of cellphones either. It's unsettling how society has become so dependent on them now, when they were not needed before 2000.

here's a good old article on why cellphones suck

Now that almost everyone is slinging a cell phone, their usage has become utterly banal and superfluous. Conversations that could wait, and should wait, until people get home no longer have to wait, and so they don't wait.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Yeah I remember those, sometimes they had those stupid mouse cursors available to download. I wonder if anyone actually bothered with those.

Downloaded a crow mouse cursor as an edgy teenager. That's about it. Probably gave my laptop lymes disease doing that.

 

[Niggernerd]

I miss those old small cheap radios people gave to kids at parties. I should of took care of the collection i had, had i known there's memes in local news

 

[Uranus Pink]

The UI on this forum isn't bad. XenForo is pretty good when the site owners and admins aren't stupid. Way better then looking at and navigating reddit.

What happened to using phpBB, XMF, and vBulletin anyway?

vBulletin hit end of life development in 2017, but been a shell of itself long before that when co-creator Kier left the company and co-created Xenforo.