ScatmansWorld
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Yeah I’m agreeing with you. I’m just pointing that out to @The Grinch who is indeed a dumb fuck.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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I should also point out even though I hate explaining a shitpost that it should have been a giveaway that I was paraphrasing the first sentence of Kaczynski's manifesto.
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>every gaming PC that isn't shitty Alienware must have a Shadow the Hedgehog color scheme
Maybe I wanted one with lights that aren't red? Ever think of that?
Maybe I wanted one with lights that aren't red? Ever think of that?
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I miss mIRC. I treat Discord as "mIRC 2.0" in a way, and I appreciate how convenient it is, but it's not the same.
Not sure how safe or secure is it to run an IRC server these days, though.
I still have next to me, on my nightstand, my trusty Nokia N900. Used that phone for as long as I could up until I was forced to upgrade because of WhatsApp and Slack.
I miss the keyboard, it was so comfy.
Not sure how safe or secure is it to run an IRC server these days, though.
What Apple did to the phone market still pains me. I know that the consolidation of the industry to strictly slate design was inevitable and Apple was just the first to figure it out, but the era of weird and unique devices was just so damn fun.
I still have next to me, on my nightstand, my trusty Nokia N900. Used that phone for as long as I could up until I was forced to upgrade because of WhatsApp and Slack.
I miss the keyboard, it was so comfy.
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Speaking of fun phone designs, here's one I wanted: the Samsung SGH-X830What Apple did to the phone market still pains me. I know that the consolidation of the industry to strictly slate design was inevitable and Apple was just the first to figure it out, but the era of weird and unique devices was just so damn fun.
I only ever saw one as a dummy display model, so I can't say if it actually did anything well. But the swivel feature felt like a knife, it just felt so good to snap open. And it was just so narrow in the hand.
Functionally it's probably a nightmare to use for anything but as an MP3 player, and even phones that could play music of that time had a whole lot of crappy shit you might not even expect. No 3.5mm headphone jacks, but instead, 2.5mm headphone jacks that would only play in one ear, even if you got an adapter, since they were made for wired headsets. Bluetooth was often on there too, but only for Bluetooth headsets, since they didn't have A2DP profiles. Samsung's own featurephones came with some shitty earbuds that you could listen to music through, but if you wanted to bring your own headphones, tough shit.
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I have yet to encounter a Bluetooth headset that I like at all.
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Nobody ever made a good one from what I've seen.
Also, wireless earbuds are so autistic.
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They have their uses but the ones that are put into the ear like earplugs seem stupid. The ones that are wireless and the earbuds are connected by a cable that goes behind the neck are good, they can be popped out and tucked under the collar of your shirt for easy access and storage, they're also very discrete, no need to have a pair of cans around your neck and look like you escaped a Boomfunk MC's video or have breast pocket used exclusively for the Apple-style wireless earbuds(so they don't get scuffed or dirty).
The ones I use have a range of 6-7 meters so I can leave the phone charging and still have some range to move and do things. A positive side effect is that I can't forget my phone anywhere if I'm listening to something. A negative is that if I put the phone in my pocket the range goes down to 35cm because it's still a Bluetooth device.
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With you on this. None of them are good quality, so it's just down to whether you get 'sport' type ones with the cable behind the ear or whatever is the cheapest and smallest over the head type that isn't Beats. The only real differentiating feature is whether you can hook up a charging cable and listen at the same time.
There are a few devices around that have a battery and mic that you can clip or drop in a pocket and let you connect any old 3.5mm headphone (though I doubt they're going to drive massive studio monitors well). The two I've tried have been junk, but if it's been done right by anyone that seems like it would be a good solution.
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They are fucking painful is what they are. How can people put them in and use them. Any time I try a soft/gel one it still feels like I'm cramming an icepick into my eardrum. I do like me some over the ear big can headphones though, those are so damn comfortable and seinheiser makes a sweet pair. Almost went Bose because of the size of the cans that fit over my droopy dwarf ears, anything small that doesn't clap around my neck goes into the trash bin or returned.
Also I love Alexa everything. I don't care of Bezos is listening and faps off to my asking for recipes on cheese popovers, turning the lights on via voice, setting the alarm, changing the AC, and a dozen little things via voice command I feel like Star Trek is finally here.
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Why is it suddenly okay to just end a conversation by never replying?
I do this myself but it feels really unsatisfying. Why is this ok?
I do this myself but it feels really unsatisfying. Why is this ok?
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That's why you do a custom build. Want an your entire system to to be black and green? Have fun. Want to house your waifu GPU in a pink cat?
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Related to that. It is annoying to send a message saying that you will come by at a certain time and get an "ok, see you then" reply that can be read at a glance without clicking the text message, which needs to be clicked to get rid of the notification balloon and the blinking light on the phone. A text like "I'll be there at 14:30" doesn't need a reply if the reply is just a variant of "ok" because the ok is already implicit. It's like a letter, no one replies to a letter with a doctors appointment unless there's something they need to know, like "I need to reschedule" or "I don't even live in that city, you better not bill me for this". That's how it is supposed to work!
I have converted a couple of people to this line of thinking, no one actually likes to send or get the "ok" type of messages.
If someone sends a text message that requires scrolling to read it all THEN "ok" is an appropriate response because wtf.
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Most of my nostalgia and pet peeves have already been mentioned at least once in this thread, but the only thing I'm shocked that nobody's brought up yet is the absolute blight on the face of the internet that is infinite fucking scroll.
Gee, the one thing I always wanted from my long-form browsing experience is to have to start at the very fucking beginning of whatever I'm reading every time I click away from the page for any reason, or perhaps when my browser crashes because it was forced to keep every single page of the site loaded at all times! I guess actually wanting to view the content on offer is a lot less important to our shiny new web 2.0 experience than having the most stylish, slick, modern, and minimalist design around. Or maybe it's that clicking a next page button to see more was deemed too complicated by our tech overlords, and adding fancy javascript to replace one of the web's most basic functions, with a version that makes it far less easy and convenient to actually use, was just "better" somehow. It's basically the web design equivalent of the earphone jack removal in phones, and I fucking hate it.
Gee, the one thing I always wanted from my long-form browsing experience is to have to start at the very fucking beginning of whatever I'm reading every time I click away from the page for any reason, or perhaps when my browser crashes because it was forced to keep every single page of the site loaded at all times! I guess actually wanting to view the content on offer is a lot less important to our shiny new web 2.0 experience than having the most stylish, slick, modern, and minimalist design around. Or maybe it's that clicking a next page button to see more was deemed too complicated by our tech overlords, and adding fancy javascript to replace one of the web's most basic functions, with a version that makes it far less easy and convenient to actually use, was just "better" somehow. It's basically the web design equivalent of the earphone jack removal in phones, and I fucking hate it.
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It's hard to say which is more irritating. Clickbait that is endless scrolling, or clickbait that if it was on one page would be a paragraph and a half, but is spread out as individual half-sentences across 40 pages interspersed with a page of ads every third page.
Skin and Bones
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I don't like "Smart" home devices. You're taking something that functioned as intended for decades, if not longer and adding in an unnecessary layer of bloat. I like having devices that you can fully control without apps and where you don't have to worry about security or privacy like you do with every device that connects to the internet.
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At least I don't see much of this trend any more. I honestly think the absolute joke of a product that was Juicero may have finally finished it off. This was a lolcow product that literally squeezed juice from a bag but also for absolutely no reason connected to the Internet, refused to squeeze any bags that didn't have the company ID on them, and was otherwise utterly worthless.
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You obviously haven't been inudated with the ads for the toaster oven version of the Juicero, Tovala
Skin and Bones
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Oh yeah, that. It was the pinnacle of dumb "Smart" devices. Expensive, restrictive in what it allows you to do in a clear attempt to get you to give them more money if you actually want to make some juice, and it didn't even work that well. Clearly not everything needs to be an iPad.
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And there's also just the fact that if I want a cup of juice I can just pour one. If I want fresh squeezed orange juice, I can grab a couple oranges and, you know, squeeze them. With these modern devices called "hands."