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

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I hate the move for everything being a subscription now and not being able to outright buy shit anymore (I.e. monthly ms office, some 3d art stuff, etc.).

The thing I really hate about the subscription model is the often used "always online" feature to use the program. Many professionals have brought this up, they might be shooting video at a remote location and want to do a rough cut on a laptop using Premiere but no, they can't, there's no internet in the pygmy village.

The positives are accessibility and pricing, I certainly don't long for when you paid out the ass for a copy and had to pay again next year for all the new and useful features that took advantage of the advances in technology. Now features arrive monthly or even weekly instead of annually. That's good if you ask me. Of course in some programs(Visual Studio comes to mind) you would want to stick to one version or things might break.

 

[AnOminous]

I miss sleeping inside of a PBX. There is nothing more soothing and calm than the vacuum tubes and fans inside of a really nice PBX. The warm hum, the heat. The sheer calming presence. Vacuum tubes in general. What a beautiful piece of tech. When is the last time you even saw one of these?

I think the last time I saw a vacuum tube was in a Mesa Boogie amp.

When is the last time anything phone-related had tubes?

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

I was looking at some Jap websites and while they look like 20 year old html/css sites there are no annoying popups or begging to accept cookies or turning of adblock. If only we could combine the Japanese hatred for all things modal with some actual webdesign we could usher in the golden age of web browsing.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

It's because Vidya became mainstream, need to keep it bland to keep the normies happy.

A big part of that is that it's easier to appeal to more people around the world the blander something is. You don't have to account for cultural tastes the blander something is.

I was looking at some Jap websites and while they look like 20 year old html/css sites there are no annoying popups or begging to accept cookies or turning of adblock. If only we could combine the Japanese hatred for all things modal with some actual webdesign we could usher in the golden age of web browsing.

They have random spots where they still use old tech, don't they?

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

They have random spots where they still use old tech, don't they?

Apparently a lot of sites were designed with flip phones in mind and it just stuck with them over the years.

 

[Darksy DePhil]

Remember StumbleUpon, the site which took you to random websites and links from across the whole web and allowed you to share and rate them?
Well, the site was killed off a few years ago and they replaced it with a shitty generic Pinterest clone called "Mix". Shit's like the absolute opposite of what StumbleUpon was.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Remember StumbleUpon, the site which took you to random websites and links from across the whole web and allowed you to share and rate them?
Well, the site was killed off a few years ago and they replaced it with a shitty generic Pinterest clone called "Mix". Shit's like the absolute opposite of what StumbleUpon was.

StumbleUpon now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I hate pinterest, it is cancer for image results, if I am trying to look something up, often the only results seem to be from pinterest, and to get the full image you need to sign up, fucking hell I am not giving you anyway to contact me.

 

[Sperghetti]

Pinterest is one of those things where the basic idea was a good one (website that lets you assemble collections of images/links and share them among other users), but they kept adding "features" that make it nearly unusable.

In addition to taking over image searches (I swear it's only a matter of time before search engines completely disable boolean operators), it's a prime example of "website trying to force unwanted content upon you" hell.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Earlier today I saw one of those newfangled smart TVs display a "network not found" error message, suggesting "rebooting the TV". I miss when new TVs weren't computers that needed the internet.

Then again, the end of television service may not be that bad, as the medium is run by corporations who decide what is broadcast...

 

[AnOminous]

Earlier today I saw one of those newfangled smart TVs display a "network not found" error message, suggesting "rebooting the TV". I miss when new TVs weren't computers that needed the internet.

Then again, the end of television service may not be that bad, as the medium is run by corporations who decide what is broadcast...

Well that will certainly never happen again.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Well that will certainly never happen again.

Oh right, I forgot about that.

At least for now the Internet is still less controlled than TV.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I hate pinterest, it is cancer for image results, if I am trying to look something up, often the only results seem to be from pinterest, and to get the full image you need to sign up, fucking hell I am not giving you anyway to contact me.

The results after googling "block pinterest from google" shows that you're not alone. There's an extension called Unpinterested that automatically runs -site:pinterest.* for all searches. Facebook is almost as annoying, they present their image results as high res (1488x1069) in Google image search but they're actually upscaled from 400x300 unless you click the link and sign in to facebook.

 

[Never Scored]

Earlier today I saw one of those newfangled smart TVs display a "network not found" error message, suggesting "rebooting the TV". I miss when new TVs weren't computers that needed the internet.

Then again, the end of television service may not be that bad, as the medium is run by corporations who decide what is broadcast...

Would the TV work without connecting?

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I was looking at some Jap websites and while they look like 20 year old html/css sites there are no annoying popups or begging to accept cookies or turning of adblock. If only we could combine the Japanese hatred for all things modal with some actual webdesign we could usher in the golden age of web browsing.

The Japs are the only country I've ever seen websites where all the text was just printed on a giant JPG set as the background of the site.

Absolutely infuriating when you don't read moonspeak and want to read at least a very rough translation (at least it was a bigger problem back 15 years ago when OCR wasn't a thing you could just use). Almost every Japanese website I've been to has looked Web 1.0 as fuck, it's like they never progressed beyond 1998.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

Remember StumbleUpon, the site which took you to random websites and links from across the whole web and allowed you to share and rate them?
Well, the site was killed off a few years ago and they replaced it with a shitty generic Pinterest clone called "Mix". Shit's like the absolute opposite of what StumbleUpon was.

 

[AnOminous]

The Japs are the only country I've ever seen websites where all the text was just printed on a giant JPG set as the background of the site.

This is a combo of lack of net penetration early and I also think they realized the rest of the world is evil and they don't necessarily even want you seeing their website.

 

[Sorlock]

I miss when Reddit wasn't owned by the CCP.

 

[AnOminous]

I miss when Reddit wasn't owned by the CCP.

I miss when Reddit didn't even exist.

 

[Never Scored]

The Japs are the only country I've ever seen websites where all the text was just printed on a giant JPG set as the background of the site.

Absolutely infuriating when you don't read moonspeak and want to read at least a very rough translation (at least it was a bigger problem back 15 years ago when OCR wasn't a thing you could just use). Almost every Japanese website I've been to has looked Web 1.0 as fuck, it's like they never progressed beyond 1998.

I'd rather have text on a jpg than the Orwellian nightmare of trackers and social media integration our websites have become tbh. Fuck if I could go read the news and it was just a wall of text with no trackers or cookies or javascript, that's be great. I do use RSS, but usually now you just get a three sentence summary and a link to the rest of the story.

 

[User 67204]

I dislike that laptop manufacturers have decided to remove as much ports as humanly possible on their newer models, having a mentality of reducing thickness over functionality (like having a good cooling system), Intel and AMD adding spyware on the hardware level with the Intel Management Engine and AMD Platform Security Processor with no "easy" or "official" way of removing it fully (though System76 laptops and desktops try to do it as much as possible), (even though this has been an issue in the poast as well currently) having DRM in some capacity almost every popular digital mediums, such as games (though their is some resilience to make them DRM-Free), books, movies, etc and worst of all, the increasing trend of services overhaving actual ownership of digital products. Subscription services like Netflix, Game Access, Amazon with their kindle service have proven this to be sucessful, with more companies than ever capitlizing on the streaming service business. Users are paying for subscription to access the license but not own the product once it expires.