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Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone and I can see how the bulk would be a dealbreaker for someone. I think they would have success with a slimmer model.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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If I ever need a new phone in the near future, I might consider getting one of these. The size thing might be a problem, but if I have a backpack or a coat with big pockets it won't be too big an issue.
Kikkoman
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Glass backs on phones. I recently got a new used one after squeezing half a decade of use out of my old plastic back one and this thing is slippery. I can hold it just fine but putting it down on anything that isnt perfectly flat will cause it to end up on the floor. At least it still has microsd and a headphone jack i guess.
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I may have already said "Zoom meetings" in this thread, but what's even worse are "Zoom meetings" on smartphone. It's like watching the opening of The Brady Bunch on a postcard - with stamp-sized portraits.
It's not a natural way to talk to people.
It's not a natural way to talk to people.
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Zoom is shit chink spyware and it's ludicrous we've even allowed this shit in the country.
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And horrifying that zoom has a healthcare division. I 100% expext that their HIPAA business agreements will be violated by Zoom. Its also horrifying how much information the Healthcare (your doctors IT people) side gets of clients (the patients) computers in Zoom Healthcare. I dread to think what Zoom is passing on to the CCP
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This is why I'm glad that my country is so ass-backwards regarding doing stuff digitally and obstruct every attempt of any kinds of providers to do stuff with me the "new, digital way". It'd just end with my private data in the hands of some russians/chinese, 100%.
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GDPR could also fist them royally. It is no longer allowed for a doctor or almost everyone in the public sector to receive an e-mail from a pleb, it needs to go through a plethora of hastily constructed web portals bespoke messaging systems and it can eat my ass. I'm tech-savvy and can use things I've never seen before, like all of us here, but some of their decisions are akin to storing all the remote controls in the kitchen drawer under the tableware which means scouring the living room for 45 minutes was always a lost cause. Just a waste of my time.
Time to call their phone support to get this sorted out. Oh, it's the auto-voice system "Please state the nature of your call so we can direct you" - I need to find [x] in [portal] - "sorry I don't understand that, can you say it again" - fuckingpieceofshitwebassfuck - "sorry, I do not understand that. I will connect you to a manual operator" - hot tip, if it partially understands what you are saying it seems like the system tries to get more out of you, if it doesn't understand shit it quickly gives up(handicap/somali friendly).
Number 1137 in the que, I enter my phone number so they'll call when it's my turn, I'm not going to sit around waiting. They call hours later in the afternoon when I'm taking a shit, or waiting for the spin-cycle to stop, or I'm out in traffic or I'm talking to someone that I don't want to overhear me asking how to find the form to report something that might be private or otherwise TMI.
Having me fill in a long form and put the "next" button on the lower left and the "cancel" on the lower right... someone needs to have their hands cut off.
The Real SVP
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I recently called my county's medical emergency hotline. The number you are supposed to call, instead of the fire department, if you suffer an immediate medical emergency, but everybody involved is still conscious and still has all their limbs firmly attached. It's a service for people who are more often then not suffering sever stress or pain. - I spent the first five minutes of the call navigating automated covid disclaimers and administrative voice menus. Then the doctor on call told me to call the fire department.
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Apps for shit you can easily do via your browser.
Recently I had to listen to a couple of co-workers boomering at each other trying to put the outlook app on a phone for work email instead of just using outlook's webmail in the browser.
Apps for shit you can easily do via your browser.
Recently I had to listen to a couple of co-workers boomering at each other trying to put the outlook app on a phone for work email instead of just using outlook's webmail in the browser.
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If a search engine can't find results, it should just say so, instead of trying to pass off "related" crap as results. That's how it used to be.
But this is Current Year, and "smart" searches with "algorithms" are in.
But this is Current Year, and "smart" searches with "algorithms" are in.
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I miss the Northern Light search engine. It had absolutely the best set of boolean and other options to search shit intelligently. Now you have to just put up with whatever shitty search options Jewgle forces you into using.
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Speaking of google, does anybody remember back in the day before they were a dystopian cyberpunk nightmare when they had gag language options like Klingon or Elmer Fudd speak?
ditto
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I'd forgotten all about those. And they're still there! Go to https://www.google.com/preferences#languages
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Web links where the site always blocks the scrolling and asks if you want to view it in their special little app that is just a different browser(Twitter, Instagram and so on).
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oh yeah hitting "no' was so fucking hard I nearly had a heart attack
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I miss DVD being standard and Blu-ray being this newfangled thing. Back when VHS was still kind of a thing. Back then, no streaming to "smart" TVs that watch you.
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Executive at twitter: ...place the buttons close to each other so the user might press the wrong one by mistake when they're taking a shit.
Totally Awesome
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Falcos_Commisar
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Correct. VR is a gimmick for hyper consumers who want to justify a $5,000 gaming PCs
Ugh those cutesy little "error messages" are enraging. Probably some idiot liberal arts diversity hire with a nose ring has a "job" making those.
As for phones, the Fair phone concept is awesome.... Too bad it's basically EU ONLY. What ever happened to smartphones with sub 6 inch screen sizes, nice tough plastic bodies, microSD cards, and sub $1,000 prices? Samsung just dropped microSD cards on their flagship phones, and the Pixel series never had them. Makes me want to spec a while label phone and kickstart it.