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

[stupidpieceofshit]

I complained a couple of pages back about the "finish windows set up" screen you now get on win 10 asking for your personal details.

I disabled it through the settings but a recent update overrode the settings and its back. Microsoft really wants my phone number and for me to set up onedrive. This is honestly ridiculous and pathetic putting this invasive shit in the OS and overriding user settings through an update. They are only getting away with it because they are an effective monopoly and all people can do is impotently complain about Microsoft shoving their fist deeper in their ass.

Its fucking bullshit now if you set windows 10 up with it connected to the internet it requires an MS account, no local account for you.
I don't have the good fortune to work at a place with the proper tools, and when I need to reinstall windows/set up a new laptop with windows its bullshit that even with Professional I need to worry about that, its going to be domain joined FFS, and I can't even get that option at set up its just "SIGN IN WITH A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT".

This is why I like courts. They are packed with boomers. I used to deal with one where they still used WordPerfect. That was in 2010. Another insists on documents from nothing newer than a '90s version of Word. Beautiful. Based boomers with no tolerance for this new-fangled shit.

Also, I am oddly comforted by Courier New and Times New Roman.

When I see Times New Roman and Courier New I am taken back to a simpler time, I want to go back.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Switch Online sucks. The joycon's analog stick also sucks.

Don't forget replacement joycons are eighty fucking dollarydoos and cost more than any other manufacturer. Nintendo's shit used to last way better.

 

[TheRetardKing]

Nintendo's shit used to last way better.

Yeah. It seems like Nintendo's quality control is drifting all o-

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...all of a sudden.

 

[BirdLaw]

Its fucking bullshit now if you set windows 10 up with it connected to the internet it requires an MS account, no local account for you.

it IS fucking bullshit, but the trick is to setup without an internet connection and then connect to wi-fi after the local account is setup
Microsoft doesn't make it easy or obvious but there's always some small button down in the corner about "I don't have internet" you can click during the setup process

 

[Erika Furudo]

I don't really like shopping but like a lot of people find myself mindlessly browsing Amazon recently during COVID lockdown. Holy shit Amazon is awful and I don't remember it being this bad a few years back.

You search for something or look at a category and the first page is littered with 'Featured' results which are usually irrelevant trash. That is bad enough but even the filters don't work. Like I specifically go to the Switch games category and half of the results are shitty third party controllers or screen protectors or whatever, these ain't the games I'm after Amazon. I try to filter out based on price and still get shit loads of results outside of the price range. I assume this is because certain companies pay Amazon to push their results up the list but there is nothing obvious flagging these as ads.

Can't even fucking consoom in peace without these pricks trying to market other shit to you.

Even Google's results are absolute fucking garbage. It used to be the model number would instantly take you to relevant hits for the exact thing. Somehow not even Google can manage that now. At some point these people all need to be publicly executed and we need a real search engine again.

I don't even know who to blame. Oh wait, yeah I do. I fucking blame troons!

Well both are insanely powerful monopolies, so what do you expect? They don't even need to try.

I heard that's why Google has gone on a killing spree in recent years against their products and services. All the people who created the were fired in favor of diversity hires and now no one knows how to maintain them.

I cant wait for this to become more widespread. It reminds me of various sci fi settings where the character will be on a spaceship, something made by humans, and yet it's falling apart as no one knows how it works anymore. When everyone is becoming more obsessed with digital content and the internet of things, this is an especially retarded idea. I always avoided computers and was (and still am to a degree) highly technophobic, just because any time I had to learn about IT in school, the teachers never really explained to me how a computer works, what it was doing, how it does it, etc. It was all very surface level and I don't get how people can be so casual about making tech a huge part of their life without trying to figure out how it works.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

it IS fucking bullshit, but the trick is to setup without an internet connection and then connect to wi-fi after the local account is setup
Microsoft doesn't make it easy or obvious but there's always some small button down in the corner about "I don't have internet" you can click during the setup process

Not anymore, in newer editions of windows you need to skip the step of connecting to the internet (IIRC its one of the first things). It is not explained that you have a choice in any way now.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Microsoft isn't in the OS business anymore, it's in the selling user data business.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

I miss the pda days where they tried to cram everything into one pda

 

[Non-breath oblige]

Ohh yes. Amazon is flogging their in-house brands HARD now. Once you get past that trash (95% is literally just copied from better products and made of Chinesium) you then wade through a bunch of drop shipped Alibaba junk.

If you know the EXACT model/SKU you want it's ok. These days, I'm seriously trying to limit my Amazon purchases as much as possible.

For me, electronics are now purchased at Microcenter is at all possible. If I find something cool on Amazon, I'll try and track down the actual manufacturer and they usually BEAT Amazon's prices. I don't mind waiting 1-3 days longer to get something if I can avoid a overworked Amazon worker throwing whatever "looks like" my purchase into the bin in the warehouse. (I used to be one so I know how awful those places are). Also, eBay can be pretty good too.

God the Chinesium/Alibaba junk is so bad. I had to rush order some personal home improvement stuff recently and trying to gamble on which one to buy from is a mess when everything looks the exact same just with different "brands" and prices. Who or what is "ILOVEHOME" and how is it any different from this other "FREELIFE" or "Ameezon Home" equivalent with the exact same product preview images that is 5-10 bucks less/more? Feels like I'm in anime world with the whole WcDonalds/Somy/Parasonic crap.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Another thing about cars that I don't like, although it isn't high-tech, is the obsession with sunroofs, namely the panoramic ones where most of the roof is glass. It just seems like a way to make the inside of your car much warmer while parked in the sun, and the glass is obviously very expensive to replace if it breaks. Not to mention that sunroofs shattering from the inside of the car is a thing, and not a fun experience if it happens to you. Also, the extra space needed for glass uses up valuable headroom. (I think that's the case for regular sunroofs, but I'm not sure if it's the same for panoramic ones) Is the extra weight from the sunroof glass (?) noticeable, compared to a trim without a sunroof?

 

[melty]

As much as I like using 2-factor authentication for the obvious things like Gmail, Facebook, and Instagram, I'm getting absolutely fucking sick of EVERY site now doing it by default, and making me verify my identity if I don't visit the site for more than a month. My gas and utilities do this shit: I pay my gas bill once a month, and every time I login to check my account it redirects me to a prompt saying they don't recognize my computer and IP address, so they force me to sign in using some 5-digit code sent to me via text. Verizon does this same thing too whenever I log into my account for my phone billing, as well as my online banking despite how my login screen has the checkbox ticked for "remember my info and keep me logged in." I think Amazon and eBay do this now too.

I accidentally sent this up for Amazon and I can't change it now. I've tried.
Pretty uncharacteristic for Amazon to make it harder to buy things.

It's like when some shit website demands you pick a password with a bunch of numbers and special characters and ends up being less secure because you have to write it down, and then the shit website gets hacked and leaks your super secure password to everybody. Now they can leak your phone number too!

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

I accidentally sent this up for Amazon and I can't change it now. I've tried.
Pretty uncharacteristic for Amazon to make it harder to buy things.

It's like when some shit website demands you pick a password with a bunch of numbers and special characters and ends up being less secure because you have to write it down, and then the shit website gets hacked and leaks your super secure password to everybody. Now they can leak your phone number too!

SMS 2FA/MFA is insecure. A bad actor can either use your personal data or social engineer a call center employee from your cell phone carrier to give them a copy of your SIM so they can get your MFA SMS (and I assume MFA calls too).

App based 2FA/MFA is much more secure but depending on the app can be a real pain if you swap phones (Looking at you Steam), other ones let you export your list and import to a new phone.

 

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God the Chinesium/Alibaba junk is so bad. I had to rush order some personal home improvement stuff recently and trying to gamble on which one to buy from is a mess when everything looks the exact same just with different "brands" and prices. Who or what is "ILOVEHOME" and how is it any different from this other "FREELIFE" or "Ameezon Home" equivalent with the exact same product preview images that is 5-10 bucks less/more? Feels like I'm in anime world with the whole WcDonalds/Somy/Parasonic crap.

Is it objectively different between picking between Walmart and Home Depot 'house brands' of tools, though?

SMS 2FA/MFA is insecure. A bad actor can either use your personal data or social engineer a call center employee from your cell phone carrier to give them a copy of your SIM so they can get your MFA SMS (and I assume MFA calls too).

App based 2FA/MFA is much more secure but depending on the app can be a real pain if you swap phones (Looking at you Steam), other ones let you export your list and import to a new phone.

Aegis (can be found on F-Droid) is a handy app for Android that allows ready export/import and manual entry of entries (as well as being able to display the QR code for an entry so you can scan it off). Seems to have Steam code support (though you'll need to set up the desktop authenticator w/o encryption of the keyfile and extract the code from there). Pretty sure most of the KeePASS 2.x OTP plugins support Steam too.

 

[Synthwave Obsessed]

I hate the trend of aggressive marketing. One could argue that it's probably the same shit and I'm just a Zoomennial bitching about modern problems. I'll accept that criticism, but it feels like advertisements have slowly gotten more aggressive as I've grown up.

Something I really don't like is targeted advertisement towards children. It's been a thing for so long that I bet my dead grandparents could tell me about the weird targeted advertisement they saw as children. For example, it might have been candy in the 50s. In the 70s and 80s, cigarette companies were inadvertently (or maybe not?) marketing to children by using friendly mascots. Today, it's Youtube and the ads that are targeted to children that should have been protected under COPPA. Some things, it's whatever. Market NERF and Barbie because those products are obviously made for kids. But I do not like how aggressive it is for kids. There is a lot of psychology and science to figure out what works best to get in a kid's head and drive them mad with wanting the thing they're selling. For my demographic, there's an entire list of things that are used to market to me. Really silly things that most people wouldn't think about such as focusing on certain details longer than usual are a part of that marketing list. It's really kind of insidious. It sometimes makes me question if what I like is genuinely what I like or is just some marketing spiel that has been ingrained in my head.

The more obvious complaint is how brazenly obvious advertisement is inserted into literally everything. Want to read an article? Here's a popup advertisement and like 10 others embedded in the page as you scroll down. Youtube throws multiple ads at the start of every video, in the middle of every video, and even at the end. Facebook has an entire setup around users selling their own advertisements. Speaking of Facebook, you can't convince me that they are not actively listening to your phone. Myself and multiple friends have talked about topics, with our phone nearby, and have had targeted advertisements suddenly start displaying the topic. Such as a time when I was talking about KFC at work with coworkers. Last night, someone in a Discord talked about a really great piece of woodworking they made. We all gushed about it with them and applauded their hard work, talked about our own desks. Today, multiple people are having targeted advertisements for desks. Google got caught with its hand in the cookie jar with listening in on their free spyware devices they sent out. I'm pretty sure Facebook has, as well.

My complaint is that technology is being used to more invasively advertise to people and it feels like we're just a few steps away towards what Futurama mocked in an episode of where you had advertisements in your dreams. The Simpsons and Futurama have been sadly relevant with some of the crazy shit.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Youtube throws multiple ads at the start of every video, in the middle of every video

I generally hated this because it made using the YouTube app on my phone a nightmare when I just wanted to lay in bed and look at videos, but last year was the absolute worst because that was when YouTube bombarded me with goddamn political ads. And it was nonstop too, every fucking video would have one or two ads dedicated to the presidential election or whatever senator was running, and even when I wasn't looking at videos I'd get banner ads showing the same thing. It was inescapable on most websites, sure, but YouTube was the only one I used consistently and I was sick to death of it long before Election Day.

Really, I think what disgusts me about last year was that it took your overall point about advertisements and added the ever-annoying topic that is politics. If last year was bad, I dread to think what will happen during the next election when the advertisements inevitably ramp up again and make 2020 look like a joke.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Sometimes technology can be a curse.

I just want to make it very clear that if I go to any place that has automatic kiosks or self-checkouts, I will always use them 1st because I hate waiting in line and the cashiers are always slow, high as a kite ghetto thugs who zone out instead of scanning my products or entering my order properly. The only time I don't is if they're offline or if the line for the self-checkouts/kiosks is too big, so I'm left with no choice.

At any rate, I'm getting fucking sick of fast food touch screen kiosks forcing you to get extra stuff instead of just placing your order. I went to a Burger King the other and day and selected some nuggets and fries from the touch screen, and as soon as I selected the item the screen was covered up with a huge prompt to upgrade it into a Whopper meal, with the "OK" button being large and the "no thanks" button being small in the corner, which caused me accidentally add it to my cart. Then when I tried to get rid of it, the "remove" button took me to another screen that asked if I'm absolutely sure. Right before I clicked on the button to check out, it paused and prompted me to add a special value meal to my order at the last minute, which I almost accidentally did.

Taco Bell does the same retarded shit too. When you select an item off the menu, it randomly prompts you to add another item, and before you checkout it stops you and prompts you to add additional crap that I clearly didn't want like a drink or those cinnamon churo things. In a way, this is [current year]'s equivalent to the classic fast food trope of "Do you want fries with that?"

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

cause windows is about as useful as a cock flavored lolipop

Some people like the taste of cocks. Nobody, however, likes Windows 10.

 

[Crankenstein]

BBOS10 was the best way to use a smartphone. Fucking fight me.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Taco Bell does the same retarded shit too. When you select an item off the menu, it randomly prompts you to add another item, and before you checkout it stops you and prompts you to add additional crap that I clearly didn't want like a drink or those cinnamon churo things. In a way, this is [current year]'s equivalent to the classic fast food trope of "Do you want fries with that?"

No its the [current year]'s equivalent to:

 

[Totally Awesome]

This is why I like courts. They are packed with boomers. I used to deal with one where they still used WordPerfect. That was in 2010. Another insists on documents from nothing newer than a '90s version of Word. Beautiful. Based boomers with no tolerance for this new-fangled shit.

Also, I am oddly comforted by Courier New and Times New Roman.

Fuck paying a monthly fee for Microsoft Office. I use OpenOffice and it works great!