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Have you tried Windows 95 yet??
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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One thing that makes me miss the elegant simplicity of flip phones is every damn time my ear so much as grazes a phones touch screen it brings up fifteen damn things making hanging up a cunt.
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try wearing baggy pants for comfort and having 1 of those HYPER sensitive phone screens and then when you whip your phone out settings is open, camera has taken 50+ pictures, you somehow screenshotted this thing without touching the screen, you saved some weird shit etc. What is up with that kinda shit I swear to fuck.
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That also happens when someone hands you their infinity-screen phone to look at something and as you grab it weird shit happens. A guy I used to work with handed me his phone so I could take a picture of him posing with [thing] and I raised it to take a picture and ended up seeing his girlfriend naked. I had NOT touched the actual screen yet, just the edges while turning the phone into portrait mode.
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I recall back in the day I got a proprietary stylus convertible laptop in the XP day sorta like that, it was fun esp for $1k-ish, but after playing Diablo II and Super Robot Wars wit h it, and then using it for my shooping up stupid shit it really spoiled me on a lot of basic computer stuff.
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I remember those, they were really neat! They even sold ones that were pressure sensitive, which felt like a space age wonder, they were pretty decent for art at the time. They're like the missing link between traditional Wacom pads and the Cintiq.
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Was she hot?
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Computers not requiring fans
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I had installed Modern Warfare on my uncle's Xbox. Downloading updates, installing massive packs of content, actually installing the disc; that one game ate up eight hours of time to install. And guess what? MORE stuff to install on a finite HDD. ~130 GB.
My uncle says: "All this downloading? For one game. Back in my day, you'd just put in the cartridge or game and just play!"
I actually agree with him. I miss those days where you'd just put in the game and get right to playing. It's not even the waiting part per se, but the sheer size and setup of a video game. Connect to the Internet, agree to terms, have an account to even access the game. It's just cumbersome sometimes.
Why are games so massive nowadays?
My uncle says: "All this downloading? For one game. Back in my day, you'd just put in the cartridge or game and just play!"
I actually agree with him. I miss those days where you'd just put in the game and get right to playing. It's not even the waiting part per se, but the sheer size and setup of a video game. Connect to the Internet, agree to terms, have an account to even access the game. It's just cumbersome sometimes.
Why are games so massive nowadays?
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- Oct 7, 2019
I miss the lack of innovation, nowadays everything is the same with only incremental upgrades. We should be at the point where tech is interesting but instead it's boring and sterile.
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The reveal of the Volkswagen ID.4 EV shows some examples of making even basic controls mundane, for some reason:
Examples of that include:
-Needing to toggle between raising or lowering the front or rear windows via a capacitive touch area.
-All of the capacitive touch buttons in general.
-The ID.4 not having full one-pedal driving, which is a big selling point of EVs, because of it having idle creep for some reason, which is only there on ICE cars because that's how torque converters work with automatic transmissions, as cars with manuals, dual-clutch transmissions, and other EVs don't creep like that.
I do have to admit, that the HUD being always in view because it's part of the tilt adjustment with the steering wheel is pretty neat, although I'm not a fan of having screens for HUDs like that. The shifter looks pretty iffy though.
Speaking of EVs, I don't like that the EVs that get the most attention and praise are the very fast and flashy ones, as in all of the Teslas, the Ford Mustang Mach-E, and to an extent the Porsche Taycan. The other, more normie EVs, i.e. the Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Bolt EV, and the new ID.4, all get trash talked and looked down upon for various reasons. Granted, the speed that Tesla grew in terms of the battery technology is very impressive, and the Mach-E looks to be a hit seller for Ford, but some Tesla fans in particular are WAY too obsessed with the company, and Elon Musk, to the point that he's treated like the second coming of Jesus Christ, like how Gabe Newell is praised the same in the gaming community.
Examples of that include:
-Needing to toggle between raising or lowering the front or rear windows via a capacitive touch area.
-All of the capacitive touch buttons in general.
-The ID.4 not having full one-pedal driving, which is a big selling point of EVs, because of it having idle creep for some reason, which is only there on ICE cars because that's how torque converters work with automatic transmissions, as cars with manuals, dual-clutch transmissions, and other EVs don't creep like that.
I do have to admit, that the HUD being always in view because it's part of the tilt adjustment with the steering wheel is pretty neat, although I'm not a fan of having screens for HUDs like that. The shifter looks pretty iffy though.
Speaking of EVs, I don't like that the EVs that get the most attention and praise are the very fast and flashy ones, as in all of the Teslas, the Ford Mustang Mach-E, and to an extent the Porsche Taycan. The other, more normie EVs, i.e. the Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Bolt EV, and the new ID.4, all get trash talked and looked down upon for various reasons. Granted, the speed that Tesla grew in terms of the battery technology is very impressive, and the Mach-E looks to be a hit seller for Ford, but some Tesla fans in particular are WAY too obsessed with the company, and Elon Musk, to the point that he's treated like the second coming of Jesus Christ, like how Gabe Newell is praised the same in the gaming community.
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Textures. A modern texture is made up of several different layers which increases their size so even with compression they come out pretty huge. You've probably noticed how you don't really notice repeating textures in modern games as well so there will be A LOT of textures.
What irks me is the need to download so much and I think that comes down to how the games are packaged and encrypted. They can't just slot something in like in a file system or directly patch in something, they need to replace huge blobs of data so the cryptographic key is correct. That's just me speculating though but it sure seems like it, I don't think they added or modified 34GB of textures for that update.
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Unfortunately, some car companies are trying way too hard to make changes for the sake of innovation, even if it means changing small, well-tried-and-true things, in a silly way. One example is when Elon Musk announced that the Tesla Cybertruck won't even have door handles.
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I am liking how you can stream console games to your phone via a subscription. Provided you have a stable Internet connection and decent controller, the results can be identical of that of a console or PC.
Granted, the smaller screen can make things more difficult and 5G isn't widespread. But I like how it's even possible.
I'm talking about Xbox Game Pass, not Google Stadia. That could've worked if they didn't restrict it to certain devices or games for whatever reason.
Granted, the smaller screen can make things more difficult and 5G isn't widespread. But I like how it's even possible.
I'm talking about Xbox Game Pass, not Google Stadia. That could've worked if they didn't restrict it to certain devices or games for whatever reason.
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I hate that cars are being reduced to consumer electronic devices with wheels. I resent Tesla in particular for expediting this change.
Future generations will never know what the pure driving experience feels like. For me, a big part of it was the separation from technological distractions and being alone with my thoughts for an extended period of time. It's possible that some of us may live to see such an experience become illegal.
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It probably will be. Because of the depredations of the Swedish Doom Goblin and her handlers, the fact that "climate lockdowns" have been mooted, the constant recurrence of black box road tracking, and carbon rationing, you probably won't be allowed a car by 2060 or so, or the taxes on it will be such that only the elites will be able to afford one. After all, why do you need a car when you can work from the productivity corner of your assigned pod and socialise over Zoom calls.
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I don't like that we now have to sign up for so much shit that it's hard to keep track of it all. I got a thing for my "twitter anniversary" that told me I've had an account for five years. I have a twitter account? Oh yeah, now I remember, I made it to send a friend request to a protected account so I could send a DM to that person... Anyway, when I noticed that, I used it to report a couple of troons to see what it felt like being a cunt. "Our investigation found that these accounts blah blah violated hateful conduct policy". Yes!
Then someone I know found what she thought was my Instagram account. I don't have an instagram account. Searching my emails it turns out I do, I don't remember why though and resetting the password shows that it was hacked 8 years ago as part of some paid followers scam, some weird pictures were posted and I don't know how to remove posts. Oh well, it allows me to peek into accounts set to friends only.
Twitter and Instagram are two of the big sites, who knows how many little shit services I've angrily registered at. I know I have rage registered a Pinterest. Looking through Chrome right now it seems like I have a Tumblr(???), Twitch(???), Nvidia account(???) and I don't even know what Motionarray.com is or why I'm registered there. Those are some of the ones I've bothered saving.
Then someone I know found what she thought was my Instagram account. I don't have an instagram account. Searching my emails it turns out I do, I don't remember why though and resetting the password shows that it was hacked 8 years ago as part of some paid followers scam, some weird pictures were posted and I don't know how to remove posts. Oh well, it allows me to peek into accounts set to friends only.
Twitter and Instagram are two of the big sites, who knows how many little shit services I've angrily registered at. I know I have rage registered a Pinterest. Looking through Chrome right now it seems like I have a Tumblr(???), Twitch(???), Nvidia account(???) and I don't even know what Motionarray.com is or why I'm registered there. Those are some of the ones I've bothered saving.
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Internet of Shit is the only reason why I still have a Twitter account.
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That account makes me depressed, and this cyberpunk dystopia is shit.
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I'm sure that will look great in court the first time a family burns to death because some new fangled automatic bullshit fails and locks them in a burning piece of Tesla shit.