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

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

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.

I was thinking how do you even get into that thing if it fails, but this is so much worse.

 

[Kane Lives]

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.

Doesn't even need to be as flashy as burning. Imagine the horrific scene of someone starving to death in a locked-in car. (Unlikely since you probably can break the windows, but if this is any indication, they'd probably have the windows be some bulletproof shit too.)

 

[Thiletonomics]

Doesn't even need to be as flashy as burning. Imagine the horrific scene of someone starving to death in a locked-in car. (Unlikely since you probably can break the windows, but if this is any indication, they'd probably have the windows be some bulletproof shit too.)

I'd also wonder if an auto maker were to make the doors so where they can't even be pried open in case of an emergency, for some reason.

Also, remember how the new Tesla Model S and X won't have a stalk shifter? The actual way to shift now is even worse, and you have to swipe on the left side of the giant ass touchscreen to go from Forward to Reverse, and vice versa. It's as if auto makers are trying so hard to "revolutionize" their cars, without taking into consideration if it will be straight forward for users to use. Also, I'm not sure how you would shift it into Neutral, in case of either a runaway emergency situation, or if you're at a car wash. Granted, it was reported that there's also a shifter control on the steering wheel as well, but both of those are still not-straight forward to use, even compared to other gimmick shifters such as rotary knobs and push buttons, and come off as trying too hard to re-invent the wheel. Not to mention that on-steering wheel controls on other cars are usually set up for cruise control on one side of the wheel, and volume/tuning/other infotainment controls on the other side.

 

[longtimelurkerfirsttimepo]

I'd also wonder if an auto maker were to make the doors so where they can't even be pried open in case of an emergency, for some reason.

Also, remember how the new Tesla Model S and X won't have a stalk shifter? The actual way to shift now is even worse, and you have to swipe on the left side of the giant ass touchscreen to go from Forward to Reverse, and vice versa. It's as if auto makers are trying so hard to "revolutionize" their cars, without taking into consideration if it will be straight forward for users to use. Also, I'm not sure how you would shift it into Neutral, in case of either a runaway emergency situation, or if you're at a car wash. Granted, it was reported that there's also a shifter control on the steering wheel as well, but both of those are still not-straight forward to use, even compared to other gimmick shifters such as rotary knobs and push buttons, and come off as trying too hard to re-invent the wheel. Not to mention that on-steering wheel controls on other cars are usually set up for cruise control on one side of the wheel, and volume/tuning/other infotainment controls on the other side.

Tesla, now with Lawsuit Prevention Locks(tm). Though really if someone did burn to death in their car and couldn't get out, that'd hurt the brand a lot more, open them up to tougher lawsuits and expose Elon's one true weakness - government scrutiny. According to that same 'source' on the swipe-to-reverse touchscreen, it is only supposed to be an override for the AI/algorithmic forward/reverse shifting, which is even more baffling than a touchscreen.

I question the veracity of the information, but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[KokoroKoroki]

I can go the rest of my life without having to look at the obnoxious gamer/battle-station aesthetic that plagues a lot of modern PC parts today, I'm sick to death of everything needing to include RGB because apparently some people value pretty lights over actual performance, just give me something that doesn't assault my eyes every time I boot the damn PC up for god's sake.

Come on tech companies, does RAM of all fucking things REALLY need RGB on it?

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Come on tech companies, does RAM of all fucking things REALLY need RGB on it?

Giant and over-elaborate heatsinks are another thing. Even on mid-range motherboards, where the voltage regulators aren't designed to be able to get so hot that they need heatsinking, it's expected that they are there. Meanwhile, server-grade boards (which, you know, are on all the time and have to remain up 100% of that time or people lose their work) have aluminium heatsinks that most EXTREME GAMERZZZZZZ would sneer at.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

These RGB EPIC GAYMER PC part fanatics must not sleep in the same room they keep their computers in. I have solid case sides for this exact reason - I don't need blue and green carnival lights in the corner of my room when I'm trying to sleep. You can't always avoid the fucking things either - my heatsink has them (can't turn it off) as did my prior video card - I had to put black electrical tape on the sides of it so I didn't have any blue lights beaming out of my fan vents.

But it's not just internal parts - I had to get rid of a cable modem years ago for its obscene blue LEDs that acted like a night light....also had to do a bit of digging before I could find a good mechanical keyboard that didn't have the same lighting.

 

[byuu]

Come on tech companies, does RAM of all fucking things REALLY need RGB on it?

RGB LEDs are dirt cheap nowadays. Adding 2 cents to the production costs to sell it for a dollar more because it looks more high-tech or something is a no-brainer for the manufacturers.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

These RGB EPIC GAYMER PC part fanatics must not sleep in the same room they keep their computers in. I have solid case sides for this exact reason - I don't need blue and green carnival lights in the corner of my room when I'm trying to sleep. You can't always avoid the fucking things either - my heatsink has them (can't turn it off) as did my prior video card - I had to put black electrical tape on the sides of it so I didn't have any blue lights beaming out of my fan vents.

But it's not just internal parts - I had to get rid of a cable modem years ago for its obscene blue LEDs that acted like a night light....also had to do a bit of digging before I could find a good mechanical keyboard that didn't have the same lighting.

I was a bit narked when my 3080 arrived and it had constantly pulsing rainbow lights down the side. Thankfully I was able to deactivate this in EVGA's Precision software and now my PC no longer looks like a Pride parade.

 

[seri0us]

I had to get rid of a cable modem years ago for its obscene blue LEDs that acted like a night light....

Lol, what the fuck?

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Lol, what the fuck?

It was an older version of this:

If you search around, other people were complaining about the same model. Some people resorting to de-soldering lights off the motherboard of it or changing them out just to not have to deal with the insane lights. That picture there doesn't do it justice - the nice big vents on the side makes sure you get a nice light show at night.

 

[AnOminous]

It was an older version of this:

If you search around, other people were complaining about the same model. Some people resorting to de-soldering lights off the motherboard of it or changing them out just to not have to deal with the insane lights. That picture there doesn't do it justice - the nice big vents on the side makes sure you get a nice light show at night.

Holy fuck, what the fuck is this? It's like the cable modem equivalent of those fucking dickheads with those deplorable xenon headlights. (And speaking of those I almost want to install a blinding spotlight in my rear window like you'd use for illegal deer spotting just to blind these cocksuckers right back. But that would be illegal.)

I'm amazed to find this is a well regarded modem. Also Intel Puma. Lmao. Seriously? Don't tell me marketing doesn't work. I suppose if you gave me one of these for free and I needed one I might use it but I'd bury it under the bed or something of the sort. Some opaque container. Just seeing this pisses me off.

 

[Madre Muerte]

It was an older version of this:

If you search around, other people were complaining about the same model. Some people resorting to de-soldering lights off the motherboard of it or changing them out just to not have to deal with the insane lights. That picture there doesn't do it justice - the nice big vents on the side makes sure you get a nice light show at night.

I have the same issue with a wifi extender, thankfully it's less pronounced.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

RGB LEDs are dirt cheap nowadays. Adding 2 cents to the production costs to sell it for a dollar more because it looks more high-tech or something is a no-brainer for the manufacturers.

And it's working! I know a woman who's teenage son refused to rage at his stupid online vidya without an RGB keyboard and mouse. He pouted and was sullen when he got a new computer and it only had a heterosexual keyboard. If I was his dad I would be hiding in Africa to avoid child support payments, no wait let me try again: if I was his adoptive father I would beat him with the straight keyboard and then hide in Africa to avoid child abuse charges.

 

[The Last Stand]

And it's working! I know a woman who's teenage son refused to rage at his stupid online vidya without an RGB keyboard and mouse. He pouted and was sullen when he got a new computer and it only had a heterosexual keyboard. If I was his dad I would be hiding in Africa to avoid child support payments, no wait let me try again: if I was his adoptive father I would beat him with the straight keyboard and then hide in Africa to avoid child abuse charges.

I don't understand why people want to light their tech up like a Christmas tree. It's impractical.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I don't understand why people want to light their tech up like a Christmas tree. It's impractical.

If it is truly contextual and professional then outlining the relevant hot-key keys while switching between programs could be good and giving them different colors for shortcuts/macros. I don't know if the fag-boards allow that.

 

[Nero You're DeadWeight]

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.

This reminds me of a talk I had with my folks about electric cars.

For context, if you go to McDonalds its USUALLY once a year they do that retarded monopoly thing, speaking of which has anyone ever won something good from it? Anyways it was something like that, but with like McDonald coins. They only came on hot drinks, large fries, big macs, 20 piece mc nugs, etc. Anyways if you got enough of these stupid coins, which you had to make an acc to LOG INTO to put the code into to get your shitty virtual coins. These coins were used for like raffles essentially, like if you put 25 coins in, it was 1 chance to win whatever but in this case it was a DR PEPPER THEMED CAR. Honestly, I think that acc got hacked or something or my info was sold somewhere but god I hate signing in for specific shit.
I think my family and I put a few coins in just for the shits and giggles, but it was SPECIFICALLY an electric car. Which brought up the conversation of what do you do if you run out of electricity and your stuck in the middle of nowhere.

A few highlights of the conversation was
"Well what if you get trapped inside and it's hot? Wouldn't you cook to death?"
"Well no you could open the door pulling on the lock thing right?"
"No cause don't some of those lock things go ALL the way into the door?? Some are switch only aren't they?"
"Where the fuck are you going to find an outlet in the woods? Nobody is going to bring a "spare charger" for their damn car. Even if you could, where are you going to plug it in???"

We're all electric car illiterate and I'm fine with that. Another thing i'm kinda not a fan of is cruise control. I used it a few times when my driving instructor taught me how to, but it still freaked me out. Like cool, I don't have to press the gas it'll keep it there for me, but the fact I just SIT there and watch the road??? I already dislike driving as is so to take a bit of my control out of it fucks with me greatly.

It reminds me a time I went to a convention with an ex-friend and her mom, and I was sitting in the back watching youtube and I peer up from my phone AND THE MOM HAD IT ON CRUISE CONTROL WHILE SHE WAS ON HER PHONE NOT PAYIN ATTENTION TO THE ROAD AND HANDS NOT REALLY ON THE FUCKING WHEEL. It freaked me out so bad I feel like I nearly fainted in the back seat. Like you don't do that kind of shit when you have anyone in the car, hell why would you even do that with two teenagers in the damn car? I don't care your the "cool hot wheel mom" but DON'T DO THAT KIND STUFF? Unfortunately she did pass away due to cancer but like, I can't forget an experience like that even if I TRIED.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

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.

Isn’t it also due to uncompressed audio, usually in multiple languages? I remember the initial PC release of Titanfall was infamous for this, being a 48 GB download in 2014.

 

[Jazz never died!]

Isn’t it also due to uncompressed audio, usually in multiple languages? I remember the initial PC release of Titanfall was infamous for this, being a 48 GB download in 2014.

Its due to how the textures was made what resoulution they are at and whether or not the audio is compressed and how many of the voice acted languages are installed. For console gamers you used to have to worry about how well compresed the graphics and audio was and most games only have english and 2-3 others installed. For pcs you install a lot more because you can pick what resolution the textures are at the quality of detail and all this extra crap and geting more languages than consoles because moding or looking for it in the game folder. Price for games looking great and being the pc master race.

 

[longtimelurkerfirsttimepo]

Isn’t it also due to uncompressed audio, usually in multiple languages? I remember the initial PC release of Titanfall was infamous for this, being a 48 GB download in 2014.

I suspect it's just a whole bunch of uncompressed files, including the audio.

While the fitgirl repacks aren't the best example as they do expand to regular size after installation, some of the repacks "she" has done almost half the size of the installers. The Sims 4+DLC went from 48GB to 27GB, Borderlands 3 goes from 118GB to 82GB (51GB if you only want English), Prey goes from 40GB to 21GB and so on. Storage has become so cheap, download quotas so large and game development companies so scummy nobody even seems to care anymore.

While maybe not the worst thing in the world for PCs, consoles now install games onto hard-drives which cannot be removed or upgraded easily or with official support. It sucks that you can only install 5 games to your console before you have to juggle installs.