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

[Orélie-Antoine I]

The xbox one ui was designed by a retarded Indian pajeet.

Fixed that 4 u.

 

[seri0us]

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.

Where can I unsubscribe from your blog

 

[Ginger Piglet]

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.

I own an RGB keyboard. I have the RGB set to constant blue on all keys. I got it because it was the least expensive mechanical keyboard wtih clicky switches and no lip so it can be cleaned by blowing it out rather than having to pull off all the keys. It has customisable RGB LEDs, but not in a useful way (like highlighting shortcuts), but in a stupid and puerile way, like rainbow waves, having keys light up all surrounding keys which in turn light up the further surrounding keys and so forth when pressed, slow fade, and other stupidity.

Someone didn't just put a load of colour changer LEDs into the board for a few cents though. They designed, developed and programmed a logic chip to go within the keyboard to do just that. There are no words.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Fuck RGB keyboards. Real men use the original IBM Model M.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

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.

That depends on how much audio there is, "pew-pew-pew" in portugeuse is the same as in Finnish.

How this is possible in Titanfall I can't even imagine, their stated reasoning was that lower end computer wouldn't have to decompress the audio.

Part of it might be that they're recording and mixing everything for 7.1 and the audio guy has a shotgun so no one can sneak in and mix down all the gravel sounds to stereo. I don't know anything about audio though.

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.

FitGirls games take hours to unpack and that is done by the CPU, as opposed to modern texture compression that the GPU takes care of. The Titanfall dev above took it to the other extreme and made everything huge. Extreme compression isn't viable in realtime and people are already bitching about the time it takes to download a game, add 4-5 hours of installation time when it's finally downloaded and people would be even angrier.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Are FitGirl repacks safe? I've always heard they're full of malware and crypto-miners.

 

[longtimelurkerfirsttimepo]

FitGirls games take hours to unpack and that is done by the CPU, as opposed to modern texture compression that the GPU takes care of. The Titanfall dev above took it to the other extreme and made everything huge. Extreme compression isn't viable in realtime and people are already bitching about the time it takes to download a game, add 4-5 hours of installation time when it's finally downloaded and people would be even angrier.

Ah. I've never actually tried any of Fitgirl's torrents, so I haven't had to experience that pain. I certainly understand that level of compression isn't realistic for a game that's expected to be loading assets in a fast manner, but I didn't realise the time it would take to unpack all of that.

It does sound better to let my PC idle for a few more hours rather than running full tilt trying to extract those files.

Are FitGirl repacks safe? I've always heard they're full of malware and crypto-miners.

Maybe?

"She" is a fairly big name in the piracy scene. From what I understand other groups are the ones that actually make the cracks and "she" is just repacking them into much smaller files for those with limited bandwidth or a desire for smaller files. Groups tend to fall out of favour pretty quickly if they repack malware, but I can't say I follow the scene very closely. There are a few different sites that come up when searching fitgirl, according to the r/piracy megathread .site is the correct one.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Maybe?

"She" is a fairly big name in the piracy scene. From what I understand other groups are the ones that actually make the cracks and "she" is just repacking them into much smaller files for those with limited bandwidth or a desire for smaller files. Groups tend to fall out of favour pretty quickly if they repack malware, but I can't say I follow the scene very closely. There are a few different sites that come up when searching fitgirl, according to the r/piracy megathread .site is the correct one.

r/Crackwatch would be a good place to check up on things like that, it's like a running audit on sources of cracks and repacks. I read it from time to time because there's sometimes interesting information about cracking DRM or other things but overall I feel that software piracy is fucking shady these days. Back in the day the crackers/rippers financial interests were different(sell access to a distro site, sell CDs with pirated games etc), there was no point in bundling something shady like a miner or adware.

 

[Gamepad]

Are FitGirl repacks safe? I've always heard they're full of malware and crypto-miners.

I think they gained that reputation after she started shitting on trannies.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Fuck RGB keyboards. Real men use the original IBM Model M.

Boys use Models Ms, Men use Model Fs, Gods use IBM 5251s

 

[The Real SVP]

You know what I miss? Shit actually working.
I just clicked on an advertisement! I almost never do that, but a music streaming service I use offered 3 month for 3€. That was a good offer. I was willing to pay those fuckers. I clicked on it. And you know what happened? Absolutely nothing.
Those fuckers just lost 3€.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

You know what I miss? Shit actually working.
I just clicked on an advertisement! I almost never do that, but a music streaming service I use offered 3 month for 3€. That was a good offer. I was willing to pay those fuckers. I clicked on it. And you know what happened? Absolutely nothing.
Those fuckers just lost 3€.

This is because everything nowadays is overcomplicated. It's part of the reason why I like retrotech so much. I can switch on my Atari STE (Motorola 68000, 4 MB RAM, blitter), plug in a MIDI keyboard, and be composing sweet riffs in Quartet within about 10 seconds. However my PC (Ryzen 3700X, RTX 3080, 16 GB RAM,. 2 TB NVMe SSD) takes about 15 seconds for the BIOS to do its thing and then for Windows to load (longer by far if it needs to install an update), another 15 seconds to log in through lock screens, and so forth.

And that's with a fairly powerful system. Imagine how glacial an office box is. In fact, even office boxes are using i5s nowadays. It doesn't need to be like this. There is so much bloat in modern software.

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

you know what i really miss? every application not being a web browser and sucking my ram hard

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

This is because everything nowadays is overcomplicated. It's part of the reason why I like retrotech so much. I can switch on my Atari STE (Motorola 68000, 4 MB RAM, blitter), plug in a MIDI keyboard, and be composing sweet riffs in Quartet within about 10 seconds. However my PC (Ryzen 3700X, RTX 3080, 16 GB RAM,. 2 TB NVMe SSD) takes about 15 seconds for the BIOS to do its thing and then for Windows to load (longer by far if it needs to install an update), another 15 seconds to log in through lock screens, and so forth.

And that's with a fairly powerful system. Imagine how glacial an office box is. In fact, even office boxes are using i5s nowadays. It doesn't need to be like this. There is so much bloat in modern software.

Something might be wrong then, my office laptops (8th gen i5s are configured with Fastboot (both BIOS fast and Windows fastboots) off and it doesn't take 15 seconds for windows to load up form off (excluding time to type in bitlocker key, as that is dependent on user and excluding updates which are both legally required in my industry).

Because my CIO is a dumbass at times (he refuses to get a rep for Dell or HP or even fucking CDW who might throw us discounts (Or even more since we are a non profit) we use shit-sumer tier hardware, maybe a grade above Walmart special.

But at the same time you are correct, because hardware has gotten more powerful it only encouraged developers to get lazy and write less efficient code.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

This is because everything nowadays is overcomplicated. It's part of the reason why I like retrotech so much. I can switch on my Atari STE (Motorola 68000, 4 MB RAM, blitter), plug in a MIDI keyboard, and be composing sweet riffs in Quartet within about 10 seconds. However my PC (Ryzen 3700X, RTX 3080, 16 GB RAM,. 2 TB NVMe SSD) takes about 15 seconds for the BIOS to do its thing and then for Windows to load (longer by far if it needs to install an update), another 15 seconds to log in through lock screens, and so forth.

And that's with a fairly powerful system. Imagine how glacial an office box is. In fact, even office boxes are using i5s nowadays. It doesn't need to be like this. There is so much bloat in modern software.

Part of why Windows takes time might be because of any USB stuff that is plugged in that needs to be recognized, like hard drives, controllers, synths etc. I know that if I unplug everything Windows boots in an instant, but with all the shit I use plugged in I will sit and look at my Xbox 360 pad spin the light around for 5-10 seconds while external drives are spinning up. When that's done there's no delay logging in or getting to the desktop.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Part of why Windows takes time might be because of any USB stuff that is plugged in that needs to be recognized, like hard drives, controllers, synths etc. I know that if I unplug everything Windows boots in an instant, but with all the shit I use plugged in I will sit and look at my Xbox 360 pad spin the light around for 5-10 seconds while external drives are spinning up. When that's done there's no delay logging in or getting to the desktop.

Keyboard, mouse, aged external hard drive, external sound module, joystick for Elite: Dangerous and Simply Planes. Not that many. I suspect, as always, bloat.

Point still stands though. Part of the reason I still use MS Office 2003 on my home PC is because it opens literally instantly (well, less than 0.1 seconds) regardless of how many other applications are open, and is "good enough" in that it has all the features of later versions of Office and, with plugin, can load .docx and .xlsx Office 2007 and later documents. I honestly couldn't name the additional features in Office 2010 or later that I would generally use. As long as I can chuck together nastygrams in Word, accounts and calculations of damages and schedules of loss in Excel, and corpo-speak bollox-slides in Powerpoint, and maybe find a use for Access at a point still to be determined, it's good enough.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Keyboard, mouse, aged external hard drive, external sound module, joystick for Elite: Dangerous and Simply Planes. Not that many. I suspect, as always, bloat.

Could be the hard drive so that it's connected when windows starts instead of re-connecting afterwards if anything depends on it. It's annoying but I understand why it's there.

and maybe find a use for Access at a point still to be determined, it's good enough.

Build payroll and everything company related around it operated through a GUI in VBA.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Could be the hard drive so that it's connected when windows starts instead of re-connecting afterwards if anything depends on it. It's annoying but I understand why it's there.

Build payroll and everything company related around it operated through a GUI in VBA.

Probably. It is about 11 years old. But I keep forgetting to replace it.

Right. I'm loggin' on to Amazon right now. I'm getting a cheapo M.2 SSD to go into my enclosure and podging everything across to there.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

My ISP which used to mock data caps is now forcing data caps in one of their markets, which I am not a part of but its a sign of things to come.
My only choices were Shitcast, ATT, and this ISP.

Fuck bullshit data caps and execs who need more fucking money.

The people responsible for this decision need to get their asses fired and go straight to the deepest layer of Hell.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

My ISP which used to mock data caps is now forcing data caps in one of their markets, which I am not a part of but its a sign of things to come.
My only choices were Shitcast, ATT, and this ISP.

Fuck bullshit data caps and execs who need more fucking money.

The people responsible for this decision need to get their asses fired and go straight to the deepest layer of Hell.

In the mid-late 90's I knew a man that was reasonably high up in a company that owns a lot of global infrastructure, he told me that private customers lived on the purchased data quotas that corporations paid them a lot of money for but didn't use and it would change, it won't be like that forever and there would be caps. I didn't believe him.