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

[Kosher Dill]

Imagine not having to pay a law firm $1,200 to search the registry of deeds when you buy a piece of land because the blockchain will do it for you.

Imagine winning a piece of land from someone in court and they lost the private keys in a boating accident.

 

[byuu]

A hot girl like that in America doesn't even own a desktop and she's using iOS and that's it.

What else can you expect from someone who sucks cock?

 

[Never Scored]

Imagine winning a piece of land from someone in court and they lost the private keys in a boating accident.

That's why governments aren't going to go for it. Also, most of the platforms NFTs are built on a proof of stake or about to go proof of stake, so a foreign actor like China could theoretically purchase 51% of all tokens and decide who owns what.

The useful applications are strictly theoretical.

 

[Trombonista]

Fwiw Mazda is DESPERATE to become a luxury brand so expect that new Mazda 6 to start at $35k and rapidly rise from there. I can't forgive them replacing the IRS in the current 3 with a goddamn twist beam rear suspension.

That's odd; their cars have been popular in Israel due to their affordability.

 

[XYZpdq]

And back before the iPod popularized using flash storage or spinning rust for portable music players, the holy grail in small portable music players was a CD player that could read MP3s off a data CD and play them (and play regular audio CDs of course). Just imagine, 6+ hours of music on ONE fucking disc!
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It cost over a hundred bucks when it was new, but I loved this god damned thing. It couldn't even do "seamless" playback (there was always a little 1/4 second gap of silence as it loaded the next track) and it was picky about filenames and folder nesting depth, but it worked, was built like a tank, had good battery life, and served me well for years.

I had one like this from Sony, the "Car Diskman"

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I had one like this from Sony, the "Car Diskman"

They were pretty great and had better skip protection than normal CD players. A normal CD player with skip protection had a bit of memory to buffer audio for the times when it couldn't read it reliably, the players that read MP3 from a CD had a buffer memory as well but they could load in more of a song due to the small size of MP3s. They were a great and fairly inexpensive(€100, late 1999?) Christmas present that blew peoples minds.

Using the headphone jack they could also be hooked up to an amplifier at parties, the CD is carrying ten hours of music on one disc and removes the need to swap discs. Remember the absolute luxury of having a CD changer in the 90's?

Jens of Sweden, a short lived company with a stupid name that made MP3 players, they were pretty cool. They went bankrupt in 2004.

 

[AnOminous]

Using the headphone jack they could also be hooked up to an amplifier at parties, the CD is carrying ten hours of music on one disc and removes the need to swap discs. Remember the absolute luxury of having a CD changer in the 90's?

I used to have a CD/mp3 player that had a "cassette" that you could insert into a tape player, for if you had an ancient car with one of those, and another that broadcast on FM so you could just tune into it if you only had a radio.

 

[Never Scored]

I used to have a CD/mp3 player that had a "cassette" that you could insert into a tape player, for if you had an ancient car with one of those

I had one of those in my first car too. It was just a tape with a cable you could plug into any headphone jack coming out of it. You used to be able to buy them at Wal-Mart for like $5. Plug it into a laptop loaded with MP3s from Kazaa for the ultimate 2005 experience.

 

[Idiot Asshole]

A bit of a detour from the current topic but as bad as the iPod was for helping to homogenize the MP3 player market and keep the user at the whim of Apple's increasingly shitty software at least it was something that properly worked as a music storage device. When Apple decided to end the line I swear MP3 players became extinct overnight even in second-hand outlets unless you want to put a mortgage on your firstborn so now you're left with bloody phones whose top reviewed apps are all about T H E C L O U D and not about music you actually have stored yourself. I'd get a memory card with good capacity if I could find a decent way to play music on my phone that didn't involve ads, crappy interface and non-seamless transitions but no luck so far so for the time being. I swear, streaming is the worst thing to happen to music ever.

Anyway on a complete aside without powerlevelling I'll just say that I drive trucks for a living and one of the things that drives me up the wall is that fucking service reminder alarm. Driving for up to ten hours a day with a constant beep telling you, the employee who has no power over the fleet's maintenance schedule, that the vehicle needs to be taken to the nearest shop RIGHT NOW OR ELSE IT WILL FALL APART THIS VERY SECOND is one of the most irritating experiences in the world and I wish whoever came up with it was beaten with sticks covered in hydrochloric acid.

 

[Never Scored]

A bit of a detour from the current topic but as bad as the iPod was for helping to homogenize the MP3 player market and keep the user at the whim of Apple's increasingly shitty software at least it was something that properly worked as a music storage device. When Apple decided to end the line I swear MP3 players became extinct overnight even in second-hand outlets unless you want to put a mortgage on your firstborn so now you're left with bloody phones whose top reviewed apps are all about T H E C L O U D and not about music you actually have stored yourself. I'd get a memory card with good capacity if I could find a decent way to play music on my phone that didn't involve ads, crappy interface and non-seamless transitions but no luck so far so for the time being. I swear, streaming is the worst thing to happen to music ever.

I find these guys that are still made by Sony pretty good. They're not expandable though, so if four gigs isn't enough for you it's not much good.

 

[Cliff Booth]

My Samsung smart TV needs a system update but literally doesn't have enough memory to download it due to all the unremoveable bloatware. What the actual fuck? I know I can download it to a USB stick or some nonsense like that, but this is fucking absurd.

 

[seri0us]

My Samsung smart TV needs a system update

Does it?

 

[Cliff Booth]

Does it?

Fair point. I don't know if it matters. I just thought it was funny that the product is incapable of doing it without a workaround.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Why are you letting your TV onto your network? It's sending out reports of what you're watching so they can build a better profile of you. Speakers can also be turned into microphones to listen in on you.

 

[Cliff Booth]

Why are you letting your TV onto your network? It's sending out reports of what you're watching so they can build a better profile of you. Speakers can also be turned into microphones to listen in on you.

Any answer I give would boil down to laziness and the fact that I watch a lot of sports, so I don't see another option. I'm always open to suggestions to avoid the panopticon though.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Sports isn't my bag so I'm not up to date on free streaming options but there are options out there. I'd suggest using your TV more as a monitor for a media server like I do. You can look into building a pi-hole and funnel all samsung related traffic to the ether, never to be used by an ad agency.

One piece of advice for you and everyone else: NEVER allow devices on your network that you can't configure completely.

 

[Cliff Booth]

Sports isn't my bag so I'm not up to date on free streaming options but there are options out there. I'd suggest using your TV more as a monitor for a media server like I do. You can look into building a pi-hole and funnel all samsung related traffic to the ether, never to be used by an ad agency.

One piece of advice for you and everyone else: NEVER allow devices on your network that you can't configure completely.

Ah okay gotcha. I wasn't sure if you meant to take my TV completely offline and just torrent to an external for media. I've thought about doing your suggestion, just never put any effort or time into it.

 

[Kosher Dill]

One piece of advice for you and everyone else: NEVER allow devices on your network that you can't configure completely.

Or if you absolutely must bring in an untrusted device (like if you work for somewhere that insists you use their corporate laptop for WFH) isolate it to its own VLAN so it can't see or be seen by the rest of your devices.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Or if you absolutely must bring in an untrusted device (like if you work for somewhere that insists you use their corporate laptop for WFH) isolate it to its own VLAN so it can't see or be seen by the rest of your devices.

That's very good advice in general, especially for those that are clumsy, inept or the ones thinking they're neither. Separate the work computer on the network so it can't reach any local resources, that way a hypothetical dumbass can't browse personal pornographic pictures and try to print them, intentionally or unintentionally, only to have it choke in the print spooler because the default printer isn't present, then forget about it until he arrives at the office or remotes into to the VPN. Good times. Or she!

Don't let business touch your stuff, don't let personal business touch work.

 

[grenskul]

A bit of a detour from the current topic but as bad as the iPod was for helping to homogenize the MP3 player market and keep the user at the whim of Apple's increasingly shitty software at least it was something that properly worked as a music storage device. When Apple decided to end the line I swear MP3 players became extinct overnight even in second-hand outlets unless you want to put a mortgage on your firstborn so now you're left with bloody phones whose top reviewed apps are all about T H E C L O U D and not about music you actually have stored yourself. I'd get a memory card with good capacity if I could find a decent way to play music on my phone that didn't involve ads, crappy interface and non-seamless transitions but no luck so far so for the time being. I swear, streaming is the worst thing to happen to music ever.

Anyway on a complete aside without powerlevelling I'll just say that I drive trucks for a living and one of the things that drives me up the wall is that fucking service reminder alarm. Driving for up to ten hours a day with a constant beep telling you, the employee who has no power over the fleet's maintenance schedule, that the vehicle needs to be taken to the nearest shop RIGHT NOW OR ELSE IT WILL FALL APART THIS VERY SECOND is one of the most irritating experiences in the world and I wish whoever came up with it was beaten with sticks covered in hydrochloric acid.

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