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

[Mr. 0]

Washing dishes by hand is simple and easy. The only thing a dishwasher does is save you the physical effort.

and maybe drive up the water bill a bit

 

[Kosher Dill]

Can't say I agree about ludditism over dishwashers.

I think a lot of dishwasher ludditism comes from city-dwellers who, if they have a dishwasher at all in their shoebox apartments, have a tiny, antiquated unit that may well be worse than washing by hand.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Washing dishes by hand is simple and easy. The only thing a dishwasher does is save you the physical effort.

Dishwashers are in fact more water efficient because they recycle the water within the tub over and over, while washing by hand uses an order of magnitude more because you're constantly adding and draining water to the wash.

 

[McMitch]

Dishwashers are in fact more water efficient because they recycle the water within the tub over and over, while washing by hand uses an order of magnitude more because you're constantly adding and draining water to the wash.

If you’re constantly refreshing your water, then you’re hand washing dishes wrong.

 

[Erika Furudo]

I had this for a couple years.

That's ludicrous. You can get a 160 GB original iPod from *2009* for less than $200 now. And even my nearly decade-old iPhone 4s has 64 GB of storage. I absolutely detest the trend of absurdly niggardly storage capacities.

How is the battery life? I notice my ipod is draining pretty fucking quickly even after a full charge, pretty sure the battery is fucked. I really hate how short lived technology is, especially when none of it is cheap.

I have also seen more claims of "Youtube asked me to show my ID", and this hasn't happened to me yet, but I really, really hate the idea of this being true. If I get asked I'm done with YT. There aren't really alternatives, but fuck giving my ID up to use a service that is almost 2 decades old that never required it. Google ruin everything.

 

[Kikkoman]

How is the battery life? I notice my ipod is draining pretty fucking quickly even after a full charge, pretty sure the battery is fucked. I really hate how short lived technology is, especially when none of it is cheap.

I have also seen more claims of "Youtube asked me to show my ID", and this hasn't happened to me yet, but I really, really hate the idea of this being true. If I get asked I'm done with YT. There aren't really alternatives, but fuck giving my ID up to use a service that is almost 2 decades old that never required it. Google ruin everything.

Its not fun getting into them but batteries are pretty replaceable and upgradable on ipods. You can also swap out the hard drive for flash storage, which makes it last a bit longer and fit more music. Before i got a phone with a micro sd i carried an old black and white one with a fresh battery and i'd have to charge it maybe every other day with heavy use.

Some parts stores I know of

Products – iFlash.xyz

Products archive.

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Elite Obsolete Electronics

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eoe.works

iPod Classic Parts

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For teardown guides i usually look it up on ifixit.

 

[AnOminous]

Can't say I agree about ludditism over dishwashers. I don't have one, and I don't think you can really clean things as well by hand unless you spend alot of time on it (especially forks/utensils). Inevitably, people forget to do them, and dishes pile up in the sink.

On the other hand, I could live without a microwave for most things. I tend to cook alot on the ranges.

I've washed dishes by every imaginable method, whether doing it entirely by hand, using a home dishwasher, using a restaurant style dishwasher while working at a restaurant, and just letting them pile up in a sink until they get so filthy and disgusting that even I have to wash them. These are in orders of preference. Do not do the last, it's disgusting.

Doing them entirely by hand has the best results. If you use a dishwasher, you have paid a lot of money to get shitty results, and then you have to wash a bunch of them by hand anyway to fix the failures of the dishwasher.

Dishes just have to be washed. If I could have a restaurant dishwasher at home I would. If I've said this already, well, I just said it again.

 

[McMitch]

I've washed dishes by every imaginable method, whether doing it entirely by hand, using a home dishwasher, using a restaurant style dishwasher while working at a restaurant, and just letting them pile up in a sink until they get so filthy and disgusting that even I have to wash them. These are in orders of preference. Do not do the last, it's disgusting.

Doing them entirely by hand has the best results. If you use a dishwasher, you have paid a lot of money to get shitty results, and then you have to wash a bunch of them by hand anyway to fix the failures of the dishwasher.

Dishes just have to be washed. If I could have a restaurant dishwasher at home I would. If I've said this already, well, I just said it again.

Frankly, I’m fine with a three compartment sink (or two if I’m at home)
Restaurant dishwashers inevitably get used as a crutch for lazy people, and you end up having to rewatch dishes any way. It’s the reason I avoid fondue like the plague.

 

[Sam Losco]

That reminds me. Showerheads that actually work. Low flow is required in the US now. Back when I had long hair that was a pain in the ass.

That's usually just a plastic piece where the head screws on to the pipe or hose. You can remove it with some needlenose pliers and get full pressure.

I've washed dishes by every imaginable method, whether doing it entirely by hand, using a home dishwasher, using a restaurant style dishwasher while working at a restaurant, and just letting them pile up in a sink until they get so filthy and disgusting that even I have to wash them. These are in orders of preference. Do not do the last, it's disgusting.

Doing them entirely by hand has the best results. If you use a dishwasher, you have paid a lot of money to get shitty results, and then you have to wash a bunch of them by hand anyway to fix the failures of the dishwasher.

Dishes just have to be washed. If I could have a restaurant dishwasher at home I would. If I've said this already, well, I just said it again.

My wife (and so me also) just uses the dishwasher as a drying rack.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Washing dishes by hand is simple and easy. The only thing a dishwasher does is save you the physical effort.

There are some people that negates saving the physical effort by scraping and rinsing everything before putting it into the dishwasher. Everything is 90% clean at that point, swipe them with a brush and put it in a rack next to the sink and they would be done. No need to load it, wait then unload it.

Doing them entirely by hand has the best results. If you use a dishwasher, you have paid a lot of money to get shitty results, and then you have to wash a bunch of them by hand anyway to fix the failures of the dishwasher.

Not everything can be run in a dishwasher either and one of my most hated things in life is grabbing a glass that have gone through a dishwasher one too many times. It's the touch equivalent of nails across a chalkboard, same sensory reaction. I hate it so much.

 

[Totally Awesome]

I hate when I search for some term for information, and instead I get a bunch of music videos named after that term, probably on purpose to get their shitty dumbshit music on the search engines. Music needs to be in it's own separate category.

 

[seri0us]

Music needs to be in it's own separate category.

Take the searx pill

 

[Madre Muerte]

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Take the searx pill

Doesn't rid the music links tho

 

[seri0us]

Doesn't rid the music links tho

oh rly

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I use the dish washer if i accumulate a lot of plates, bowls, and silverware but don't need them right away. Pots and pans, always wash by hand

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Dishes just have to be washed. If I could have a restaurant dishwasher at home I would. If I've said this already, well, I just said it again.

You can buy them from commercial supply outfits. They’re a bit spendy - look for the “under counter” units.
Two and three basin sinks are also available and kick the living shit out of normal kitchen junk. I have one now and it rocks so hard.

 

[Stasi]

My work have been handing out new wireless headsets to use with teams/Skype. I like to have youtube in the background and take breaks to lie down on the couch and check the news or shitpost on my phone.

I guess the headset has some kind of sensor in it if you tilt your head back it pauses whatever media is playing and I have to turn it on again so it turns off youtube every time I lie down on the couch. I can't figure out the purpose of this other than to annoy me. Why would a headset need such a function. Over engineering relatively simple tech for no reason is a very annoying trend.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

My work have been handing out new wireless headsets to use with teams/Skype. I like to have youtube in the background and take breaks to lie down on the couch and check the news or shitpost on my phone.

I guess the headset has some kind of sensor in it if you tilt your head back it pauses whatever media is playing and I have to turn it on again so it turns off youtube every time I lie down on the couch. I can't figure out the purpose of this other than to annoy me. Why would a headset need such a function. Over engineering relatively simple tech for no reason is a very annoying trend.

And at the other extreme my work hands out headsets so cheap that they break if you just think about tilting your head and somehow do not work with our soft phone system 100%.

 

[Un Platano]

I absolutely hate how every internet router these days wants you to download their app, register an account with them, and connect it to the internet to use it. There's literally no reason for it because routers have worked for decades prior without needing any of these things. They always say they require it so that you can configure it remotely and receive updates automatically. What if you don't want or care about these features? Too fucking bad, you're still making an account if you want this thing to work. And then they wonder why people are worried about data harvesting.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I absolutely hate how every internet router these days wants you to download their app, register an account with them, and connect it to the internet to use it. There's literally no reason for it because routers have worked for decades prior without needing any of these things. They always say they require it so that you can configure it remotely and receive updates automatically. What if you don't want or care about these features? Too fucking bad, you're still making an account if you want this thing to work. And then they wonder why people are worried about data harvesting.

Just get something prosumer like Mikrotik. Got fed up with that kind of bullshit you see in Netgear, Linksys, Asus, etc routers for normies