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

[Toolbox]

I miss the Aero theme from Windows 7 and its a shame that it did not carry over to 10.

I miss being able to use themes at all without modification. They've scrapped almost all options other than changing your background and adding screensavers. I bet on screensavers not lasting much longer at this point.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

In 1969 blacks protested the Apollo moon landing launch with signs like "What are you running from, white man?"

I can easily see any attempt at space travel in the future being met with similar attitudes of "wait a minute, you aren't trying to opt out of the diversity and inclusion are you?" even though that might be white people's only hope is to get off this planet, like the ultimate form of white flight lmao.

I think that might be why Elon Musk is pushing so hard for space travel, being from South Africa and all and that might be why the Woke despise him even if they don't consciously realize it, but sooner or later if that's what's really going on they would get wise and try to put a stop to it, if we had another century maybe it would be a viable option but we don't have the time before Woke would put a stop to it.

It makes sense. Why would someone flee from the climate crisis by going to Mars when Mars is a fucking nightmare in comparison to warm Earth? Because Mars is the ultimate gated community and climate refugees can't move there.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Fuck Mars. It has barely an atmosphere and something like 30% less gravity than Earth which will wreck your bones in a few years.

You know what planet has 96% of Earth's gravity? Venus.

"But it's 900 trillion degrees on the surface you retarded faggot!!!", I hear you say. I didn't say we had to build a colony on the surface, you smooth-brained tranny fucker. Several kilometers up in the atmosphere the average temp is within human tolerances. The air pressure is also enough that a nitrogen/oxygen mixture at Earth pressures would float meaning we could have floating habitats using a breathable atmosphere. We also have all the tech needed to fly there and deploy the habitats.

TL;DR: Mars is for fags, Venus is for Chads.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

What if the powers that shouldn't be arranged that to happen to try and keep us prisoners in the modern world of consumerism - unable to easily travel, to say nothing of traveling beyond this crazy planet?

Corporate feudalism.

Facebook has its own courts system, I found out today. They sentenced Donald Trump to a two year ban. Just stop and think how terrifying they truly are that their own moderation decisions make the news to this extent. How stupidly powerful and influential they are. And how utterly devoid of any accountability.

It's okay for The Donald, he's wealthy. But imagine if you had a business or something, and you committed an act of wrongthink and were banned from appearing on Facebook for two years. That's your business dead.

Fuck Mars. It has barely an atmosphere and something like 30% less gravity than Earth which will wreck your bones in a few years.

You know what planet has 96% of Earth's gravity? Venus.

"But it's 900 trillion degrees on the surface you retarded faggot!!!", I hear you say. I didn't say we had to build a colony on the surface, you smooth-brained tranny fucker. Several kilometers up in the atmosphere the average temp is within human tolerances. The air pressure is also enough that a nitrogen/oxygen mixture at Earth pressures would float meaning we could have floating habitats using a breathable atmosphere. We also have all the tech needed to fly there and deploy the habitats.

TL;DR: Mars is for fags, Venus is for Chads.

Okay. So what economic activity would Venus colonies engage in floating in the upper atmosphere. Agriculture? No ground. Mining? No ground. Industry? Yeah, get huge industrial plants floating in the upper atmosphere. Besides, better to put all your heavy industry in orbit where it can literally fire its waste products into interplanetary space.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Venus could be used by the elites the escape the ever expanding masses of shitskins that are ruining Earth. Imagine a whole society with no jews or their shitskinned golems. It'd be a literal utopia.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Other worlds in the Solar System suck.

Interstellar travel may be impossible.

The best approach to living off of this crazy planet could be to live in a space station that has Earth-like conditions on board. Like a rotating wheel-shaped thing with plants and air. Biosphere 2 showed that may not be possible though. We may truly be trapped on this crazy planet, with death being the only out.

(that sucks)

Facebook has its own courts system, I found out today.

At least one can not use social media.

Living outside of this crazy "society" isn't as easy.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Venus could be used by the elites the escape the ever expanding masses of shitskins that are ruining Earth. Imagine a whole society with no jews or their shitskinned golems. It'd be a literal utopia.

No no no, Venus will be renamed New Australia and it's only for black people. They'll figure it out and build a Wakanda after being dumped on the surface.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Other worlds in the Solar System suck.

Interstellar travel may be impossible.

The best approach to living off of this crazy planet could be to live in a space station that has Earth-like conditions on board. Like a rotating wheel-shaped thing with plants and air. Biosphere 2 showed that may not be possible though. We may truly be trapped on this crazy planet, with death being the only out.

(that sucks)

Venus could be used by the elites the escape the ever expanding masses of shitskins that are ruining Earth. Imagine a whole society with no jews or their shitskinned golems. It'd be a literal utopia.

Both of these posts remind of the movie Elysium.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

At least one can not use social media.

Not really, they still build a profile of you from websites you visit, info they buy/get on you, and your friends "leaking" your info via apps and spyware on phones.
Basically Dale got it spot on

I miss when what he said seemed extremely out there, now its the truth.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss when what he said seemed extremely out there, now its the truth.

cyberpunk dystopia indeed

I miss the '90s and '00s.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I dug out my boombox the other day and listened to a CD on it for the first time in years. I forgot just how crisp and clean a good CD player can sound. I usually use my car's CD player, but there were details within the song I was picking up with the boombox that I simply wasn't with my car. My car's sound system is good, but it's harder to appreciate the finer details, especially when you're on the road and have to focus on other things.

I guess I just miss good CD sound systems.

 

[AnOminous]

Fuck Mars. It has barely an atmosphere and something like 30% less gravity than Earth which will wreck your bones in a few years.

If you dug a big and deep enough hole, wouldn't what atmosphere there is tend to be more dense at the bottom of it? You could probably concentrate the atmosphere in immense artificial canyons. This isn't my idea, I stole it from Larry Niven.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

If you dug a big and deep enough hole, wouldn't what atmosphere there is tend to be more dense at the bottom of it? You could probably concentrate the atmosphere in immense artificial canyons. This isn't my idea, I stole it from Larry Niven.

It'd have to be an incredibly deep hole for that to work. You're still having to deal with the reduced gravity which is a far bigger problem.

 

[Tovarisz]

Every fucking mobile app has an update a day and the only thing I notice those updates change is everything works worse while looking the same and using up more resources.

Some of the PC software I use had it's last stable build released a decade ago and it just fucking works. I guess making things that just fucking work and don't need daily updates where the changelog is "Bugfixes" is a forgotten, lost art.

 

[Madre Muerte]

Every fucking mobile app has an update a day and the only thing I notice those updates change is everything works worse while looking the same and using up more resources.

Some of the PC software I use had it's last stable build released a decade ago and it just fucking works. I guess making things that just fucking work and don't need daily updates where the changelog is "Bugfixes" is a forgotten, lost art.

While I agree that the ui and the bloat has gotten worse. The reason they constantly update is for spyware.

 

[AnOminous]

It'd have to be an incredibly deep hole for that to work.

Just steer an asteroid into it. Or a comet. If it was the right composition you could even get some useful water and there's some talk comets actually generate oxygen internally out of carbon dioxide, so you might even get more atmosphere out of it. Of course your giant hole in the planet now has a bunch of water at the bottom, but that sounds more like a solution than a problem.

 

[Toolbox]

Other worlds in the Solar System suck.

Interstellar travel may be impossible.

The best approach to living off of this crazy planet could be to live in a space station that has Earth-like conditions on board. Like a rotating wheel-shaped thing with plants and air. Biosphere 2 showed that may not be possible though. We may truly be trapped on this crazy planet, with death being the only out.

(that sucks)



At least one can not use social media.

Living outside of this crazy "society" isn't as easy.

Immediately calling something we've barely even attempted after barely a century of innovation in space research and less of it actually having gotten out of orbit is really stupid and pop sci mags need to stop in general with suggesting we stop doing things just because it's hard. Was the point not made clear with "we do not do it because it's easy, we do it because it's hard?" Things like this take a long time to work out, yet we've pulled off crazy nonsense before. If we can figure out mining in space we can figure out how to establish colonies at least within our own solar system.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Simplified UIs and locked down operating systems. I just tried to rent a movie on my grandmother's apple TV, and spent over half an hour trying to figure out how to add funds to her account to purchase the damn movie without having to use another device.

"smart" devices like this with such limited functionality piss me off royally. Plugging a windows laptop into a TV is so much fucking easier.

Also hate how the drive in "tech" has led to the total disappearance of some products. 1080P TVs without "smart" functionality, basic rear engine lawn mowers, simple cheap cars that dont have fucking screens in them (and dont get me started on the constant inclusion of digital dash screens instead of physical gauges), basic well built sound systems and computer speakers, ece.

And to top it off, I hate the side effect of tech on design, whereas old equipment was overengineered with tons of metal that allowed them to operate long outside their expected lifecycle, compared to modern machines that are built to a razor thin margin.

Just steer an asteroid into it. Or a comet. If it was the right composition you could even get some useful water and there's some talk comets actually generate oxygen internally out of carbon dioxide, so you might even get more atmosphere out of it. Of course your giant hole in the planet now has a bunch of water at the bottom, but that sounds more like a solution than a problem.

The issue with any atmosphere on mars is mars' utter lack of a magnetic field allows solar winds to strip any atmosphere from mars. If you were to give it an atmosphere like earth it would return to mars within a few years.

The lack of magnetic field also means 0 radiation protection on mars' surface.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

deep enough hole

Reminds me of "core waste dumps" in Master of Orion II.

They eliminate pollution on a world because inhabitants just dump any waste in the core hole.

If we can figure out mining in space we can figure out how to establish colonies at least within our own solar system.

Hopefully that's possible and politics don't stay in the way.

 

[AnOminous]

If you were to give it an atmosphere like earth it would return to mars within a few years.

We got plenty more comets where that one came from.