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

[Blamo]

I wouldn't mind most tech if there was transparency and accountability. Instead of everything being a black box hidden away from the public and all privacy policies and TOS documents being legalese rambling.

It is a red flag for me that they don't provide definitions and examples. They use vague words and platitudes.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

I already sperged about my hatred of adaptive brightness here:

God damn I fucking hate adaptive brightness. It's the most retarded shit where when you have something bright on the screen, the brightness will go up and if you have something dark on the screen, the brightness will go down. Supposedly this is to "conserve energy" or some shit. It's so retarded that windows had to remove it, but unfortunately your graphics card will still have a setting for it, AND YOU HAVE TO RESET IT EVERY TIME WINDOWS UPDATES.

I have Intel and they have 3 different control panels for settings, all of which I never use until windows decides to update out of nowhere and I notice that I can't see shit suddenly. I forget which setting that I have to change to make it stop because there is legitimately like 7 different places where you can enable/disable adaptive brightness and a majority of those don't work since being removed from win10. I go online for help and the top results coming out this year will still parrot the same outdated information. I spent like 40 minutes going through them all and reaching dead ends for all of them.

I was really fucking close to never touching my laptop again because of the annoying brightness changes until I got the epiphany that maybe I just need to toggle the battery settings in the intel control panel to ON then OFF again. It fucking worked. The fucking thing was displaying the wrong setting for some dumbass reason and caused me to waste a half hour because that was the first setting that I checked, making me think that I really needed to toggle something else instead.

Seriously, why is this even a thing?

 

[Blamo]

I already sperged about my hatred of adaptive brightness here:
Seriously, why is this even a thing?

I am sure that LED back lighting is consuming so much energy compared to the rest of the computer.
Also Win 10 got really retarded with what I feel competing options menus that makes setting up the thing the way you want.
One would expect them to streamline the user experience after basically selling the same OS concept since the early 90s.

I think Windows 10 in general is perhaps the worst Windows yet. Not even ME or Vista decided break things at update.
It just dislikes the user and it's so full of bloatware. Meh. Of course The Google style unhelpful QA help forum doesn't help much either.
Can't they just compile a PDF file or make videos on how to use their product? I guess Microsoft is a small struggling company that can't afford a few copywriters.

 

[Some Badger]

I think Windows 10 in general is perhaps the worst Windows yet. Not even ME or Vista decided break things at update.
It just dislikes the user and it's so full of bloatware. Meh. Of course The Google style unhelpful QA help forum doesn't help much either.
Can't they just compile a PDF file or make videos on how to use their product? I guess Microsoft is a small struggling company that can't afford a few copywriters.

Windows 10 seems better than Windows 8 on the surface until you realize the bloatware drags everything else down with it: applications, processing speed, the general user experience, etcetera. For fuck's sake, my brand new (at the time) laptop was lagging HARD on the login screen after the automatic update, to the point that I had to wait a couple minutes just so I could click it again and get the password field to appear.

I have a new processor now that doesn't see this issue happen, but the fact that I had to switch one out at all on brand new hardware is telling how shit a product Microsoft has become. I really do miss Windows 7 by comparison.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

I am sure that LED back lighting is consuming so much energy compared to the rest of the computer.
Also Win 10 got really retarded with what I feel competing options menus that makes setting up the thing the way you want.
One would expect them to streamline the user experience after basically selling the same OS concept since the early 90s.

I think Windows 10 in general is perhaps the worst Windows yet. Not even ME or Vista decided break things at update.
It just dislikes the user and it's so full of bloatware. Meh. Of course The Google style unhelpful QA help forum doesn't help much either.
Can't they just compile a PDF file or make videos on how to use their product? I guess Microsoft is a small struggling company that can't afford a few copywriters.

Dude poor struggling Microsoft can't even afford a quality assurance department for their operating systems.

ME didn't break things with updates because it was so broken to start with no one could tell.

There is talk of a "windows 11" now, like really 1) you haven't even gotten 10 in to a cohesive state (and the new menus are shit compared to what is left of the old menu style) and 2) You keep on breaking things its not the time to even think about a new OS.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

To me Windows 11 is something like "we need to streamline a lot of shit, let's just pack it up in one bigger than usual update with a rebrand instead of updating at a snail's pace bit by bit, I mean it worked back when we fixed Vista"

I'm sure it's not even gonna be a new product, it'll be like getting the newest iOS/Android in your phone.

Also, I'm 90% sure it's 90% a rebrand for rebrand's sake, because smartphone OSes are on their post-10 versions and macOS also ditched the 10 after twenty years. There was macOS 10.15 Catalina, macOS 11 Big Sur and the upcoming macOS 12 Monterey. Similarly, we'll get Windows 11 Sun Valley.

 

[The Last Stand]

UIs and computers nowadays just look flat and basic, they almost blend together if you don't have an astute eye for detail.

Windows XP was perfection. The interface was recognizable, clean, easy to navigate and simple in design.

Then, Vista came and added unnecessary features that would clutter the screen and tank your performance.

Windows 10, while better than 8, looks uninspired.

Look how flat everything looks. Look how much bloatware is added by default. Why does everything have to be connected? Obviously to cater to a touch method of usage.

 

[Blamo]

Dude poor struggling Microsoft can't even afford a quality assurance department for their operating systems.

ME didn't break things with updates because it was so broken to start with no one could tell.

There is talk of a "windows 11" now, like really 1) you haven't even gotten 10 in to a cohesive state (and the new menus are shit compared to what is left of the old menu style) and 2) You keep on breaking things its not the time to even think about a new OS.

Maybe they too will just rip off UNIX and call it a day. Taking the joke aside, Windows 10 was an attempt to make it feel more than a service compared to a boxed product.

Oh.they have a QA team while not in house... it is the end user. That is why updates come differently not the same time for everybody. It's basically an Early access OS.

Adding to the overall cloud oriented computing of our age. That sucks, your average phone and desktop have enough computing power to win the cold war while the powers that be insist to do everything on the cloud or at least tethered to the internet.

X as a service is anti user.

Question:
Since they have stopped working on Internet Explorer in favor of Edge is it possible to uninstal IE? Or do you have to tolerate an obsolete security risk with the possibility to connect to the Internet just chilling there?

 

[Campbell-Duo]

Look how much bloatware is added by default.

Why the fuck do they push all this bloatware anyway.
All of this shit could just be an optional download or even just an installer left after install.

 

[Zero0]

I'll join in on the windows 10 sperging.

What the fuck is wrong with all these menus?

Why are there 10 different design teams making these things? I know the new people a working at Microsoft have no idea on how the old stuff works and therefore can't change it, but I'd expect them to at least be able to put in a new coat of pain.

I fucking hate minimalistic design

It's not even more functional, things are harder to see when they all look the fucking same. It's just giant blocks of color everywhere.

Why does Microsoft hate hdds?

I'd say windows 10 is virtually unusable on an hdd, its just so slow, why do you keep hogging my hard drive windows? Stop. Linux is faster on an ssd, but still perfectly usable on the shittiest hdd I can find.

Stop changing my settings when you update

Why? Why do you do this Microsoft?

 

[byuu]

Windows XP was perfection. The interface was recognizable, clean, easy to navigate and simple in design.

The XP candy look was awful. The classic Win2k look is much better.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

The XP candy look was awful. The classic Win2k look is much better.

Yep. Nothing wrong with nice sharp edged grey windows with a bold blue title bar.

 

[AnOminous]

The XP candy look was awful. The classic Win2k look is much better.

You could always just set it to look like that. There were literally thousands of schemes to choose from. I used XP SP3 until well past 2014, when it became finally too sketchy even to use in a VM behind a VPN.

 

[PhoBingas]

Blackberries, specifically the 8330. The scroll ball took getting used to but the full keyboard was nice, and they were user serviceable. I replaced the keyboard, roller ball and screen at least 3 times each on mine before it just quit. New phones are all overpriced shit.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

The classic Windows 9x theme worked until Windows 7.

 

[Autistic AT-ST]

I miss the simple days of backwards compatibility on all platforms without day 1 patch bullshit that should have been on disk anyway.

 

[Campbell-Duo]

I'd say windows 10 is virtually unusable on an hdd, its just so slow, why do you keep hogging my hard drive windows? Stop. Linux is faster on an ssd, but still perfectly usable on the shittiest hdd I can find.

Oh is that why whenever i try to install directly to my HDD it takes days to download a 60 gig game?

 

[BipolarPon]

I miss Adobe flash support, while there's been an effort to archive many flash games and animations many have forever been lost. Which if your an Lost media sperg that's pretty depressing.

 

[Some Badger]

90% of my problems with Windows 10's UI is remedied by installing Classic Shell. I first did it when I was 13 and Windows updated from XP to 8 to save me and my family computer from 8's garbage interface, and I've installed it on all succeeding computers of mine since.

Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements

It's telling about Microsoft's lack of care towards their own product that you have third party developers fixing their poor business decisions for them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Windows XP was perfection.

Over on the Mac side, I think Panther was pretty good in X, which was at the same time as XP.

I also like the look of Windows 98 (which one could get in XP), and Mac OS 9 (via "Classic").

In other words, the early '00s was when OS GUI design seems to have peaked.