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

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Agreed 100%. The only formats it's been shown to be somewhat functional are along roadways, around city streets, and in stadiums and such, yet telecom companies have wasted so much money developing it they have to advertise the hell out of it and push it to be installed in the most inane spaces. 5G's wave is too small to penetrate through objects. It's too weak to go long distances. Both of these were benefits all past wider band cell types held, even up to "4g LTE" which might as well have BEEN 5g for how much faster it was pushed to have been. Just like moore's law we're reaching the point where unless we develop quantum communication where you can have particles on two ends of a system instantly transmit via spooky physics or whatever it's called then it's just dimishing returns or even just a waste of time. Yet 5G is being pushed as a new era of connection to the point that Verizon bought out part of E3 this year just to shill it to hell and make the term feel like it means nothing anymore. It's even being promoted as a wifi replacement (because if you can charge cell service prices in people's households, you make make huge $$$) but there is little benefit for this. Node system wifi is essentially already like having several tiny cell nodes placed around a building, and it's probably more efficient at it than 5g ever will be.

Telecom company:
Imagine if a customer on the latest phone watches a video and doesn't notice that it's in high-quality 4K.
Imagine how fast it would deplete their data quota.
Imagine how they would have to constantly refill it.

Gentlemen, zoomers will make their parents pay.

 

[Toolbox]

Telecom company:
Imagine if a customer on the latest phone watches a video and doesn't notice that it's in high-quality 4K.
Imagine how fast it would deplete their data quota.
Imagine how they would have to constantly refill it.

Gentlemen, zoomers will make their parents pay.

And imagine if that data plan was the same in-home as outside of it.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

5G - Don't hate it or think it'll get me sick or Kung Flu or whatever like some conspiratards do, but I fail to see how it is entirely necessary. The leap from 3G to 4G made mobile internet on par with ethernet or Wi-Fi. But the benefits of 5G probably only make sense for certain niche applications. Maybe there's some benefit that I'm missing that isn't niche.

Idk man.

I'm old enough to remember when 56k modems seemed fast ( ) and T1 internet pipes were for universities and major corporates (with a blazing fast 1.5 Mbps).

Now I guess most people would struggle to live with less than 30 Mpbs maybe? Even places like Montana average over 50 Mbps downloads.

Kind of a Field of Dreams play, if you build it, use cases will come.

The downside, maybe, is that 5G isn't so much about watching criminal psychology videos on your phone in 8K, it's about the internet of things / internet of shit if you prefer. There's over 30 billion IoT devices out there now, and probably gonna be 75 billion of the little bastards in 2025. 5G can manage a lot more IoT devices than 4G can, with lower latency for when real time data is important (like self driving cars).

The good news, mebbe, is that the 5G / Starlink combo could make legacy carriers go the way of the telegraph companies. Most people under the age of about 40 don't have landline telephones anymore, and cable TV is for Boomers. Most people won't need a fiber or copper cable connected to their house when they can get low latency gigabit speed internet pretty much anywhere.

The Smartphone caused a huge social and economic shift (which we're still tryna figure out how to live with in a lot of ways) just by untethering the internet from the PC in your house. 5G could be the thing that makes superspeed internet truly pervasive, sucking in undreamt of petabytes of data in the process.

Remember those Google Glasses and how dorky they were? What if they were actually good, and gave you important realtime information like you had a vidyagame HUD available to you at all times. 5G makes AR viable for mass adoption, which could have some cool uses (helping doctors to start treating people before they physically get to the hospital, education that's truly interactive, personalized, and no longer restricted to the classroom/laptop). But it'll probably also be used for Candy Crush Saga and aspies wanting their 2D support waifu to be visible at all times.

 

[AnOminous]

Remember those Google Glasses and how dorky they were? What if they were actually good, and gave you important realtime information like you had a vidyagame HUD available to you at all times.

Imagine you had something like Google Glasses and they told you "this guy is a troon online" and similar shit, so you could detect crazy idiots on sight instead of having to interact with them. Imagine Kiwi Farms Glasses where they'd identify and dox lolcows on some kind of HUD so you'd know when you were interacting with some retarded lolcow.

Tell me you wouldn't pay for that even on a subscription model.

 

[glow]

The downside, maybe, is that 5G isn't so much about watching criminal psychology videos on your phone in 8K, it's about the internet of things / internet of shit if you prefer

You got it.

You know that smart TV you bought so you can just use your xbox without using the fucking crapware on it that spies on what you watch and provides a shitty way to watch netflix? You probably never even thought about connecting it to your wifi network, so you just plugged your xbox in via HDMI and use it like a regular TV. You only bought it because you can't even find a non-smart TV these days.

Imagine when it has a 5G modem on board that automatically join your local 5G network and starts transmitting, getting software updates etc. Before you know it, you have a spy in your front room sending details of what you watch and when, connected to the serial number of your TV. You might call me paranoid but this shit already happens.

I would start hoarding dumb TVs that don't have this "feature" but nobody will buy them because nobody gives a fuck about things like this.

I can't wait until 10 years from now I buy a fucking toaster that detects what sort of bread I buy and the first thing I do after agreeing to the license agreement to use my toaster is to break it open and remove the 5G antennae or put my kitchen in a faraday cage or something, then I get a court summons from the toaster manufacturer for violating the integrity of their intellectual property - I am stealing information from them by just wanting to toast a bagel at 2am without some dickhead knowing.

Truly this will be the internet of shit.

 

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Idk man.

I'm old enough to remember when 56k modems seemed fast ( ) and T1 internet pipes were for universities and major corporates (with a blazing fast 1.5 Mbps).

Now I guess most people would struggle to live with less than 30 Mpbs maybe? Even places like Montana average over 50 Mbps downloads.

Kind of a Field of Dreams play, if you build it, use cases will come.

The downside, maybe, is that 5G isn't so much about watching criminal psychology videos on your phone in 8K, it's about the internet of things / internet of shit if you prefer. There's over 30 billion IoT devices out there now, and probably gonna be 75 billion of the little bastards in 2025. 5G can manage a lot more IoT devices than 4G can, with lower latency for when real time data is important (like self driving cars).

The good news, mebbe, is that the 5G / Starlink combo could make legacy carriers go the way of the telegraph companies. Most people under the age of about 40 don't have landline telephones anymore, and cable TV is for Boomers. Most people won't need a fiber or copper cable connected to their house when they can get low latency gigabit speed internet pretty much anywhere.

The Smartphone caused a huge social and economic shift (which we're still tryna figure out how to live with in a lot of ways) just by untethering the internet from the PC in your house. 5G could be the thing that makes superspeed internet truly pervasive, sucking in undreamt of petabytes of data in the process.

Remember those Google Glasses and how dorky they were? What if they were actually good, and gave you important realtime information like you had a vidyagame HUD available to you at all times. 5G makes AR viable for mass adoption, which could have some cool uses (helping doctors to start treating people before they physically get to the hospital, education that's truly interactive, personalized, and no longer restricted to the classroom/laptop). But it'll probably also be used for Candy Crush Saga and aspies wanting their 2D support waifu to be visible at all times.

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kill everyone responsible for these crimes

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

You got it.

You know that smart TV you bought so you can just use your xbox without using the fucking crapware on it that spies on what you watch and provides a shitty way to watch netflix? You probably never even thought about connecting it to your wifi network, so you just plugged your xbox in via HDMI and use it like a regular TV. You only bought it because you can't even find a non-smart TV these days.

Imagine when it has a 5G modem on board that automatically join your local 5G network and starts transmitting, getting software updates etc. Before you know it, you have a spy in your front room sending details of what you watch and when, connected to the serial number of your TV. You might call me paranoid but this shit already happens.

I would start hoarding dumb TVs that don't have this "feature" but nobody will buy them because nobody gives a fuck about things like this.

I can't wait until 10 years from now I buy a fucking toaster that detects what sort of bread I buy and the first thing I do after agreeing to the license agreement to use my toaster is to break it open and remove the 5G antennae or put my kitchen in a faraday cage or something, then I get a court summons from the toaster manufacturer for violating the integrity of their intellectual property - I am stealing information from them by just wanting to toast a bagel at 2am without some dickhead knowing.

Truly this will be the internet of shit.

It doesn't matter if you have a dumbTV soon anyways ATSC (ATSC is the OTA standard in the US at least) 3.0 isn't backwards compatible and it has the ability to do targeted ads and data collection.

 

[AnOminous]

It doesn't matter if you have a dumbTV soon anyways ATSC (ATSC is the OTA standard in the US at least) 3.0 isn't backwards compatible and it has the ability to do targeted ads and data collection.

This is why don't watch TV. Don't watch anything that watches you back. If there's anything on TV you actually want, just pirate it. Do not participate in this fucking bullshit. Do not get mind raped any more than necessary.

 

[seri0us]

I would start hoarding dumb TVs that don't have this "feature" but nobody will buy them because nobody gives a fuck about things like this.

The few that do care probably only watch stuff on computer monitors anyway.

 

[Had]

I miss physical media in game consoles
I haven't messed around with consoles too much past the 360 but I hate that they only have like 200 gbs of storage. If you have an online library of even a few games you all too often find yourself having to delete and redownload games. fuck updates, fuck online media, the whole point of owning a console is that it's a simple magic box. It should be as easy as me putting the disk into the thing and playing the game.

Nothing annoys me more than trying to play red dead on a ps4 and being forced to wait to play a finished singleplayer game.

 

[Toolbox]

I miss physical media in game consoles
I haven't messed around with consoles too much past the 360 but I hate that they only have like 200 gbs of storage. If you have an online library of even a few games you all too often find yourself having to delete and redownload games. fuck updates, fuck online media, the whole point of owning a console is that it's a simple magic box. It should be as easy as me putting the disk into the thing and playing the game.

Nothing annoys me more than trying to play red dead on a ps4 and being forced to wait to play a finished singleplayer game.

The switch is the only console to even attempt to uphold physical media in the modern day and Nintendo just had to fuck it up by choosing an expensive medium to do so, meaning many devs with larger games choose to buy a cheaper cart and then just dump the rest of the game data on your internal storage. It's all about half measures these days.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

The switch is the only console to even attempt to uphold physical media in the modern day and Nintendo just had to fuck it up by choosing an expensive medium to do so, meaning many devs with larger games choose to buy a cheaper cart and then just dump the rest of the game data on your internal storage. It's all about half measures these days.

I have to say that using non-optical media (and therefore, avoiding all the problems with scratched discs and loading times) is what convinced me to buy the Switch, the first new non-portable-only console I have had since the N64.

 

[Billy Beer]

5G - Don't hate it or think it'll get me sick or Kung Flu or whatever like some conspiratards do, but I fail to see how it is entirely necessary. The leap from 3G to 4G made mobile internet on par with ethernet or Wi-Fi. But the benefits of 5G probably only make sense for certain niche applications. Maybe there's some benefit that I'm missing that isn't niche.

I believe it's to help push 'gaming' and 'vr/ar streaming' to new levels, while allowing current technologies to 'level-up'.

When streaming via 5G becomes the new norm, a lot of phones/phone companies, can strip powerful, expensive parts out of the phone, while still selling it to you at the same price, of course.

 

[Blamo]

5G - Don't hate it or think it'll get me sick or Kung Flu or whatever like some conspiratards do, but I fail to see how it is entirely necessary. The leap from 3G to 4G made mobile internet on par with ethernet or Wi-Fi. But the benefits of 5G probably only make sense for certain niche applications. Maybe there's some benefit that I'm missing that isn't niche.

You need 5G for the Internet of things, smart cities and self driving cars. It can also more accurately triangulate you. The amount of data that will be moving around, and the latency will be crucial considering self driving cars etc. will constantly talk to not only each other but the street etc as well.

I believe it's to help push 'gaming' and 'vr/ar streaming' to new levels, while allowing current technologies to 'level-up'.

When streaming via 5G becomes the new norm, a lot of phones/phone companies, can strip powerful, expensive parts out of the phone, while still selling it to you at the same price, of course.

I am worried that they will take away computation this way from the people. Enjoy not having access to home computing, because it's inefficient or whatever. No more coins or producing things they don't like for you. Yes, it is a paranoid nonsense, but just imagine how happy a lot of people were if you couldn't just make the multimedia you wanted.

 

[AnOminous]

You need 5G for the Internet of things

If there's any single thing that should be nuked from orbit, it's the "Internet of Things," or as I prefer to call it, the "Internet of Dumb Shit."

 

[Blamo]

If there's any single thing that should be nuked from orbit, it's the "Internet of Things," or as I prefer to call it, the "Internet of Dumb Shit."

If something has to call itself smart, it's not that smart after all. Just see what a privacy nightmare Smart Phones are. The most personal computer you own, yet you have the least access to it. But oh boy, due to everything needing an app you sure need to have one. Not to mention the legacy systems are being scrapped so a ton of old and working devices can not be used anymore.

There is nothing stopping the industry and/or regulators from one day deciding that your toaster needs sensors and a 5G connection because reasons. The problem is that the problem is so abstract that the average folks simply don't care. They will buy the Alexas and other gizmos, because they are "so useful". Actually from my experience people just buy junk because it's cheap and don't even think about it.

 

[Toolbox]

You need 5G for the Internet of things, smart cities and self driving cars. It can also more accurately triangulate you. The amount of data that will be moving around, and the latency will be crucial considering self driving cars etc. will constantly talk to not only each other but the street etc as well.

I am worried that they will take away computation this way from the people. Enjoy not having access to home computing, because it's inefficient or whatever. No more coins or producing things they don't like for you. Yes, it is a paranoid nonsense, but just imagine how happy a lot of people were if you couldn't just make the multimedia you wanted.

At least with the space based internet solution triangulation can't be as accurate. 5g requires a tower every few meters which means you can always be tracked down when using a 5g phone within a zone at a maximum of 100 feet squared or slightly over that.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

deliberately obfuscate their code so only they can possibly understand it and thereby guarantee their continued employment

Not new. In the days of REAL PROGRAMMERS writing air traffic control and nuclear weapons launch software in Fortran on punched cards, this was par for the course. This is why Cheyenne Mountain still runs on 8" floppy disks (well, that and the fact that something literally of earth-shaking importance needs to run on a system where all possible bugs have been chased out of it and squashed forever and which works 100 percent of the time in all conditions and which is impossible to hack without physical access to the system itself.)

But it'll probably also be used for Candy Crush Saga and aspies wanting their 2D support waifu to be visible at all times.

And spyware and advertising to you.

Internet of Things? Great, so someone can steal your identity by compromising the fridge or the toaster. Fuck off with that.

 

[Blamo]

At least with the space based internet solution triangulation can't be as accurate. 5g requires a tower every few meters which means you can always be tracked down when using a 5g phone within a zone at a maximum of 100 feet squared or slightly over that.

Don't forget router mapping and the stupid RFID thingies phones have as well that can add up to phones acting as relays for surveillance.
But it's convenient because you could lose your iPhone or MacBook. The possibilities are endless!

 

[Billy Beer]

I am worried that they will take away computation this way from the people. Enjoy not having access to home computing, because it's inefficient or whatever. No more coins or producing things they don't like for you. Yes, it is a paranoid nonsense, but just imagine how happy a lot of people were if you couldn't just make the multimedia you wanted.

It's not paranoid, it's capitalist genius. Why rely on Taiwan shipping a load of parts to Foxconn to make a load of Xboxes to then ship to the west to buy and consooom, when you can just make a shed-load of servers made for a fraction of the cost, sell hardware to 'receive/decode' the stream via TV sticks and sell all the media through subscription. 'They' Can sell it as Green and Environmentally responsible. This is happening right now.

Imagine the Apple fags. Iphone 1G (first generation Green) has the fewest components yet! Everything is streamed via 5G and Wifi. It will cost £1500 per phone, but hey, don't you want to be Green? Save the planet! Buy and Iphone 5G(reen).

As for stopping the production of your own media, Gifs have been under fire for years for breaking copyright infringement. It's only a matter of time before creating a NFT-owned Gif is copyright infringement. Guitar tabs were all but nuked from the internet because the Music Industry decided to cry that Tabs were becoming too close to the actual song, which was a load of shit, and places like UltimateGuitar.com, stopped allowing you to view or download tabs for many years.