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

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Holy shit, electric tools are complete fucking garbage:

How is this better for the environment? It's worse for the environment to constantly manufacture this shit that breaks than the small amount of carbon released by small two-stroke engines.

What's worse is that some liberal-leaning areas have enacted ordinances that phase out/ban gas landscaping equipment by a certain year and require those people/companies to use electric or battery-powered tools in the name of helping the environment or addressing climate change.

Then there's also the fact that newer tools aren't built to last like older ones. Whether it's the inferior quality materials or the manufacturing companie's desire for planned obsolescence and a constant money stream (or both), it ends up being less economical and environmentally friendly in the long run albeit in different ways. In short, they solve one problem by creating another.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/peloton-axes-free-just-run-feature-from-treadmill-bricking-it-for-non-subscribers Progress is always good.

Bonus points for the article quoting lolocow Brianna Wu. The last time I viewed her thread, her Peloton had collected enough dust to grow tumbleweeds, so I don't see how Peloton's recent changes would make a difference in her (lack of) workout habits.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

But you also see Amiga games that were just half assed ST ports with maybe a few colors more and that don't take proper advantage of the custom hardware, mostly games that had to do with Tiertex and US Gold.

That's Tiertex for you though, let's be honest. They were responsible for the abysmal Street Fighter port on ST and Amiga, and *ulp* Human Killing Machine. The inbred mutant cousin of the Street Fighter games.

 

[Toolbox]

Tesla tried this for a while but it never took off. I'm not sure how many battery-swapping stations they actually had though.

I'm guessing this was way before Teslas became a more mainstream vehicle?

 

[Kiwi Gaming]

The autistic insistence on allowing ban-happy retards and troons to have the ability to horribly abuse that function in most games and online discussion areas.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'm guessing this was way before Teslas became a more mainstream vehicle?

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

 

[Return of the Freaker]

How is this better for the environment?

Easy, it's better for the environment inside the CEO's bank vault

 

[seri0us]

The autistic insistence on allowing ban-happy retards and troons to have the ability to horribly abuse that function in most games and online discussion areas.

Remember when backseat moderators in general were mocked? Now their horrible attempts at seeming helpful are usually encouraged.

 

[Toolbox]

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

Hope they bring it back when they finally get their battery recycling on track. But it's probably going to be forever proprietary along with most of their junk.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

Pretty sure that in the US you could fill at least 80 litres of gasoline or diesel for that money. And if you had a fuel efficient car that could do 6l/100 km or about 40 mpg, that would last you longer than a battery.

Edit to avoid double posting: One thing that can be a bit, as Terry would had said, niggerlicious about asm programming is that labels are all fine and dandy, until you start working with interrupts, the 68k vector table and DMA transfers. I hope that I am wrong, but AFAIK if you use a label as the value, you'll just get the value at that memory address, not the address itself, so you'd need some way of knowing what address does that block of code or data start at. You could take a look manually if the instruction is a 16 bit or 32 bit instruction, but when you have hundreds of lines of code, it's a pain in the ass. I suppose you could split these up in multiple binary files and then stitch them together with some utility in Python, but it doesn't seem right.

 

[Ita Mori]

I really miss skeuomorphic design in UI.
I know it's a controversial opinion but to me it feels much more welcoming, "real" and nice.

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I was a real fan of early Android aesthetics and UI.
My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3. Be it the animated bootscreen or it's animations when unlocking or on the home screen (if only touchwiz wasn't such a resource hog).
Google's hard-on to make everything flat, single colored and without any transparency, blur or any fx kills me.

However I am in no mood to ever return to the 00s fad of making every icon glossy and window-reflected; it's basically the flat minimalism of it's day.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3.

I still have one of those as a backup phone somewhere though I can't remember what I did with it.

Need to find a use for it.

 

[Ita Mori]

I still have one of those as a backup phone somewhere though I can't remember what I did with it.

I still use mine for the gym to hear music while working out.
Despite it's age it's perfectly serviceable as a phone for calls, messaging, and local media playback.

 

[Picklechu]

I was reminded when talking to my brother earlier today about our setup for getting movies. We had a TV with a built-in VCR in our rec room, so when we went to Blockbuster or wherever and got a movie we liked, we'd just hook a second VCR up to it and record it.

I have no idea what happened to all of those VHS tapes we had.

The major thing is you could have a part of the gas station lot you pull up to, it pulls your battery out, and replaces it with an identical but fully charged set. It would make 'charging' practically instant, and completely skip over the issues with speed. But it will never likely happen because of the corporate issue compounded with figuring out how to store batteries properly under hot concrete and having the loading mechanism not constantly jam or run out of usable batteries.

Nio is actually doing something like this. I'm not 100% sure how it compares to Tesla's previous efforts, though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I was a real fan of early Android aesthetics and UI.
My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3. Be it the animated bootscreen or it's animations when unlocking or on the home screen (if only touchwiz wasn't such a resource hog).
Google's hard-on to make everything flat, single colored and without any transparency, blur or any fx kills me.

However I am in no mood to ever return to the 00s fad of making every icon glossy and window-reflected; it's basically the flat minimalism of it's day.

The autistic quest to get rid of buttons really annoys me. I had one of the earlier androids, HTC-something, and it had the common center button at the bottom, that clicked. What made it truly great was the "trackball" in the middle of that button, it was an optical thing similar to what you find in a mouse that you dragged your thumb on and it made highlighting and copying/pasting text and other tasks so effortlessly easy. Dragging around those little fuckers to highlight a text-snippet on a modern phone is so annoying.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I have no idea what happened to all of those VHS tapes we had.

Dead. Unlike audio cassettes, which record linearly and stretching can be compensated for by increasing or decreasing the speed of the tape appropriately, and in which the stretching isn't that bad because the tape never leaves the shell and is simply dragged across a head pushed into it, a VHS cassette has the tape pulled out the shell with hooks and dragged across a spinning head, and the image is encoded in parallel diagonal slashes.

Basically, audio tape is ================== while video tape is //////////////////////////.

This means that if the tape stretches, which it does more easily because the mechanical stress on it is quite large, the tracks don't line up with the heads properly any more and the picture can jump about a lot.

 

[Blamo]

The autistic quest to get rid of buttons really annoys me. I had one of the earlier androids, HTC-something, and it had the common center button at the bottom, that clicked. What made it truly great was the "trackball" in the middle of that button, it was an optical thing similar to what you find in a mouse that you dragged your thumb on and it made highlighting and copying/pasting text and other tasks so effortlessly easy. Dragging around those little fuckers to highlight a text-snippet on a modern phone is so annoying.

I remember pre-touchscreen you could basically write SMS-s in your pocket just with muscle memory. Oh also you could use the phone when you had your gloves on.

 

[Coffee Shits]

I remember pre-touchscreen you could basically write SMS-s in your pocket just with muscle memory. Oh also you could use the phone when you had your gloves on.

The T9 system? It was great. You could get proficient at it the same way you could QWERTY. Autocorrect with touch screens doesn't come close.

 

[Blamo]

The T9 system? It was great. You could get proficient at it the same way you could QWERTY. Autocorrect with touch screens doesn't come close.

I really hate typing on the screen also the creepy google text prediction triggers muh anxiety. The last smart phone I really used as an universal computer was my Nokia N97 Mini. That really was a good phone. Rest in power.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The T9 system? It was great. You could get proficient at it the same way you could QWERTY. Autocorrect with touch screens doesn't come close.

T9 and later the ones with a fold-out keyboard like some early Windows phone(and Ericsson et.al before them). Perfect for taking notes while talking to someone.

 

[Jones McCann]

I really hate typing on the screen also the creepy google text prediction triggers muh anxiety. The last smart phone I really used as an universal computer was my Nokia N97 Mini. That really was a good phone. Rest in power.

What is it with auto correct anyways? Mine can't correct hell to he'll or even give me the option in the suggestions, but it seems to turn any other words into random shit that I once typed.