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

[my penis is on fire]

If you want to work in robotics you have three options:

• Go into Academia and build the Boingyboof, a robot with a weird locomotion method that you tell investors will be used for "Search & Rescue" but doesn't actually do anything
• Go into Manufacturing and get berated by some boomertard as you try to install robot arms in his factory that will go out of business as soon as he retires
• Go into Defense and build the Satan Nigger Rape 9000 quadcopter

 

[The Un-Clit]

I hate the massive overuse in videos on ALL social media of the soft 'boom!' stinger that is constantly played to emphasize something was said or something happened to cause a reaction in someone. It used to crop up once in a video, now every second video (especially shorts) have the sound go off 6 fucking times like it's punctuation now!

 

[CluesterFuckFest enjoyer]

I hate the massive overuse in videos on ALL social media of the soft 'boom!' stinger that is constantly played to emphasize something was said or something happened to cause a reaction in someone. It used to crop up once in a video, now every second video (especially shorts) have the sound go off 6 fucking times like it's punctuation now!

I still don't know what were you expecting with this kind of content honestly.
(((Social media))) is a never-ending cesspool of low quality dogshit. videos like that were exactly meant to milk all of the dopamine dry off the brains of whoever happens to stumble across it. Now combine this with the rest of bullshit coming from these sites (clickbait, yellow journalism, attention whoring, etc) and you got yourself AUDIOVISUAL AIDS.
Keep in mind that social media threw all of the ancient internet anonymity wisdom out of the window (don't use your real name, never post your power level, etc) in exchange of the aforementioned.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Cross-posted from Current Year Terms That Piss You Off:

Why does a formatted text file need embed code?

I blame the need for software companies to save data in proprietary formats with extraneous vendor-specific stuff that adds nothing of value except to make it more difficult for third parties to work with the format to create alternatives.

Specifically for Adobe Acrobat, I hate how their software bloats up file sizes after adding a watermark and/or a header/footer, requiring a subsequent file optimization to get the file back down to a decent size again. Worse, reducing the file size instead of optimizing the file makes the watermarking permanent and irremovable. A competitor's software doesn't have any of these issues, but applying certain items to multiple files isn't as easy as it is in Acrobat.

Generally speaking, it's frustrating when various software packages for a particular use all use their own standards with no easy way to share data or files between them. In a bit of irony, however, a former hobby of mine saw a company's proprietary standard become the standard for exchanging data between its software and that of competitors and have it still in use today even though the company that came up with it left the market and no longer exists. An open standard exists, but its usage seems to be largely niche.

Thread tax: Vendor sites that make choosing the correct or up to date driver(s) as much of a hassle as possible.

Edited to add: Last night was another reminder that related software packages don't always play nice when they try to be compatible with each other. I have spreadsheets I use for a hobby of mine saved originally in LibreOffice but also saved in Excel's XLSX format. By dumb luck, I discovered that Microsoft Excel does not allow word wrapping across merged cells like LibreOffice Calc does nor does Excel recognize user-defined cell formats made in LibreOffice. Needless to say, the Excel version of the same file looked awful when opened in Excel.

I aslo tried installing OnlyOffice last week to see how it would work and it had similar quirks. WPS Office, unfortuntely, opens files read-only unless one creates an account, so I didn't get to see if my experience this time around would be better than the first time I briefly used it.

 

[The Last Stand]

I do not need to explain why any Smart TV Operating System is complete dog shit but I will just give a short list for those who don't know some issues. The OS is slow as fuck. Needs updates. Bloated with shit like Disney+ (Even the TV remote has a button for it. Fuck off!). Privacy Policy pop ups and the need for a privacy policy anyway. All that bullshit just to play games or watch TV.

It's bad enough that smartphones and computers come with proprietary bloatware. Now, televisions come with all these apps and an operating system that doesn't work have the time. Everything being all-in-one is pointless. Why on Earth would a TV need a music app? Hell, why would a refrigerator need a display on it?

 

[Meth Reindeer]

Specifically for Adobe Acrobat

PDF is one of the worst file types to work with ever. The specification is like 1,000 pages long, with multiple ways to do the same fucking thing. As a result all the software built to do stuff with it can fuck up in many different ways.

Acrobat itself is cancer. It's auto update feature can bloat out your Windows update folder by gigabytes. I switched to just using Firefox or Chrome as my reader long ago on Windows because of that.

In a bit of irony, however, a former hobby of mine saw a company's proprietary standard become the standard for exchanging data between its software and that of competitors

Sometimes businesses just do a good enough job, they've got the monetary incentive after all. If memory serves, DXF, by Autocad, is still used a lot in CAD even though SVG and other open formats exist.

 

[Never Scored]

It's bad enough that smartphones and computers come with proprietary bloatware. Now, televisions come with all these apps and an operating system that doesn't work have the time. Everything being all-in-one is pointless. Why on Earth would a TV need a music app? Hell, why would a refrigerator need a display on it?

I got a new OLED TV last year. Great picture, great sound, zero complaints in that department, never connected it to wifi, so I don't have to deal with any of the preinstalled apps or ads or anything. However, whenever you plug in a new device, you get this stupid god damn "detecting device" screen that can take up to a minute. If you've plugged in some kind of obscure device like say my Analogue 3D, sometimes it just goes to a "your device couldn't be detected" screen and won't output to the TV at all unless you specifically put the TV in game mode. You would think putting the TV in game mode by default would be a good solution, but nope, you can't do that. Every time a device is plugged in, even if it's a device that has been plugged into the TV before, the TV goes, "Wowzers fella! Looks like you just plugged in a new device! Give me a minute to set it up!", you get the detecting device screen for about a minute, and the TV applies the settings it thinks are best. You cannot turn this shit off at all. How hard is it to just sell me a fucking TV that just outputs whatever I plug into the HDMI port like a computer monitor?

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

I miss that small period before the Internet was turned into this pointless social dopamine hit. When you wanted to go somewhere, you either learned a website or found it on a search engine or by WOM.

Back in the late 90s, everyone was into tests. I remember a big prank was a fake 50-or-so question IQ test that looked like it could have been legitimate, and it gave you a link to your personalized quiz which gave you a 120-130 point image to embed on your favorite forums/etc.

Thing is, most folks had static IPs then, so what they did was an IP test against the IP you took the test as. If it matched, you saw the 120-130 points banner. Everyone else saw something like 72.

 

[Never Scored]

Thing is, most folks had static IPs then, so what they did was an IP test against the IP you took the test as. If it matched, you saw the 120-130 points banner. Everyone else saw something like 72.

Is this true? I always thought dialup connections pulled from an IP pool every time you called in, but I didn't know enough to know what an IP was in the 1990s, so I'm not able to say if my IP was static back then or not.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Is this true? I always through dialup connections pulled from an IP pool ever time you called in, but I didn't know enough to know what an IP was in the 1990s, so I'm not able to say if my IP was static back then or not.

Dialup could be either. A lot of the tinier ISP/Radius would have a /32 assigned to you specifically early on. It was a lot easier to manage and if someone was misbehaving, you'd know who it was. Keep in mind that a small ISP probably had at least a routed /24. Couldn't have been more than 200 folks at a time on my dinky little ISP at the time.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

It's bad enough that smartphones and computers come with proprietary bloatware. Now, televisions come with all these apps and an operating system that doesn't work have the time. Everything being all-in-one is pointless. Why on Earth would a TV need a music app? Hell, why would a refrigerator need a display on it?

At this point, why even buy a TV?

I wonder if oversized computer monitors are an option instead of TVs. You can plug pretty much anything you want into it. DVD/Blu Ray Players, TV tuners, Roku or Android TV shit, games consoles, even your gaming PC or a Raspberry PI emulator console. Or even a VCR if you feel up to it.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

oversized computer monitors are an option instead of TVs.

They are now. Most come with some weak-ass built-in speakers so you can just use them as-is,. Multiple HDMI inputs on all but the most impoverished models.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

What’s with the short form videos with loud distorted audio like someone is about to blow out their speakers? Anytime I hear that, I want to chunk someone’s phone.

 

[The Un-Clit]

At this point, why even buy a TV?

I wonder if oversized computer monitors are an option instead of TVs. You can plug pretty much anything you want into it. DVD/Blu Ray Players, TV tuners, Roku or Android TV shit, games consoles, even your gaming PC or a Raspberry PI emulator console. Or even a VCR if you feel up to it.

That's exactly what I plan to do. It's damn near impossible to find a 'dumb' TV any more, that's just what a monitor is now. So a monitor is what I will buy when the last of my still good 'just TVs' finally die.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

That's exactly what I plan to do. It's damn near impossible to find a 'dumb' TV any more, that's just what a monitor is now. So a monitor is what I will buy when the last of my still good 'just TVs' finally die.

What about dumb projectors? I wonder how many projectors these days have no "smart" features, just whatever you plug into its HDMI port.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

That's exactly what I plan to do. It's damn near impossible to find a 'dumb' TV any more, that's just what a monitor is now. So a monitor is what I will buy when the last of my still good 'just TVs' finally die.

There are plenty of circa-2008 Samsung dumb TVs that'll never die. There was a recall for bad caps (yeah, remember that) around 2013, and they overengineered the replacement boards. Mine's been running solid since, well, about 2008 excepting for some time where it slept in the garage for a couple years. Even with a bit of dust in it, powered right on and works like a trooper.

Plus, you still have NTSC, so you can play second generation videya.

Older, slower HDMI, though. Possibly predates HDCP 1.4.

 

[Gohn Joodman]

I miss when gas pumps were just a thing you pumped gas with. All the ones in town here blast loud commercials while you're pumping gas. Theres also a gas station on an exit that I frequent that added giant touch screens to all their pumps that take forever to load and like to decline the card for no reason, requiring you to wait through more loading.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

autism headphones

those "autism headphones" are a lot more comfy than those tiny "ear buds"

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Fuck all y'all. My headphones have a 3.5mm plug and aren't bitch made.

 

[CluesterFuckFest enjoyer]

I miss when gas pumps were just a thing you pumped gas with. All the ones in town here blast loud commercials while you're pumping gas. Theres also a gas station on an exit that I frequent that added giant touch screens to all their pumps that take forever to load and like to decline the card for no reason, requiring you to wait through more loading.

I don't know if this was covered in this thread, but.
I hate ads within SYSTEM APPS in smartphones. What the FUCK are those manufacturers thinking when putting adds inside essential system applications. If ads on any app you found on (((google play))) and the (((IOS app store))) were bad by their own, why plaster them inside core utilities?