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Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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I like 3d designs reminiscent of XP and vista, kinda like what you're talking about here but the flat look with everything staring at you in annoying. I prefer the icons to be shifted away from the viewer
(Example on my desktop)
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
Same here. The only iPhone I owned the, iPhone 3G, had such a comfy feel. Current flat design is just bland.
It is easier to make the flat icons, they are culturally neutral and possibly are better for vectorisation as well.
Also designers are a hivemind. Seriously, I used to be interested in the industry, but they all think alike, it's spooky.
Sometimes I think they are just finding excuse for making junk, because I know they could do a hundred times better jobs if they get a budget and a client who cared.
The same reason for those abhorrent illustration people that keep popping up in websites and ads for the last few years.
It's economical, sure, but ugly and uninspiring as well. You can do flat designs well, without making ugly purple things with asymmetrical limbs.
Autism about design, but tech related:
Newgrounds.com and 4chan.org have a better branding that the top social media sites and consumer products on the globe. Sad, how there is no soul in business anymore. There never was, sure, but at least they could hire some designers who made it appear so.
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- 24 de Feb, 2021
Perhaps that could be the result of the diversity hire BS where troons, furries, spergs and minorities are pretty much hired ONLY because they fit into one or more of these categories, and their skills are more of an afterthought.
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
How digital identity can improve lives in a post-COVID-19 world
Industries from travel to health to education will recover more quickly if solutions once primarily associated with the finance sector are harnessed effectively.
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I'm not a fanboy, I used to scoff at Gigabyte back when computer shops photo-copied the prices of their parts and taped them to street lights, what kind of name is that? What re-seller does that? PC Chips? *snort chuckle*
Brand loyalty is also stupid and I was told that in another thread, and I agree 100%. I didn't know they made laptops but I have ended up with a lot of Gigabyte parts over the years not because I went by brand, they just turned out to fit my autistic needs. Like, I want a passively cooled graphics card that is competitive, oh, it looks like Gigabyte makes one that looks like belgian waffle ice cream sandwich. Nice.
Due to how things work here I lived two months on company scrip until I got my first paycheck during my first big boy job. "Company scrip" means I got a card to swipe in different machines to take out frozen food to run in the microwave along with snacks/drinks, it was called "JobMeal" I think. It was registered and deducted from my paycheck that was only 8 weeks away, 7 weeks away... 6 weeks... I spent all the money I had on a commute that wasn't a commute, it would normally be a leisure trip, so there were no commuter price tickets and then there were subways and buses on top of that. This meant that I stole all my toiletpaper from work along with hand soap so I could wash my hair before I got my solid four hours of sleep, every coin had to go to the commute and I had to cheat heavily there, if I got a ticket I had to eat it when I got money.
After a while I went slightly insane but it was kind of nice in that military way. This is why I advocate 6-12 months of mandatory military service for both men and women.
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- 13 de Jun, 2016
Amiga to ST conversions could be pretty much identical to play only with chiptunes as opposed to tracker music (and the chiptunes could be good in their own right as well). For instance, Turrican 2, Another World, and everything by the Bitmap Bros or Silmarils. If you had programmers who worked around things rather than throw the hardware at it, that is. For instance, ST ports generally required 1 MB RAM where the Ami only required half a meg; this might be to pre-shift and work around the blitter or lack thereof. This worked because more ST users had 1 meg as most application and productivity software on the system required it or even 2 or 4 megs.
The ST was also better at 3D games due to higher CPU clock speed and often more memory. The Ami's custom hardware struggled with anything in 3D. Midwinter and Carrier Command originated on the ST first for that reason (but Carrier Command's definitive version was the PC DOS one which had superior and more aggressive AI as well as improved explosion graphics; I wonder if someone could patch that back into the ST version?)
Unfortunately a lot of them simply treated the ST port as an afterthought and just didn't care, or they were intentionally gimped by executive meddling. Psygnosis wouldn't make Shadow of the Beast ST a 1 meg only game because marketing, yet modded versions of the game which require 1 meg have surfaced which is just as good (though implying you would want to play Shadow of the Beast in the first place; once you get over the admittedly very nice pixel art it's a bit shit really).
The STE did have a blitter. Unfortunately nobody wanted to make their games STE only because they didn't want to lock out the huge amount of STF and STFM users. In recent years there's been STE upgrades of classic ST games such as Lotus which make use of the blitter and DMA stereo sound. Also there was one bloke who took it upon himself to improve the dogshit port of Outrun (I don't think any of the 8- or 16-bit computers got a competent port of that frankly) by restoring the original arcade assets and use of the blitter (and the chiptune renditions of Splash Wave and Magical Sound Shower were legitimately as good as the original pieces).
Terry Davis could have been a fucking coding god had he got help. The fact that he was able to scratch-build an entire OS in x64 assembly language with his own dialect of C with some legitimate improvements is not the sign of a stupid person. Obsessive, yes, but not stupid. Also, x86-64 ASM always seems to me to be brain damaged.
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I don't think it's a conspiracy.
The powers that shouldn't be really do seem to want the "little people" in a cybernetic hive of tyranny.
Also I don't like how there doesn't seem to be much "real life" left because tech oversaturation.
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
Peloton Restores Free 'Just Run' Feature for Its Treadmill
Peloton has rolled out a software update that allows any Tread owner to access Tread Lock and the Just Run feature, no subscription required.
Progress is always good.
Yeah, all the nonsense in the last year or two made me a neo-luddite boomer.
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Yes technically, but the power in torque and control you can get from an EV simply cannot be replicated in current ICE technology if ever. Efficiency rates are poor too for gas to power conversion. But yes the only way to actually make an EV faster "in charging" than an ICE vehicle would be to have quick swapping battery stations, which would probably easily break down and gum up. It would also require a complete standardization of EV batteries, cutting the cash that could be made from proprietary solutions for chargers and battery packs which manufacturers love and won't stop loving because it means they can trap you in their walled garden.
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
Having easily changeable generic batteries would really be a good improvement for the EV concept, but that would be actually consumer friendly. Bad for profits. Gotta throw out the entire car, to save the environment. Or you buy the car and pay a separate subscription for the battery so they replace it regularly. Never mind making the freaking car into a service on the top of leasing it. lol
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Or the Apple solution. You can replace batteries yourself, but if it detects you did so it bricks itself with the next software update.
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- 10 de Ene, 2020
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.
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
The possibilities are endless!
It is certainly a mess. Maybe they will put wires under the road, to make a kind of trolleycare system. the soycrew will say it's free electricity because tax money pays for it, and you can only go where the wires are. At this point I could imagine anything.
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Inductive micro-charging for (compatible and paid up) EVs in road surfaces (maybe around intersections) seems like something they'd try to do.
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- 10 de Ene, 2020
The amount of energy waste from inductive charging a car while it's driving. It hurts to think about. That's why I can imagine green retards attempting it. Just look at how many people fell for solar freakin' roadways.
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- 4 de Mayo, 2021
Also let's not forget that sure, they want to reduce private car trips, but trucks need to go. And they go on long distances. Even with combining rail and road transit, you can't just have too much batteries on a truck, it will become really inefficient even if the AI can drive it non stop. Heck that tech could be really useful if the AI could drive the trucks nonstop. You don't want to stop for hours and refill the batteries when in theory you could operate 24/7.
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Tesla tried this for a while but it never took off. I'm not sure how many battery-swapping stations they actually had though.
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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.