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

[fried chicknugs]

>95% RAM usage
>OS almost freezes to death
>opens up htop (takes 10 seconds)
>finds the first process that takes the most RAM and CPU is firefox
>"ehh, i'll just send a SIGTERM, just to be nice"
>motherfucking mirror.co.uk tab dies
I hate web soydevs, they don't know shit about web designing without making their websites a digital equivalent of a landwhale
i wish i could go back

 

[AnOminous]

The absolute limit where the late generation 5x86 processors by Cyrix that could do it in a 486-style system, if you didn't try to do anything else while listening to music.

I once had a Cyrix processor that was so hot you could literally cook a fucking egg on it. Someone literally made a thing you could use to do it.

 

[Billy Beer]

>95% RAM usage
>OS almost freezes to death
>opens up htop (takes 10 seconds)
>finds the first process that takes the most RAM and CPU is firefox
>"ehh, i'll just send a SIGTERM, just to be nice"
>motherfucking mirror.co.uk tab dies
I hate web soydevs, they don't know shit about web designing without making their websites a digital equivalent of a landwhale
i wish i could go back

An autistic change that made me got me in an autizzy, was when the web changed from loading the page framework, then filling in the images, to loading images one by one, then the page framework. It went from a scrollable, mostly-blank page, to a page that jumps around like a frog with a taser up its' arse.

 

[Clout $ Monei]

Reading about the media storage/formats got me thinking about something that is lost with digital media : a certain way of transmitting culture.
Think about a kid browsing their parents' collection to discover music, exploring the family's library to find books and comics, etc.
If everything is digital that kind of organic transmission of culture doesn't really happen anymore. I guess you can share your [platform] playlist with your kids but why would they listen to dad's boomer music when they can find their favorite streamer's playlist just as easily.
ETA : this quote specifically is what made me think of that :

The majority of my best memories and experiences are built upon waiting, expectations and surprises. We have none of those today.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Reading about the media storage/formats got me thinking about something that is lost with digital media : a certain way of transmitting culture.
Think about a kid browsing their parents' collection to discover music, exploring the family's library to find books and comics, etc.
If everything is digital that kind of organic transmission of culture doesn't really happen anymore. I guess you can share your [platform] playlist with your kids but why would they listen to dad's boomer music when they can find their favorite streamer's playlist just as easily.

Also, the algorithm funnels everyone's tastes down the same path.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Recently started listening to LPs for the first time in my life. No I'm not a hipster, I'm building a man cave and decided to get a full stack hifi, never had one as a kid because poors.

The audi faggots are right, the sound quality of an lp is much better than cd. And I've been trawling around record shops looking for cheap vinyls to listen to, maybe discover a few bands along the way.

Which made me realise how shitty our on demand society is. The majority of my best memories and experiences are built upon waiting, expectations and surprises. We have none of those today.

Well, you can record the vinyl audio output digitally and burn a redbook audio CD. It is uncompressed audio, so none of that compression artifact nigger bullshit.

 

[Clout $ Monei]

Also, the algorithm funnels everyone's tastes down the same path.

True, it's like trading a somewhat distributed way of spreading and transmitting cultural elements to a centralized one.
In one word : globohomo.

 

[alright fine]

Most likely because vinyls are mixed and mastered properly without being fucking brickwalled. Can't brickwall a vinyl record or the grooves would collapse.

Compact Disc is a very forgiving format as far as dynamic range goes: you can squeeze the life out of a master tape (or digital file) and it'll still sound okay, if kinda annoying. Vinyl mastering is fucking hard, not only because of the dynamic range, but having a good knowledge of EQ so as to roll off or boost the signal either overall or in sections, knowing to do that for the end of an LP side (where the biggest risk of distortion and sibilance lays) and the beginning of a side (to keep the needle from jumping right out of the gate), plus knowing when/if to expand or contract the width between grooves to allow for quieter or louder passages to play out without either pre-echo or distortion, not to mention skipping and lack of tracking. And often, an LP's master would arrive with each track having its own required EQ notes, as they were recorded at different times in different studios, so you'd have to fix all that shit on the fly, as well. Even to this day, any dipshit with a copy of Pro Tools or Premiere can "master" a CD or download file (I have, it's a joke how easy it is now if you have the right plugins). If you're gonna master an LP, you gotta be on top of your shit for it to be even playable, let alone sound good. An okay sounding CD will sound okay to pretty good on a decent system. Even a worn well mastered LP on a good turntable (not even expensive, like $250 and up will get you a solid rig) through a halfway decent amp and speakers will blow your fucking mind if you've only ever listened to music through earbuds or laptops.

 

[seri0us]

Compact Disc is a very forgiving format as far as dynamic range goes: you can squeeze the life out of a master tape (or digital file) and it'll still sound okay, if kinda annoying. Vinyl mastering is fucking hard, not only because of the dynamic range, but having a good knowledge of EQ so as to roll off or boost the signal either overall or in sections, knowing to do that for the end of an LP side (where the biggest risk of distortion and sibilance lays) and the beginning of a side (to keep the needle from jumping right out of the gate), plus knowing when/if to expand or contract the width between grooves to allow for quieter or louder passages to play out without either pre-echo or distortion, not to mention skipping and lack of tracking. And often, an LP's master would arrive with each track having its own required EQ notes, as they were recorded at different times in different studios, so you'd have to fix all that shit on the fly, as well. Even to this day, any dipshit with a copy of Pro Tools or Premiere can "master" a CD or download file (I have, it's a joke how easy it is now if you have the right plugins). If you're gonna master an LP, you gotta be on top of your shit for it to be even playable, let alone sound good. An okay sounding CD will sound okay to pretty good on a decent system. Even a worn well mastered LP on a good turntable (not even expensive, like $250 and up will get you a solid rig) through a halfway decent amp and speakers will blow your fucking mind if you've only ever listened to music through earbuds or laptops.

 

[alright fine]

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[AmpleApricots]

I once had a Cyrix processor that was so hot you could literally cook a fucking egg on it. Someone literally made a thing you could use to do it.

Around the time of the first more popular Cyrixs CPUs it wasn't really that common for a CPU to even have a heatsink. All the early Cyrix stuff came with heatsink glued on by factory.

I have a soft spot for everything Cyrix. Sure they were the budget option and never as fast as the competiton but they did some really clever clean room reimplentation of budget-wise much bigger designs and sometimes put clever spins on it, like an early form of branch prediction you had to enable via special flag. Some very clever people worked there.

 

[Blamo]

Reading about the media storage/formats got me thinking about something that is lost with digital media : a certain way of transmitting culture.
Think about a kid browsing their parents' collection to discover music, exploring the family's library to find books and comics, etc.
If everything is digital that kind of organic transmission of culture doesn't really happen anymore. I guess you can share your [platform] playlist with your kids but why would they listen to dad's boomer music when they can find their favorite streamer's playlist just as easily.
ETA : this quote specifically is what made me think of that :

Oh yeah. I totally agree.

The digital/streaming world is a permanent "now". A good example is social media content. People put all their lives there, but they won't just go back and reflect on stuff like you used to do with a more old school photo album. Will people even go back to 20+ year old Facebook photos? Could you even go back reliably?

I think an interesting effect of this is the fact that the past refuses to die and give way for the new. Back in the day cultural things just got obsolete, like tapes, books etc. got out print. With digital? All new things have to compete with the classics, the reboot of them and their brand power.

 

[Pond Scum]

CDs are better because you can use lasers to make pretty sounds play and that's tight as fuck.

 

[Kosher Dill]

CDs are better because they don't destroy themselves and your equipment a little bit every single time you play them.
I have a fancy record player set up for the sole purpose of playing records once and digitizing them.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I hate every website having it's own 'app' for mobile. Yes I want to fill my limited memory phone with your shitty bloatware that crashes 9/10 times.

Can't wait for progressive web apps to become a thing!

 

[Ginger Piglet]

CDs are better because they don't destroy themselves and your equipment a little bit every single time you play them.
I have a fancy record player set up for the sole purpose of playing records once and digitizing them.

True but overstated. I know Crosley Cruisers are a meme but it's really not true that they wreck your records with excessive tracking force and cheap arsed Chinese knockoff styli after just a handful of plays. They sound utterly shit, yes, but that is because they are overpriced Chinesium knocking off budget gear from the 1980s which has been cost downed to fuck.

However, the Sound Wagon and its knockoffs, you know, those battery powered VW camper vans with a stylus in the base and rubber wheels? They will. The difference is that a normal record player, whether it uses a floating tonearm or linear tracking, gently has the stylus guide itself around the groove and the groove guides it. While the Sound Wagon basically drags the stylus along it and hopes for the best. It only takes a small imperfection, warp or lateral force to send it careening across the surface of the record and gouging canyons across all the grooves. They also sound unutterably shit. There was a kickstarter a few years back for a remake of those called the Rok Blok. Whoever was behind that saw the consoomers coming.

Me, I have my Sharp VZ-2000 boombox. Tape deck, linear tracking double sided turntable, proper analog tuner, really nice quality speakers and pretty loud as well (I can't put it above 4/10 without the neighbours complaining). I got that because I don't have the space for a stacker system in my flat and also I can take it out with me and annoy passers by in the park. It does however weigh 17.5 kg without batteries so it gets a bit painful lugging it on your shoulders after a while.

 

[seri0us]

 

[Ginger Piglet]

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[Seven Costanza]

Recently started listening to LPs for the first time in my life. No I'm not a hipster, I'm building a man cave and decided to get a full stack hifi, never had one as a kid because poors.

The audi faggots are right, the sound quality of an lp is much better than cd. And I've been trawling around record shops looking for cheap vinyls to listen to, maybe discover a few bands along the way.

Which made me realise how shitty our on demand society is. The majority of my best memories and experiences are built upon waiting, expectations and surprises. We have none of those today.

Pretty based if I do say so myself.

I got into vinyl back in my college days -- I was straight edge and really into hardcore punk and emo, and many such releases were vinyl exclusives. "Colored" 7 inches and all that shit.

Today I mix and match between a "modern" Brookstone record player with USB ports and shit (never used) and a nice vintage player.

And, yes, vinyl is cool as shit. The pops and crackles enhance the mood so much.

 

[Kosher Dill]

True but overstated. I know Crosley Cruisers are a meme but it's really not true that they wreck your records with excessive tracking force and cheap arsed Chinese knockoff styli after just a handful of plays.

I'm not even talking about anything so dramatic. Consider this simple fact: replacement styli exist. Because they slowly but surely wear out, all the while exerting an equal and opposite amount of force on the vinyl grooves they're running through.