Unpopular opinions about electronics

[John Titor]

One of my pet peeves is when people take pictures of special events with their cell phone cameras. You know its going to look crappy!

Still a step above tablet photography.

 

[Ravenor]

My cell phone does not have a data plan, so it cannot access the internet. That means I don't spend all the time ever looking at my phone, texting and ignoring people around me in social situations. This is probably for the better.

That's only my real gripe about mobile phones, when your trying to be social an some one spends half there time on the phone. It's one thing to check a text or email send a quick yes or no etc but it's another when 5 or six of you are in the pub or restaurant chilling out and you get some of them spending half the time looking at those little tiny screens.

 

[SU 390]

That's only my real gripe about mobile phones, when your trying to be social an some one spends half there time on the phone. It's one thing to check a text or email send a quick yes or no etc but it's another when 5 or six of you are in the pub or restaurant chilling out and you get some of them spending half the time looking at those little tiny screens.

The LED lights on smartphones causes addiction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-smartphones-disrupt-good-sleep-study-finds/

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

1. I actually want to see more consoles with the PC besides Steam, as I found that even though I love hard-console games, I enjoy PC gaming even more.
   
2. Apple/Mac OSX is better than Dell/Windows in my experience.
3. Android is absolutely garbage compared to the iPhone, once again, in my experience.

 

[AnOminous]

OS X is a beautifully designed operating system in its fundamentals, although recent iterations have been somewhat prone to featuritis and bloat, especially in the user interface area. That is, it's really pretty, but at the cost of performance.

On the good side, you can turn off a lot of that shit and recover performance.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

OS X is a beautifully designed operating system in its fundamentals, although recent iterations have been somewhat prone to featuritis and bloat, especially in the user interface area. That is, it's really pretty, but at the cost of performance.

On the good side, you can turn off a lot of that shit and recover performance.

Plus you are far less likely to get a virus with OS X compared to Windows. I've been using OS X for a year and I yet to catch a virus on it. Windows, sometimes it would take as fast as six months for me to get a virus and the performance was often terrible.

 

[AveraDiane]

I especially hate the iPhone/Android phone wallets. That just screams, 'please rob me of all of my bank, social, insurance and bus cards along with my phone please!".

I agree. I can understand that it can be pretty convenient, but I am SO uncomfortable with the idea of whipping your phone to pay for something.

Still a step above tablet photography.

I can vouch for this.

I'm for placing phones aside for social situations, but as someone who pulls her phone out when nobody doesn't show off attention to me, I HATE when I have someone wave in my face or yank my phone away when I concentrate on reading an article that interests me. I understand if I am being rude (but it's not on purpose), but I rather have someone tap my shoulder. Then again, this is more of a general pet peeve.

 

[SU 390]

Plus you are far less likely to get a virus with OS X compared to Windows. I've been using OS X for a year and I yet to catch a virus on it. Windows, sometimes it would take as fast as six months for me to get a virus and the performance was often terrible.

What's the whole deal with iOS can't get viruses? It can get viruses. Sure it rarely happens, but the whole superiority shtick with Apple over Windows is ridiculous. At least with Windows you're not paying an arm and leg to get the same shit some other OS and manufacturer has but at twice the price.

 

[AnOminous]

Plus you are far less likely to get a virus with OS X compared to Windows.

OS X is good but it isn't immune to viruses. Anything but. In fact, it can be infected with viruses from other Unix-based OSes if they have a shared vulnerability, which isn't all that unlikely.

It's just that less virus writers target it because Windows is so ubiquitous.

OS X is probably marginally more secure than Windows because of how purely awful Windows is, but security is really not a strong point of any Unix-based OS.

 

[SU 390]

OS X is good but it isn't immune to viruses. Anything but. In fact, it can be infected with viruses from other Unix-based OSes if they have a shared vulnerability, which isn't all that unlikely.

It's just that less virus writers target it because Windows is so ubiquitous.

OS X is probably marginally more secure than Windows because of how purely awful Windows is, but security is really not a strong point of any Unix-based OS.

Plus Windows is more popular and on the market the most. So it's natural that more viruses are written for Windows as opposed to OS X/iOS.

 

[trip2themoon]

I don't know if it's universal but when you take photos nowadays they're always in an opposite angle. For example, I keep my phone straight and whenever I take a picture the picture is always upside down or sideways.

Even worse are the people at concerts who instead of enjoying the gig they stand there recording the whole thing on their video camera phone. Then they have the cheek to growl at you if you walk past them blocking the camera for like 2 seconds.

 

[AnOminous]

Even worse are the people at concerts who instead of enjoying the gig they stand there recording the whole thing on their video camera phone. Then they have the cheek to growl at you if you walk past them blocking the camera for like 2 seconds.

Also that's blatant copyright infringement unless they have permission. Some bands have the Dead type attitude of not minding, but if someone pulled that shit on me I'd be tempted to rat them out to security. There are some venues that prohibit even taking pictures, though I've never personally seen that.

 

[trip2themoon]

Also that's blatant copyright infringement unless they have permission. Some bands have the Dead type attitude of not minding, but if someone pulled that shit on me I'd be tempted to rat them out to security. There are some venues that prohibit even taking pictures, though I've never personally seen that.

Yeah, I remember back in the day hearing of people getting their cameras taken off them on the way in and they had to chase up security on the way out to get it back. Nowadays though it would be a nightmare for the security team if they had to take every camera phone from everyone. Seems like a waste of a concert to just stand there with your phone in the air instead of enjoying the concert experience.

 

[SpessCaptain]

I just don't give a shit about 3D illusions, they're gimmicky in anything they touch.

 

[chimpburgers]

I liked the iPhone 5c a lot better than the iPhone 6, which turned out to be quite a disappointment for me.

 

[SU 390]

I just don't give a shit about 3D illusions, they're gimmicky in anything they touch.

I sometimes question the ability and authenticity of 3D printing. It makes me wonder does it actually work or are the modifications. For example, say you're too broke for a new laptop or tablet, can the 3D printing actually make you that laptop or tablet you wanted? Maybe because I haven't read much about 3D printing, I'm just curious if it's magic or a parlor trick.

 

[AnOminous]

I sometimes question the ability and authenticity of 3D printing. It makes me wonder does it actually work or are the modifications. For example, say you're too broke for a new laptop or tablet, can the 3D printing actually make you that laptop or tablet you wanted? Maybe because I haven't read much about 3D printing, I'm just curious if it's magic or a parlor trick.

You can "print" any 3D object within the parameters of the device, though the mechanics of it limits the shape and what it can be made of pretty drastically. Still, someone has made a do-it-yourself gun and other things like the bottom receiver (main regulated part) of an AR-10.

I don't know enough about the tech to say whether either of those are recommended or good implementations, but they show it's entirely possible to print functional mechanical parts.

We're a long way off from home printing printed circuit boards and microprocessors, of course.

 

[ASoulMan]

Large smartphones aren't smartphones.

They're just glorified mini-tablets.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

I sometimes question the ability and authenticity of 3D printing. It makes me wonder does it actually work or are the modifications. For example, say you're too broke for a new laptop or tablet, can the 3D printing actually make you that laptop or tablet you wanted? Maybe because I haven't read much about 3D printing, I'm just curious if it's magic or a parlor trick.

You can "print" any 3D object within the parameters of the device, though the mechanics of it limits the shape and what it can be made of pretty drastically. Still, someone has made a do-it-yourself gun and other things like the bottom receiver (main regulated part) of an AR-10.

I don't know enough about the tech to say whether either of those are recommended or good implementations, but they show it's entirely possible to print functional mechanical parts.

We're a long way off from home printing printed circuit boards and microprocessors, of course.

3-D printers are amazing things. They're great for prototyping & small-batch fabrication in plastics. Also, in a feat akin to dividing by zero, you can 3-d print parts easily for another 3d printer. Much less work than using a milling machine/lathe/whatever to fabricate another mill or lathe for your workshop.

Here's the working bits:

The only downsides I've heard about them is unless you use a high quality thermoplastic, the printed parts tend to act almost like hardwood & will split/fail along the linear "grain" of the printed piece, and you have to be pretty computer-savvy to even get started in the first place.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Large smartphones aren't smartphones.

They're just glorified mini-tablets.

I can sperg all day about how Phablets are only there to appeal to boring wannabe fourteen year old techsters. Our market is getting worse because children at the age of 3 were blessed with an iPhone or Galaxy Tablet, therefor want OCTOCORE or FIFTY INTERNAL GIGS at a "reasonable price". Oh lord how math failed my generation.

"Phablet"... Oh, make me walk through the temple of Set, I fucking HATE that word play. It sucks that Samsung are not making anything good other than Mid-Ranged and Entry-Level phones these days, I remember when both Sammy and Motorola still produced QWERTY Droids. I hate OPPO for releasing average ten inch "Phones" with razor thin profiles, come on take a note from Motorola who produced quality 'thin phones' back when they lasted more than two years. Samsung and LG still make great basic phones, though you have to go out of your way to even get an old Nokia brick.

Point being; I like 3.5'' devices and about 4'' display devices. That's it. One handed use is only really safe with anything below 5''. Add to that, I wish the Modular Revolution started years ago with Smartphones considering some of their motherboards are barely half the size of the screen. I look forward to ARA given it might actually reintroduce western Flip Phone influence, only we won't have to order a non-functioning ten grand device from Japan.

Apple can go eat a dick, so can that sellout Dre. I'm actually glad the Beat's Speakers are fire hazards, a successful person such as Dr. Dre should realize how Apple designs everything against their previous year rather than build up from it.