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

[Neddit's Rigger]

I miss having an mp3 player that just played what I copied into it and didn't try to rape me with ads, recommendations, and other botnet crap. On the other hand I am enjoying the convenience of spotify despite the botnet crap. There are still media players available today but I'm not sure it will be more than a paperweight once the novelty wears off.

 

[The Un-Clit]

I miss having an mp3 player that just played what I copied into it and didn't try to rape me with ads, recommendations, and other botnet crap. On the other hand I am enjoying the convenience of spotify despite the botnet crap. There are still media players available today but I'm not sure it will be more than a paperweight once the novelty wears off.

I don't have to miss it because I never gave mine up. It's 20 years old but battery somehow still charges up long enough for a day of running around, it's comparatively tiny 4gb of storage still holds several hundred songs at 320k with plenty of room to spare and I get the songs I love and only the songs I love all the time with high quality earbuds that don't need to constantly reach out to my phone or anything else nearby. No subscriptions, no slop ads. Paradise.

 

[cactus]

I miss having an mp3 player that just played what I copied into it and didn't try to rape me with ads, recommendations, and other botnet crap. On the other hand I am enjoying the convenience of spotify despite the botnet crap. There are still media players available today but I'm not sure it will be more than a paperweight once the novelty wears off.

I have all the music I want on my phone, as in the actual files, because fuck Spotify.

 

[The Last Stand]

I hate how some document templates are laid out. You try to move one thing around or change the font size, the whole document goes crazy.

 

[Stella d'Oro]

I miss having an mp3 player that just played what I copied into it and didn't try to rape me with ads, recommendations, and other botnet crap. On the other hand I am enjoying the convenience of spotify despite the botnet crap. There are still media players available today but I'm not sure it will be more than a paperweight once the novelty wears off.

I still have one too, just a generic thing I picked up at my local computer shop probably 20 years ago. It's just an oversized USB drive with a whole 128mb of storage, a two line LCD display and headphone jack, takes a single AAA battery that lasts a surprisingly long time and sounds about as good as MP3 can. I can transfer media to it with no special software or drivers and it boots and starts playing in seconds.

 

[Enig]

I really wish that Sony didn't go on a colossal moral hazard bender throughout the 2000s that caused their entire consumer electornics division barring PlayStation and Ericsson phones to go tits-up during the 2008 financial crisis. I was digging through old crates from a decade plus ago in a utility closet for a spare extension lead when I came across laptop chargers for now-defunct Sony Vaio laptops, a miniDV Sony camcorder, stuff along those lines. Fuck Panasonic, JVC, and Sharp: they were always the cheapo plasticky brands that we used because we had no better options. You shell out the premium for Sony back then, you were gonna get quality... at least once upon a time that was the case.

Once upon a time Sony was a major power in the area of LCD/LED clocks with all of them being reliable as hell and not feeling cheap.
Now all they have left is the cube they've been making since 2014. A market they had a hold on since the late 60s and it went out with a silent fart.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There's something so "watered down smartphone feel" or "enshittified" about a retailer using "DoorDash" to make a delivery.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

Once upon a time Sony was a major power in the area of LCD/LED clocks with all of them being reliable as hell and not feeling cheap.
Now all they have left is the cube they've been making since 2014. A market they had a hold on since the late 60s and it went out with a silent fart.

I still have a Sony LED clock radio bought in 1989. Not been in constant use but it's had over 30 years of use, is currently in use, and nothing has ever failed. Being of that vintage it also has an alarm tone and volume that only the profoundly deaf could sleep through and it has a fair chance of waking them as well.