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

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Squanto Airi said:
I do hate how modern microwaves make the default for heating 1 minute intervals and you select a button to put in a precise time, when it should be the other way around
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That is some BS right there. Now if I wanna get something heated for 30 seconds, I gotta set it to a minute, then unplug or open the door after waiting there for 30 seconds.
 
Squanto Airi said:
I do hate how modern microwaves make the default for heating 1 minute intervals and you select a button to put in a precise time, when it should be the other way around
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Different microwave brands do different things with their microwaves though. Mine is a little older, but it's still going strong, can put in the time I need and press start or hit start alone for 30 second intervals.
 
I've noticed my Internet bill going up. Luckily I have several options here. So I checked another one out, twice the speed, half the price. Sounds good. Then I check to see if they're using public IPv4 addresses, they are. Great. Then I read the fine print. Ports 80 and 443 are blocked inbound.

Well, so much for them. Between NextCloud and needing 443 as a backup port for OpenVPN when I'm traveling in places that block the usual VPN ports.

Guess my next option is just to wait for that fiber company that's supposedly coming to this area any year now. Or maybe my current provider will get closer to symmetrical speeds.
 
I don't want to to full boomer but streaming services suck absolute ass.

If I put a blue ray or DVD in and hit play it just fucking works, there's no endless buffering no "whoops something has gone wrong, error code X90002b4y."
 
Thiletonomics said:
Quoting myself, as Subaru has also jumped in on the in-car ad bandwagon,
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I think I said it before, but I hate how the industry emphasizes safe, non-distracted driving only to go do stupid stuff such as adding pop up ads in center consoles.

ToroidalBoat said:
A new bullshit trend is a phone service line always having "extremely high call volume", so you can't even get on hold.
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A business near me has had the rapid busy signal for over two weeks now for incoming calls. Worse, their outgoing calls apparently use the same generic caller name that numbers used by scammers use, so people have no idea when they're calling - especially if they don't or won't leave a message.

Faestus said:
Ai being shoved into everything and there's a useless "ask ai" button everywhere. Who asked for this?
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A program I use silently added an AI option to one of its updates. I couldn't do the search to learn if/how to disable it fast enough.

Big Fish said:
I'm not one of those "AI IS EVIL SLOP AND IT KILLED MY GRANDMA" people, but even I at this point hope the AI bubble to burst and go the way of NFTs, however seeing how people are overly reliant on stuff like ChatGPT nowadays, I don't think that will happen anytime soon. Guess we'll have to save more money on RAM, then...
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AI has its purpose and uses. However, too many people see it as a shortcut, crutch, or a way to try getting an advantage over others and not as the useful supplementary tool it should be. I wouldn't mind a bubble burst just to shake things up like the big dot com crash.

DavidS877 said:
It's bad enough when iOS users reply to my texts with an emoji.
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I hate seeing emojis in my work emails. I might understand the college part timer using them because its part of that generation, but a 40-something shouldn't be making professional emails look like teen texts.
 
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Jace on ice said:
If I put a blue ray or DVD in and hit play it just fucking works, there's no endless buffering no "whoops something has gone wrong, error code X90002b4y."
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To watch a movie on tape or disk on regular TV, you just gotta connect the player, turn it and the TV on, put the media in the player, and it starts. At least if DVD or VHS.

To watch a movie using some streaming service, you have to have a "smart TV", internet connection, account, and the right "app"... somehow I doubt that's how progress works.
 
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Android phones that let you download and install APKs without having to turn off advanced device protection and reboot first. Once installed, it will let me use the app with advanced device protection on, anyway, so why prevent installation in the first place? It just doesn't make sense.
 
74164978231 said:
Shit is insidious. Never used sirius never searched about it ever but a few months after buying my used vehicle I accidently hit the dedicated siriusxm button and a few days later I got a advert in the mail for it.
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Sirus data mines DMV registration records. When you do the plate transfer, they know the VIN of your car to send the unlock codes the trial subscription. It almost happens in real time. The trial expires after a few months and that's when they send the mail.

If your car is serviced by a major chain, they get the VIN again from the carfax report and you'll get a fresh round of junk mail.

Of course Sirus is completely dead tech that serves no purpose. The 2000's are over. For a similar price you can pay for a subscription music service on your phone and play it everywhere.
 
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I hate knowing that the rich can buy a Kaleidascape box for 4k dollars and get a 700mb/s copy of a movie, but the rest of us plebs are stuck with an inferior product whether its 4k, blu ray, or streaming. No matter what we are not seeing "The actual movie" as it is deployed to theaters.
 
mr_negativity said:
Sirus data mines DMV registration records. When you do the plate transfer, they know the VIN of your car to send the unlock codes the trial subscription. It almost happens in real time. The trial expires after a few months and that's when they send the mail.

If your car is serviced by a major chain, they get the VIN again from the carfax report and you'll get a fresh round of junk mail.

Of course Sirus is completely dead tech that serves no purpose. The 2000's are over. For a similar price you can pay for a subscription music service on your phone and play it everywhere.
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Oh, Sirius is on my bad list. I have a 2025 car I got at the end of summer. All good. There was something about a baked-in Sirius trial sub, but idc bc not interested. All of a sudden, 4 months later, I can't use the (regular) radio because when I try, there's a giant "your Sirius trial has started/ tap here to accept customer agreement" - and THERES NO OTHER OPTION. No way to X out, no way to say no. So I've just been listening to my own music and added "yell at car company" to my to-do list.

Well now, suddenly, I get in the car and Sirius is ON (ads, of course). I turn off the whole console/ display - and it comes back on with a popup saying "your Sirius subscription is about to expire" and "call us.". Worse yet, now there's also a "call us at x number to activate Sirius" message not just on the big screen (which went back to "tap here to accept customer agreement" blocking everything else), but now on the little screen between the main dials forward of the steering wheel. W.T.F. Get out of my car, and stop jacking it.

UGH. I have never wanted or accepted Sirius, and I have zero interest. Yet it is in my life and in my car, preventing me from using what I'm paying for. They are a menace.
 
I had to call Sirius to tell them to stop mailing me shit, and the guy on the line was trying to pretend to play along and get my credit card "to cancel." He was like, "alright sir if I can just get your card information we can get this canceled." It was already canceled, it was the free trial. I was just telling them to stop mailing me unsolicited shit.
 
UGH. I have never wanted or accepted Sirius, and I have zero interest. Yet it is in my life and in my car, preventing me from using what I'm paying for. They are a menace.
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How it feels to still use a 2000s shitbox
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
I had to call Sirius to tell them to stop mailing me shit, and the guy on the line was trying to pretend to play along and get my credit card "to cancel." He was like, "alright sir if I can just get your card information we can get this canceled." It was already canceled, it was the free trial. I was just telling them to stop mailing me unsolicited shit.
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Rate me puzzles, but....
Get his name, try and get an extension or employee number to go with it (he'll probably lie, but whatever), tell him the date and time, make a note of it, screencap your phone being on the call while you're at it, and tell the guy that you're telling him and his compa y to stop contacting you and that any further communication from them will be considered harassment and you'll file a complaint with the police.
Actually file a complaint with the police if they continue, cite the date, time, and any other documentation. If it's by mail file a complaint with the post office.
I was able to get a couple of really persistent companies to stop bothering me by threatening them with a police report,
 
Pimozide said:
Rate me puzzles, but....
Get his name, try and get an extension or employee number to go with it (he'll probably lie, but whatever), tell him the date and time, make a note of it, screencap your phone being on the call while you're at it, and tell the guy that you're telling him and his compa y to stop contacting you and that any further communication from them will be considered harassment and you'll file a complaint with the police.
Actually file a complaint with the police if they continue, cite the date, time, and any other documentation. If it's by mail file a complaint with the post office.
I was able to get a couple of really persistent companies to stop bothering me by threatening them with a police report,
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My story was from 4 years ago. Not gonna do all that
 
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