Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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Remember behind the scenes development videos on video games?
Somebody with a camera would film around the studio, showing the developers working on the game, discussing the game or even goofing off together on their off time. It felt real, like your game was made by ACTUAL people.
You don't see that anymore. If you do, everything looks staged and artificial. Like they have been rehearsing scenes more than developing a good game.
With apples and oranges, here was a behind the scenes video of a Ubisoft game from 2003.
Somebody with a camera would film around the studio, showing the developers working on the game, discussing the game or even goofing off together on their off time. It felt real, like your game was made by ACTUAL people.
You don't see that anymore. If you do, everything looks staged and artificial. Like they have been rehearsing scenes more than developing a good game.
With apples and oranges, here was a behind the scenes video of a Ubisoft game from 2003.
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They would get H1B visas and then open call centres in the US. It would be a lateral move. 100 go to prison. There is 10000000000 more ready to beg for a visa or find ever more scammy ways to get into the country. The Indian Diaspora is global. They would just find another country without the call tariff and set up their scam centres there.
The government has a lot of power and options. It is completely contrived and false to believe that the government in over a barrel or hobbled from protecting people in any way. They just don't care. They enjoy torturing you. If the government really wanted to they could deploy FBI agents to India to find and then shut down the scam call centres. The president can go to war for 30 days without the approval of congress. He could go to war with India and bomb their call centres. Put troops on the ground and wipe out every last stupid street shitting poojeet all the in the name of protecting grandma's drug money. It would become a cultural institution in India that if you scam the US will fire bomb your call centre and kill your whole family. But he doesn't because he is a Benedict Arnold.
Look on the bright side, Boomers being taken for marks by Indian scammers is the only justice you'll ever see in your life after how the Boomers have completely destroyed the US.
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Fucking YouTube is the KING of this shit. They genuinely seem to wait until you finally start to get used to the "new" layout/interface and then change it all over again, for reasons unknown. likely justifying their own wages - "See?! I'm doing something! I'm helping! Nobody wanted it or asked for it, but I did it!"
At this point, I think I have five or six fucking browser extensions which are must-installs on first boot, expressly for the purpose of rendering YouTube useable, navigable, and not a total clusterfuck. Not to mention a total RAM hog, one tab that's not even actively playing a video - it's paused, chewing up more than half a gigabyte of fucking memory. Seriously wild shit. The fucking Apollo 11 command module's code - which got motherfuckers to the MOON and back - took up a total of 74KB. And now a single tab that's doing nothing but rendering a black screen and some text comments is eating up 606MB. Progress!
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The thumbnails on the homepage aren't even in line with each other anymore. Put your cursor in the gap between thumbnails and scroll down, you're guaranteed to have your cursor go over a video and it'll start playing.
And that was with core rope memory.
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Oh yeah, the thumbnail thing - I noticed some time ago that my 'History' feed was full of videos I would absolutely never fucking watch, shit I had no possible interest in, and wondered if someone had breached my account. Turned out that from time to time I would open the homepage [where all of the gay trending stuff is] and apparently leave my mouse cursor resting on a thumbnail when I went to go do something else for a minute. As such, I'd come back and it's played like 3/4 of the video - not just the preview. I guess YouTube really got the idea that people would watch whole ass videos in a tiny box in their feed.
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I wonder what sort of lunatic scans this. Ideally they don't even put any info on the ad either, they just rely on you going to a random ass-fucking website and reading about the event - which they gave you no reason to be interested in - there.
I used to sometimes order pizza from this one place, because they had good pizza and their own delivery, not just relying on grubhub or whatever. You could go to their website, check their offering, and either place an order through a web form there, or call them and order that way. Around a year ago they changed it, so that now you can not see what pizzas they even offer on their website, you can just see what address their restaurant is at, and if you want to order it will take you to some third party delivery website, that doesn't even render for me. I now have literally no way to order pizza from them, because the constant need to "modernize" and show as little info as possible.
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Speaking of QRs, remember the PSAs about not clicking on random links? Now I'm seeing people getting hacked / scammed from scanning random QRs instead, because despite the tech being used nearly everywhere now few thought to actually educated your average boomer / normie about what it is, so they thought the thing is magic instead of mostly being links in scannable form.
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I'm out of the loop but this AI shit is getting real
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If Pepperidge Farms doesn't remember the PSAs, I do for sure. To this day, I hate scanning any QR code not from my grocery store for this very reason.
Thread tax: Wanted to upgrade an account to add a single option of interest/value. Nope, the next upgrade for my existing account includes stuff I probably won't use because my exiting account with that company only allows bundles of offerings.
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Is "outsourcing" to 3rd party vendors part of that perceived need to "modernize"?
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You have to wonder how many times someone either defaces a QR code with a sharpie or slaps a sticker with a different QR code on it.
Imagine some minimum wage employee at generic crap restaurant gets a package in the mail with new mandatoty pieces of flair for the employees and a message on official looking Chotchkie's letterhead saying to put these new stickers over the existing QR codes for the menus. Whoever sent the package has the replacement QR code redirect normally for a few weeks before becoming some sort of malicious link. Scam payment links that steal your money instead of paying your bill, malware installation, just plain shutting the QR code link down, thus requiring a return to print menus, if they even have any.
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I'm aware of criminal enterprises that do that shit for things like public parking meters, just slapping different stickers on top and collecting cash
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Criminals ruin everything. I thought it was funny back when people were slapping QR code stickers over those parking meter things with links to goatse and lemonparty and the ED Offended page.
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Metal Cups: It seemed strange to me at first that all of a sudden everyone seems to be using Yetti and other brands of camping cups in everyday life. I bought one and tried it. You can't microwave it so there's that as a downside, but they do keep the heat in and the outside is cool enough to handle. I use mine without the sippy cup lid. I would not recommend any brand specifically. The "amercian" brands are all from China. Take Chinese company's product add logo, buy design patent, say it's an "american" design. There are identical cups on Poojeetzon and other stores that are legal and are virtually identical except for the brand logo. I bought someone who breaks wine glasses all the time metal wine glasses. They went over very well. It is a very interesting trend that more and more people are switching to metal cups and drinking glasses. I wonder if in the future it will be very difficult to get cups and this trend is being seeded now so that people don't freak out with being expected to go without having cups and drinking glasses made out of glass and ceramic. I predict in the future metal cups may be more more difficult to get too, but since metal is more long lasting people will still have their metal cups, even though the cheap paint would have long came off in the dishwasher.
Cell Phone Headphone Jacks: The
jeetle Phone is the most popular smart phone. jeetle for a combination of reasons rationalising their incompetence and poor decisions, have removed the 3.5mm audio jack from their phones. They used to only have property jeetle Poonerning connector and forced everyone to use blutooth headphone and earphones. Now jeetle has converted to using USB-C for their Phones, but that’s only because the EU requires that all phones have the same connector. Ironically it’s the only nice thing that the EU does forcing shitty companies not to be so arbitrarily shitty to their CUMstomers. (There are other bad things the EU does, like make photo cameras only able to record 30 minutes of video to prevent them taking over the digital video camera market, so you have to buy an external monitor recorder to use your DSLR and mirror-less cameras as video cameras for longer than 30 minutes. (I have countless hour long and longer MP4 files. It is not a format limitation.)) Because the jeetle Phone have discontinued 3.5mm jacks the entire phone market is prompted to phase out 3.5mm jacks. This is a very anti-consumer decision. Old wired headphones now don’t work. Old accessories that used 3.5mm jacks are now rendered obsolete because Phones are the most popular, so if it doesn’t work with the latest Phone, it just doesn’t work. If you want to use 3.5mm accessories you have to buy a USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor which most people will never buy. Companies have made USB headphones and now USB-C headphones will be compatible with the USB-C smart phones. Using these eats up the 1 USB-C port you have on the phone. Ideally USB-C hosts are supposed to allow you to plug into a dock and then have multiple peripherals at once, but not all phones support this. The new Phones that don’t support the whole USB-C standard, so this is not an option. It would also be really incontinent to have a bunch of wires handing off your phone.
Sometimes companies like to argue that they are getting rid of the 3.5mm jack because it makes the phone more water proof. I believe Samsung has tried to push this in the past. This is silly. What about the 3.5mm jack makes it magically more susceptible to water damage than a lightening or USB-C port? They all have exposed pins. They all have voltage at the phone coming from those pins when not in use; USB-C has to support this for protocol negotiation. The excesses are insincere and disingenuous.
I am clearly not the target market. I don’t like phones. I don’t like apps. I don’t any of this crap. I would have to be brain damaged to think spending 1000 dollars on a phone that is going to sit in my back pocket and get bent get dropped on the ground is a good idea. You can buy a cheap laptop for around 200 to 300; not a good one, but you can install your own software on it and it can do a lot more than the PooPhone or Poodroids can. I don’t like options like 3.5mm jacks being taken away and that influences my decisions.
Sorry if I write too much like a tech jurno.
Cell Phone Headphone Jacks: The
jeetle Phone is the most popular smart phone. jeetle for a combination of reasons rationalising their incompetence and poor decisions, have removed the 3.5mm audio jack from their phones. They used to only have property jeetle Poonerning connector and forced everyone to use blutooth headphone and earphones. Now jeetle has converted to using USB-C for their Phones, but that’s only because the EU requires that all phones have the same connector. Ironically it’s the only nice thing that the EU does forcing shitty companies not to be so arbitrarily shitty to their CUMstomers. (There are other bad things the EU does, like make photo cameras only able to record 30 minutes of video to prevent them taking over the digital video camera market, so you have to buy an external monitor recorder to use your DSLR and mirror-less cameras as video cameras for longer than 30 minutes. (I have countless hour long and longer MP4 files. It is not a format limitation.)) Because the jeetle Phone have discontinued 3.5mm jacks the entire phone market is prompted to phase out 3.5mm jacks. This is a very anti-consumer decision. Old wired headphones now don’t work. Old accessories that used 3.5mm jacks are now rendered obsolete because Phones are the most popular, so if it doesn’t work with the latest Phone, it just doesn’t work. If you want to use 3.5mm accessories you have to buy a USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor which most people will never buy. Companies have made USB headphones and now USB-C headphones will be compatible with the USB-C smart phones. Using these eats up the 1 USB-C port you have on the phone. Ideally USB-C hosts are supposed to allow you to plug into a dock and then have multiple peripherals at once, but not all phones support this. The new Phones that don’t support the whole USB-C standard, so this is not an option. It would also be really incontinent to have a bunch of wires handing off your phone.Sometimes companies like to argue that they are getting rid of the 3.5mm jack because it makes the phone more water proof. I believe Samsung has tried to push this in the past. This is silly. What about the 3.5mm jack makes it magically more susceptible to water damage than a lightening or USB-C port? They all have exposed pins. They all have voltage at the phone coming from those pins when not in use; USB-C has to support this for protocol negotiation. The excesses are insincere and disingenuous.
I am clearly not the target market. I don’t like phones. I don’t like apps. I don’t any of this crap. I would have to be brain damaged to think spending 1000 dollars on a phone that is going to sit in my back pocket and get bent get dropped on the ground is a good idea. You can buy a cheap laptop for around 200 to 300; not a good one, but you can install your own software on it and it can do a lot more than the PooPhone or Poodroids can. I don’t like options like 3.5mm jacks being taken away and that influences my decisions.
Sorry if I write too much like a tech jurno.
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The government could force Amazon, Google Play, Apple Gift Card, all these compies to region lock their gift card codes. If you buy the card in US you can only unlock it in the US. They could do it by an act of law. Just another suggestion. The government wants grandma to lose her drug money to poojeets.
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They already did that at least for google play giftcards. Didn't solve jack shit.
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They don't disclose the methods, just say that you have to be physically within US to redeem it. VPNs never seem to work from what I see on discussions online (which are mostly jeets btw).
won a 5$ one from a promo years ago, picked US since it didn't have my country as an option, tried finding ways to redeem it and failed. I remember getting this when inputting the code, press continue and they will tell you it can not be redeemed since you don't live in the US
