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

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The Last Stand said:
How YouTube would be inconsistent with what words should be censored. For instance, "fuck" would be censored, but not "shit." Why?
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It depends on the channel settings. 'family friendly' (the most ads and ad revenue) are highly censored for blood and many key words, ' not quite adult' (I forget the real name) have less sponsors willing to run ads so generate less income and can curse more, but still tend to de-monitize or even remove videos with certain triggering words and topics like rape, nigger, Hitler did nothing wrong, etc. blood is fine and then the rare unmonitized channels which really only are blocked for the worst of things like fraud and scams and other criminal shit, gore, cheese pizza and massive complaints.

So it's more the channel's choices and how much jew shekels they want to obtain for how much or little the algorithm nannies and jannies them, though many will take the most ad-friendly settings and cry 'YouTube censors us, gibs Patreon!' when they get froggy with their bad words.
 
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I know this is completely boomer, but I absolutely hate wireless headphones. The way that every damn person who wears them has to make a display of pulling it out and clicking it off irks me.
 
People yelling into Bluetooth earpieces in general. They look like schizos yelling at nothing.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
The really sad thing there is that they spun VAIO off into its own company, and they are still around and still making beautiful hardware, but none of it is available outside of Japan.
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VAIO does have a US site that sells laptops at https://us.vaio.com. It looks like they do most of their business through mail order.

The FS series laptops currently for sale on the website are kind of generic & seem similar to what Dell or HP makes. Their SX-R model that is made in Japan looks really nice, but I think it is either discontinued or out of stock. I found a couple US based reviews of the SX-R 14 from last year, so it must have been sold outside Japan sometime recently.

Lord of the Large Pants said:
Pidgin probably killed itself trying to still run on GTK2, but there's nothing more up to date.
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If you are running GTK2 apps on Linux, you should check out the GTK2-NG project. Their mission is to provide a version of GTK2 that runs old applications reliably on modern machines.
 
King Vidiot said:
VAIO does have a US site that sells laptops at https://us.vaio.com. It looks like they do most of their business through mail order.

The FS series laptops currently for sale on the website are kind of generic & seem similar to what Dell or HP makes. Their SX-R model that is made in Japan looks really nice, but I think it is either discontinued or out of stock. I found a couple US based reviews of the SX-R 14 from last year, so it must have been sold outside Japan sometime recently.
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I didn't know they'd come back to the U.S. Hopefully the quality is still where it was when the reviews of their first post-SONY products came out. Those were saying their laptops were equal in build quality and materials to MacBook Pros, and that is not a low bar.
 
The Un-Clit said:
Schnuffel, aka the Jamster Bunny in North America lives on in my nightmares to this day.

ANY late night channel you would see the fucking Jamster ringtone commercial with this fucking CG rabbit stroking a carrot and singing in an autotuned voice about it's 'sweetest love'. played back to back 2x because it was a 15 second commercial. Sometimes you would see the goddamn thing literally 4 times in a single ad-break.

I can't believe it ever enticed ANYONE to have that annoying slop as their ringtone, but it obviously made money, at least for a little while. I've never seen Jamster past 2008 or so. Mind you I cut the cable and went Internet only around then too....
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This is something in tech that actually got better: just put your favorite .mp3 on your phone and use that as your ringtone.
Of course the advent of smart phones which were capable of doing this also gave too many idiots access to the internet, but that is another story.
 
I miss how much simpler getting started in a job used to be. Recently had to make two accounts on websites I'll never use, set up an authenticator app, and download an app for punching in and out that doesn't work very well.
 
Crant said:
I miss how much simpler getting started in a job used to be. Recently had to make two accounts on websites I'll never use, set up an authenticator app, and download an app for punching in and out that doesn't work very well.
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The best part is that these things are handled by the downright apathetic IT department, and Rajumumu "Steve" Ramesh will wait for days to give you the necessary accesses so you can actually start the om-boarding. If you are lucky and the computer image is good, because sometimes it is bad and you will miss software and features. I am not good with computers, so I have no clue how sometimes you have stuff missing.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Some people have already found ways to play videos through their car infotainment screens, but Apple will soon be offering that capability with Apple CarPlay.

They said that there will be safeguards to "prevent" people from watching videos while the car is in motion, but expect dumb people to find ways to get around it, and then inevitably crash their cars when they do so.
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Following the announcement of video playback being added to Apple CarPlay, it will also be added to Android Auto.

And again, expect someone to find a way to bypass the "videos only play while stopped" restriction, and then crash their cars as a result.
 
The Last Stand said:
You know what drives me up a wall? When you work with/in tech, people expect you to know EVERYTHING tech related. Even some obscure app you've never heard of until now. Even better, the app or program runs or looks like shit and you're automatically meant to know it then and there.
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Printers. I hate printers that aren't basically 1980s parallel dot matrix things or decent office laser printer things. Family members, work, etc. used to ask me to "fix" them. It is as much of a mystery to me as it is to them. I also no longer really know how to fix Windows, as I do most of my work in a virtual machine / dedicated Linux box. Windows is a glorified Outlook and Teams device now.

The other one is car infotainment systems. My only experience with any of these things is that I've fitted a 1-DIN radio into my old Land Rover. The entire vehicle is 1960s-style vintage electronics (even though the car is much newer). To get the radio to work, you just need to connect 4 wires (figuring out in the fuse box to tap from is the hard part). It is an old-school soldering job. Any monkey can do it.

For some reason this means I know how proprietary infotainment systems work. I was asked by a relative to fix the pairing for hands-free. The manual was poorly written (it is a £50,000 vehicle FFS). It had a 2000s-style LCD interface. There were about 50 phones paired, so I just cleared the list and paired them, and it worked.
 
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