Boy I love paying a fuck ton of money for poor audio quality and shitty battery life.
Man I love being forced into technology that isn’t better than the old thing and solves no problem (rather creating new ones) for the sake of keeping up with the Joneses because everyone was told this is the cool new thing so eat up piggies or FOMO.
Call me old (I’m not), call me a Luddite (I’m not), I don’t care. You’re wrong.
Sometimes new things being pushed by the market aren’t the next leap in technology. Sometimes they are shit or pointless and should be abandoned, like 3D TVs. NEW DOESN’T ALWAYS EQUAL PROGRESS.
I feel the same about AI or touch screens being bundled into everything. Instead of the products they infect becoming better, they simply waste processing power that could have make the product perform better at the job it was originally designed to do.
A good example of this is when I once house sitted for a wealthy person. Their stovetop was all touch controlled. You want to know what doesn’t work well with touch controls? Heat and water. What do kitchens and cooking on stove tops involve a lot of? FUCKING HEAT AND WATER.
So here I am cooking, shit, waters coming to boil. Shit, a tiny droplet of boiling landed on the touch controls and it thinks it’s a finger. Shit, it thinks the finger is turning the temperature to max. Shit, it’s not responding to my actual finger now until I wipe the water off. Shit, the pasta is now starting to overcook. I could just turn the element off, but shit, the off button is also touch operated. I how have remove the pot off the element. Wipe the control. Wait for it to cool. Hold my finger on the touch controls to readjust it to how I want. And turn this fucking thing off. It’s all so slow. Why do this when a physical dial is so much cheaper and gives you instant control over the temperature with none of these problems?
Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I’m right.
The annoying thing is there is a lot of cool things we could be developing, I actually like the progress of technology when it’s done right. But the problem is it’s all being developed with impressing the market in mind, not for actually making things better.
Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I’m right.
I’m trying but the touchscreen is wet
Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this
Your water splattered touch screen oven is doing that for us already
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Yeah the new ones are super cool they–*right ear falls out straight into a sewer*
I will scour the internet for old phones with headphone jacks
Not as annoying but still, some monitors have touch sensors instead of buttons. Very easy to activate unintended function. If they are actually cheaper than regular buttons, they are not that annoying but I doubt it. I also how pc cases are ditching somewhat old functions for rgb stuff. A new case I bought doesn’t have reset button, it is replaced with rgb button. What is the purpose? If user cares about rgb, they are gonna synch with rest of the case with argb cable. If user doesn’t care about it, we’ll the button is useless now. This case is not a budget case either. Also it doesn’t have a hdd led but tbh even I can not say it is that useful
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sony+wi-c100&ia=web
- AU$50
- 25 hours battery life
- i can skate in them and they only kinda fallout when i do a 360
- sound quality is fine, but im old and cant hear for shit/grew up on 128kbps mp3
- range is great, can leave phone in bag when i skate at the park
Thank 🙏
I had some wireless buds, but they just permanently died after sitting in their case in my desk drawer. My partner had the same model but she never used them and they were dead too. (yes, we tried charging them). Bought a cheap pair of wired earbuds for 10 bucks and life is great.
buttons and wires are good
Their stovetop was all touch controlled.
This is apparently normal now. My grandmother had to replace her stove recently and apparently all the budget stoves were those dogshit glasstops with shitty touch control buttons instead of just like cheap exposed coils and physical dials. I don’t get it at all, everything about it is awful and so much worse than the cheaper established options it doesn’t make any sense.
I like the glass tops because they’re easier to clean than exposed coils. With you on the touch controls, however.
Heh, you’re stuck in the past! BTW we just replaced your car’s wheels with AI powered touchscreens. Wheels are like thousands of years old, after all. Don’t be outdated!
Excited for the day my car finally is done for and I’ll have to buy a car with a touch screen steering wheel or some shit
I will never do that, I’m too bull-headed. I’ll drive my old Corolla til I can see the tarmac through the floor.
til I can see the tarmac through the floor.
and then you will be made to drive with a touch screen
Fucking hell, Tesla’s in particular sound like a nightmare to control. Aren’t all the controls on a touchscreen in an awkward place to the point where people are crashing? Lmao hell world.
It feels like Manufacturers are burying the functionality behind dozens of menus in hopes it will promote the voice assistant nonsense.
My current car has carplay and the music app doesn’t let you browse all artists or albums in an A-Z list. You can ask Siri to play the band on shuffle tho…
I hate it so fucking much.
Wireless earbuds are generally bad and are pushed too much, but they do have usecases.
Touch controls for a stove is pure madness.
If I ever come across touch controls for a bathroom I am going to screm and cri
Touch controls are good for some things, but keep them away from humid places FFS that should be common sense.
I am entirely anti touch control. Buttons are good.
“I want to cover the screen with my hand so I can smudge my grubby little fingers on it.” - a nitwit
Touch controls are only acceptable when something absolutely needs to cram a large variety of granular controls into as small a space as possible. Anything where its just showing a picture of analogue buttons should just be analogue buttons and dials instead, and anything with the space for it should have a proper control scheme instead.
Smartphones should not exist, they are an abomination and using them to do anything is like pulling teeth. Tablets should be low-powered e-readers or hardened industrial terminals, not this “it’s like a shitty computer with the worst controls anyone has ever made” shit.
There are fancy Japanese toilets that have them lol
FUKIN
The good ones have really nice buttons and levers though.
Call me old (I’m not), call me a Luddite (I’m not), I don’t care.
Fuck it. Roast me for complaining about this. You know I’m right.
You are both old and a Luddite, and also are correct, sorry. The tech sector has nothing new to offer, so desperate not to drown it latches onto any trend it can trying to make it the next big thing. Or like any old business, does everything to minimize cost and maximize profit. I wouldn’t say this rant is pointless, it’s good to vent about this stuff.
Thanks and fair point, but I’ve always been like this though no matter what age. I like new technology when it’s actually good. Sometimes I feel the old Luddite accusations are done to get people to accept an inferior product and to mindlessly consume whatever new thing is thrown at them.
Like, trams and trains are older than cars, I still think trams and trains are superior, both these things were invented before I was born.
Edit: I just want people to know that autocorrect turned “trams and trains are superior” into “Trans are superior”. I almost wanted to keep it lol.
I know that feeling very well. I know I’m just a twenty something year old, but the Free Software, Right to Repair, and similar crowds got to me at the age of 13. I study IT currently and I hate my college, I hate the people around me, I hate this sector and I “hate” computers. I’m not in it really for the money, nor from the love I have for computing, but from the hate I feel towards how shit everything is. When people ask me why I chose to study IT, that’s what I say and I do get looks. I most likely will hate an IT job as well, I haven’t even gotten started yet and I’m already tired.
I’m already known by my friends as the one who constantly complains unprompted about how capitalism ruins computers, so keep being that Luddite, hammer into others how really bad things are and that they can be better.
we won’t win quickly, but we willI’m planning to study either applied physics or electrical engineering and for the latter it’s about learning the trade so I can grapple these things better or fix/make my own stuff if need be. I recognise your motivation as “because I hate how shit everything is”. I do however also have personal fascination with electrical devices and like the idea of working on such stuff, I guess my attitude to technology is similar to @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net’s.
But I also like science more broadly and physics was my best subject, so it’s very hard for me to choose. Do you perhaps have some advice?
I also had this fascination, but recently it died down and I can’t for the love of me start it back up again. When my wings got clipped the only thing that really keeps me going in all of this is hate.
I’m planning to study either applied physics or electrical engineering and for the latter it’s about learning the trade so I can grapple these things better or fix/make my own stuff if need be.
But I also like science more broadly and physics was my best subject, so it’s very hard for me to choose. Do you perhaps have some advice?
You don’t need professional education to be able to fix your own stuff, will it help? Of course, at least I think so. But remember that you can do anything, with enough time and patience. Myself I also have a fascination with the mechanical, partly because of the “hate” I have towards computers. I would kill to own a Comptometer, but those are nonexistent in Poland. At the same time, this “hatred” sparked love for paper and the physical, nothing beats the feeling of writing with a fountain pen and paper for me. No tablet can surpass this. However regarding what you should choose? I have no clue, just don’t think of your career as your whole life. Have hobbies you don’t monetize, just for your own self fulfillment, for me it’s tinkering with anything mechanical.
Hell yeah, revolutionary outrage at the present state of the world.
The Luddites were cool and good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Yeah, the Luddites were objectively correct in their predictions. Just like the tankies.
I used to hold this opinion but my wireless headphones are really good, plus they have a spot for a jack in case I need it. I used to go through cables like every month because they would get twisted and the cable would snap. With my wireless headphones I don’t have that problem anymore. I do think that wireless headphones should come with an option for a jack though.
Yeah I think people are forgetting how inconvenient cables of wired heaphones dying really were. Sure wireless headphones have their drawbacks but overall IMO they’re an upgrade.
I don’t think it’s always that so much as remembering how infuriating earlier wireless headphones were, every single pair I used to get in my teens lasted barely a year before something started making them unusable.
And compared to when wired headphones start experiencing problems there was way less of a dying period, when the wireless died it was just the end of the line right away, which sucks if you dont have the money to get another pair right away.
Wait, those sound actually good. Can you tell me the model?
Nothing Ear(open) is what I use, and it solves almost all of the problems I’ve ever had with earbuds, wired or not. They have a loop that goes over your ear so they’ll only fall out if you try putting something like a sweatshirt on, they don’t actually go in your ears so you can still hear other things and they don’t get gross because they aren’t actually touching your inner ear. The only big issues are that they won’t go super loud, and they don’t have noise cancellation.
Eeeeeeh. They look nice but they’re super expensive and the AI integration is a turn off for me
I’ve turned off the AI aspect and user data sharing on them, same as I’ve done on every one of my other devices because that shit will be the death of many of us. As for the price, I get it. They’ve lasted me a long time, and with the battery life they and the case have, they’ve been more worth it than any other pair of wired or wireless headphones aside from the Logitech G Pro X gaming headset I bought a few years ago. Those don’t serve the same purpose as the earbuds, though.
They do seem nice with the AI turned off, gotta admit.
Jabra elites are pricey but I have no complaints about the quality.
They’re Skullcandy something or rather, not sure of the model. I think they were like $50, which is expensive but easily worth the cost given the money I was spending on cords alone. They last for about a day, used to be two days a few months ago but the battery life is going down I think. I charge them while I’m at work so I generally never have to worry about them being dead.
Wireless headphones are great cos they stay on yojr head. Earbuds/earphones are tiny and shitty and fall out :/
I find it really hard to find good ones, but then most headphones in general are balanced terribly for Early Music. The PXC 550s are decent throwaways, I’ve found, but yet to find any I’d consider “good”. Earbuds proper are pretty much universally trash.
Yeah but have you tried wireless bone conducting headphones? It’s like having a soundtrack for your life!
Ok I hear those are good. Like I said not everything new sucks, but there are some things that really fucking suck That are pushed anyway.
Yeah but those can make some deaf people actually hear music which is fucking cool
They invented CODEC?
Everyone should have to take a knee and hold their finger to their ear to take a phone call. People talking on the phone hands free is something ill never adjust go and I’m not proud of it, I csn recall Dennis Miller complaining about it in the late 90s when it was obviously wired and only rich people did it. I don’t wanna agree with Dennis Miller ever. But i think if you’re on the phone in public you need to make some kind of visual signal that you are speaking on the phone.
They’re nice but I’d like an option with better higher registers and an even balance than the current ones. Nice to bike with though.
How could I roast you when I agree with everything you just said
You probably already know this but you can use IEMs (they have cheaper ones now) or regular old earphones with a DAC if you don’t want to use bluetooth earpods but I bet it would be annoying to use on the couch as your USB port on the phone is probably at the bottom and use still have to pay extra for the DAC
Or just buy a secondhand iPod, pop a new battery in it, and replace the hard drive with a micro sd adapter. Cheap, revitalizes old tech, and pushes certain nostalgia buttons for those of the right age
