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

[Blamo]

Inductive micro-charging for (compatible and paid up) EVs in road surfaces (maybe around intersections) seems like something they'd try to do.

Also let's not forget that sure, they want to reduce private car trips, but trucks need to go. And they go on long distances. Even with combining rail and road transit, you can't just have too much batteries on a truck, it will become really inefficient even if the AI can drive it non stop. Heck that tech could be really useful if the AI could drive the trucks nonstop. You don't want to stop for hours and refill the batteries when in theory you could operate 24/7.

 

[serious n00b]

The obstacle of how to (re)charge EVs won't have to be dealt with because we plebians won't be allowed to drive (and will probably all get raped to death) by the time it could happen.

 

[Kosher Dill]

The major thing is you could have a part of the gas station lot you pull up to, it pulls your battery out, and replaces it with an identical but fully charged set. It would make 'charging' practically instant, and completely skip over the issues with speed. But it will never likely happen because of the corporate issue compounded with figuring out how to store batteries properly under hot concrete and having the loading mechanism not constantly jam or run out of usable batteries.

Tesla tried this for a while but it never took off. I'm not sure how many battery-swapping stations they actually had though.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Amiga to ST conversions could be pretty much identical to play only with chiptunes as opposed to tracker music (and the chiptunes could be good in their own right as well). For instance, Turrican 2, Another World, and everything by the Bitmap Bros or Silmarils. If you had programmers who worked around things rather than throw the hardware at it, that is. For instance, ST ports generally required 1 MB RAM where the Ami only required half a meg; this might be to pre-shift and work around the blitter or lack thereof. This worked because more ST users had 1 meg as most application and productivity software on the system required it or even 2 or 4 megs.

The ST was also better at 3D games due to higher CPU clock speed and often more memory. The Ami's custom hardware struggled with anything in 3D. Midwinter and Carrier Command originated on the ST first for that reason (but Carrier Command's definitive version was the PC DOS one which had superior and more aggressive AI as well as improved explosion graphics; I wonder if someone could patch that back into the ST version?)

Unfortunately a lot of them simply treated the ST port as an afterthought and just didn't care, or they were intentionally gimped by executive meddling. Psygnosis wouldn't make Shadow of the Beast ST a 1 meg only game because marketing, yet modded versions of the game which require 1 meg have surfaced which is just as good (though implying you would want to play Shadow of the Beast in the first place; once you get over the admittedly very nice pixel art it's a bit shit really).

The STE did have a blitter. Unfortunately nobody wanted to make their games STE only because they didn't want to lock out the huge amount of STF and STFM users. In recent years there's been STE upgrades of classic ST games such as Lotus which make use of the blitter and DMA stereo sound. Also there was one bloke who took it upon himself to improve the dogshit port of Outrun (I don't think any of the 8- or 16-bit computers got a competent port of that frankly) by restoring the original arcade assets and use of the blitter (and the chiptune renditions of Splash Wave and Magical Sound Shower were legitimately as good as the original pieces).

Terry Davis could have been a fucking coding god had he got help. The fact that he was able to scratch-build an entire OS in x64 assembly language with his own dialect of C with some legitimate improvements is not the sign of a stupid person. Obsessive, yes, but not stupid. Also, x86-64 ASM always seems to me to be brain damaged.

But you also see Amiga games that were just half assed ST ports with maybe a few colors more and that don't take proper advantage of the custom hardware, mostly games that had to do with Tiertex and US Gold.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Holy shit, electric tools are complete fucking garbage:

How is this better for the environment? It's worse for the environment to constantly manufacture this shit that breaks than the small amount of carbon released by small two-stroke engines.

What's worse is that some liberal-leaning areas have enacted ordinances that phase out/ban gas landscaping equipment by a certain year and require those people/companies to use electric or battery-powered tools in the name of helping the environment or addressing climate change.

Then there's also the fact that newer tools aren't built to last like older ones. Whether it's the inferior quality materials or the manufacturing companie's desire for planned obsolescence and a constant money stream (or both), it ends up being less economical and environmentally friendly in the long run albeit in different ways. In short, they solve one problem by creating another.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/peloton-axes-free-just-run-feature-from-treadmill-bricking-it-for-non-subscribers Progress is always good.

Bonus points for the article quoting lolocow Brianna Wu. The last time I viewed her thread, her Peloton had collected enough dust to grow tumbleweeds, so I don't see how Peloton's recent changes would make a difference in her (lack of) workout habits.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

But you also see Amiga games that were just half assed ST ports with maybe a few colors more and that don't take proper advantage of the custom hardware, mostly games that had to do with Tiertex and US Gold.

That's Tiertex for you though, let's be honest. They were responsible for the abysmal Street Fighter port on ST and Amiga, and *ulp* Human Killing Machine. The inbred mutant cousin of the Street Fighter games.

 

[Toolbox]

Tesla tried this for a while but it never took off. I'm not sure how many battery-swapping stations they actually had though.

I'm guessing this was way before Teslas became a more mainstream vehicle?

 

[Kiwi Gaming]

The autistic insistence on allowing ban-happy retards and troons to have the ability to horribly abuse that function in most games and online discussion areas.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'm guessing this was way before Teslas became a more mainstream vehicle?

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

 

[Return of the Freaker]

How is this better for the environment?

Easy, it's better for the environment inside the CEO's bank vault

 

[serious n00b]

The autistic insistence on allowing ban-happy retards and troons to have the ability to horribly abuse that function in most games and online discussion areas.

Remember when backseat moderators in general were mocked? Now their horrible attempts at seeming helpful are usually encouraged.

 

[Toolbox]

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

Hope they bring it back when they finally get their battery recycling on track. But it's probably going to be forever proprietary along with most of their junk.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Seems like it ended in 2016 and cost $80 each time.

Tesla shuts down battery swap program in favor of Superchargers, for now

Tesla’s battery swap station near the Harris Ranch Supercharger station in Coalinga, CA seems to have been shut down, at least for now. What started out as a company vision to recharge Tesla vehicles in the same amount of time, if not quicker, as refueling a gas vehicle, turned into a pilot...

www.teslarati.com

Pretty sure that in the US you could fill at least 80 litres of gasoline or diesel for that money. And if you had a fuel efficient car that could do 6l/100 km or about 40 mpg, that would last you longer than a battery.

Edit to avoid double posting: One thing that can be a bit, as Terry would had said, niggerlicious about asm programming is that labels are all fine and dandy, until you start working with interrupts, the 68k vector table and DMA transfers. I hope that I am wrong, but AFAIK if you use a label as the value, you'll just get the value at that memory address, not the address itself, so you'd need some way of knowing what address does that block of code or data start at. You could take a look manually if the instruction is a 16 bit or 32 bit instruction, but when you have hundreds of lines of code, it's a pain in the ass. I suppose you could split these up in multiple binary files and then stitch them together with some utility in Python, but it doesn't seem right.

 

[Ita Mori]

I really miss skeuomorphic design in UI.
I know it's a controversial opinion but to me it feels much more welcoming, "real" and nice.

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I was a real fan of early Android aesthetics and UI.
My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3. Be it the animated bootscreen or it's animations when unlocking or on the home screen (if only touchwiz wasn't such a resource hog).
Google's hard-on to make everything flat, single colored and without any transparency, blur or any fx kills me.

However I am in no mood to ever return to the 00s fad of making every icon glossy and window-reflected; it's basically the flat minimalism of it's day.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3.

I still have one of those as a backup phone somewhere though I can't remember what I did with it.

Need to find a use for it.

 

[Ita Mori]

I still have one of those as a backup phone somewhere though I can't remember what I did with it.

I still use mine for the gym to hear music while working out.
Despite it's age it's perfectly serviceable as a phone for calls, messaging, and local media playback.

 

[Picklechu]

I was reminded when talking to my brother earlier today about our setup for getting movies. We had a TV with a built-in VCR in our rec room, so when we went to Blockbuster or wherever and got a movie we liked, we'd just hook a second VCR up to it and record it.

I have no idea what happened to all of those VHS tapes we had.

The major thing is you could have a part of the gas station lot you pull up to, it pulls your battery out, and replaces it with an identical but fully charged set. It would make 'charging' practically instant, and completely skip over the issues with speed. But it will never likely happen because of the corporate issue compounded with figuring out how to store batteries properly under hot concrete and having the loading mechanism not constantly jam or run out of usable batteries.

Nio is actually doing something like this. I'm not 100% sure how it compares to Tesla's previous efforts, though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I was a real fan of early Android aesthetics and UI.
My favorite phone UI-wise is still the Galaxy S3. Be it the animated bootscreen or it's animations when unlocking or on the home screen (if only touchwiz wasn't such a resource hog).
Google's hard-on to make everything flat, single colored and without any transparency, blur or any fx kills me.

However I am in no mood to ever return to the 00s fad of making every icon glossy and window-reflected; it's basically the flat minimalism of it's day.

The autistic quest to get rid of buttons really annoys me. I had one of the earlier androids, HTC-something, and it had the common center button at the bottom, that clicked. What made it truly great was the "trackball" in the middle of that button, it was an optical thing similar to what you find in a mouse that you dragged your thumb on and it made highlighting and copying/pasting text and other tasks so effortlessly easy. Dragging around those little fuckers to highlight a text-snippet on a modern phone is so annoying.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I have no idea what happened to all of those VHS tapes we had.

Dead. Unlike audio cassettes, which record linearly and stretching can be compensated for by increasing or decreasing the speed of the tape appropriately, and in which the stretching isn't that bad because the tape never leaves the shell and is simply dragged across a head pushed into it, a VHS cassette has the tape pulled out the shell with hooks and dragged across a spinning head, and the image is encoded in parallel diagonal slashes.

Basically, audio tape is ================== while video tape is //////////////////////////.

This means that if the tape stretches, which it does more easily because the mechanical stress on it is quite large, the tracks don't line up with the heads properly any more and the picture can jump about a lot.

 

[Blamo]

The autistic quest to get rid of buttons really annoys me. I had one of the earlier androids, HTC-something, and it had the common center button at the bottom, that clicked. What made it truly great was the "trackball" in the middle of that button, it was an optical thing similar to what you find in a mouse that you dragged your thumb on and it made highlighting and copying/pasting text and other tasks so effortlessly easy. Dragging around those little fuckers to highlight a text-snippet on a modern phone is so annoying.

I remember pre-touchscreen you could basically write SMS-s in your pocket just with muscle memory. Oh also you could use the phone when you had your gloves on.