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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

nickdalzell said:
I loved my Thunderbolt, and my SII. How dare they! I thought the AMPS shutdown was bad enough (based on false information like AMPS phones causing brain cancer or some such crap which was debunked) but now I have to constantly live in fear any phone I grow accustomed to is gonna be screwed over.
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I miss the days of analogue ETACS phones. and being able to listen in on phone calls with my Realistic scanner.

nickdalzell said:
I hate using modern phones and now have to deal with the huge size, frustrating UI design decisions (mitigated somewhat by my old apps still working and themes) and odd behavior (YouTube Music quitting randomly for no reason, apps shutting down also for no reason randomly, external headphones randomly losing ability to control playback, Google Assistant not popping up when saying 'OK Google' and so on).
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I didn't get that far with YouTube Music, mainly because it required payment details.
 
I pay for Premium so I get the Music app with it. I haven't found any similar service that helps me discover songs/artists the way it does. I use it to listen to stuff during hikes and I buy what I like via Amazon since that's the only service on Android that actually lets me buy songs given Google no longer sells them (or has made it hidden behind some gesture designed for Generation Z kids).

That one though is another inferior replacement for another shutdown--Google Play Music, which ironically still fully works on my S5. It never got updated. But older versions don't work or run at all on Android 12. Tried many APKs all say 'app not installed'. Google Play Music still ran (offline) on my Thunderbolt as well.
 
nickdalzell said:
I pay for Premium so I get the Music app with it. I haven't found any similar service that helps me discover songs/artists the way it does. I use it to listen to stuff during hikes and I buy what I like via Amazon since that's the only service on Android that actually lets me buy songs given Google no longer sells them (or has made it hidden behind some gesture designed for Generation Z kids).

That one though is another inferior replacement for another shutdown--Google Play Music, which ironically still fully works on my S5. It never got updated. But older versions don't work or run at all on Android 12. Tried many APKs all say 'app not installed'. Google Play Music still ran (offline) on my Thunderbolt as well.
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Loved how you can download all albums via Google Play Music straight from the web site, does YT have the same thing for just downloading on the PC?
 
YT Music does downloading within the app but you need internet every 3 days or they just up and delete your songs. That's why I buy the ones I like via Amazon Music (although that's now a chore given the store got EOL'd within the Music app a year or so back, so now it's just launching a web browser to the Amazon.com site. They really don't want ya buying stuff do they?)

I got over 3K songs on my SD card, and probably 1K just temporarily on YT Music until I buy those later this year. But selecting each of the 30+ albums one by one and waiting to have them download is painful. It was easier in Play Music to just download your entire library in one tap.

Play Music also had a curated list of 'radios' at the top that changed depending on location, time of day, or day of week. For example, during a hike I had one show as 'music for fitness' that had a lot of 80s and 90s hits. At the junkyard where I hang out during winter (it's sorta a Cheers bar for me) I got some for music indoors and the like.

YT Music has none of that. It's just another Pandora clone where you select a song or artist and it just makes it up as you go along. I miss the curated stations of Play Music, still yet to be returned in YT Music. And I just know YT Music will one day be EOL'd because there's not one Google service that didn't ultimately end up on https://killedbygoogle.com
 
I stopped buying CDs way way back in the late 1990s. They always ended up having one or two songs I'd like then 8 or 9 I had no interest in and cost $20 a pop.

I also had less selection. I never knew that great groups like Modern Talking or Aldo Lesina existed because radio in the USA doesn't offer content from the UK, Germany or Italy. I didn't even know a term 'Italo Disco' existed until 2020.
 
nickdalzell said:
I stopped buying CDs way way back in the late 1990s. They always ended up having one or two songs I'd like then 8 or 9 I had no interest in and cost $20 a pop.
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The CDs I bought were second-hand, imported, and didn't cost much, except for The Beatles -
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, China releases.Those I've ripped as FLAC, I like all the songs, and play them in their entirety.

nickdalzell said:
I also had less selection. I never knew that great groups like Modern Talking or Aldo Lesina existed because radio in the USA doesn't offer content from the UK, Germany or Italy. I didn't even know a term 'Italo Disco' existed until 2020.
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The radio stations around here don't tend to offer much of that either. they play mostly mandopop.
 
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mikedt said:

The CDs I bought were second-hand, imported, and didn't cost much, except for The Beatles -
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, China releases.Those I've ripped as FLAC, I like all the songs, and play them in their entirety.



The radio stations around here don't tend to offer much of that either. they play mostly mandopop.
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I don't know what they call 'music' today but when I'm in a store I can only describe it as 'robot puke'. It's like some sort of algorithm or AI is doing music today.
 
Yeah there is a ton of robot puke out there, depending on how you look at things though, some astronamical scores does come through movies.
Others do debut their singles and stuff on t.v., that is where I developed a massive craving for techno albums, that was on Adult Swim, and their records, bands like Sleep, Mastodon, Dethklock, metal swim two. got my attention, even scores of Mr. Robot, to Venture brothers and Genndy's Primal. It even more collaburated vs. the robot puke they did deliver in this bucket.
 
No, this crud seems to come from people like Adele, Katy Perry and the like. It's vocals that are incoherent with a bunch of beats and it gives me headaches just listening to it. Some don't have anything other than what appear to be pre-sets enabled on a synth. It's almost like it were intended to ensure you don't loiter in the store too long because it's absolutely painful to me, while generation Zs seem immune to it somehow.

I do have synth music I like that's modern but you won't hear it on the radio. From groups such as Mflex Sounds and The Pink Project which is more like 80s music.
 
My samsung tablet got really glitchy earlier today, I feel so fed up on it, and I tried safe mode and no glitches, I will do an fdr on it, but that will take me a billion hours.
 
nickdalzell said:
No, this crud seems to come from people like Adele, Katy Perry and the like. It's vocals that are incoherent with a bunch of beats and it gives me headaches just listening to it. Some don't have anything other than what appear to be pre-sets enabled on a synth. It's almost like it were intended to ensure you don't loiter in the store too long because it's absolutely painful to me, while generation Zs seem immune to it somehow.

I do have synth music I like that's modern but you won't hear it on the radio. From groups such as Mflex Sounds and The Pink Project which is more like 80s music.
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Many of my 8th grade students seem to like Adele, and apparently she is quite popular in the PRC. And so was Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, until they fell out of favour.
 
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As I stated, Generation Z loves that stuff. I personally hate it. They don't have the ears for high pitched sound that I have either. I can hear dog whistles, and the coil whine from a router in the other room. I can literally hear electricity. Back when CRTs were in style, I could tell when it was on even if it weren't displaying a picture because I could hear the flyback whine. People say you lose that ability as you age but for me it got worse.

My eyes also can't tolerate LED and CFL lighting. The brightness, spectrum, PWM or some combo of the three give me really bad headaches if I'm exposed to them for more than a couple of hours. OLED gives me migraines too. That's why my home remains in incandescent lighting. I want to kill whomever thought that bluish 'daylight' white was such a good idea.
 
In the nova settings, inside the search bar font, how to change the colors, wouldn't it be more simple of having just to say "font colors" here? Instead of some other crappy settings?
 
Milo Williamson said:
I really hate buying a new phone because of my keyboard on screen though, but could I just have like a blu tooth one though?
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The last two phones I think I actually got excited about were the Samsung Galaxy S 3 and the nexus 6. Now when I get a phone it's about longevity and usefulness. Been pretty impressed with my moto G stylus
 
joe71 said:
The last two phones I think I actually got excited about were the Samsung Galaxy S 3 and the nexus 6. Now when I get a phone it's about longevity and usefulness. Been pretty impressed with my moto G stylus
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It grinds my gears that all the 'modern' phones aren't designed for longevity at all. With the Galaxy SIII, you could, ya know, replace the battery when it ultimately failed, or even get a bigger one like a Zero Lemon. Today? at the 3-5 year mark, throw it out and buy another, and repeat that over and over. Real green, isn't it? It astounds me how the most failure-prone part of any phone, and the part most likely to swell up and explode cannot be removed or replaced. Heck, if it could, the Galaxy Note 7 wouldn't have become the meme it was.
 
I think for a while the phones that set the bar for longevity were the galaxy notes 2, 3 and 4. My wife got hers about a week after it was released and used it up till the note 7 was released :rolleyes:. She went back to the note 2 after the 7 fiasco. She used it for probably three more months. We bought a spare battery and had to switch them out constantly. All together the note 2 lasted about six years before it finally crashed and died:saddroid:
 
I still got a Note 2, and it also worked up till about September and did the same things the Thunderbolt and SII did--get really hot, 4 hour battery life, and no SMS anymore.

My carrier won't allow any phone older than 2020 to work now. I think messaging is going via RCS since I have to use the built in app to do any texting (Handcent, textra all fail) and data must be turned on. Turn data off, all messages fail. Go to 'secret menu' and enable older networks, you get bars and 1x data, perhaps 3G in places, but only data works, no phone or text.

It's really starting to peeve me off since I despise all modern phones. I can fix the software the way I like it, but I cannot fix the fact they're too damn big! It's been a nice trip with Android, but I might have to scour around to find a flip phone that does NOT run KaiOS, if one exists. I'm getting sick of smartphones, their 'updates' and now forced 'upgrades' that are really total downgrades.
 
Holy Lego Batman, found out that my girl got knocked up again. Well her fault for spreading her charm around..
So I dropped out of the planet and just fizzled it backwards, at least now I can smile and say "Hey you lost a clover to your heart."
Still as the mighty has fallen and tingled instantly as it smiled.
 
The Parkland shooting verdict has left me absolutely livid:mad::maddroid::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid:. I am willing to bet one of the women who voted to spare him is some 300 pound sow who fell in love with him. We can only hope he has short stay in prison.
 
Did an entire day on acccident deleting half of my contacts on my tablet me thought it was sepeartated but nooooooo, that was the easiest thing.
 
Two hours and five minutes to drive 25 miles yesterday due to traffic accident on the I-90 in New York :mad::maddroid::maddroid::maddroid:
Hope all those involved are okay
 
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