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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

The rain into town, by the time we hit outer of Indy until it just drowned up the lake, oh until a few days ago, it was all crappy but when we were at the cottage. Everything seem pretty nice and terrific.
 
This one's kinda bittersweet:

The YouTube app is no longer working on my Wii-U (another one of my retro devices dead? say it ain't so!)

BUT!! The web browser loads it fine in mobile view, and works much better. So in essence it still had a happy ending.

Still annoys me that companies keep cutting off perfectly useable devices forcing obsolescence. All that the 3G sunset did was create tons of e-waste. It's not like folks who preferred to keep using what they have grown accustomed to were hurting anyone who actually wanted an upgrade. 5G was working even with 2G and 3G working. Why not keep all of it and maximize connectivity especially in rural areas which have ZERO service now?

Now they're attempting (but failing, thankfully) to turn the remaining Wii-U's into e-waste. If the Switch wasn't equipped with the word's most bland flat UI design and no apps, I'd have upgraded. But my Wii-U works. I prefer the UI and it feels more 'Nintendo-ey' to me. The Switch feels like something Microsoft came up with.

TL;DR

I'm sick of my 2010 devices being cut off because some futurists couldn't fathom the reality that some of us prefer the old tech over the new tech. I come from a time when people bought a lot of stuff for life, and tech was intended to last 30 plus years. Tossing something out that's only a decade old or younger just feels wrong.
 
nickdalzell said:
This one's kinda bittersweet:

The YouTube app is no longer working on my Wii-U (another one of my retro devices dead? say it ain't so!)

BUT!! The web browser loads it fine in mobile view, and works much better. So in essence it still had a happy ending.

Still annoys me that companies keep cutting off perfectly useable devices forcing obsolescence. All that the 3G sunset did was create tons of e-waste. It's not like folks who preferred to keep using what they have grown accustomed to were hurting anyone who actually wanted an upgrade. 5G was working even with 2G and 3G working. Why not keep all of it and maximize connectivity especially in rural areas which have ZERO service now?

Now they're attempting (but failing, thankfully) to turn the remaining Wii-U's into e-waste. If the Switch wasn't equipped with the word's most bland flat UI design and no apps, I'd have upgraded. But my Wii-U works. I prefer the UI and it feels more 'Nintendo-ey' to me. The Switch feels like something Microsoft came up with.

TL;DR

I'm sick of my 2010 devices being cut off because some futurists couldn't fathom the reality that some of us prefer the old tech over the new tech. I come from a time when people bought a lot of stuff for life, and tech was intended to last 30 plus years. Tossing something out that's only a decade old or younger just feels wrong.
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Yeah my ps3 was amazing browser, once I got into my blog and listen to cut and paste Dethklock on it, I had it going forever ago, and it was a snap to do googling whatever I felt like it ya know :)
 
My nephew still has a PS3 (it's before his time!) and they just use it for a Netflix box. That's all he does with it is binge Netflix. the app still works on it somehow (been dead on the Wii-U for years, but I don't watch Netflix that way anyway)

The PS3 browser was to me the worst app on the console though. It barely worked in 2010 on many sites (no support for Flash), and I had many issues with that console that eventually added up to giving up on PlayStation entirely. (Lost 3 of them to Yellow Light of Death, tons of money lost there)

I am struggling but am succeeding in keeping my retro tech going though. I don't give up! Heck, they tried to get me on a 'modern' smartphone by killing my Thunderbolt and SII, but they just got me on a flip phone as no smartphone I'd want is VoLTE compliant. So I got a flip that runs AOSP and feels more like a RAZR and is more retro and private than an old smartphone (no data plan). I actually feel more free and far less frustrated and am no longer 'that guy' in public scrolling endlessly. Once you've been unplugged from the Matrix it's kinda distrubing how many mindless smartphone zombies seem to exist in public. Can't even wait in line without scrolling.

If those folks added up their screen time I wonder how many years of their lives are GONE forever just from screen time?

I'm still able to do the same things on the flip phone that I was doing in 2010, namely, playing music, taking notes, phone calls and texts, even PDF viewing.

New devices are just doing the same things in a worse, more frustrating way.
 
Eventually I have to share everything again with someone very close, but I really really am so irritable with someone who does not inbox me ever back on my fb, even though I left her a billion messages.. :\ I am still very frustrated even though I have a cool ice burg on the past.
 
TL;DR

"eyes of the machine" I wrote and narrated for about a few years now, on my instantgram page mostly though.
A vermilllion snake eating grass who wants his hat back, now where is that vermillion kitten?
 
mikedt said:
I never had a PS3, and the only Playstation I ever owned was the first one. So have no idea what these problems are. :)
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I had mine for two decades, most of the problems can be easily reset when holding down the power button for five seconds, hear it double beep it will FDR, plug into the controller and it will pop up a menu of doing its FDR :)
 
So my photos just died and went away from my Moto, I tried so much reading and so many different apps, noticed only they run to the most recent history... So what shouldn't I do, root, yeah that will be a b#### to deal with in the end, no thanks, I do not want Odin flash.
 
Resetting dumb clocks that don't auto correct for DST and real time. Why have DST anyway?
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On the postive things, I discovered I do have my cousin's photos on my p.c., and with my Aunt was in my cloud methinks :)
Yeah.. Stupid thing of DST..
 
This bloody appoitment dentist I got yesterday, of filling it up with double dosages of medican in my cap, they gave me a porcelin top for it, and I still do not get it why would they want to see me in a few days, seriously, my bank accounts moths are flying so much out of it....
 
olbriar said:
Resetting dumb clocks that don't auto correct for DST and real time. Why have DST anyway?
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Historically the whole DST concept came out because some dude was late for his golf game. Not sure the relevance in the modern world though. Arizona is the only U.S. state that has no DST switchover. I wish we'd just go GMT and get over the time zone concept.

In Kentucky, they do it so late now (like mid-November) that it goes from being dark in the morning and slightly dusk at evening to being dark both morning and evening. So I fail to understand the point.
 
So my mother made soup last evening, we had a nice dinner, here is where the bullet goes, my new cap of my recent root canal surgery went in one peice, and just I put it in some mouth wash and water to kill the germs for a bit, but there is massive ammounts of food lodge inside the cap itself.. So the real killer is this.. I love my mother though, but I acknowledge the problem, text my Ortho, and just waiting to see if they could put it back in.. Oh thurs. since that is the next time I will see him.
 
Picking up a beer load these things are always too heavy and have to be rework so the weight is in compliance :mad::maddroid:
 
Nothing much but I am wondering about my sweetest friend today, she just broke down in tears all the way, talked with one of our mutual friends and say "Why did he not be with me..?" I just smiled and embraced her with both of my beautiful friends. Again rule of thumb, try not to fall in love with me.
 
I'm starting to hate the people I term 'futurists'. The people who always say things like:

1. "Embrace the future or be left behind"

2. "Adapt or die. Stop living in the past"

3. "why don't you get with the times man! flip phones are so 2004"

Why is that any of their business? Why am I a threat to them? Why do they feel this incessant need to 'convert' everyone, including their grandparents (especially grandparents) to something they'll just be frustrated with? Is futurism a religion to them they need to convert folks to? I don't get it. Let me live in the past if I choose to. I'm not hurting anyone and I'm perfectly happy the way I am!

Geeze they sound like the attitudes the carriers on CSR had when I gave them my views on shutting down 3G (despite how 3G, LTE, and 5G were co-existing perfectly fine until September!) and just acted like what I like doesn't matter to them.

The hostility towards the elderly who prefer older things is disturbing, to say the least.
 
nickdalzell said:
I'm starting to hate the people I term 'futurists'. The people who always say things like:

1. "Embrace the future or be left behind"

2. "Adapt or die. Stop living in the past"

3. "why don't you get with the times man! flip phones are so 2004"

Why is that any of their business? Why am I a threat to them? Why do they feel this incessant need to 'convert' everyone, including their grandparents (especially grandparents) to something they'll just be frustrated with? Is futurism a religion to them they need to convert folks to? I don't get it. Let me live in the past if I choose to. I'm not hurting anyone and I'm perfectly happy the way I am!

Geeze they sound like the attitudes the carriers on CSR had when I gave them my views on shutting down 3G (despite how 3G, LTE, and 5G were co-existing perfectly fine until September!) and just acted like what I like doesn't matter to them.

The hostility towards the elderly who prefer older things is disturbing, to say the least.
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And people who do not give time to swallow day, and never think "Oh well you cannot do it tomorrow, can you visit the farm then?" and my mind is stubborn about the long process of the future, because to me it does not happen until I am there with them :) I honestly cannot stress this enough, people just need to learn to make me stay with them instead of speach of itself.
 
Desk jockeys who want to send me load Information piecemeal and then not have the right information and I get delayed while they play phone tag trying to get me the information I need :mad::mad::maddroid::maddroid::maskeddroid::maskeddroid::maskeddroid::maddroid::maskeddroid::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid::thumbsupdroid::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid::maddroid:
 
Let me see its been since the top of November since I had my root canal, and still I keep getting sharp pain, been taking in a lot of drugs for it.. :\
 
That as well as gmail changing their look over and over, so far it looks so aweful and does not please to my eyes on my comp, I rather check it on my tablet and cell more and more.. Just get off this planet new "gmail interferiance" Just scat, get on and move back to your parents house.
 
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