Modern technology which is shït.

whisky_galore

Apropos of old tech you're glad to see the back of.

Electric windows in cars, right pain in the hole when they break down, usually stuck in the fully down position just when it starts pissing rain. Not cheap to repair either. The manual winding ones anyone with a little bit of guntering can fix.

JohnnyFlash

Those Amazon Alexa speakers and the like. Paying a company money to buy a device that they use to listen in on what you say. What you get in return is to be able to ask for your bland 90’s indie hits playlist on Spotify.

kneemos

whisky_galore wrote: »

Apropos of old tech you're glad to see the back of.

Electric windows in cars, right pain in the hole when they break down, usually stuck in the fully down position just when it starts pissing rain. Not cheap to repair either. The manual winding ones anyone with a little bit of guntering can fix.

Electric doors. Who are they for?

suicide_circus

digital hobs that decide to switch themselves off

One eyed Jack

Electric cars.

I could give multiple reasons, but in summary they’re just shìt.

Horusire

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Electric cars.

I could give multiple reasons, but in summary they’re just shìt.

Give reasons? I think they are brilliant and will hopefully be the norm in 10 years time.

Balmed Out

One eyed Jack wrote:

I could give multiple reasons, but in summary they’re just shìt.

One eyed Jack wrote:

Electric cars.

Best thing i ever bought.

2019 iTunes < 2004 iTunes

mrcheez

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Those Amazon Alexa speakers and the like. Paying a company money to buy a device that they use to listen in on what you say. What you get in return is to be able to ask for your bland 90’s indie hits playlist on Spotify.

... or control your lights
... or control your TV
... or control your central heating
... or read out latest weather forecast
... or read out news headlines
... or add reminders

****ing best invention in past 10 years imo

The high horse brigade

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Those Amazon Alexa speakers and the like. Paying a company money to buy a device that they use to listen in on what you say. What you get in return is to be able to ask for your bland 90’s indie hits playlist on Spotify.

You're doing it wrong if you think playing music is all they do

shamrock55

suicide_circus wrote: »

digital hobs that decide to switch themselves off

We got a new digital hob recently and I'm very sorry we didn't go for the one with the knobs

suicide_circus

shamrock55 wrote: »

We got a new digital hob recently and I'm very sorry we didn't go for the one with the knobs

yeah the touch screen buttons are a pain in the bum

JohnnyFlash

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Those Amazon Alexa speakers and the like. Paying a company money to buy a device that they use to listen in on what you say. What you get in return is to be able to ask for your bland 90’s indie hits playlist on Spotify.

I’d be lost without my Amazon echos, I have 4 of them already. Controlling half the house with them among many other things they do.

kneemos

suicide_circus wrote: »

yeah the touch screen buttons are a pain in the bum

Only used one once. Have to agree, a knob is miles handier.

Seems to be a trend of replacing knobs with buttons or touch screens.

whisky_galore

Horusire wrote: »

Give reasons? I think they are brilliant and will hopefully be the norm in 10 years time.

Horses for courses. The ones now are fine for short hop and moderate driving, not great for long distances and down the country. Want to tow a load like a caravan, boat or horsebox, forget it. They would want to improve in range, power and price before they become the norm.

6541

Bixby on Samsung, utter crap.

The high horse brigade

mrcheez wrote: »

... or control your lights
... or control your TV
... or control your central heating
... or read out latest weather forecast
... or read out news headlines
... or add reminders

****ing best invention in past 10 years imo

I tell mine clean the house

Harry Palmr

Cars run by CPU rather than a carburettor!

mrcheez

The high horse brigade wrote: »

I tell mine clean the house

When I upgrade Phil (my Roomba) i'll definitely be going with the Alexa-enabled model.

Alexa is literally my PA, adds reminders for me and turns on my lights when I come home after work on dark evenings.

Balmed Out

whisky_galore wrote:

Horses for courses. The ones now are fine for short hop and moderate driving, not great for long distances and down the country. Want to tow a load like a caravan, boat or horsebox, forget it. They would want to improve in range, power and price before they become the norm.

Most homes have two cars no reason for one not to be electric. Awful lot of people never do very long drives or need to tow anything.


I have a 120km round trip commute and have saved a lot with my leaf over tge last three years. They are easier and more pleasant to drive so not just financial or environmental advantages.

Whats there now will already suit the majority of people but you're right that their not yet suitable for all.

dhaughton99

Windows 10

vriesmays

Synthesizers - most are copies of ones from the 1980s, use digital technology to imitate analogue, don't sound as good and are not as robust.

storker

iTunes. Worst piece of software I've ever had to use. Instead of helping it just makes everything more difficult. Dreadful interface. I dumped Apple several years ago and went with Android. I've never looked back.

Air pumps at garages. They used simply consist of a hose coming out of a compressor with a pressure gauge attached, and they were never out of action. Now they're all fancy with LCD display and pressure pre-select and of course, coin operated (grrrrrrrr), and they're always on the blink when you need them.

Sony VEGAS from 2000s onwards : Built up resoectable fanbase. 2016 onwards: Magix VEGAS video editing software : leaning hard on the laurels built up when it was Sony. Dwindling fanbase readily apparent in YouTube and elsewhere.

Balmed Out

Touchscreens in many instances. Often just easier to break down then older controllers. Why anyone wants them in a laptop i dont know. In a tablet or phone fine but otherwise no thanks.

Stark

storker wrote: »

Air pumps at garages. They used simply consist of a hose coming out of a compressor with a pressure gauge attached, and they were never out of action. Now they're all fancy with LCD display and pressure pre-select and of course, coin operated (grrrrrrrr), and they're always on the blink when you need them.

Handy tip: You can pick up a bicycle track pump for 20 - 30 euro and they're amazing at pumping up car tyres. Much better than the garage air pumps or those electric pump things you get from Halfords in fact.

Greyfox

6541 wrote: »

Bixby on Samsung, utter crap.

Samsung phones are amazing, there the new nokia

whisky_galore

Modern vending machines and parking meters etc in this day and age that are still COIN only, will only take 10c/20c upwards and don't give change. FFS.

Planned obselesence. Most mass produced utensils and electrical things are good for a few years, aren't repairable and just go to landfill.

CoBo55

mrcheez wrote: »

... or control your lights
... or control your TV
... or control your central heating
... or read out latest weather forecast
... or read out news headlines
... or add reminders

****ing best invention in past 10 years imo

All of which you can actually do yourself... If you got out of the armchair.

Atoms for Peace

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Electric cars.

I could give multiple reasons, but in summary they’re just shìt.

It's an obsolete technology that had its hayday during Edwardian times. Hydrogen cell technology is the future.

JohnnyFlash

mrcheez wrote: »

... or control your lights
... or control your TV
... or control your central heating
... or read out latest weather forecast
... or read out news headlines
... or add reminders

****ing best invention in past 10 years imo

If only there was another way of doing all of the above that didn’t rely on you giving up your right to privacy in your own home. Like using a remote, or heading to the kitchen to control the heating settings. No one is so time poor they can’t get their arse out of the chair.

HeidiHeidi

Greyfox wrote: »

Samsung phones are amazing, there the new nokia

I concur.

But wtf is Bixby, apart from an annoyance that I can't remove from the devices?

Del2005

Renewable electricity. Till they sort out base load we'll have more trouble like the UK yesterday, along with the fact that it doesn't replace a single unit of fossil fuel generation because of the need for spinning backup.

backspacer

VAR - the games gone mate

leex

Electric hand brakes in cars.

Ubbquittious

Anything that uses some usually unnecessary Cloud-based middleman in order to charge you a monthly fee and / or analyzes your habits in order to bomb you with targeted advertising. Most mobile phone apps would be included in this, stuff that is now mainstream and accepted would have been derided as spyware in the early 2000s

One eyed Jack

Balmed Out wrote: »

Most homes have two cars no reason for one not to be electric. Awful lot of people never do very long drives or need to tow anything.


I have a 120km round trip commute and have saved a lot with my leaf over tge last three years. They are easier and more pleasant to drive so not just financial or environmental advantages.

Whats there now will already suit the majority of people but you're right that their not yet suitable for all.

I think the above is a fair assessment, but I’m not disputing that for other people they are an excellent purchase, happy for them, but for me some of the drawbacks are first of all that I suppose I don’t think they actually are good value for money. The other major drawback I see is of course the battery life and the time they take to recharge. I can’t say the lack of recharge points is a drawback of the cars themselves, but it’s a consideration at the same time. I also just haven’t seen or driven one I actually had a eureka moment in and thought “Yes! This would make me consider purchasing an electric car”.

I’ve no doubt there are good reasons for other people to buy them, but for me personally there just aren’t any, I just can’t get enthusiastic about them at all at all.

mrcheez

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

If only there was another way of doing all of the above that didn’t rely on you giving up your right to privacy in your own home. Like using a remote, or heading to the kitchen to control the heating settings. No one is so time poor they can’t get their arse out of the chair.

Sure. And you can wash your dishes by hand. Wash your clothes by hand. Keep your food cool by buying blocks of ice. Heat your water by judicious use of fire kindling.



I'm surprised you're posting here and not listening to some kicking 1920s smash hits on the wireless.

5uspect

Microsoft Office and ribbon based interfaces. Why the ever loving **** is this utter garbage slower than Office 2000 on an exponentially faster hardware?

cnocbui

Li-ion batteries - particularly if they are sealed in.

cnocbui

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Cars run by CPU rather than a carburettor!

Buy a Honda next time.

Comhrá

Voice activated anything. I can't bring myself to speak to inanimate objects.

Church on Tuesday

Quantized drums.

L1011

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

It's an obsolete technology that had its hayday during Edwardian times. Hydrogen cell technology is the future.

Hydrogen cell needs reliable and efficient electric drivetrains. They aren't going to appear from nowhere, current EV developments are driving them

The Satanist

Smart watches. They do **** all, really.

bonzodog2

Apps that require access to things they dont need, like your pictures and texts and microphone

bonzodog2

Apps that have been 'improved' to run on the latest version of Android. Now you can't run them on an older phone.

cnocbui

L1011 wrote: »

Hydrogen cell needs reliable and efficient electric drivetrains. They aren't going to appear from nowhere, current EV developments are driving them

Honda seem quite capable of applying known tech about electric motors and power management to come up with the hydrogen fuel cell Clarity (2008). They didn't need Tesla or BEVs to do it.

Dramatik

Touch screens, until they figure out a way to keep finger prints off the screen, it's sh!te

mrcheez

Comhra wrote: »

Voice activated anything. I can't bring myself to speak to inanimate objects.

So you don't use a phone then?

byte

6541 wrote: »

Bixby on Samsung, utter crap.

An absolute crap addition to the Galaxy phones.

And it's own dedicated button at the side too... :mad: