Buttons on cars need reinstatements instead of those distracting touchscreens
Wired printers too. How many peoples eyeballs have i wanted to gouge out with these wifi/bluetooth ones. Just let me plug it in, hit send and print!
It really is wireless that the problem is. Why do i need to enable WPS on my router downstairs for a start.
If wires are the divil, why arent monitors wireless?
Its been a scam forever, but tesco are really making it unavoidable to shop in their stores without one I don't have the clubcard app, I went into the local Tesco and everything was literally double the price without the app, so I turned around and walked out.
**** that
Yep now it's way more extreme and forcing people to have one.
Windows operating system has been getting worse and worse and worse, adding in copilot and nonsense that nobody ever asked for to apps that have been working fine for decades
Take Notepad. I like notepad because it Doesn't have rich text editing. I use it all of the time to strip out hidden formatting so I can paste things into places as plain text
They've gone off and added Rich text to it and ruined it
Same with MS Paint. I used it all of the time to be able to do quick dirty editing of screenshots for prototyping but they've gone off and added in Layers that nobody asked for, and now it's way worse
The search function on my laptop is worse than useless. I know there is a file in my documents folder, but does the search function find it? Nope, it searches online then onedrive, then everywhere else it can think of, then finally brings me the file I want
Programs don't get added to the program list anymore, you have to pin them to the start button, you can't find the uninstall programs page because they've gotten rid of the control panel from the start menu and the search function now barely can even find 'add or remove programs'
Why the **** does it think I want to search the internet when I use the search button in windows.
have you ever tried to transmit video signally wirelessly? It’s not quite that simple.
I think W11 got rid of control panel- the option you want is no longer within and you need to go through settings.
Downloading an app for something I want to buy from a shop that I'm physically in.
Downloading an app to access a menu in a restaurant. They point of going in to a restaurant is to enjoy a meal with company without a phone being used.
Touch screens on cars. et rid and bring back dials and buttons.
Not everything needs to be smart. I don't need a smart fridge. I don't need a smart kettle. I certainly don't need a smart hob for my cooker.
If I buy something, I own it. I shouldn't need to pay subscription to the companies website to use the physical product I just bought.
Notepad++ (annoyance Notepadqq has recently change to won't exit until you save files )
MS Paint - try Paint.net
Search ? If you have very large .PST or .OST files then tell search not to index them and then rebuild the index.
Search ? No I do not want suggestions from the web, and certainly not from third party sites that you have no control over.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacentre will finish extended subscription-only support on the 13th of January. RAM can be anything from 512MB to 2TB and from 1 to 64 processors. It's Windows 7 without restrictions and can run on some 25 year old CPUs.
Windows server 2025 will run without TPM and will run on a first generation i5. It's based on Windows 11 and drops a lot of the awful crud enforced on retail customers.
Fairly certain you can run control panel on w11. Start > Run > control panel
All of this. Its either an app/subscription for LITERALLY EVERYTHING nowadays. Why does paying for parking need to require an app? Coins/Tap of a card but nooo, some company requires our info for god knows why.
If I ever did go a restaurant and its a digital menu I am walking out.
Satnav on a car and bluetooth maybe but that should be the limit of tech in cars.
I don't mind wireless stuff like printers as long as no subscription/app required.
Handy for parking rather than go looking for a machine. One of the more useful apps I'd have thought.
I was connecting my TV to my bluetooth headphones, and it gave me the option of connecting to the Samsung fridge instead.
I don't have a Samsung fridge.
One of you neighbours probably has.
I may just be stupid, but what would connecting your headphones to your fridge?
Is it listening to the sound within the fridge or will the fridge play music?
Coldplay.
yeah depending what you put in it. Meatloaf will play meatloaf, cranberry juice will play the cranberries and so on. All very smart indeed
Some new smart fridges have the ability to play videos so you'd be connecting headphones to listen to them as you would with any other screen.
This thread seems to be purely "things were better back in my day".
While there might be an element of that, enshittification is definitely real. Things like HP's "oh you ran out of ink so you can't scan" stunt come to mind.
Why would you want your freaking fridge to play videos?
It was better back in my day.
I don't want my fridge to play videos but clearly there is a demand otherwise they wouldn't be making them.
I've seen them used for recipe videos which does have some merit as your fridge will always be in the kitchen.
Tis a pity that we don't have some other means of watching cookery videos in the kitchen, which doesn't involve staring at your fridge.
In fairness there’s nothing new about pointless gimmicks and “useless” tech- it’s been around for eons just now it’s far more fancy and useless than it used to be
^^^^
I've been buying 4 pastries for x€ in Tesco and only copped recently that the only cost benefit is for club card holders and I'm actually paying full price, that's outrageous
Parking apps are definitely an improvement on having to have change for the parking metre and/or having to go back to the car to top up if you're staying longer than expected. Now if we could employ an app like they use in Northern Ireland where you just hit 'Start Parking' when you park and 'Stop parking' when you leave instead of having to guesstimate how long your visit will take and sometimes paying over the odds when you end up back at the car sooner than expected, I'd be that bit happier with parking apps.
I'm sorry I don't want my fridge talking to me and playing music.
I'll stick to my recipe books.
Don't be sorry! I absolutely agree.
Didn't catch that!
I may just be a cranky cnut who dislikes Technology and AI that is more advanced then required but when did talking video playing fridges become thing? What happened to a recipe book? Or at most an Ipad on a stand showing the video?
Talking fridges....whats next....
I love technology, but I despise AI, and I hate that it has been added to everything. I'm very dubious about how intelligent it is too.
A number of years ago I was working for a company, and their brochures kept referring to their "smart technology". It didn't say AI, just Smart this and smart that. The actual "smart" part, was me and a couple of guys doing the work manually.
Continuing the conversation on earphones. I had a pair of Lenovo wireless in-ear earbuds. I'm not a fan of in-ear ones to begin with, because I have to keep pushing them in. These ones, had a capacitive "button" on the outside part of each earbud, so when you pushed them in with your finger, they would hang-up the call if you were on a call. So you would be on a call, feeling the earbud slowly falling out, but if you pushed it back in, it would hang up the call. If you were not on a call just listening to music, if you went to push them back in, it would skip to the next song. How they passed QA is beyond me.
Its just hype really, everyone trying to hop on the smart tech/AI trend in the hopes that a new google emerges.
Apparantly sticking with the status quo reliable tech we still all used just a few years ago isn't good enough. Need to grow and advance at all costs.
