What in technology do you consider a mistake, Sup Forums?
...was a mistake
Android
the new macbook
javascript
java
Social media was a mistake
image boards
Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10
Smartphones.
Cellphones in general. When's the last time no one bothered you during the weekend?
internet was a mistake
the transistor
Technology is never a mistake. Are you a fucking Luddite?
>Technology is never a mistake.
>javascript
You would have thought we'd learned our lesson from flash.
Social networks
"""Full time""" YouTubers/monetization
Lots of technology is a mistake. Technology isn't good by default.
Electricity.
systemd
3D
metadata mining
Letting plebs get involved with the internet in general was a mistake. And I include us in that.
>Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10
The DOJ decision that forced IBM to outsource an OS for their first PC was a mistake because everything related to Microsoft and Gates has been a mistake. Gates was your typical HS nerd on his way to middle management except his parents had connections and IBM needed an OS.
Linus is a genius. Stallman is a freak but a genius. Jobs was an asshole but he did have vision and he really did want to change the world, i.e. bring technology to everyone. Woz was a nerd but at least he had talent and was a legit engineer, unlike Gates.
Gates? Gates was a parasite and everything he touched was shit or became shit over time.
Tinder, coz I get no matches.
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foh sus nigga prolly use grindr
it has pretty much ruined culture. remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo? remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to? remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about? remember when sjw didn't have a voice? remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
>yfw Gary could have been the richest man alive...
;_;
Touch screens
microsoft
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
Clearly you never went to any higher education.
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
This never happened, but I agree social media is cancer
This.
Oh god, this.
I can not think of a single thing that's had a more cancerous effect on technology that this.
Javascript
Yes. Yes I do.
A lot of technology is "backwards innovation". For example:
wired charging - wireless charging with microwave plates
3.5 mm analog audio output - putting batteries, computers, radio in your ear
sleek standalone applications - broken web applications
etc.
democracy
Moving away from pure text.
Javascript. Interactive web pages in general.
Putting processors in home computers that need a shit ton of cooling.
Microsoft in its entirety.
Laptop speaks - why even bother?
Always-on broadband internet access.
Animated GUIs.
Miniature devices which are connected to the internet
I feel like we should sometimes be disconnected but nobody ever is
Typing this from a bar while my friend uses the toilet btw
>>Laptop speaks - why even bother?
my macbook pro speakers sound pretty good senpai. Glad they put them on there. Stop buying $250 laptops.
Touch screens on everything
I miss having physical inputs for portable devices
I also miss the public terminals that were fucking everywhere where I live for some reason, I have so much nostalgia for those things, standing around with my friends and trying to find non-blocked porn on them
Now that everyone has a web enabled phone in their pocket they've done away with them
I'm sure being always connected is bad for us. All this constant stimulation, and a constant thirst for it can not be good for our brains.
And I think its bad for the web as well. I remember not actually ever reading things online, but rather downloading them and reading them later, because its better to do that than rack up all the time on dial-up charges.
I mean, it sucked, but I wonder if it wasn't better for us to be limited in such a way.
Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Facebook
the global internet. everything should be alright if things would be like in best korea where there's a intranet basically. there's no reason for people from different countries interact this easily.
all these fucking sandniggers, africans, pajeets, gooks, spics, etc. should gtfo.
Smart Home.
Anybody who thinks that a fridge needs internet access is a retard of epic proportions (or is trying to make money selling this crap).
my birth
>everything should be alright if things would be like in best korea
Losing my virginity was a mistake.
My neighbors woke up when they heard their dog yelping.
I think he meant compared to how bad it's gotten recently.
Google Inc
JavaScript
Java
I can imagine how it could be useful in the distant future, however, it's a waste of money in its current state.
>ctrl + f
>1 minuscule mention of adobe flash
kys
Email is a mistake.
You.
You are 100% spot on.
I feel you
Sup Forums
I miss those days...
2chan
internal combustion engine
Systemd
Windows
Social media
VR
>yfw when homo sapiens has never existed without technology.
This
Fuck that shit
Fuck nostalgia.
The world keeps on turning, wether we like it or not, don't hate the player, hate the game...
;__;
Oh I forgot about SystemD, thanks!
Fuck SystemD.
You fuckers sound like the memberberries in South Park.
[spoiler]member powerpc? I member ;_;[/spoiler]
Flash is a demon of the past, user. There is no need to mention his name again, lest it reawaken him.
UEFI
MBR partitions
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>Getting dinner with someone old friends I haven't met since Highschool
>"Oh, hey, guys. What've you been up to?"
>"Mrrmble grmmble mrrmble facebook"
>"What?"
>"He said 'hold on, let me check my Facebook'"
>Entire rest of the night, they're on their phones until it's time to pack up and go home
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Proprietary software.
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Installing the OS on hard drives.
>Hey guys this EPROM is super fast right?
>I know! It loads instantly and is inherently secure
>FUCK THAT
>slow ass hard drives
>"It is now safe to turn off your computer..."
unix
for technology that isn't a mistake, see: plan 9
YouTube
It turned computers into just another idiot box.
this
Ruby and all other SJW languages
9fag, tumblr, Google run yt
''web designer'' that bloat all the pages
twitch and easy Internet
fuck off Kim
Kim shillin hard as fuck in this thread t b h fa.m
how are they supposed to remotely install telemetry updates when people are running their system off of ROM?
GUIs.
you missed the P
doesn't matter, you wrote EPROM, which can't be remotely written to either
or did you mean EEPROM?
>you wrote
1) that wasnt me
>can't be remotely written to
2) says who?
The hardware. The computer didn't have the capability to erase or re-flash it.
Hence the security.
to be specific, EPROM can be written to remotely, but not erased, so you couldn't rewrite it remotely
EPROM is erased by exposing the chip to UV light, something that can't be done remotely (unless you did something like hooked up a UV light to it and controlled that remotely, i suppose, but then you might as well just use an EEPROM)
lmfao.
>he doesnt know about backdoor'd firmware, airgapped viruses/malware, etc
Sure, but when people say EPROM they are usually referring to EEPROMs
Javascript
PHP
Social networks
Internet of things
The Cloud
UEFI
Killing the M68K
>Sure, but when people say EPROM they are usually referring to EEPROMs
not that i've seen, if the writing is specific enough to say "EPROM", that's what they meant
Microsoft.
Flash.
X11.
JavaScript.
Active cooling.
Just because you never heard of them, doesn't mean they didn't exist.
Just means you were just a child during 90s
swift
>remember when you didn't fake a smile for a photo?
no
>remember when you could see an old friend and they didn't already know everything you've been up to?
how would they know what i've been up to?
>remember when you could sit waiting for a bus and be impulses into scrolling endless shit you don't even really care about?
i play solitaire on my phone when waiting for something outside of home
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
no
>remember when you could simply email people to 'stay in touch'?
i think i can remember the last few hours, my memory isn't completely shot
>social media is shit!
then why did you jump onto it in the first place?
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Classic Sup Forums
>systemd
This. Pic related.
>If social media is shit why do you jump on it in the first place
>remember when sjw didn't have a voice?
How old are you? Do you think radical leftism is a new thing?
See
The technological barrier to entry kept them off the Internet for a looooonnnggg time.
>sjws
>leftists, not liberals
Kill you're self
Javascript Web Developer DOTR when
I don't even know if e-mail is still going to exist in the future, soon normies will look at it as "boring ugly outdated thing no one uses" and replace it with some bloatnet alternative
daily reminder
(((Node.js)))
I always thought it was sketchy how quickly it was adopted, even by Debian. Usually that's out of date by design, but they leapt on SystemD as soon as it could.
Isn't Slack the last safe distro?
No, the last safe distro is Gentoo because on Gentoo you can compile packages without code from systemd. Also you build your binaries yourself so you know nobody tampered with them.