What are your modern technology grievances?
>Doing even the most basic things require an internet connection
>Transfer speeds not keeping up with hard drive capacity
>Peripherals becoming obsolete only because new OS doesn't support old driver
>Social media integration
>Constantly changing user interfaces for no reason
What has speed got to do with capacity?
How about my top three? Battery, battery, battery. My God do we desperately need better battery technology.
I'm actually quite fine with the things you listed. I happen to use a computer for very little outside of the internet but I have little trouble doing so. Transfer speeds aren't a big deal when you don't move around large files. I can't say I've had any driver support issues recently; I even have Broadcom WiFi running well in Linux! Social media integration is annoyingly offered but I get by having exactly zero accounts/profiles. As for UI changes, thankfully they're made for idiots so they aren't hard to figure out.
I think I'm just very much a "typical consumer" and so the decisions that companies make jive with my preferences.
I hate these, too:
>Doing even the most basic things require an internet connection
>Social media integration
>Constantly changing user interfaces for no reason
Also:
>laptops copying the MacBook style; all chiclet keyboards
>non-removable batteries becoming the norm
>2-in-1s with a fucking kickstand or that fold 360 degrees so the keyboard is exposed on the bottom during tablet mode
>thinner is always better, even at a cost of battery life
>the botnet is now a feature
Mine are mainly with Applel since others push the type of stuff, you expect it to be shit.
>have usb c and headphones jack on your flagship laptop but only usb a and lightning on your flagship phone
>camera bulges
>updates that don't tell you shit beyond "improvements"
>Doing even the most basic things require an internet connection
Like what?
>Transfer speeds not keeping up with hard drive capacity
PCIe SSDs aren't too bad.
The fuck you expect from batteries? Yes, the technology barely advanced but we still got phones that easy last two days and laptops that easy last 8h. How long are you away from any kind of power output for longer?
>The fuck you expect from batteries?
More. If it weren't for current power density limitations we could be going so much further with the technology we already have. Of course that tech can still become more energy efficient over time but batteries can do more than "barely advance" too. We're chained down again and again, whether creatively or practically, by battery limitations.
that canada has shite internet, in my community we can upgrade the infrastructure but they don't see it as a big deal when really it is, i have a decent computer but very limited on what i can do and play because my internet isn't fast enough.
Stupid web applications for tasks that could be done offline. I miss the days the web browsers were used to... browse the web.
>We're chained down again and again, whether creatively or practically, by battery limitations.
When it comes to "smart" devices manly but it doesn't appear that many on Sup Forums give a shit about that. When it comes to laptops and phones, we're doing fine even with the shitty technology available.
Besides, it appears to be easier to make stuff more efficient than actually come up with a new tech for storing the energy, so doubt it's going to happen anytime soon.
We're not doing fine when it comes to laptops and phones. On laptops, we long ago fell off the battery life growth rate curve that had been climbing up until about 2010. Had we stayed on that same path we'd be up to 18+ hours now. And as for phones, should we just be ignoring the huge power bank manufacturing industry? Cases with built in batteries to extend time between charges? Perhaps 8 hours on a laptop and having a battery pack in your bag is practically sufficient, but it's not creatively "fine." It's compromise.
I'm not even sure what you're getting at with the last part beyond pointing out the obvious. The problem's hard and not looking great for the future...and that has what bearing on something being a grievance?
>keep the big and bulky batteries like the T420 9-cell and use updated internal components with better power efficiency
>also add an extra secondary battery in the optical drive slot like the t420s
done, the battery issue is fixed
sadly the "muh thin shitbooks" homosexual crowd is so fucking retarded and manufacturers keep catering to them
Sometimes people do leave their basements.
fucking lack of responsiveness, even windows itself at times doesn't fully respond to clicks before the 200ms human deadline
fucking taskbar becoming unresponsive if you have an unresponsive program focused
fucking webpages being full of javascript SHIT and taking centuries to load
fucking memory leaks and garbage collection stutters
fucking programs crashing in low-memory situations when they should be just fine
fucking flatshit/material garbage making every UI an inscrutable pile of solid colours + silhouhette icons
fucking hamburger buttons
fucking modal dialogs
fucking constantly changing user interfaces where each iteration is worse than its predecessor
fucking "Whoops! Dang! Wooks like we wan into a wickle pwoblem! Sowwie! :(" messages
fucking companies shoving their politics into their service and banning anything to the contrary
fucking everyone migrating to less and less viable instant chat avenues
fucking every UI being inconsistent with any other
Oh right, i forgot all the numales are too weak to carry a device that weighs the same as your average book nowadays.
So you not only never left your basement but also never held a book? Now that's bizarre.
I generally hate browsing on mobile because it's such an awful experience. Space is so limited and when you have to input something, the on-screen keyboard pops up and covers like 1/3 of the screen. Even companies realize this that's why they need to make custom apps to make their services accessible for mobile users.
What is better?
Download an application you will use twice a year, needs a few dozen MB of storage. Only available for one maybe two os
Load a 0.5MB webpage twice a year. Available for everything that has a browser
what'd be better is a world where a mobile app using dozens of MB of storage or a webpage that weighs in at half a meg are both considered incredibly sloppy and reflect poorly on their makers for being so bloated.
>>Transfer speeds not keeping up with hard drive capacity
They never have.
>>Peripherals becoming obsolete only because new OS doesn't support old driver
Not new at all
>>Social media integration
This is a problem
>>Constantly changing user interfaces for no reason
Not new at all.
Aesthetic is important.
Sure every page could go with the design the motherfuckingwebpage, but your eyes would bleed out
your "aesthetic" looks like shit mateq
Mainly it's bloatware and having to fight the botnet in every program and device you install or get
>Needing a powerful processor to watch videos on youtube fluently
Back in 2009 I was able to watch 480 youtube videos without any stuttering or lag and without freezes, and I used a crappy 1.6 ghz single core cpu
Now that I have a 2.4ghz dual core I cant even go to the main page without the browser (firefox) fucking freezing for 20 seconds and lets not even talk about what happens if you try to watch a crappy 240p video
>Nearly every fucking program and device having constant connections to shady servers and having to waste hours blocking them
>Needing to move my hosts file somewhere else every time I make a post because it uses Google spyware bullshit as captcha
>Websites having horrible 'modern" designs that make the website slow to load and makes the browser laggy
>2017
>Typing passwords
Aeshetic takes almost no space.
It's all those fonts, JS, libraries, etc that take up a fuckload of space.
Basically everybody is too lazy nowadays.
He probably means his hard drive can hold 10TB but his torrent download speeds are like 50 Mbps
Are you a bit challenged?
Modern challenge doesn't have to be new.
>Of or relating to recent times or the present