Tech really is going down hill exponentially fast. It took all of 1 android update for my phone to decide that it should “serve” me random news articles, and download a jpg from the article. And put said jpg at the top of my download folder. And I’d need to root the fucker/usb debug to uninstall the shit. I’m getting to the borderline support the death penalty to the devs that decided you shouldn’t own everything on your device. Creeps just want to install spyware and enforce “intellectual property”. If you obfuscate runtime or uninstallation more then 2 clicks (or worse, not remove everything besides things like saves, settings, and you better let me know if that was left), you deserve to be dunked like the poor witches were.
Maps wouldn’t let me use voice without enabling their shit bot (I don’t usually use it but someone suggested it for notekeeping and I considered it). I just want a device that has a brick of battery, can play yt videos, has usb c, and can make calls. Oh and won’t break if it gets dropped more then 3 inches. Maybe a 3.5 jack (lol remember those?), a decent camera, and maybe a thermal camera. My requirements are nothing, but if you actually want that, you’re looking at 5 year old phones or 1 of like 3 new ones that cost 3x for nearly the same specs. I’d be fine with the old ones, if I knew its going to get newer updates (I don’t care about “”“features”“” but really don’t want to be carrying around a security hazard).
Its incredible that usability of tech peaked in like 2017. Opening a server nowadays (that isn’t tied up in some service) to the web sounds like an actual timebomb before someone ruins it for you, and javascript is unworkable for my brain/style. Google/amazon/whatever has to “abstract” data/algorithm you could have just downloaded and ran but nope, pay us a penny per call. I’ve literally used godot to bundle boilerplate I/O for a basic app because I was sick of figuring out the magic words to make some simple program in C/Python, and am too ADHD to maintain a proper personal toolbox.
I checked my resume because I’m having a certified moment at my job. I wrote it in Latex because everyone was doing it back in ~2019-2020. Now, the fucking editor I used wants to have its fucking “ai” editor “help” me and put the error somewhere I didn’t see. I had to manually review the code and I was missing a single fucking }. Yeah guys, totally going to pay for your bot to tell me nonsense, instead of the thing that has been doable since before I was born. The thing they’re steadily degrading in VS. The shit we discussed in undergrad, and professors said, yeah its solved and boring so let’s just cover it in theory and not in practice (IE, make a abstract machine and not write actual code for it). The amazing tech of bracket matching.
I feel like its a matter of time at this point until something fundementally breaks and computers just stop being tractable objects for a decade or two while those of us in CS not chatgpt-brained and not brain dead from exhaustion figure out how to make printers work again.
Printers at this point are eldritch entities detached from any other mainstream technology. The newish one on my desk is 84% identical to the fax machines I was fixing decades ago.
No-one wants to fix them, no-one knows how they work, thousands of years after humans are extinct a Ricoh printer in a downtown office will come to life and complete a lost print job from 2004.
There was a brief time where tech was about efficiency with mid resource consumption. That went completely out of the window when harvesting data became more profitable then crypto and powerful processors push and finally openai with the ‘let’s just use an abysmal amount of resources to solve this problem’ model that other companies followed shortly thereafter
So many of the things I hate (embedding you’re stupid fucking llm bot in my fucking OS) would be more acceptable if I could turn this shit off in a reasonable way. I do not want Google lens on my phone. I don’t want their image recognition software having access to my device. How to disable this? Good luck!
Tech really is going down hill exponentially fast. It took all of 1 android update for my phone to decide that it should “serve” me random news articles, and download a jpg from the article. And put said jpg at the top of my download folder. And I’d need to root the fucker/usb debug to uninstall the shit. I’m getting to the borderline support the death penalty to the devs that decided you shouldn’t own everything on your device. Creeps just want to install spyware and enforce “intellectual property”. If you obfuscate runtime or uninstallation more then 2 clicks (or worse, not remove everything besides things like saves, settings, and you better let me know if that was left), you deserve to be dunked like the poor witches were.
Maps wouldn’t let me use voice without enabling their shit bot (I don’t usually use it but someone suggested it for notekeeping and I considered it). I just want a device that has a brick of battery, can play yt videos, has usb c, and can make calls. Oh and won’t break if it gets dropped more then 3 inches. Maybe a 3.5 jack (lol remember those?), a decent camera, and maybe a thermal camera. My requirements are nothing, but if you actually want that, you’re looking at 5 year old phones or 1 of like 3 new ones that cost 3x for nearly the same specs. I’d be fine with the old ones, if I knew its going to get newer updates (I don’t care about “”“features”“” but really don’t want to be carrying around a security hazard).
Its incredible that usability of tech peaked in like 2017. Opening a server nowadays (that isn’t tied up in some service) to the web sounds like an actual timebomb before someone ruins it for you, and javascript is unworkable for my brain/style. Google/amazon/whatever has to “abstract” data/algorithm you could have just downloaded and ran but nope, pay us a penny per call. I’ve literally used godot to bundle boilerplate I/O for a basic app because I was sick of figuring out the magic words to make some simple program in C/Python, and am too ADHD to maintain a proper personal toolbox.
I checked my resume because I’m having a certified moment at my job. I wrote it in Latex because everyone was doing it back in ~2019-2020. Now, the fucking editor I used wants to have its fucking “ai” editor “help” me and put the error somewhere I didn’t see. I had to manually review the code and I was missing a single fucking }. Yeah guys, totally going to pay for your bot to tell me nonsense, instead of the thing that has been doable since before I was born. The thing they’re steadily degrading in VS. The shit we discussed in undergrad, and professors said, yeah its solved and boring so let’s just cover it in theory and not in practice (IE, make a abstract machine and not write actual code for it). The amazing tech of bracket matching.
I feel like its a matter of time at this point until something fundementally breaks and computers just stop being tractable objects for a decade or two while those of us in CS not chatgpt-brained and not brain dead from exhaustion figure out how to make printers work again.
TLDR:
Printers at this point are eldritch entities detached from any other mainstream technology. The newish one on my desk is 84% identical to the fax machines I was fixing decades ago. No-one wants to fix them, no-one knows how they work, thousands of years after humans are extinct a Ricoh printer in a downtown office will come to life and complete a lost print job from 2004.
To be fair, printers are machines sent up to us from hell to torment us for eternity.
There was a brief time where tech was about efficiency with mid resource consumption. That went completely out of the window when harvesting data became more profitable then crypto and powerful processors push and finally openai with the ‘let’s just use an abysmal amount of resources to solve this problem’ model that other companies followed shortly thereafter
So many of the things I hate (embedding you’re stupid fucking llm bot in my fucking OS) would be more acceptable if I could turn this shit off in a reasonable way. I do not want Google lens on my phone. I don’t want their image recognition software having access to my device. How to disable this? Good luck!