what tech products have you stopped using during quarantine?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

what tech products have you stopped using during quarantine?

 

for me it's my laptops for sure. both my windows laptop and macbook have been basically unused. i boot them up to run updates and that's pretty much it. i used my macbook a little bit since i use iMovie to edit but like, that was once or twice. i use my desktop for everything now, and my laptops are just collecting dust since i never go out anymore. 

[Haro]

My Alexa and my vita. 

I don't know why but I did during quarantine. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

my vita. 

that makes sense, if you only use it on the road. i use my handheld consoles (PSP, 2DS XL) at home usually too so i haven't stopped using those. 

[Haro]

1 minute ago, Ashley said:

that makes sense, if you only use it on the road. i use my handheld consoles (PSP, 2DS XL)

Yea I used to use my vita. Sadly its showing its age. Just doesn't really feel like a capable machine and obviously not on the road because of quarantine. I would love to use it again one day though. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, TofuHaroto said:

Yea I used to use my vita. Sadly its showing its age. Just doesn't really feel like a capable machine and obviously not on the road because of quarantine. I would love to use it again one day though. 

my PSP is even older lol. games aren't about graphics to me, it's about gameplay and the PSP has loads of amazing games available for it so i haven't stopped playing on it. 

[Haro]

Just now, Ashley said:

games aren't about graphics to me, it's about gameplay and the PSP has loads of amazing games available for it so i haven't stopped playing on it. 

Library on the vita is surprisingly lackluster.

If your not into anime or anything Japanese sadly the vita will simply disappoint. 

I noticed that the psp aged way better .

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Library on the vita is surprisingly lackluster.

If your not into anime or anything Japanese sadly the vita will simply disappoint. 

I noticed that the psp aged way better .

the vita was a total flop in western markets, so i assume it did better in japan which makes sense... so that would explain the lack of titles here. the PSP by contrast was super popular, but i guess because it comes from a time before smartphones really took off and certainly weren't great for gaming. 

[Haro]

1 minute ago, Ashley said:

the PSP by contrast was super popular, but i guess because it comes from a time before smartphones really took off and certainly weren't great for gaming. 

If Sony legitimately took care of the vita it would've been amazing. 

Hardware wise it's decent. But the software so abysmal. 

[Kilrah]

Laptop, that's about it. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

If Sony legitimately took care of the vita it would've been amazing. 

Hardware wise it's decent. But the software so abysmal. 

well again it was a flop in western markets. afaik in japan it did much better and has more titles. 

[Haro]

Just now, Ashley said:

afaik in japan it did much better and has more titles. 

Yea sadly. Wish it's still a thing. 

It was my first console so it kind of holds a special place in my heart lol.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

Yea sadly. Wish it's still a thing. 

It was my first console so it kind of holds a special place in my heart lol.

you're younger than me then. my first console was a gameboy color, then a DS, then a PSP. 

[Haro]

1 minute ago, Ashley said:

my first console was a gameboy color, then a DS, then a PSP. 

Honestly even the gb color ages better surprisingly. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

Honestly even the gb color ages better surprisingly. 

true. but the hardware limits make it just irritating to use these days, most notably the lack of a display backlight. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

8 minutes ago, comander said:

You can hack the backlight. Similar story with the batteries. 

the batteries are fine. i might look at a backlight mod since it makes my eyes hurt to play on it after a while as it is. 

[Kisai]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

what tech products have you stopped using during quarantine?

 

for me it's my laptops for sure. both my windows laptop and macbook have been basically unused. i boot them up to run updates and that's pretty much it. i used my macbook a little bit since i use iMovie to edit but like, that was once or twice. i use my desktop for everything now, and my laptops are just collecting dust since i never go out anymore. 

 

Nothing has changed for me. Maybe getting less use out of the smartphone, but overall I just haven't used cash in years and used ApplePay/Tap-to-Pay everywhere and haven't had any issues except with the local KFC which the POS stubbornly refuses to tap-to-pay when AMEX is selected, but will accept it if I insert the card.

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

23 minutes ago, comander said:

From a purely practical perspective, you might end up better off buying a gameboy clone. Better hardware and whatnot. 

 

Assuming you want everything to be 100% legal, you can even dump your Roms and play the games on a phone, laptop or pretty much any other device. 

i want to use legit hardware, i'm not interested in clones. i have a spare gameboy color i believe that's in pretty bad shape, scratches and stuff, so i might experiment with mods on that, i'm not gonna touch my good gameboy lol, i've had that since i was a kid and it's in brand new condition. 

[Bananasplit_00]

I've stopped using the ANC on my headphones because there is hardly anyone at the office anymore. That's about it.

[sub68]

Haven’t been using my garmin forerunner 225

[Arika]

My phone is only really used as an alarm at this point

[Nayr438]

7 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

If Sony legitimately took care of the vita it would've been amazing. 

Hardware wise it's decent. But the software so abysmal. 

It was basically pushed out and ignored. Most of the updates were targeted towards trying to stop the modding community and not really much else.

Always disliked its odd interface. The Game Library wasn't that great. Alot of apps were poorly built and disconintued before its EOL. The only nice feature was being able to stream from the PS3 and PS4.

8 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

Yea I used to use my vita. Sadly its showing its age. Just doesn't really feel like a capable machine and obviously not on the road because of quarantine. I would love to use it again one day though. 

The most use I got out of mine though was from putting retroarch on it. Depending on your stance on emulators and obtaining root on a device, it may or may not be an option to get more use out of it. If your on the latest update however, it could be a pain to get going. Of course then you would be in that grey area.

[PlayStation 2]

...nothing, really. As a matter of fact, I actually got an original Xbox to play while all the shit was going down a couple of months ago.

[gloop]

8 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

ibrary on the vita is surprisingly lackluster.

If your not into anime or anything Japanese sadly the vita will simply disappoint. 

Jailbreak it and you literally have access to any game from the PS2 era and before!

[Zusafek]

I wouldn't know. I haven't been quarantined at all. Been out delivering medical supplies in two countries this entire time. 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

5 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

Well since school was shut down, my laptop was collecting dust for a while, but now that I'm back at school, I have to use that piece of crap again

what laptop do you have?