Unpopular Tech Opinions

[pythonmegapixel]

4 minutes ago, Derkoli said:

The new Discord looks pretty bad.

The new logo is fine, it's barely any different to the old one anyway.

 

The font on the other hand... don't even get me started...

 

Quoting myself from a status update:

"The new Discord brand font looks absolutely disgusting. First time I saw it I literally thought there was a bug causing it to be rendered incorrectly.

It somehow manages to look both squashed and stretched at the same time."

[Derkoli]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

The new logo is fine, it's barely any different to the old one anyway.

 

The font on the other hand... don't even get me started...

The new font reminds me of when you try to write properly with a super thick/broad marker, it feels really convoluted.

[Bombastinator]

8 minutes ago, Derkoli said:

The new Discord looks pretty bad.

That sentence amuses me a lot. Applicable in so many ways.  Discord means disagreement.  It’s actually the name of a Greek/Roman diety who was the goddess of arguments. 

Edited May 16, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Rex Hite]

As well as networking 21 years worth of Windows without a care in the world, I also clean the dust from my workstations with a vacuum cleaner and a paintbrush. As well, I don't wear any grounding straps. Grounding straps are the dental floss of tech.

[Sweet Pea]

Windows Phone was the best designed mobile OS. 

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, Rex Hite said:

As well as networking 21 years worth of Windows without a care in the world, I also clean the dust from my workstations with a vacuum cleaner and a paintbrush. As well, I don't wear any grounding straps. Grounding straps are the dental floss of tech.

So you’re saying you’re not well grounded then

[Bombastinator]

Gah!!! Still not seeing most graphics.  The video thumbnails are gone, all the editing icons and apparently the smileys.  Rebooting my phone did not fix.

[Rex Hite]

Another unpopular tech opinion;

I expect many people think this is an extremely bad idea but I print out all my passwords from Firefox and keep it in a folder in a filing cabinet.

I've done this for years. It has come in handy many times. Physical access to the list means access to a filing cabinet containing far more personal and valuable information than can be got from dicking around with a stolen computer. The only password not printed out is the master password.

 

 

 

 

[TheOriginalPhoto]

Vista was kind of OK. 

Autopilot is good at braking in my opinion.

Ethernet can be just as bad as Wi-Fi.

[DSD27]

Resolution > Refresh rate. I prefer 1440p 75Hz to 1080p 240Hz, because FPS games aren't' the only existing games.

1440p looks way better on 24" and no scaling is needed.

[pythonmegapixel]

4 hours ago, TheOriginalPhoto said:

Autopilot is good at braking in my opinion.

How good any driver-assistance technology is at its job is an immaterial question until it is good enough that it can be trusted to drive entirely autonomously, because until it can be trusted to do that, and until we have the ethical and legal issues around it doing that out of the way, it is still essential that the driver watches the road at all times and is ready to intervene if something goes wrong. No matter how good the automatic braking is, in an emergency situation the driver still needs to apply the brakes.

 

The fear I have with Autopilot is that it gives drivers an excuse for distracted driving, which is dangerous, because as we've seen in the past, computers screwing up this kind of thing can have disastrous consequences.

 

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Ethernet can be just as bad as Wi-Fi.

Well yes, if the upstream network is no good or there's something wrong with your cables...

 

Wi-Fi will never be as stable as Ethernet though. An Ethernet cable doesn't just randomly disconnect from your computer, does it?

[Rex Hite]

Disabling updates and allowing the  operating system update once or twice a year is fine.

[Tonyx]

On 5/18/2021 at 4:29 AM, TheOriginalPhoto said:

Vista was kind of OK. 

Yes, just the hardware was not yet ready after 5 years of Windows XP.

Good luck vista and 512mb RAM, but even 1gb was trash

[KappaPlz]

Windows 8.1 wasnt bad. 

[FRD]

Who even uses Discord? I feel like it's for typical gamers only. Same goes for Reddit, but not just for gamers.

 

Origin is totally fine, Steam isn't THAT much better. Ubisoft is the worst probably.

[dalekphalm]

2 hours ago, FRD said:

Who even uses Discord? I feel like it's for typical gamers only.

Discord sees very little "mainstream" use. Most people I know that use it are gamers or involved in RPG's, etc.

2 hours ago, FRD said:

Same goes for Reddit, but not just for gamers.

Reddit has a lot higher mass usage, but typically is relegated to the more "techy" internet savvy folk. Still, you get plenty of middle aged regular folk on reddit.

 

[Bombastinator]

Whenever I hear of discussions on discord I imagine people throwing little golden apples at each other. 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_of_Discord

[Stahlmann]

On 5/15/2021 at 4:42 AM, Andreas Lilja said:

I don't get the whole insurrection when there are no FOV sliders.

I literally get heacaches from playing first-person games with 70° or 80° FOV. So any 1st person game that has no FOV slider (or at least 90° FOV as standard) is unplayable for me. Same with useless camera wobble. I can't play Hellblade or the Tomb Raider trilogy because after 1 hour of playing the game i get motion sick from the wobbly camera and have to quit.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

I honestly hate how certain tech tubers buy old hardware and then only run modern games on it.  I'm not against seeing modern games benched, that gives you a baseline to compare performance between other more modern hardware, but to stop there you're just going 'LOL Radeon HD 7770 Runs Cyberpunk Like A Potato!'.  They should also bench and show off older, but still very playable games that the hardware can be used.  Especially today when people are trying to get more life out of older hardware due to shortages, it'd be useful to see some 'older' games that you can run really well on that hardware along side the more modern games that you're running at 800x600 and still getting 19fps.

[Rex Hite]

1 hour ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

I honestly hate how certain tech tubers buy old hardware and then only run modern games on it.  I'm not against seeing modern games benched, that gives you a baseline to compare performance between other more modern hardware, but to stop there you're just going 'LOL Radeon HD 7770 Runs Cyberpunk Like A Potato!'.  They should also bench and show off older, but still very playable games that the hardware can be used.  Especially today when people are trying to get more life out of older hardware due to shortages, it'd be useful to see some 'older' games that you can run really well on that hardware along side the more modern games that you're running at 800x600 and still getting 19fps.

I agree. It would give some context .

But unless it is a channel that specifically caters to old stuff it's not in the channe'ls interest to dwell on how well old stuff might work but how great new stuff is. And how crap old stuff is. Their sponsors sell new stuff. There's land to be filled and it isn't gonna fill itself.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

6 minutes ago, Rex Hite said:

I agree. It would give some context .

But unless it is a channel that specifically caters to old stuff it's not in the channe'ls interest to dwell on how well old stuff might work but how great new stuff is. And how crap old stuff is. Their sponsors sell new stuff. There's land to be filled and it isn't gonna fill itself.

Nah, these are people who typically do 'older' hardware,  RandomGaminginHD would top my list but not be the only example.  But people reviewing mini PCs/compute type boards, ect, would also benifit from it.  I don't see how seeing a Latte Panda board fail at Cyberpunk tells me much of anything without showing me what it is good at.

[Suki-chan]

Low-end, cheapo smartphones are actually fun and enjoyable to use...

[Bombastinator]

9 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

I literally get heacaches from playing first-person games with 70° or 80° FOV. So any 1st person game that has no FOV slider (or at least 90° FOV as standard) is unplayable for me. Same with useless camera wobble. I can't play Hellblade or the Tomb Raider trilogy because after 1 hour of playing the game i get motion sick from the wobbly camera and have to quit.

Interesting. Can you close your eyes and balance on one leg?  Some people can’t.  

[sub68]

7 hours ago, Suki-chan said:

Low-end, cheapo smartphones are actually fun and enjoyable to use...

I use a 100usd Nokia 3.1C

[Bombastinator]

7 hours ago, Suki-chan said:

Low-end, cheapo smartphones are actually fun and enjoyable to use...

To be fair features that are low end now we’re high end 10 years ago and they worked fine then.  Shouldn’t be any reason they wouldnt keep doing it.  The big difference between low end and high end phones seems to mostly be processor speed, camera quality, and pixel density.  If you don’t need anything more than snap quality images, don’t play hardware intensive games on your phone, and don’t require retina level pixel density or super high refresh rate, a higher end new phone just doesn’t have much of anything on a lower end one. A lower end phone today has more raw horsepower in it than desktops ive used in the more distant past. If all you do is watch videos, use the browser, and maybe do some video chat, a lower end phone can do all that just fine.

Edited May 20, 2021 by Bombastinator