Does anybody else find it ironic how Jow Forums is a technology board, but hates technology?
>Touchscreen smartphones are trash, flip phones were better >LCD monitors are trash, CRTs were better >Modern OS are trash, OS 20 years ago were better >Modern laptops are trash, laptops from 2006 were better
Shouldn't this board be boomer technology general?
> tfw when you take /g's tech recommendations seriously
Juan Flores
>Does anybody else find it ironic how Jow Forums is a technology board, but hates technology? No, we don't hate technology. We just like better technology.
Grayson Cook
>Jow Forums is one person
Isaac Butler
>Touchscreen smartphones are trash, flip phones were better Both are shit. Touchscreen smartphone with slide out keyboards are GOAT. >LCD monitors are trash, CRTs were better CRTs belong on /vr/ and /vr/ only. There's no reason to use one for anything other than old games and movies. >Modern OS are trash, OS 20 years ago were better Blame modern apps, not the OS that runs them. I'd still be using windows 2000 if it ran modern applications but it doesn't so I'll deal with windows 10. >Modern laptops are trash, laptops from 2006 were better This is the only correct answer. Everyone except Japanese manufacturers want to copy Apple's less-is-more philosophy and charge more for less. Gone are socketed RAM/SSD, status LEDs, and removable batteries. Instead of ethernet and HDMI ports we have dongle hell. God forbid someone give a presentation by just plugging the cable into their laptop.
Gavin James
Boomer Tech > Zommer Tech
Adam Ward
L-Linus Torvalds?
Brandon Harris
>Shouldn't this board be boomer technology general? Probably
Justin Sullivan
Every new generation of technology basically has to sit on the sideline while the users of the previous generation either die or lose relevance before they are allowed to properly flourish. This has been seen across hardware and software since the very start, and it's fucking stupid, but here we are.
Lucas Sanchez
most /g recommendation is shit.
though i got to admit I bought a lot of bitcoin at $10 because of /g
Ryan White
>Everyone except Japanese manufacturers want to copy Apple's less-is-more philosophy and charge more for less. Gone are socketed RAM/SSD, status LEDs, and removable batteries. Instead of ethernet and HDMI ports we have dongle hell. God forbid someone give a presentation by just plugging the cable into their laptop. As much as Jow Forums likes to shit on gamer laptops, many of them check most if not all of those boxes. It's just that spending that much money on a laptop is usually not worth it.
Connor Bell
Even gaming laptops are getting rid of HDD and charging status LEDs. In exchange you get a RGB backlit keyboard with individually addressable keys. Also a lot of them no longer have removable batteries. All that's beside the fact they look ugly as sin.
Wyatt Butler
God, I hate the retarded gaming designs
Connor Baker
>Also a lot of them no longer have removable batteries
I hate this. I've never not had a couple of backup batteries for my shit until recently, when nothing I could get as a new laptop that matched my requirements had a removable battery. Why do they do this?
Oliver Rodriguez
No one wants status LEDs, fuck you
Isaiah Perry
t. Macfag I hate how sterile computers and consumer electronics have become, turning into black boxes with absolutely no user-facing feedback.
Joseph Ross
Because Apple convinced everyone that $1000+ computers are disposable.
Jaxson Torres
>user-facing feedback Go back to teletype, grandpa
Jackson Wright
>Even gaming laptops are getting rid of HDD and charging status LEDs > Also a lot of them no longer have removable batteries >tfw Dell XPS 13 master race still allows for this
Not sure about newer models though.
Xavier Wood
Go eat a tide pod, zoomer.
Eli Brown
SEETHING
Leo Myers
Macs have a charge LED At least mine has
Anthony Reyes
Old ones with MagSafe had them right on the plug. It was there when you need it and not when you aren't charging. Minimalism and functionality done right.
Dominic Morales
With the strength and efficiency with which you people suck each other off and create a vacuum-sealed echo chamber, Jow Forums might as well be.
William Harris
I have never seen Jow Forums agree on anything. Ever.
Jaxon Rogers
Tech was supposed to serve people, but now people serve the tech (and jews indirectly) pic related
>everything new is progress and should be welcomed with open arms
Xavier Reyes
Nothing is built to last or repairable anymore. Apple started a trend that dumbed everything down for normies and killed the industry. There's no reason to like most devices these days.
Nathan Nelson
shame how ted wasn't jwoke
Luke Stewart
would this be considered the first ted talk?
Lucas Thomas
kek
Jordan Reyes
>>Touchscreen smartphones are trash, flip phones were better Touchscreen phones caused mass adoption of social media apps which are legitimate trash and even Apple acknowledges this now by adding Screen Time
>>LCD monitors are trash, CRTs were better :LCD monitors are always slower, for gaming they are legitimately worse
>>Modern OS are trash, OS 20 years ago were better Modern OS aren't trash but window managers and modern applications are for the most part unless you're talking about professional content creation applications or utilities
>>Modern laptops are trash, laptops from 2006 were better all laptops are trash, another thing that caused normal people to get interested in computers
Well that's just untrue. The belief that Apple is Satan's lair on Earth is pretty much unanimous to the point where even the mods sometimes move Applel threads to /fa/.
Elijah Ward
>>Modern laptops are trash, laptops from 2006 were better Absolutely. I could maybe stomach using a new Thinkpad but I don't like how some models have off-centered trackpads. I'd rather they just dump the trackpad entirely. I loved the X200 form factor by the way. It's from 2008 but still, not like today's lineup of making everything thin and using chiclet keyboards.
Can Lenovo resurrect this please? Just update it with USB 3, an ethernet port, display port, hdmi, hell even a card reader was in this thing if I remember correctly. That's super nice and still a way I like to transfer large movies to my phone.
Better CPU/GPU obviously because I think these were Core 2 Duo. Usable today but a modern i5 would be nice. Cram a 1680x1050 display in there or something. I can dream I guess.
If flip phones weren't better, then why now are the coming out with foldable screen phones?
Asher Jones
Well, disagreement there would be like denying all bachelors are unmarried. Don't be silly.
Bentley Evans
Laptops WERE objectively better OP even as much as 6 years ago. The Macbook Air 13" was the greatest laptop ever besides the Thinkpad. Comfiest keyboard ever, light, 10.5 hour battery life, fast enough to actually run Overwatch on low (6 year old bargain tech), could get for 999 dollars. No cringey styling.
I don't necessarily agree about OS, I like Windows 10 and OSX about the same. I just think there are so many forced compromises now. iOS12 could be made to be the best OS ever made (ipad should be best laptop ever made) but it has shit all for functionality but its rock hard stable and fast. Besides that I don't really have a problem with either Apple/Microsoft OS.
Flip phones are better because they are easier to hold, not pretentious computers. Human brains aren't supposed to have instant access to all the worlds information and communication handy at all times, its brutal on our attention spans and horrible for our social skills. The temptation is too strong.
More compartmentalization should be implemented into society where our social, our information gathering, our workplaces are distinctive and satisfying. Also cameras are fucking cool and its sad that they died.
>argue from a false premise and ignore all nuance of certain topics just to present some aggregated opinions in the most vague and intentionally dishonest fashion possible >all to make a shitposting thread
I'll give this bait a 5/10, needs work.
Justin Watson
I'm reading through this right now, thanks
Ayden Collins
Yes, you are lel
Julian Garcia
This. Normies ruined everything.
Time ago you could get nice products aimed at enthusiasts, now everything is aimed at retarded normies since it's were the money it's at.
Nathan Taylor
>rock hard stable and fast I can't help but think it's because of the lack of functionality. The more things you put into it the more things will go wrong. This is their philosophy with iOS and it's not going to change anytime soon.
Joseph Watson
>the more things you put into it the more things will go wrong true but that wouldn't be much of an issue if laptop makers would fucking accept moudlarity
Levi Peterson
>2018 >not just using WiFi and AirPlay
Brayden Lee
amazing, we hate the useless shit companies pander to the masses. did you figure it out all on your own?
Joshua Watson
Bunch of contrarian hipsters
Jaxon Anderson
>we >We No
Gavin Baker
Jow Forums isn't a technology board
It's a "those things you use for vidya gaemz and animu" board
Nathan Morris
>2018 >unironically wanting less connectivity options
Thomas Edwards
Been doing more reading on this. One, is there any reason why they're including a VGA port? I know I could remove it and I probably would but I wonder if I could replace it. Secondly, they seemed to have forgotten about the drainage holes the x200/1 have.
I'm still tempted by this.
Levi Bailey
>is there any reason why they're including a VGA port? So you can connect to an old projector or CRT. Personally I would've preferred HDMI but there's no space in the case for it.
Andrew Cruz
Jow Forums is like your edgelord little brother that always tries to go against the mainstream. If you use anything mainstream Jow Forums will get all snobby and berate you, without actually having any valid reasons
Nathan Sanchez
Newfag, lurk moar and don't forget to install gentoo
Adam Allen
I guess /a/ is not an anime board since they hate Naruto then
Gavin Jackson
>without actually having any valid reasons That's where you're wrong. Some threads are just low-effort bitching but there's valid reasons why people don't like modern laptops, for example. Just browse this thread and you'll see examples and not just Jow Forums being an edgelord.
Brandon Howard
It's time to stop wires
Nolan Morgan
But now technology isn't made by smart people trying to solve a problem. It's made by dumb marketing execs who think about not what people want or need but what they can sell to them. This is why most modern technology is just absolutely worthless.
Joshua Lewis
>This is why most modern technology is just absolutely worthless. This, in the most literal sense. Modern technology is trash once it leaves the factory, cheap components assembled and sold at a ridiculous markup.
Dylan Foster
>I would've preferred HDMI but there's no space in the case for it. Ah, ok.
Jacob Hill
>unironically using WE on an anonymous board
David Sanders
>CRTs belong on /vr/ and /vr/ only. There's no reason to use one for anything other than old games and movies. Nice parroting, retard. CRTs are useless everywhere.
Anthony Lopez
gr8 b8 m8
Brody Evans
Fuck off, grandpa
Lincoln Evans
The .2% of people that think old tech > new tech is much more vocal than the 99% that don't care
Isaac Cook
>CRT monitors which probably give you radiation poisoning are much better than a 1440p 144hz gaming monitor for gaming
The cope.
Nathan Evans
there's no real discussion anymore
everybody just acts like a 13yo edgy shitlord that can't stop complaining
Brandon Taylor
WE
Chase Garcia
anybody else find it ironic when people think liking technology is the same thing as mindlessly consuming and worshiping the latest shit for the sake of it you don't have to be obsessed with dumbed down facebook machines and trendy toys to like technology
No I'm not surprised at all, just look at any forum/>subreddit not under control of the people who make stuff and almost every discussion is about how something sucks
Cooper Hernandez
>t. zoomer go do heroin or something you failed experiment of a human being.
Hudson Phillips
thats just because faggots, jews, and governments hijacked technology and made it shit on purpose. otherwise tech is the most important thing in the world.
Luis Ortiz
Install Gentoo
Cooper Sanders
LCDs are trash, idiot. CRTs have better black levels and response times. if you disagree, its because you are technologically illiterate
Modern OS are bloated trash. If you cant appreciate the technological efficiency of an OS from 20 years ago, you can go ahead and >>>/get >>>/the >>>/fuck