What year did technology stop being fun for you?

The year I joined Jow Forums

that infamous hacker group?

the ride never ends

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Technology is still fun for me, since it offers me so many things in my life, however, the whole novelty thing, getting the next thing, the latest phone, that died ages ago.

dunno, I'm 45 and still having a great time playing with tech stuff.

2018

Comes and go really

what laptop is that OP?

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2010

No specific date, but when I start finding creative ways to masturbate with whatever technology I'm interested in is usually when I start noticing a sharp decline in how often it use it

around 2010-ish when everything started becoming a competition of how much one can pander to retards. I think that was about the time when every piece of software became an "app".

1945

GPD Pocket.

2010
But it started being fun again when I got into VR

when windows XP was first released, then i could not install it with a CD rom on as many PCs as i wanted because of product activation,

but when one door closes another door opens that was what made me take Linux more seriously and i dived in to Linux head first and learned all i could about it, and now i am a full time Linux Geek

2013
fuck android

Never, because I don't spend my time obsessing over the minor details of my devices. I got a Lumix G7 camera almost half off and fuckin love it. I like using the internet when I'm laughing and making others laugh. You can't get lazy and wait for people to make things, that's why everything's gotten so shit. Most people just wanna make money nowadays, which has killed the creative, otherworldly soul of the internet.

its shit, dont bother

when i got a job and realised there is too much shit to buy and then the "i don't need it phase"

>product comes out
>wait for reviews
>some tiny flaw
>lose interest
>months later interested still
>new one getting rumours/news about
>wait for new one
>same basically
>option to buy either
>can't decide
>don't buy
>find alternative
>flaw or not in retail store

Rinse and repeat

the amiga is still alive and kicking. I've recently bought an ACA500+ and boy do I like it.
Just adapt technology to become your technology.
it's true that modern tech is just bleh, but with gentoo and a bit of vision you can do anything.

When it became my job. I had to look for other normie hobbies instead of that shitfest

Around the time Jow Forums and SJW's became so rampant. Everything's so politically charged. Pretty much all forms of media are rife with it, and technology is saturated with it for sure. It's just so garbage, it's making me bitter.

this

2009

2007.
>Vista
>PS3
>Glossy black plastic
>LCD TVs with backlight bleed and shitty circuitry
>Everything becoming cheap and flashy in general.
Fuck that period.

2017

Never. I switched from PC to audio gear, and I'm enjoying the thrill of waiting for the pair of Wharfedale 11.5 I'll receive in a few hours.

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2007

When new hardware comes with only windows 10 support.

Yeah at 38 I am only more into it each year, the more you know..

Godbless

The problem with computers i think is the type of entertainment they provide.
Sure games/movies/internet etc are nice but too much is bad for you.
Other the good type of entertainment is things like art/animation/movie/software creation.(like the amiga demo scene)
I think at some point we transitioned from using machines meant to be used for creation , productivity and entertainment to using machines for just entertainment.
Scary to see how far down we've gone. This really is death by a thousand cuts.

2016 or so but I'm slowly getting back into it

Underrated post. I was going to say something similar but I will expound: most of the internet has now been set into a structure with the sole purpose of making money. YouTube is now just as corporate as any TV company. Social media is absolute cancer with the only redeemable quality being that it's now easier than ever to communicate with someone at a distance. I think Jow Forums is the only "popular" website worth spending time on. Kind of interesting that we're 20 years removed from the esoteric ways of searching for obscure sites to enjoy and now it feels like we're heading back that way. But yeah the majority of the internet is soulless now.

To take the metaphor even further, I think the Internet up until the late 00's was like the Wild West. The unstoppable influx of social media and smartphones are the "civilization" that were supposed to bring prosperity for all but ended up razing our land and killing our drive to do anything meaningful.

It's an abstract kind of feel.

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It never did, but it keeps changing what entertains me.
On the older days, power was EVERYTHING to me, the newest, the fanciest, the fastest.
But i learned to respect the durable, the long lasting, the built like a tank.
I used to hate Matricial Printers because the output is ugly, but now i know how long one of those can last on a single ribbon. The never ending printer.

As soon as I read this. Not even memeing.

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ONLY CHEAP TECH IS FUN

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Machines didn't changed, if anything, they got better at content creation and programming.
What happened is that a lot of unskilled people joined computers and treat em like garbage.
But on the other hand, if you want a public for the stuff you created, now there is a MUCH larger one.
On the Amiga era, if you wanted a large number of people to see your animation, you would have to fucking do a deal with a TV station.
Now you can crack your Amiga and post it on youtube.

This tbqh

Hasn't happened yet desu

Whatever year I got addicted to Twitter, so around 2013. I'm trying to quit though, so 2019 might be the year technology starts being fun again.

I bought something similar to that (what's now basically known as the SouljaGame but I bought it before that happened) so that I could write programs for it, but Dingoonity never accepted my registration request so I ended up abandoning it :(

Year we got our first computer.

>I think Jow Forums is the only "popular" website worth spending time on
Out of the Alexa top 100 sure, but the best time that you can spend online nowadays since Reddit ate all the other forums is finding niche chans. Even Jow Forums isn't safe from being monetized to shit; I think right now most of the revenue is earned through selling data like how Discord earns revenue because if you disable ad block on Jow Forums there are still no ads. Hiro splitting the site into two pieces was also a move to attract more normies, so unfortunately we're still going to be a money machine in the end.

No single point in time for me, but a slow amalgamation of several events.
- Death of browser-based Internet through the proliferation of apps
- Companies discovering that aggregating user data and selling it is a viable business model. Fuck the spying, I'd literally rather just pay
- Crackdown on piracy
- Everything DRM-protected
- Death of forums and Usenet
- Centralization of 99% of online discourse
- Politically-correct TOS creep
If the Internet had stopped being fun all at once, I think I would have stopped using it by now. It's the boiling of the frog that keeps me online while it slowly becomes shitter every day.

"technology" is a broad term, it never for me stops being fun to see positive new tech advancements, I don't just bitch about the problems of the modern internet and stuff like that.

>What year did technology stop being fun for you?
as a consumer, since birth
as a developer, never
I don't give a shit about modern (((tech))), everything is trash made to extract money from the braindead mass.
All that matter is that I'm having fun building gimmick trash, whatever is it as long as I can sell it.
For example, I write android and ios apps and I've never owned any smartphone in my life, people install my shit and ads watched give me money, dumb fucks.

Y'all are a bunch of sad, old men. Technology hasn't gotten boring, you all got jaded.

Technically 2018 with win 7 to win 10 migration hell. The change though is I am tweaking hardware at home to become awesome so still fun for now. Waiting on amazon order to arrive today with the last of the parts to complete it.

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work as a dev and get redpilled.
We're around 20 years behind schedule due to shitty management and greedy shareholders.
current tech is shit to build as a dev and shit to use as a consumer, if you turn off your brain and be a good goy maybe you can enjoy it but it's not easy once you know how things really are.

>be some shitty dev
>only job is to port code to stuff because you suck
>get mad at tech not realizing its you
We literally taught rocks to think. Why are you mad that you never learned to do the same?

release of windows 10. Windows has never been the same. 8 was buggy but at least it was new and exciting and signaled some hope for development. Windows 10 is fucking nothing and (for some reason) slow on all my devices. Microsoft seems to be going nowhere with it (except more privacy invasion 'features')

It's a good thing I learned programming or else I'd probably just run out into the woods and die or something

'you got games on your phone?' culture

2007

Some of these are starting to recede, fortunately

>Death of browser-based Internet through the proliferation of apps
The used to really think Web 3.0 was going to be apps-only, but now everything just has Bootstrap and shit so that a website can be beaten into shape for browsing on a phone to where you don't really need the app version of the site that much anymore. Twitter and Newegg come to mind as examples.

>Companies discovering that aggregating user data and selling it is a viable business model. Fuck the spying, I'd literally rather just pay
There are steps you can take to cripple the spying. It's tough but it's possible.

>Crackdown on piracy
This was true a little while ago when they killed KAT, but VPN's are getting big among normies, and pirating music is super-easy now because of people forgetting that you can download music off of YouTube, which now has high-quality uploads of many songs due to them trying to make YouTube compete with Spotify.

>Everything DRM-protected
There's actually less DRM in vidya now because people realized that spending all that money into developing DRM is a waste because warez groups crack it anyway. I'm not sure about other media though.

>Death of forums and Usenet
This one's unfortunately true, but there are still a few diamonds in the rough, most of them other chans.

>Centralization of 99% of online discourse
Only if you're a normie

>Politically-correct TOS creep
Will probably reverse eventually once people realize how much it cripples organizations

maybe I'm just a bloomer

when ios 7 came out and everything became ugly. then everyone copied apple and everything looks like shit

SJWs were never less rampant, they were just harder to notice because you never saw opposing views in the past.

>Death of forums and Usenet
I cry
forums that used to show up in search engines so you could find topics/people/communities you're interested in are no longer active; everything's on discord/telegram/whatever-app-of-the-day which is ofc private, and you have to know somebody who knows somebody to get in or even know of their existence

On piracy you also forget for tv/movies you can easily just watch off a streaming site no VPN needed for that.

Microsoft is slowly shooting themselves in the foot with this. PC gaming is keeping them relevant if you exclude the work place. Phone gaming can really hurt their bottom line over the years as more and more adapt to it. They sided and worked with absolute shit policies and terrible ideals that phones are now looking better to deal with. Linux gaming has increased slowly over time but is a now a valid threat with phones put into play. From a business perspective I can only view these people as morons viewing a dying company like Lotus.

who was it that said the best way to eliminate piracy is to make the product easy to access? was it gabe?

>This was true a little while ago when they killed KAT, but VPN's are getting big among normies
What do you mean with this?

I think so: gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-not-price/

Microsoft doesn't care much about gaming, dude. You're 10 years too late. Microsoft future is their cloud offerings.

I know, that is the problem. They are going business only trying to push 365 and whatnot. This is extremely dangerous now with options available of cheap computer and smart phones. Chrome books went to the shit because they got greedy from the start and paid for it. MS will bleed money from here on out.

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2028

About the same time music went to shit, comics and tv went to shit, and cars started going to shit

1996

reminder that there will never be another era in consumer technology more revolutionary than the GTX 200 series/i series 1-2 punch back in 2007

Hasn't happened yet, there are still things I'm excited about.

>everything from silicon valley switching to Material Design flatshit
>Android more locked down than ever
>default Android tools don't even include a proper file manager
>APUs unusable for the past 5 years
>laptop GPUs still battery killing space heaters
>OpenPOWER doomed to meme enterprise
>enterprise shit switching from Java to JS despite Java finally being "fast enough"
>WINE still a dodgy mess a decade later
>linux audio experience worse than windows 15 years later
>EOMA68 dead on arrival
>no more MIPS laptops sold
>mouse&keyboard and/or controllers still not packed-in with smartphones (read: designers still stuck with a single screen you literally cover with your hands)
I'd say 2014 was when the heart was crushed the most, but it isn't stopping any time soon.

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Sex bots?

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Tech is an endless cycle of marketing plastic garbage made in china with tiny incremental changes to make money. Laptops for college students, plastic flashy gaming junk for children and man children, sleek phones for young people---If I have this phone I will be a high powered business exec and get tons of pussy! No your neighbor Steve and his son Kayden have the same phone, so do Raykweesha on Ron'tell on the other side of main street.

Kayden and his friends Zayk and Jaxson also have the same gaming rig as you and play the same games. His sisters Alex and Brayleigh have the same laptop. Their dad masturbates to the same HD porn as you.

Sure, but that's a very far future thing. I wouldn't be interested in one as long as it's still obviously a robot. We can't even make a text chatbot which might fool a human, to say nothing about the physical construction of a body which looks and moves naturally.

2016, when it became my job

totally lost the magic for me around 2012ish and I went full applefag and never looked back.

this

On an undetermined date in the future

The year of Spectre, Meltdown, meme-tracing, meme-DLSS, etc.

wow you really think your computer's thinking?

Windows 10 botnet OS

Could at least identify the shit

technology he cant afford is instantly a meme

it helps him cope.

Did they fix meme-tracing halving fps and DLSS actually making shit look worse?

I assume you weren't referring to Spectre and Meltdown in your post.

oh no. You cant afford two 2080 tis in sli with watercooling. LMAO (i realize its not obvious in my previous post, but im being sarcastic.

when it started spying on me