Why is modern technology so gay and boring?
>>109079283theres no need for innovation anymore, so the "futuristic" designs of old no longer serve the same marketing purposes
leveling up your overconsumption addiction by buying a bunch of overpriced analog gadgets from 30 years ago because you think it's going to decimate your smartphone addiction and executive dysfunction is about the most zoomer thing imaginable
>>109079319did you copy and paste that from reddit?
>>109079331>hurr durr you redditorjust admit he hurt your feelings zoomie
>>109079283Everything got ruined by shareholders. Nothing fun, risky or experimental is allowed to exist, only the safest product with the highest margin or you'll get sued for not providing enough value to your shareholders.
>>109079319>analog gadgets from 30 years agothere is nothing analog about gadgets from 30 years ago
>>109079283Because everything is made with one goal in mind and that is to extract your user data so that it can be sold to advertisers or the government or whoever.There is still technology that is not gay and boring but now you're getting into the foss and diy spaces and the shit that very few people around you, if any, will be able to participate in or even appreciate.You are in a world surrounded by marvel slop producers and enjoyers and what you want to watch is Zardoz. Basically you must alienate yourself from the tastes of the world.
>>109079283Old technology is gayer. Efficiency and uniformity are masculine.
>>109079283>media consumption device:|>media consumption device, 1993:O
>>109079425>always online slab of glass consuming device :O>mechanical parts consuming device:|
>>109079319just shut up boomer
I think it's really cool how japan has repeatedly marketed their 30yo old ewaste into desirable collectibles and formed entire industries around shipping burnable ewaste out of the country for a tidy profit.If you've ever paid for shipping from japan, you know they don't eat the cost of EMS ever.It's not even just minidiscs, basically every form of weeb collectible too>figures>anime DVDs>idol CDs>japanese retro games>CDs>JDM cars>etc etc etc
>>109079283because form follows functionthe functional parts of modern devices are often nearly invisible and have a negligible impact on the formso we have black boxes and featureless slabs, with perhaps one or two major features dominating the look of the device
>>109079513>30yoI mean 1996 was peak humanity. It's only been downhill since.I've ended up in the posession of a lot of y2k japanese tech, primarily cameras and CRTs. My most prized possession is the Sony GDM-F520.
>>109079283Miniaturization and move away from mechanical operation has largely reduced the wonderment of components down to a blob on a board.
>>109079319>he says in response to a thread depicting a digital device
>>109079283Because you wasn't there. I was, and modern technology is amazing.
>>109079319The convenience of having one easy to use device that does everything is frankly too much to look pastLike it or not, the smartphone really is a small modern wonder, now if only we would use them as such instead of shitposting on Kazakhstani pua BBS's and posting selfies online Perhaps it's just the nature of our modern world and modern desires that such a powerful device is used for basically nothing
We can access literal digital Gods from our pocket size supercomputers."Boring"? Really?
Why does 80s, 90s and early 00s tech look more futuristic than current tech?
>>109080807re: the mz rh1sony had a fucking visionary team on industrial design back then, but there hasn't really been any similar top down choices about how product design should be led in any of the big tech companies that make 95%+ of the technology that you see today, they all have different (worse) priorities now
>>109079283Because people's brains are fried from cellphones, and you can't compete with cellphones, so there's no point in even trying to capture people's attention elsewhere. Plus, Japan is now a bunch of tired old people who have checked out of life, they don't give a fuck anymore, and so-called "Japanese" products are all made in China. Just like the Koreans now make all the gatchshit video games, the Chinese will one of these days figure out how to make decent anime themselves and then they can own the weeb market, and you'll be able to get your weebshit with free shipping, not some ass-raping EMS bullshit.
>>109079283Components got so cheap and small that one compact device could be a swiss army knife that meets practically all needs. This means you no longer need dedicated devices like minidisc recorders lmao
>>109079283back in the day you could open up your electronics, and do a little bit of soldering, and add in whatever you needed, now everything is so small, that they need specialized tools or to be replaced completely.they basically gatekept electronics/hacking by making it more "advanced"the tech isn't modular, the tech isn't easily repairable by hobbists, its crap and not worth the investment>its fasterthey coul'dve made it just as fast and kept the sovl from the past, but they decided to lock everything by making it more complicated.without a degree of some sort you can't into tech.
>>109079947Have fun dying aloneI saw Ye live at SoFi Apr 3So ya'll can't tell me nothingIf you're one of those boomer chuds who think what you consider to hold dear as 'culture' is completely dead then your self affirmation must be weak afPut in some reps gay boi
>>109081339Get goodPlenty of brave patient kind Indian and Bangladeshi folk who have the balls to fix your iPhone and install new IC chips so each specific hardware component of the phone can power onWithout properly functioning IC chips assigned to each hardware chip your batteries could drain rapidly from basic use particularly streaming videoOr your touch ID won't registerOr your charging port might not workCharging port issues could be battery could be any one IC of any one given component could be the port traces itselfVolt meter and a careful eye helps to have a physical magnifier As you must test each trace of each potential troubleshoot to measure if sufficient power is channelingThen you can determine which traces aren't working and apply the right solder and fluxSounds like fun unless you have bad OCD and live in a dump but these third worlders figure out a way
>>109082847Speak English, ape.
>>109079283Steve jobs made it into an entire company philosophy to make their technology as gay and boring as possible and the entire tech world followed him.
>>109079283Because nepotism is gay and boring. It's like when someone who got carried in a game takes over. They suck and everyone leaves 1 by 1 and nothing is ever the same again.
>>109079319>incoherent babbling
>>109079440Mechanical breaks.
>>109079283>phone-tier processor+battery+wifithat's pretty much all you need for most modern computing. All solid state shit, you can't design interesting devices out of it.
>>109079283the boring stuff works better. simple as. but it lacks aura.
Made by and for normalfags.
>>109080735>"digital god" is a retarded reddit summarizer and a clippy-tier annoyance>pocket supercomputer gets negated by the worse optimization imaginable because corporate decided to train monkeys to use the former to make the software
Before was better.
>>109079513>figures>anime DVDs>idol CDs>japanese retro games>CDs>JDM cars>etc etc etcSend them to me, if you h8 em. I'll take care of it.I can send you like 100 tonns of modern chink trash. Barter. What do you think?
>>109086008>JDM carsBuddy, it's Japanese Domestic for a reason.They are not to be used outside of the Kingdom of Japan.
>>109082877what about pakistani saaaarrrrrkindly edit your post
>>109087526It's an Empire though
