Hypothesis 1: The 90s-00s really were the peak and it's not just a generational effect
Hypothesis 2: The nostalgia I currently feel is bad enough but oh god it's just going to get worse isn't it?
What we do with that tech is another story. Tech is weaponised against us in every way, but that's not the tech's fault.
Yes, it is. Because the tech was specifically designed for it.
Unlikely both would blow, but I'm a little surprised more fuss hasn't been made about it from a safety standpoint; considering being able to see where you're going tends to be important - I believe in France you can get a ticket for having no washer fluid.
Then again, everything else about it is dated, especially the engine.
Search r/JustRolledIntoTheShop for "headlights".
Some of the first few matches:
Ford Fusion: https://reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/pw1n0e/t...
Tesla: https://reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/pvyq3u/y...
On the other hand, taking off a tire takes perhaps a minute.
I doubt there's a big list somewhere as it isn't something the manufacturers are proud about
I just looked it up and seems like you have to remove the entire headlight from the car, so maybe he took one look at it and decided it could be someone else's problem
But I will see the front page of crap in my peripheral vision and wonder about the millions of people who click on that garbage. Sometimes I'll even look at the names for a second and think how it's the same few names always, and how crazy that they somehow get all the attention in the world for some nonsense.
For that matter, now I see people use the word "influencer" as if it sounds perfectly respectable to them, and it shocks me every time.
I would prefer TV to Youtube any day, if I had a TV ad-blocker, simply because the content is far more likely to be reasonable quality rather than a 20 minute clickbait video with 30 seconds of actual content.
There's a ton of really good Youtube channels, and the level of information density is astounding.
Basically, for the first 50 years, airplane technology advanced at an amazing pace. And people thought it would go on to supersonic aircraft and space travel, and they tried to make that happen, but it just didn't make practical sense, and today we use jumbo jets very similar to what was introduced 50 years ago, and they still work better than the more advanced alternatives.
We have essentially reached a plateau in terms of energy costs and available energy; sending a rocket to space or making a car go round are limited by fuel consumption. Technological advancements in those areas are now devoted to either fuel efficiency, safety, and rent-seeking.
IMO, the real problem is the number of abstractions we've created, not the nice graphical stuff. The tech companies would be wise to start throwing truckloads of money at hiring game engine people and get help with the performance problems we have everywhere.
I'm not denying that things are more complicated now than in the 1990s, (unicode, high DPI displays, etc.), but we've completely abstracted over hardware to where it is no longer a concern of software developers.
I agree there is too much eye candy, especially in phones.
And then we did new technology to “fix” the old technology. Kind of a ponzi scheme if you ask me.
I wish. Clearly you missed the early 2010s, with skeuomorphic/glass design everywhere. I would have preferred that over the flat/featureless designs we have today.
you can pry my 16 core Threadripper and its 64GB of RAM from my cold dead hand.
Some of us use computers for things where more CPU cycles per second and more RAM are always good things.
Of course there’s some things that modern tech really isn’t better at. Is a Ryzen 5950X RTX 3090 tower any better than a Dell Dimension 4100 running Word 2000 or even a Mac Plus running MacWrite for writing a novel? Probably not, but people aren’t buying top end machines for those tasks, and some stick to their old machines where they can.
Now I can do a ton of it, though not enough to represent a full orchestra.
And I could not compile 600k lines of C++ in 4 minutes on any processor of that era.
Now I can.
The fact that desktop environments have gotten "heavy" has essentially zero impact on the compute-heavy tasks that are important to me. If I was a video editor (I'm not), the same "progress" would apply there too.
Examples:
Car controls:
(ICE) Car electronics: TV: CPUs: and so on, you get the idea.Technology has and always will have a place in my life. But my car is a 1997 model that doesn't phone home to the factory, has buttons instead of menus, my phone is a Nokia, and so on. Technology is my slave, not my master.