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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

Quadman2 said:
Hate "robots" of any kind!
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Quadman2 said:
Had two of these in the past.

You meet a lot of Troopers driving these machines! Even got to know some of them by their first names after certain driving events. ;)


The nickname for the BMW Ti was "Flustern Bombe"...the "Whispering Bomb", and they really did go like he**!

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Mine was set up with Alpina suspension parts. A super nimble, tall, boxy sedan on autocrosses.

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A modern thing I hate....

A 509 page User Manual for a camera? YUP. That's all ENGLISH - not a stack of other languages! I refer to this as micro-processor useless feature bloat. Once a microprocessor is embedded in a product, every Tom, Dick and Harry in the engineering department will think up an obscure "feature" to add because, you know, the computer can do it!

I like the camera well enough, but there is a lot of feature pollution here.
 
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A modern thing I hate....

A 509 page User Manual for a camera? YUP. That's all ENGLISH - not a stack of other languages! I refer to this as micro-processor useless feature bloat. Once a microprocessor is embedded in a product, every Tom, Dick and Harry in the engineering department will think up an obscure "feature" to add because, you know, the computer can do it!

I like the camera well enough, but there is a lot of feature pollution here.
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When I bought my Sony cameras, they didn't even bother with hard copies of the mega instructions or the safety/legal mumbo-jumbo. Everything is in the Sony cloud. Which is fine with me.

Really, I use like 10% of all of the camera's options. And even then, many of those I had to look online to find the instructions. Very few things are intuitive, like the old days of film cameras.

Though once dialed in, the quality of stills and videos are first-rate.


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Mr Boochie said:
When I bought my Sony cameras, they didn't even bother with hard copies of the mega instructions or the safety/legal mumbo-jumbo. Everything is in the Sony cloud. Which is fine with me.

Really, I use like 10% of all of the camera's options. And even then, many of those I had to look online to find the instructions. Very few things are intuitive, like the old days of film cameras.

Though once dialed in, the quality of stills and videos are first-rate.


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I downloaded the manuals when I bought my used Sony cameras and saved them locally. They seem to be fairly complete, although I'm not sure they reach the level of detail you'd receive with a camera from 40 years ago, or maybe even 20. I bought a few old METZ flashes from probably the mid-'70s recently. The manual for those things is extensive, which is interesting as they're not particularly complicated compared to modern flashes.
 
I hate that it is harder to purchase physical music and video media. While vinyl records and CDs are making a bit of a comeback, too much new music and video is only available as digital downloads. I like being able to purchase something I can hold in my hand and only have to pay once for it. I tend not to pay money for digital only releases.

The best releases are those that come both ways. You can buy the physical media and they give you the digital for free.

Worse case though, you can always rip the digital yourself from the physical.

I also miss all the printed magazines and newspapers.

I like physical media!
 
MuseChaser said:
Just chiming in with a HEARTY "Amen" to the mentions of modern surveillance of everyone (license plate readers instead of cash toll booths, facial recognition in stores and other places of business, "smart" electric meters, etc). When did we give up our rights to be free of unlawful surveillance?
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Let me ease your mind a bit. You never had the right of “no surveillance”, where you did not have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Read the 4th amendment carefully.

LPR and flock cameras, an LPR reads license plates. The license plate is owned by the STATE that issued it, not the driver of the car. SO, the STATE can look for THEIR plate, any time they please.

Regarding expectation of privacy, when you are out in public, you do not have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”. So, doorbell cams, flock cams, et al, do not invade anyone’s privacy.

Things I don’t like:

Safety Nannie’s on cars or any other device I could lose body parts to.

DRLs. I delete on my cars.

Starbucks coffee

One cup coffee makers. What is the point?
 
I hate ABS braking systems in most modern vehicles, the two vehicles I own that have them I have pulled the fuse to disable them. When I want or need to lock up my brakes, I will. I almost got in an accident years ago because of the ABS in my new at the time 99GMC 4x4 wouldn't let me lock them up on a potholed gravel road. It really freaked me out.
 
Mr Boochie said:
When I bought my Sony cameras, they didn't even bother with hard copies of the mega instructions or the safety/legal mumbo-jumbo. Everything is in the Sony cloud. Which is fine with me.

Really, I use like 10% of all of the camera's options. And even then, many of those I had to look online to find the instructions. Very few things are intuitive, like the old days of film cameras.

Though once dialed in, the quality of stills and videos are first-rate.


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Right! I will probably never use most of the options, for sure. BUT, this is what usually happens---something weird gets set ON, or OFF, by mistake. Maybe handling the camera, or while trying to make some other setting. Then, I'm faced with twiddling every control, scrolling every menu, to find what happened?!?! That's when the 500 page book will come out.
 
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Let me ease your mind a bit. You never had the right of “no surveillance”, where you did not have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Read the 4th amendment carefully.

LPR and flock cameras, an LPR reads license plates. The license plate is owned by the STATE that issued it, not the driver of the car. SO, the STATE can look for THEIR plate, any time they please.

Regarding expectation of privacy, when you are out in public, you do not have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”. So, doorbell cams, flock cams, et al, do not invade anyone’s privacy.

Things I don’t like:

Safety Nannie’s on cars or any other device I could lose body parts to.

DRLs. I delete on my cars.

Starbucks coffee

One cup coffee makers. What is the point?
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The essential aspect of general surveillance is not the act itself. It is the question, "What is being done with the information?"
 
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