Has your love of technology changed?

Your a Xennial.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

We will be the only group of people that knew the world pre internet(and all the other tech like phones etc).

Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.
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I think video games have been a big part of it, improving graphics and speeds. İt was always the big wait for faster and more powerful tech now it's here.

As for the social media world it's just crazy compared to what we grew up with. I remember using something like this at school.


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JVC-GR-S...E&pageci=769318e0-73ad-48e2-9a6a-e0b3a62ff589

People like what they're used too.
 
jsmoke said:
Your a Xennial.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

We will be the only group of people that knew the world pre internet(and all the other tech like phones etc). [..]
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I think they've placed the dates in an excessively narrow margin. My life fits that description and I was born in 1969, not between 1977 and 1983. "had to bridge the divide between an analog childhood and digital adulthood." I got my first computer when I was 12. I was an adolescent rather than a child, but it's fashionable to pretend that adolescence doesn't exist and people are children until they're adults at whatever any particular culture considers the age of adulthood. I'm sure they're counting 12 year olds as children.
 
Too much tech these days is designed to tick boxes, developed purely to sell. There was much more passion for pushing the boundaries and making tech which hadn't previously existed in the development of it in the earlier days.

TBH too many people doing it purely as a career these days as well with too many who lack broader experience or vision - the quality of life experience has progressively been going to **** when we have the experience and capabilities to do much better and sadly few consumers push back against it.
 
I'm going to add this too. It's not directly computer related but it is technology. I have several cars. Two are old. very old. 26 years old and 16 years old. They have manual handbrakes and steroes with buttons. I also have a new car. It has an automatic electronic handbrake and a touchscreen system which includes the radio.

I hate the electronic handbrake and loathe the touchscreen for the radio. On the face of it the handbrake is a good idea. But it adds little to my driving experience (I can use a proper handbrake on the sharpest of hills without moving back at all) but it sometimes decides not to disengage when something in my garage is too close. wtf? I want to be in charge of my car, not a piece of software. I also find proper buttons on a radio much safer; I can change station or choose media without looking at it. But on the newer car I have to take my eyes away from the road and press 3 or 4 "buttons" on the screen to find what I'm looking for. It's such a step backwards in ease of use. Yes it looks great. But it's harder to use.

While I'm at it... the newer car has both an analogue and digital speedometer. Now my eyesight is not as good as when I was younger I find the analogue one easier to read if I have to glance at it quickly. I know where different speeds are on the dial. But if I try to read the digital number it actually takes me more time.
 
.Lethal said:
Man, there's a word for everything these days.
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sure sounds a lot better than millenial :p

thankfully I was born early enough to still be able to claim being part of gen Z but Xennial sounds cooler

we all played xenon :D?if not your not a true Xennial :p
non can outrun or equal the power of Mega Blast! :eek: ahh yea!
 
Rroff said:
Too much tech these days is designed to tick boxes, developed purely to sell. There was much more passion for pushing the boundaries and making tech which hadn't previously existed in the development of it in the earlier days.
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Nintendo power glove? Sinclair C5? :)
 
arknor said:
[..] we all played xenon :D?if not your not a true Xennial :p
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I had an Atari ST. The game was as good as the Amiga version but the music really wasn't.

This was the top game music in my earlier days. It was very impressive at the time.

EDIT: Spectrum vs C64...ST vs Amiga...I made bad choices in terms of sound :)
 
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Hades said:
I'm going to add this too. It's not directly computer related but it is technology. I have several cars. Two are old. very old. 26 years old and 16 years old. They have manual handbrakes and steroes with buttons. I also have a new car. It has an automatic electronic handbrake and a touchscreen system which includes the radio.

I hate the electronic handbrake and loathe the touchscreen for the radio. On the face of it the handbrake is a good idea. But it adds little to my driving experience (I can use a proper handbrake on the sharpest of hills without moving back at all) but it sometimes decides not to disengage when something in my garage is too close. wtf? I want to be in charge of my car, not a piece of software. I also find proper buttons on a radio much safer; I can change station or choose media without looking at it. But on the newer car I have to take my eyes away from the road and press 3 or 4 "buttons" on the screen to find what I'm looking for. It's such a step backwards in ease of use. Yes it looks great. But it's harder to use.

While I'm at it... the newer car has both an analogue and digital speedometer. Now my eyesight is not as good as when I was younger I find the analogue one easier to read if I have to glance at it quickly. I know where different speeds are on the dial. But if I try to read the digital number it actually takes me more time.
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Yeah - having a touch screen for a lot of stuff is nice but I dislike the move away from physical controls for audio and environment controls.
Likewise like a proper handbrake but I do like having automatic lights, wipers, etc.

Don't like all these keyless entry/start systems, etc. either - I don't mind being able to remotely unlock but I definitely like having a proper key and needing it to start up.
 
Agree with auto wipers and lights. They are useful.



(until I get in one of the older cars and forget)
 
Angilion said:
I had an Atari ST. The game was as good as the Amiga version but the music really wasn't.

This was the top game music in my earlier days. It was very impressive at the time.

EDIT: Spectrum vs C64...ST vs Amiga...I made bad choices in terms of sound :)
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sounds like one of basshunters songs guess he stole the melody (he's a gamer geek though, probably still playing eve-online)
1:30 in this song
I remember some atari/spectrum/c64 games but not many.

I must have been gaming from 2-3 years old since I was only born in 81 :S crazy, pretty sure all my earliest memories are gaming lol....
 
I don't chase technology, but buy best of class and keep a pretty long time, still rocking a panny plasma that still looks lush, has freesat built in, mate 20 pro that I think I will go on to sim only in June when £20 a month contract expires.
Car is very basic will be 20 yrs old soon, but great, had immo Deleted from ecu as that was playing up, manual windows so no carriers snapping ect
 
LeeUK said:
I got some smart plugs and put one on the living room lamp. Went down stairs at 6pm ish, realised it was getting dark so needed to switch the lamp on for the evening. Then I remembered I left my phone upstairs as I was planning on going back up, damn. Then I realised how much easier it would be if I could just switch it on by hand there and then. :o
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All the smart plugs I have bought have a physical switch on the side so you can still operate them without a phone/voice. Personally I’d say smart plus without voice control enabled are just expensive timers!

Back to the OP I feel somewhat the same when I got the net back in the day only about 3 people I knew were online and the ideas and concepts were mind blowing. I was the first person I knew to get a 3dfx card and it left people (geeky ones) speechless! These days tech is no longer revolutionary it is just an endless consumer evolution focussed squarely on big business and rinsing our consumerist population.
 
Edinho said:
Take this for an example...

I am going to be moving house at some point. Now, the geek in me is probably going to network each room with cat5. Normal people would think 'why are you going to do that? Pointless with wi-fi'.

But then normal people think wi-fi is great and don't realise it is crap.
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my parents had a new house built during lockdown and they had cat 5 installed in every room. They are useless with tech but they were advised to have it done. The tv in their bedroom is the only thing they use it for as the wifi doesn’t reach there.

oh also, the network switch is in their garage abd the virgin media tech installed the router in there, so when the door is shut you pretty much can’t get wifi anywhere other than a few feet away. Had to buy them a powerline adapter. You would think the vm guy would know better?
 
I think once vr becomes more mainstream that should be cool. Working from home and work meetings with holo lens. Microsoft mesh looks cool. Decent vr could be quite transformative.
 
Unfortunately it seems nowadays the purpose of new technology is not for innovation sake or anything, but rather simply used to sell advertising and invade privacy further.

Not a chance I want a Google home or alexa
 
Bassmansam said:
my parents had a new house built during lockdown and they had cat 5 installed in every room. They are useless with tech but they were advised to have it done. The tv in their bedroom is the only thing they use it for as the wifi doesn’t reach there.

oh also, the network switch is in their garage abd the virgin media tech installed the router in there, so when the door is shut you pretty much can’t get wifi anywhere other than a few feet away. Had to buy them a powerline adapter. You would think the vm guy would know better?
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Thats almost the best case scenario! Disable the WiFi on the VM box (it’s terrible anyway) and add in a new consumer grade access points off those eithernet ports and they’ll have the best WiFi experience anyone can ever have.

Consumer grade access points are ‘parent proof’ and should be able to be easily configured with the same WiFi network work seamlessly with devices hopping to the best node.
 
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