Tech things which are unbelivable >2014 >Google Docs still

>must make a password, make sure its secure
>must be between 8 and 16 letters with at least one number and one capital letter, no funny symbols allowed, only a-z and 0-9 are permitted characters

>>47599785
>Windows still can't preview .gifs
XP was able too. Then it was removed because muh licenses.

Internet, tv service, and telephones are all provided by the same company, and you are expected to need/want all three services

>its all the same service

>>47599845
Same with having a gif as your wallpaper... Fucking miss that so much..

>>47599785
>windows
>google
this really is a ridiculous thread, what is it, 2003?

>requiring Flash for video
Seriously fucks it's time to move on.

>accounts
I'm getting sick of them. Everything tries to force some shitty account on you and it's only getting worse.

>>47599907
>Would you like to sign in with facebook or twitter?
>You can't view the rest of our site without signing in with facebook or twitter!

>>47599950
Literally fucking Hitler.

>>47599950
It's not just websites it's programs too.

Hell it's not uncommon to sign into 3 different botnets before they let you play a fucking video game.

>>47599950
I much prefer this than another seperate account, but yeah, its fucked.

>Google

>>47599985
I haven't seen it required on videogames, mostly websites. Quora comes to mind. There were some job boards that wouldn't let me sign in without linkedin as well.

>Windows still can't preview .gifs

What are you talking about, retard, I preview GIFs just fine.

>cookie notices
I'm sure the point of the law was to force websites to stop placing unnecessary cookies, especially tracking cookies instead of bugging visitors with those annoying messages. But we're talking about the same people that plastered their websites in pop-up ads back in the day. They don't give a damn.

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>>47599889
Just give it up. Linux will always be shit

>>47599907
Fucking this
I can't wait till Shumway gets a stable release

>>47599907
>>47599950
>>47599963
>Website XYZ FAQ
>We will never allow account deletion don't request it.

>>47600242
I emailed some website's support once because I couldn't find an account deletion option. They said they would delete it, but I checked later and it still existed.

>2015
>people use crap like Google Docs which needs a hugely bloated browser just for simple word processing

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>Linux still has no Adobe Suite
>you get a headache whenever you want to install the printer software in Linux

>>47600357
It's real time editing. It's awesome if it's some project you are doing with other people.

>>47600357
It's incredibly useful for group projects.

2015: linux still has no thumbnails or any audio drivers

>>47600420
>>47600431
That's no reason to implement it in the browser.

>>47600400
>you get a headache whenever you want to install the printer software in Linux
I rarely use Linux and it took me about 5 minutes with Google to get my network printer working.

>>47600400
I have not yet found a printer that doesn't work out of the box with ubuntu.

>>47600455
How else would you have it done?

>>47600495
As a native program?
You do know you can do "cloud" apps outside the browser, right?

>>47600495
wouldn't the obvious alternative be just a standalone application
that does the exact same

>>47600473
>>47600486
My hp printer didn't work out of the box with ubuntu. I needed to install some obscure software and install it via terminal.

>>47600523
what problem would that solve? what's the point?

>>47600557
I have yet to see a printer working out of the box with windows, plus CUPS is great.

>>47600562
it would be much much faster?
and requires much less ressources?
and not a huge blob upon blob of complexity begging to be exploited?

>>47599785
>2015
>No sound on webm's outside /gif/

>>47600198
I know. Google endorses Linux, so it's shit.

>>47599999
check'd

>>47600357
Preferable to a malfunctioning shared drive.

News websites that expect you to have a paid subscription to read the articles on it

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>>47600755
>not paying for news

Poorfag.

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>>47600755
>>47600833

To be fair I only pay for NYT. NYT is worth the subscription imo.

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>>47600833
>paying for a newspaper
>2015

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>>47600853
The digital subscription is cheap and I can use it everywhere.

>>47600833
>throwing your money away

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>>47600894
Or you can use the literally thousands of free alternatives

>>47599999
Nice.

>>47600930
>>>/b/

>>47600833
I prefer The Economist but you do you

Considering how much it is their Android app is horrible though

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>>47600925
I do, but no one reports as fast or with the same quality that NYT has. NYT isn't perfect, and it has a pretty decently liberal bias, but everything is biased. At that point you just need to be aware of the slant and go for the one that does the most accurate reporting.

Pic related, some of the shit I read.

>>47600948
>implying I'd go on a place full of edgy kids.

>>47599950
>You can only download this file via googe+

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I don't know where to ask and I don't want to start a new thread.

I was messing with startup programs so I can disable junk I don't want all the time but'll need eventually and I came across two Asus programs that are listed as from an Unknown manufacturer. There are two OTHER Asus programs listed as coming from the ASUSTeK Computer Inc., but for some reason these are from Unknown, pic related.

Is this a virus? I've tried Google but I can't find anything about it. I've run some security scans and Malwarebytes but they haven't picked up anything.

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>>47601066
And I just realized those are the two Asus programs from Asus, here's the unknown ones.

>>47601066
/g/ - Personal Free Tech Support

>>47601066
Reinstall windows or install linux
now back to reddit with you!

>>47599785
systemd

>>47601117
>>47601137
There's a reason /g/ was the last place I came.

Mostly because you guys are usually dicks, but also because I wanted to try to figure this out on my own.

>>47600985
>>47600894
>>47600833
>>47600849
Had no idea there were fucking paywall shills on /g/. That, or this is something like reverse sour graping, where after you pay for it you are convinced that it's actually worth it.

>>47601162
Really though just reinstall windows or do a system restore.
I'm sure its just something tracking you so I wouldn't worry about it,.

>>47601184
I'd rather pay for my news and not have to worry if they got paid off to write some article then to read some stupid ad-supported news bullshit where every other article is a sponsored report with no proper labeling.

Honestly, are you all getting your news from RT or something?

>>47601162
Oh we should be so honored that you would even come to us for help. You're such a great person for even including us in your list of potential solutions to your problem.

>>47601187
I don't really want to reinstall. There's nothing important on here but with that in mind there's nothing really worth backing up, but it'd still be a hassle to reinstall all my preferences.

I'd rather just purge whatever this shit is, but I can't find it.

>>47601217
If you don't want to help that's fine anon, but being passive aggressive still makes you a douchecannoe.

>>47601162
Nice blog post

>>47600657
and /wsg/

>>47601261
Oh and I forgot the biggest problem I'm having. Startup items won't display through Task Manager, it's just straight up blank. I can't seem to access it at all and nobody else seems to have this issue. I figure I'll just have to get some third party program to get into my startup programs now. No noticeable slowdown on my computer or anything but this is fishy, to say the least.

>>47601184
It's pretty clear that ads don't work. Anyone who knows their shit just gets an adblocker, thus the only people being targeted for ads are the people who don't know shit
thus there's a strong influence to degrade the quality of the work to support that bottom tier of people
and thus you have nearly every free news source moving more and more into buzzfeed style news
ie garbage

paywalls make a lot more sense, and there is a much greater tendency towards quality, or at least an attempt at it, though they're still generally too pricy.
otherwise it's entirely free websites, that lack ads in the first place, that one can go to for an attempt at quality

but rarely, if ever, does an ad supported website move towards quality content production.

>>47599822
>must contain at least one special character

>>47601320
are you looking at the apps section rather than the processes
because most startup items are background processes
and this isn't even close to a fucking thread for this shit

>>47599869
But so much wasted CPU/GPU...

>>47599999
>>47599950
>Sign in with Zuckerbotnet
>Requests all personal data
>signing in with social media only brought you to account registration

>>47601379
No I mean startup programs just straight up aren't displaying. At all. Only a recent problem, last month I was able to use it fine but now it saysthere are no startup items to display.
It's weird.
And yeah this is the most relevant thread I could find, sorry.

Probably just consult a tech forum at this point.

>>47599822
>8 to 16 characters
always gets me.

>>47601162
>usually

>>47601332
>Teen at home
>Look at kinky shit with AdBlock & private browsing
>Days later, on parents' account w/o AdBlock
>See ad loosely related to kinky shit
And that's how I became paranoid

>>47600985
>The Verge
>Vox Media anything

>>47599785
Google docs still can not handle multi sign in

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>>47599785

>Tech things which are unbelivable

Tablets and Smartphones and similar shit. I grew up watching Startrek Next Generation, and now we actually have the shit they were using all the time. Hell our shit actually seems almost MORE advanced in some ways.

Holodecks and transports fucking when?

I look forward to seeing what crazy shit we have in another 20 years.

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>>47599822
You don't even know how bad it can be.

>>47599950
>>47599907
Agreed.

Fuck accounts. Whenever I need an account to see something, I either go to bugmenot to get one, and if there are none, then fuck that website.

As with flash, fuck it too. The only reason I have it installed is to play some games. I'm also waiting for firefox to implement a native SWF player like >>47600217 so I can finally uninstall that piece of shit.

>>47601649
Mom still uses aol

6-8 char password, no special characters, capitalization is entirely ignored

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>Android
>just until a couple months ago Google Calendar didn't have a month view
>Youtube app STILL can't play in the background

>>47601737
good thing there's apps that allow you to bypass that + alternative calendars you can use as a frontend

>>47601954
Yea but its pathetic
Even the godawful twitch app that puts iOS before Android has background audio play for a while now

>>47601215
Lol, u mean you're stupid enough to believe there won't be bias if you pay for your news??

Dude...

>>47601992
it's because jewgle doesn't want you its users to use youtube to play music while on the go (which is how 90% of people who understand jack shit about technology listen to music for free) because they want their users to buy the songs on google music.

>>47601737
god damn I miss youtube being able to play in the background

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>>47601737
Month view was in the older Calendar. Now it's back. So what's the issue?

YT has been able to play in the background for a while: https://www.youtube.com/musickey

>4chan pass

>>47601737
youtube can't play in background because they wanna sell music streaming, simple as that

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>>47602043
Then why is the feature available as part of Google Play Music subscription? You're not buying anything with that.

>>47602130
it's €9.99 a month
you're buying the subscription

>Google some random shit I need for a guide or come across an interesting article
>Website is a slideshow
>Article or guide spans across different pages e.g page 1 out of 5 and you have to load each page.
>Website forces you to make an account
>Website has annoying popup shit that won't go away unless you do what it asks

Also
>using appchan x
>submit button randomly stops working
>4chan x hasn't updated in years

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>>47602190
No, buying implies some sort of ownership, you're PAYING for a subscription.

>>47602123
Correct. There's also the legality to consider where it's very questionable on YT as most of the time it's not uploaded by the artist. Which brings me to another point...

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STREAMING TRANSCODED TO ALL FUCK LOW QUALITY MUSIC ON YOUTUBE IN THE FIRST PLACE!?!?

This is the real problem here.

>>47602206
4chan has had a built-in plugin for a while.

>>47602227
>4chan has had a built-in plugin for a while
I don't like it. Must be a reason why appchan x submit button sticks, it can be really annoying.

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>>47602248
Besides some ultra-niche features and absolutely retarded shit like mascots it has all of the essential features 3rd party shit has. I haven't bothered keeping up with the million 4chan X forks in forever due to this.

>>47602206
>4chan x hasn't updated in years
I'm using cdd0's 4chan x and it updated yesterday.

>>47600453
Even a shitty minimal Linux installation on my Raspberry Pi has thumbnails on the file manager.
>being retarded needing thumbnails in a file picker

>>47599981
I fucking hate that I identify the images correctly but gives a fuckin error, I swear google is doing it on purpose so I have to identify 2 or 3 sets