However, this doesn't mean I love everything new, nor does it mean I think everything old is outdated. These things are some of the changes to our current technology--the main thing that drives my life--that really, for lack of a better term, push my buttons and make me wish the older ways were still the norm.
Firstly, wireless tech for a computer. Now I know that some wireless tech is indeed very helpful, especially for phones and tablets. I'm talking about stuff for the computer. The concept of wireless keyboards and mice is nice, but for me anyways, that means spending extra money on batteries that run out after a few weeks, plus I tend to lose them if I absent-mindedly put the mouse or the keyboard in a weird place when I'm done. Having a cord to connect them to the computer helps with both stuff. And don't get me started on wireless internet. Maybe I'm just in bad places, but wired internet works faster and better every flippin' time. At my house I can barely stream a YouTube video with wi-fi, but plug my computer into the router and I can watch full HD with no issue, or download game clients within less than an hour, or just load pages with a lot of bandwidth in less than the thirty seconds plus it takes with wi-fi. I don't think it's just a bad internet connection: everywhere at my college people complain about the wi-fi and immediately have all their problems solved by plugging the computer directly into the router port. Overall, I'd say in terms of personal computers, wired wins every time.
Secondly, programs where pressing the X button at the top-right doesn't really close it. This is actually more common than you might think. Skype does this, Curse does this, most game clients do this, and most chat programs do it as well. With any other program you press the X to close it, and press the little dash button to minimize the window. With Skype and such, X also minimizes it, rendering the actual minimize button completely moot. In order to really close the program, you've gotta go into the program's menu or right-click on the icon on your taskbar and select "quit." Well, what do you think I'm trying to do when I press the X button, you silly program?! I've lost count of the number of times I think I've quit Skype to do computer homework, only to be interrupted by a message or a call, as the program, even though I pressed the X button that closes every other program I can think of, is still running in the background. What's the point?! Why not just have the X button close the program, the minimize button do the minimizing, and remove the whole special "quit" button altogether?! Just add one of those "are you sure you want to quit?" thingies when you press the X button and everything will be fine. That just seems far less complicated.
Finally, and admittedly this is more of a personal thing, touchscreens. I get the concept on phones and tablets: it makes it a heck of a lot easier to use and allows so much more stuff to be done. What's the point of it on computers?! Is that little insignificant thing called a "mouse" too inconvenient? This wouldn't be too much of a problem, except for having desktop computers use operating systems like Windows 8 as the default, a system which is built for touchscreens. You know all those super-special touchscreen features for Windows 8? Can't use any of them, and based on what I've seen them do on other computers, the traditional way to look at pictures or listen to music or whatever on computers works a lot better. I just don't get why they'd make programs that have all these features meant only for touchscreens and yet also run on desktop computers. Trust me, I'm not missing a thing not using any of them. This wouldn't be too much of a problem, but then they sacrifice essential features for regular computers just to allow more cool stuff for touchscreens. Like, you know what I miss? Start menus. The touchscreen one built into Windows 8 can work with a mouse, but it's layout is far too messy and hard to customize compared to a traditional start menu. I've heard there are ways to get old start menus on a Windows 8 now, but when I first got a Windows 8 on my desktop, I had no clue of that, and I had to adapt to using the computer without the convenience of a start menu. All in all, touchscreens are a wonderful idea overall, just keep them away from my computers!
And that's all for now. My rant, typed on my wired keyboard without the use of a touchscreen, is over. Once I post this, I'll close my internet browser with the X button. Oh, the simple joys in life.
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