Thread 105573564

Why did we ever move away from the laptop activity indicators?
Useful ones like storage usage indicator, wifi indicator, etc.
On my old thinkpad it's honestly so comfy seeing the storage indicator flash sometimes.

Because they are useless and it saves money to not have useless features that no one cares about. Plus you can just make your own blinking light with a shell script.

>>105573564 (OP)
What would be the benefit in letting users know that all of their private data is being directly funneled to NSA servers?

>>105573564 (OP)
Because people thought that macbooks should be the new standard for some reason?

because computers are toys now, and most people are too retarded to even know what a hard disk is

>>105573614
No they are not, It's nice having a battery indicator, Bluetooth, harddive activity indicators present and easily readable at all times, please grow up.
>>105573652
True, the goyim must never notice
>>105573655
Sad and awful times, robust Industrial design got replaced by cheap and shitty ultrabook design.
>>105573675
True, we had a basic networking course where they taught us a bit of HTML, and most of my classmates didn't even know what a file extension was or how to change it. The newbloods pride themselves and laugh on boomers on how tech illiterate they are, but other than making a Tiktok account and putting useless filters on their photos they themselves are totally useless.

>>105573564 (OP)
Because those lights would be permanently on with modern Windows.

>>105573778
>most of my classmates didn't even know what a file extension was or how to change it.
I blame Apple. Mac OS (well, MFS, HFS, HFS+, no idea how APFS works) didn't have file extensions at all, it was stored as filesystem metadata. Like an NTFS ADS 10 years before that was a thing. But shittier. Also fuck ever having to share drives with a Mac nigger, hope you like having 1000s of extra dot files all over the place because OS X can't survive without doing that on non-Apple filesystems.
Microshart decided to try and copy them on Windows 95 and starting hiding file extensions by default, opening the door for BigGiganticTitties.avi.exe and other shit 5ever. It's such a fucking security risk to dumb shit down like that.

For old fucks that used 3.1 (or DOS) enough before that to understand what a file extension was and meant, it's not a huge deal. Zoomzooms born into a world where dumbing everything down was already the norm don't even understand basics like directories because their smartphone abstracts their filesystem for them into neat little libraries.

>>105574006
Yeah the degradation of the basic tech knowledge is something to be studied. I mean a lot of my peers don't even know how to torrent shit from the internet (what torrents are, how to crack games, what clients to use etc..). If I was this useless in life back when I was mega poorfag I would not have been able to play any pc game at all lol.
Sad that everything has to cater to retards nowadays, and us sane people get locked down toy tier devices.

>>105573564 (OP)
You have your choice from of any of two brushed aluminum finishes on your boring formless slab.

But seriously, it confused oldsters, which caused support hours which were not associated with financial benefit to be logged, so it was removed. Same with AI (aka chatbots)...the target market is retarded oldsters who think they should talk to the computer in their broken regional english instead of the burden needing to be on them to learn the most basic query language.

This is the future. No fun allowed.

>>105573778
I literally have those on my task bar wtf do I need a hardware LED for it.
Let me glance over to it, yes 72% battery, bluetooth is on.

fucking millennial boomers i swear.

>>105573778
>Sad and awful times, robust Industrial design got replaced by cheap and shitty ultrabook design.
Preach

>>105574137
Brushed aluminium is such a bad material for something you are supposed o lug around in a bag all day. Any small impact will either scratch or dent it, and after a while you laptop will just look like the average Nissan altima in the Hood.
>>105574165
And what if I didn't need to clutter my taskbar with increasingly unreadable icons made to fit some unified design language and instead just have them right on my machine. Available for me to see even when watching a movie/video in fullscreen or playing vidya or any other instance where something needs to be fullscreen and my taskbar hidden.
My x230 has them even on the lid of the laptop, so I can see whether or not my laptop is in hibernation and if my battery is fully charged or not (granted new machines do this but with a shitty LED and not a cool little icon).

>>105574006
>I blame Apple. Mac OS (well, MFS, HFS, HFS+, no idea how APFS works) didn't have file extensions at all, it was stored as filesystem metadata.
isn't this just how all UNIX-likes do it? using magic numbers instead of name suffixes is a much better approach imo

>>105574265
Then I guess you're going to have to buy a die grinder, some leds, a soldering iron, and get to work instead of shitting up boards yelling at clouds, GRANDPA

Because the system tray exi-

>>105574321
At the ripe old age of 21, I am a rotting corpse

>>105574364
more like 61 LMAO!

>>105574127
I wouldn't say knowing how to torrent is basic knowledge, but I'll still laugh at someone who has to ask.
>Sad that everything has to cater to retards nowadays, and us sane people get locked down toy tier devices.
Partially to cater to retards but also to deliberately and maliciously try and force you to spend more money. Never forget that.

>>105574165
>fullscreen gayming
>no idea if I accidentally hit the BT button because my F keys do stupid Mac-esque shit by default and force me to hold Fn to get fucking F4 when I push F4
>in a terminal, or installing an OS
>no idea how much battery is left
Fuck you, I agree with OP. The lights were useful. HDD activity is the only arguably useless one. Seeing it lit solid while an old laptop with a pathetic 4200RPM drive was chugging instantly told you I/O was the bottleneck. The only thing it's good for today with NVMe and operating systems that constantly thrash your disks and normie Electronslop that will burn through 1DWPD sitting idle (Spotify comes to mind) is letting you know if the system is actually completely hung by the ABSENCE of any flashing when the machine is unresponsive. No I/O, system is actually frozen.

>>105574364
Damn. I felt like an old codger writing a rant about this in my 30s. You really might as well be 61 if you're only 21 and bothered by this.

>>105573778
>have a mental breakdown because some manchildren lights are removed
>please grow up.

>>105574391
>HDD activity is the only arguably useless one
I disagree. came in clutch when I tried to run some legacy Windows installer through Wine. If the activity light went dark for a long period of time I knew the installer froze. There is no such thing as useless I/O.
>You really might as well be 61 if you're only 21 and bothered by this.

You gonna make this socially inept Engineering student cry man.

>>105574484
Goooooooood.

>>105573564 (OP)
>Why did we ever move away from the laptop activity indicators?
"we" didn't, "they" did, because, at first, the computers were only made for "us", but now they're also made for "them", and "they" don't need activity indicator lights

Because for some reason every modern electronic device must function in a way that even a literal babby can use it. Status LEDs are le SCARY. Things are not allowed to look technical and even error messages must be written in babbyspeak
>uwu sowwy sumfing went wrong ~

>>105574574
That's not nice :(

>>105574792
Where do you think we are?

>>105574817
The Internet, but that doesn't mean you can't be nice