Crappy Technology

[@NakeyJakey]

this video was forged in a bargain bin by 7 PSVITAs all tangled together as one super gundam no but for real i did actually just get a Steam Deck and man that shit is NOT crappy technology so far im pretty impressed!! and i might do a video about it on Jaquan if that sounds interesting...?? anyways if u see this i hope youre well and your technology is well too and lemme know what you think is crappy down below

[@the_blue_chicken]

Did you fix your laptop after it exploded

[@ChrisRey3156]

[@thematiasmadness7010]

Yes please

[@DomokiinGaming]

As far as I’m concerned, the PSP and PSVita was good technology ✨

[@zhon5311]

Steam Deck is amazing! I picked it up on Summer Sale and I somehow prefer to play some of my library on the Deck than on my thousands dollar Gamer PC. Emulation is also the best! All the way up to Switch! Hope you have a great time with it and I'd love to see a video of your impressions!

[@brewstew]

10 years ago I wrapped my Xbox360 in a bunch of towels and let it run for 45 minutes to ‘fix’ my red ring of death, because a 14 yr old on KZbin told me to. What a time to be alive.

[@SirBladewind]

Did it work?

[@aldrinswagmoftw209]

I remember sitting next to my older brother and cousin trying this shit back in the day. The video they watched recommended having a fire extinguisher handy and my bro and cousin were like naww dont need that shit.

[@TurboPancake]

HUKAS???

[@matthewjalovick]

Same. I heard that you need to intentionally overheat the hell out of it. So I did. Like 2 hours later it worked for the next 3 years 😅

[@curtman1374]

I got the red ring within a week of Halo 3's release. Cried like a baby at 13 years old lol

[@_AaronSchmidt]

A new Jakey vid is like when your parents would actually stop at McDonald’s to get you food

[@jakedizzle]

Apt analogy fr lol

[@yessir650]

*AND* you got an extra chicken nugget in your happy meal!

[@lPHOTONl]

i think jakey is worth more than a comparison to mcdonalds bro...more like when you get taken to a fancy place once a year

[@dopeanimekid918]

These are fax 💀💀💀

[@KenrickBlock]

YES

[@abbyreith]

My biggest technology beef is with printers, literally can't work even if they wanted to. How as a society have printers not gotten cheaper or easier to use? And don't even get me started on taking out loans to buy ink.

[@richardwild3942]

Ink Jet printers should be illegal

[@roflBeck]

They work like magic if you're on Linux, but other than that, printers are indeed awful. They're finicky in any other OS, and you have to pay a fortune to feed it all the time.

[@bobmcbob4399]

@@roflBeckI run my printer/scanner from a VM in linux and print to the VM windows print server lol

[@Channel-gz9hm]

Stop buying inkjet printers, stop buying anything made by HP or Canon, and buy yourself a laser printer made by Brother. Two pack rolls of toner for the Brother printers are $35 and last about 3000 pages. Had mine for 9 years and have never had to configure a single driver. Plug in the USB cable and it was ready to go.

[@coreywinter8716]

ink tanks my guy. less than 25 dollars a bottle, albeit with a bit less ink. point is youre not paying for the cartridge

[@Mango_416]

4:30 hit the nail on the head, God i miss just actually having buttons for things instead of deciphering the tree of menus to find out how the radio works

[@GodofGHz]

And its 1000x worse in teslas. They have a menu button to open THE GLOVEBOX.

[@The_Natalist]

​@@GodofGHz thats disgusting

[@VulcanicCloud]

The ever so annoying and growing trend of "minimalism and futuristic" will be the death of good design and engineering.

[@The_Natalist]

​​@@VulcanicCloudminimalism has its place, but it can be taken to far

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@GodofGHz But don’t worry, the ai driver will kill plenty of people while you’re busy trying to figure it out. 😜

[@MissFelice]

I feel like this could be a 1,000 part series, please continue to tell us about all the crap tech.

[@wendelinspegel2842]

jake needs a series anyway!

[@constantk8780]

Hint: it's all of it.

[@ThatDudeinBlue]

As somebody who reviews cars for a living I was so happy to hear Jakey talk about trash infotainment systems that are usually so terrible - it is a godsend to have a new car with physical knobs for climate control nowadays.

[@bizooty]

Makes me glad that our plastic fantastic modern muscle cars still have some physical buttons in them lol Lookin at you Mk8 Golf...

[@Drkbowers1]

At first I was sad the my new mazda 3 did not use a touch screen for infotainment but once you get used to it, it's nice to just use the knob on muscle memory and you don't really have to focus on the screen while driving. Also physical buttons for most of the important stuff

[@alexbrown1050]

It's almost like we designed cars to be operated while looking at the road instead of looking at a tablet. Keep fighting the good fight

[@KG-rk7qu]

The crossover we didn’t know we needed

[@cookies23z]

Omfg TRUE My dad simps for tesla/elon and driving the car I miss my fucking nobs and dials, I dont get the need for "no buttons" the fkn hazard lights button a re hidden behind the fkn screem Meanwhile my friends car (I dont remember the model or even company) has infinite buttons that are useless

[@giselle9230]

The fact that the #1 fix for joycon drift is literally cracking it open and sticking a piece of cardboard under the stick is fucking insane to me

[@RustyShackleford556]

planned obsolecense my beloved

[@SolarScion]

@@RustyShackleford556 Not just that, but Nintendo being Nintendo and being so cheap with hardware design that it either doesn't work properly at all from day one, And/Or it has a 100% wear out rate within a year.

[@crooster1]

@@RustyShackleford556 What we OLD dudes did to our TAC-2 joysticks when the fire button stopped working on the Commodore 64.

[@schmatzler]

Man, in 1998 Microsoft made a joystick with light sensors that never drift and are accurate as fuck, but in 2023 we're still using crappy potentiometers in our game controllers that start drifting after playing through one full game...

[@RustyShackleford556]

@@schmatzler This. We had this problem solved a LONG time ago. The Xbox 360 controllers are the only recent good controllers I can think of, but every old/retro controller I have is still 100% functional

[@ekki1993]

Reminds me of a joke >Tech Enthusiast: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future! >Security expert: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

[@tybronx2446]

This 😂

[@unpaidintern6652]

The cloud is just someone elses computer. I really dont know why my parents cant comprehend that, regardless of how often I explain it to them.

[@voodoo2445]

Unexpected noise = actually print something

[@jameshart4867]

Nothing gets under my skin more than software that you can't just buy once and be done. Everything has to be a god damn subscription service.

[@mpp4345]

Adobe moment

[@DELTARYZ]

I have to shill Affinity products as the Adobe replacement we’ve all been begging for. Couldn’t ask for a better alternative. Please give them money, and absolutely never give Adobe money.

[@Coliflower185]

remember, at that point, it's not just ethical to pirate it, it's an obligation.

[@pointyorb]

I found another one of my kind

[@opagel]

GameMaker after it got bought by Opera

[@jquickri]

For me the most recent edition of crappy technology was visiting a mall where they didn't have a map. They had a qr code where I could download an app and after that. I had to input my personal info and then I finally got a map with no key. Instead I could I put where I wanted to go and it would tell me how to get there by using location services but it still couldn't tell me just generally what stores were around me. So much worse than a fucking map.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

Similar experience here was a convention where the schedule was only available in some app that required two separate accounts and then still couldn't figure out what time it was. The most annoying part is that when I last went to the same con like ten years ago, they had a paper/PDF schedule that worked just fine, and it's like, why not just stick with that?

[@VickyViolet]

If a restaurant makes me scan a QR code to read their menu, I am burning that establishment to the ground.

[@Blakbox92]

Imagine the amount of money they wasted with that crappy system instead of just printing some brochures or just having a printout of the map behind some plastic on a sign post. Like damn.

[@literofcretin]

We're in the counterintuitive era of technology where the novelty of everything being integrated into the internet and smart devices has become a detriment to convenience.

[@kylegonewild]

@@literofcretin You can have an online map without tying it to a phone app lol. They just want to sell your data

[@BigFalconar]

That movie while driving simulator is the most perfect “how easy distracted driving is” moment I’ve ever witnessed. I was so focused on the nic cage movie that I was genuinely freaked out when I saw the car accident from the drivers’ perspective. Safety NakeyJakey moment of 2023.

[@joelbroadcastinggroup7991]

imagine he just makes a fucking spin-off channel reviewing the safety of random things called safetyjakey

[@Nacho.999.]

​​@@joelbroadcastinggroup7991you could have said SafeyJakey and you somehow fucked it up

[@JakTheLombax]

I was visiting my parents for Christmas and I finally told my dad he could turn off the motion smoothing crap and he asked me how. We worked our way through the labyrinthian menus and finally found the setting. It's called something different on every TV but we got it turned off and it looked so much better.

[@doopersfr]

by far the worst technology I have been experiencing too much recently is college and university websites. the intuitive navigation of these sites is nonexistent and half the time, the information I want to find like time-based stuff is outdated or incomplete. I have so many bookmarks for information I only need sometimes because I KNOW I will forget how to find it again. university make a usable website challenge IMPOSSIBLE.

[@townfool4682]

the site that my university used for course registration crashed every year when people tried to... register for courses. i swear the site could not handle more than 20 people on it at a time, and its sole purpose was for course registration. i have no idea who designs university sites but they are doing a very bad job lol

[@Thomas.c4647]

My university still links to a company on the home page to order books but it's been out of business close to a year....

[@KuroOnehalf]

Glad things haven't changed in the last 10 years.

[@drunkenhobo8020]

Interesting to hear they haven't improved since the late 2000s. Actually I had figured that out anyway - was applying for a job at a local university and trying to search careers on their site takes me back to late 90s internet. The careers page is all just one big alphabetical list.

[@BerkayKocOfficial]

@@townfool4682 My uni has the exact same problem every goddamn semester lmfao. They recently redesigned the interface, and not only was the redesign worse in many ways, that crashing problem was still in the redesign and gotten even worse that the uni was forced to keep the old website alive. Literally, no progress was made whatsoever, yet I’m pretty sure them webmasters and designers got paid in a great deal.

[@ifistedabear]

The car touchscreen controls has been a pet peeve of mine for a while now. It's not only an additional distraction taken over by as you mentioned a muscle memory, but when if your touchscreen control goes to shit for whatever reason, you have ZERO access to climate controls. What if it dies on you in the dead of winter and you can't defrost your windows? "Sorry boss, I'm gonna be late because I can't see out of my window due to my touchscreen faulting on me."

[@aurifulgore]

A lot of car touchscreens just suck, too. Watching my dad, a tech savvy and broad fingered guy struggle to click on maps because the touchscreen pressure is so picky is infuriating lol

[@condensationbear1814]

IMO the only thing touchscreens are meant for are maps- cause those are the only thing that’s inefficient asl in it’s physical form. 💀 Everything else 100% should be physical buttons

[@danonck]

Couldn't agree more. I can't imagine driving a car with a touchscreen. It's convenient for me to use all the functions (maps, music, phonecalls) using voice commands, buttons on the steering wheel and the joystick in the middle. I once drove a WV which had the worst touchscreen I've ever experienced, bar from maybe ticket buying machines. Its touchmap was impossible to get right. Sometimes it worked with a slightest touch (when you didn't expect it) and if you really wanted to pick some function you had to push 10x as hard as you would a physical button

[@bobmcbob4399]

This is bought to you by "Digitalization" and Claus by the way. Just so you know who to blame.

[@incandescentdream]

YES I'm gonna feel like an old man asking if they make any newer vehicles with manual knobs :D

[@papagiorgio6224]

I’m convinced that planned obsolescence is the cause people’s anxiety. Everything everywhere is just worse than it needs to be, and people can feel it

[@sierra----]

they literally unironically dont make em like they used to

[@SquirtleTime]

You didn’t have to get that real, but fuck me what a hard truth

[@Sorin2120]

One of the many failings of capitalism

[@immaculatetoilet]

Also, a great song by the band Gojira (planned obsolescence). This is not the future previously dreamed about, that’s for sure.

[@tiagosantos5653]

​@@Sorin2120 still less failings than any other system known to humanity

[@isadoracostahamsi163]

0:50 the right answer is to say nothing and fix it later when they go to sleep, and than you take it to your grave!

[@briansadler5225]

And your parents wont even notice that the tv looks different, it’s just for our personal gratification

[@michaelwesten4624]

man, it's great to be back to short, snappy, full on cranked videos with jokes in them

[@NakeyJakey]

this is what im sayin michael

[@Vistalgia]

@@NakeyJakeyMichael Clayton It’s because of you I saw that film. An amazing decision.

[@mintfloss15]

hey michaelsoft

[@Kerbonauts123]

@@NakeyJakey Will your upload schedule be improved or will it be made by Roku?

[@MaSTARMedia]

I lost it at the 45 second delay on Roku TVs. That hit too close to home

[@AdamSambuco]

My Roku TV is 10x more responsive than the Samsung which is smaller and newer.

[@unlimitedDada]

I was straight up in the middle of using my Roku TV as he said that.

[@dizzymash6235]

Holy shit you're here too? Everyone loves Nakey Jakey lol

[@mchjsosde]

@@AdamSambuco yeah if ur remote is screwy just use the phone app which works awesome and you can create shortcuts to ur favorite shows too so less clicking anyway

[@STOPSYPHER]

@@mchjsosde the phone app for my roku still has input delay 🗿

[@EddyBurback]

The third PS5 controller I bought (because my other two had stick drift) got stuck drift in TWO WEEKS

[@AntiSoraXVI]

Somehow Nintendo is to blame for this

[@AsteroSloth]

My PS5 controller still works after two years wdym😭

[@ragnarockerbunny]

RIP I had my Dualshock 3 for 9 fucking years before the board inside gave in and my PS2's Dualshock 2 lost the rubber on the left stick but still just fucking works, it's not even a second remote, it's my first one, the one that came with the PS2, that shit outlasted the PS2 itself.

[@LukieLuke5]

This is why they make them this way. Because people like you will just buy another, so it makes them way more money this way.

[@Scott-ql2kx]

wtf are you people doing to your playstation controllers? i've had every gen, two controllers every time, literally zero problems.

[@BlackXSunlight]

4:54 ugh this. My friend’s Toyota had a physical analog buttons on her steering wheel to control her volume and AC and I love it, looking for that for my next ride

[@samwallaceart288]

I love my 2012 Corolla. Everything's analog and muscle memory. Doesn't smart-connect to my phone, _and it doesn't need to._ Just a dashboard clip and an aux cable and it works fine, and if I need to fuck with my Playlist or the maps, my phone's touchscreen is good and I already have muscle memory for where my phones stuff is

[@existential_horror5045]

don't know if you've bought that new car yet but i have a 2023 honda accord and while it doesn't have AC on the steering wheel, it does have a physical button for it under the screen thing (it comes with carplay). volume and skip buttons for songs are on the wheel. it's not perfect but they've brought back a lot of the physical buttons/knobs from older models and i haven't had to adjust anything but maps or music on the screen so far

[@BlackXSunlight]

@@existential_horror5045 Lmao I moved to a walkable city and sold my car 😭

[@existential_horror5045]

@@BlackXSunlight honestly sounds like living the dream. i like my car but i dislike driving, but i live in a car dependent area so i can't really do anything about it

[@AedynWolf]

THANK YOU for mentioning the replacement of physical buttons in modern cars. Absolutely hate that trend because physical switches and buttons are objectively better for some things over using a stupid laggy touchscreen while you're driving down the freeway

[@ParotandArmorfinish]

The most annoying thing about stick drift isn’t just that we’ve literally figured out how to fix it, but my older controllers either never got it or it was much milder and took years

[@anotherrandomguy8871]

Same here, my recent c ox controllers are the only ones to ever actually stick drift. Others for years I didn’t have this problem with my older controllers…well until I did, but it took a long as damn time.

[@anotherrandomguy8871]

But now i have another problem with my Xbox which I have figured out isn’t a very uncommon problem, that being controllers having a very crappy Bluetooth to the console no matter if the controller is new or not or if you reset the console or use a wire, which this just makes having an Xbox useless since now you can’t play it for longer than a few seconds before it disconnects. Plus I’ve heard that people brought new controllers and Xbox consoles just to have the same problem happen right after setting it up.

[@markellii3093]

My psp still doesn't have it.

[@Dorraj]

The fix for stick drift is to make controllers with hall effect sticks instead. But companies would rather save literal cents and use the awful ones. Oh also so you buy more controllers cause if they lasted too long, how are they gonna make money?

[@Gruwg2024]

@@anotherrandomguy8871”cock controller”? Keep that to yourself man we don’t want to hear about it

[@jarvis]

my phone blew up watching this thanky jakey

[@virtual2288]

Then don't buy crappy phones like smasnug and appl, buy the superior chatter telephone lmao.

[@braevinmaund1210]

@@virtual2288 bruh snamguns and pabble to be pretty dogshit fr fr

[@jorma8567]

omg it's my favorite alpha redpill chad podcaster!!!1

[@lunchfood5585]

Loved seeing infotainment screen I work at an independent mechanic shop and the amount of calls we get about these failing is nuts what makes it even more fun is that theyre all proprietary and even within the brand they’re different car electronics are wild and go obsolete quickly some cars have specific things tied into the infotainment screen such as putting your wipers in service position or if you have a electric parking brake you have to release it to be able to change the brake pads and rotors in the rear as well as just being able to turn off the service message and when they break it’s dumb expensive just the dials in a bmw is a 700-1000$ instal for just a dial to navigate the infotainment screen

[@kaitlin9288]

In a time where quality video essays feel like they're getting longer and longer, I am once again impressed by Jakey's ability to create a video that feels like a satisfying viewing experience in like 12 minutes

[@peaknostalgia]

facts. youtube video essays are getting too long for something you could read in 30 seconds on wikipedia

[@chikinonfrydai]

are you saying you DON’T want 20 hour video essays about skyrim?

[@theviniso]

@@chikinonfrydai Of course not. A 4 hour video essay about Skyrim, on the other hand...

[@chikinonfrydai]

@@theviniso kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnmzYWWAeqhofpI this is the 20 hour video i’m referring to, it’s a really good retrospective, but it’s long af

[@DeathnoteBB]

Seriously. I don’t have the attention span nor time for a 5 hour analysis of Insert 2000’s Pop Culture Show Here

[@therealjuralumin3416]

I encouraged my parents to buy the same TV as me simply because I already knew how to use it, it made fixing all that crap like frame smoothing way easier, and I knew they would never figure out how to do it themselves 😅

[@NakeyJakey]

this is actually such a fire strategy hahaha

[@TheZINGularity]

@@NakeyJakeyLike a phone after charging it in your pocket kind of fire?

[@keelansmith999]

Am I the only one who actually like a motion smoothing? 😅

[@harrisonmckinney7659]

@@keelansmith999yes! What are you? A terminator?

[@von...]

@@keelansmith999 yes, just watch uncompressed/actual 4k content (not from netflix) & you dont need to smooth out all the jankness from the compression artifacts because it isn't there. also btw if you get something other than a TCL cheap TV, try hooking up a PC to it that actually supports the highest fidelity & refresh rate it is able to display - something other than a roku or using the smart tv stuff. bc hooking up a tiny pc to my TV & spending like a night setting it up as a media host on it has been a wild QoL upgrade. Literally everyone asks why it looks so much better than their expensive tv... its because fuck netflix, even their most expensive 4k package still sucks ass. I am not saying pirate everything, but living life on the high seas is VASTLY superior to the current quality of any mainstream service in 2023.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

PS2 controllers have a built-in hardware countermeasure against stick drift and it works practically flawlessly. It's not hard for manufacturers to make either.

[@smailchali5102]

why spend money on customer satisfaction when you can make more money on customer dissatisfaction

[@Drekromancer]

@@smailchali5102 This seemed like a smartass comment until it decked me in the brain. Now I'm just staring off into the distance and contemplating the truth bomb you just dropped on me. Thanks for sharing, friend. ❤

[@nezunish-898]

True tho. There this thing call hall effect sensor which some aftermarket/ custom controller use . Sure it a tad expensive but if it last longer and more durable yeah sure worth the price

[@game_boyd1644]

@@smailchali5102 Capitalist innovation

[@jim-myjumbo789]

My ps5 says otherwise

[@PanzerMan332]

I was looking to replace my car's FM radio with an aftermarket one with a Bluetooth option, but even the aftermarket new head units are all touch screen infotainment GPS crap for a 20 year old car. Eventually I was able to find one with like a hundred actual buttons and big stupid dial on the middle for the volume. I love it.

[@weston407]

when i was in the market for a new stereo a few years ago, i could NOT find one that had a volume dial that wasn’t cost prohibitive - all i wanted was a volume dial and not up and down buttons but it just wasn’t in the cards

[@mtmesa390]

Sony, Panasonic etc still make these old units. I live in Aus and will find a bunch of them at any auto store, but you can find them easy by just searching Sony single din head unit

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Cars are going back to having more physical buttons just because of the customer reaction. My wife's 2014 ford has a lot of touch screen stuff, but the stuff that's safe to use while driving pretty much all has a physical button on or near the steering column.

[@theletters9623]

god I love a good big stupid dial, give me Big Dial over a screen every fucking day

[@Inirit]

That bit about smart TVs was extra relevant for me. I dragged my feet on getting one for a long time under the assumption that the first few generations of them would be crap and I'd just wait until they worked out all the issues. Well I finally got one a few months ago, went with a well-known brand and paid quite a lot of money for it, and while the picture quality is fantastic I am constantly left dumbfounded by how godawful the actual "smart" part of the smart TV is. Embarrassingly slow menus, motion blurring nonsense, arcane menus, so many extra steps just to plug in and detect a god damn game console, but by far the worst thing was when I turned it on for the first time and let it sit on the dashboard for a minute or so it started playing video ads. Full screen video ads with audio on a TV priced in the 4 figure range. I love modern technology.

[@majorgnu]

For now we can at least leave them without Internet access and use as plain TVs, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they started coming with built-in cell network access that you can't turn off just to be able to serve you ads and collect data.

[@eruannster]

I strongly recommend getting a dedicated media player box, like an Apple TV or an Nvidia Shield. You get all the good parts of the TV and skip all the bullshit nonsense UI.

[@kotzpenner]

I always shill for Philips smart TV, not only do they have great backlight, the smart aspect is also non-intrusive. When I watch TV at friends who have another TV we always get annoyed af when ads from the smart TV pop up, like wtf, I paid for getting ads shown? Meanwhile my TV has all I need and even has a nice keyboard on the back of the remote. Also recommended to my mom who got one. And it's pretty cheap, like I paid around 500€ years ago for a 4k 50 inch TV with all bells and whistles. Apparently they're more expensive now.

[@muhammadhamzashahid7905]

Just go for the ones with AndroidTV OS and skip the crappy UI problems

[@extraordinarilybasic3250]

Samsung, you don't have to say it. They use shitty cpus

[@cyarain]

Whenever Jakey uploads, it's like a triple A studio making a good game It's rare to see and it's bound to be a good time

[@isaacsee3807]

i mean not even just rare because he doesnt post a lot, but rare because they’res only few creators that just release bangers everytime like EmpLemon or Degenorocity

[@shreknskrubgaming7248]

@@isaacsee3807 Lemmino is great like that too. Loved all of his videos that have come out.

[@maanonthemoon]

Nakey is like that cousin that randomly pops up out of nowhere but you're excited to see what he's going to show you.

[@incandescentdream]

I didn't realize I missed him until this video popped up

[@CheeseOnMyPizza]

First thing I did was scroll down into the comment section because I knew immediately I'd find someone who has said this comment a thousand times on Jakey's videos.

[@maanonthemoon]

@@CheeseOnMyPizza yeah you gotta keep it alive at this point

[@CheeseOnMyPizza]

@@maanonthemoon It's the running meme

[@sackerland]

I had an uncle like that once. I think he went to prison...

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

I love that you used the gba sp as an example of amazing design because I still pull mine out every once and awhile and admire just how compact/pretty/functional it is.

[@ohno5559]

Kind of insane that the GBA line only had 2 face buttons, though

[@TheStrix]

Oh my god, the dudes playing melee and brawl at my college would hold a lighter up to the TV EVERY SINGLE DAY to get past the menu without needing the sensor bar! I'm so glad other people have experienced this!

[@kered13]

These days we homebrew our Wiis and use BootMii to bypass the home menu and go straight into USB Loader GX or Nintendont, all of which work perfectly fine with just Gamecube controllers.

[@elyjahkidnot]

If you have a wii classic controller you also do not need a sensor bar to play, because the left stick will trigger the cursor to move!

[@Geeler]

Two candles work even better

[@noboty4168]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@maxlhetvxhywxvxbm7645]

We had to use a lamp light bulb as the sensor, I just found out candles work too

[@jackwoodbury5224]

You’re spot on with the touch screen thing. My mother in law’s dvd player had a touch screen instead of buttons, and it did this super cool thing where it would react as if someone had touched the open/close option anytime a shadow moved across it. I had to manually disconnect the touch screen capability to make the dvd player useable at all. Now she just operates it with her remote and all its beautiful, fully functioning, buttons.

[@JCee3223]

This video resonated with me so hard. It's so true that technology nowadays is getting infinitely less user friendly and more convoluted. Especially smart TVs and car infotainment systems. Phones are also becoming less functional/repairable too.

[@BumblingFool912]

literally just sorted out myself a slightly 4G capable Nokia 8110 phone precisely cause I wanted something w/ more buttons and simple usage. it STILL came with minor bloatware :L

[@MrCaiobrz]

Stop using iPhones and all of the sudden phones are functional, last longer and even repairble dude

[@ObeseChess]

Everything is just such a fucking pain in the ass

[@JagoShogun]

“For every person who dreams up the electric lightbulb, there’s the one who dreams up the Atom Bomb”

[@Chris-bz2rf]

I thought of this exact quote

[@Engineer_Who]

Reminds me of a news story I saw a few years ago about the US Navy deciding to replace all their ships' new touchscreen systems with good ol' knobs and levers because they just work better. And because the touchscreens caused fatal accidents.

[@JJ_1x]

I work for the navy and my ship still has them. Makes me lose my shit constantly because they suck so bad, I'm baffled that someone spent millions to refit a ship with a less safe and reliable control system. There is literally no advantage. Not a single one.

[@FelipeJaquez]

@@JJ_1x Well you see random angry janitor on the USS North Dakota or whatever when the enemy is firing on you there's no time for some random firmware updates or screens which don't register inputs. Buttons and knobs may get wear and tear over time but they're infinitely easier to fix than a touchscreen.

[@JJ_1x]

@@FelipeJaquez I know I'm saying they should all be knobs but we have touchscreens instead

[@PossumReviews]

How about that time Amazon locked a guy out of his own "smart home" when a delivery guy falsely accused him of saying something racist when he wasn't even home? Or that time energy companies started turning off the air conditioning in houses with "smart thermostats" while people were sleeping during a heat wave?

[@jeremy____5747]

There's a story about a WeWork location with a sliding door and an umbrella fell down and jammed the door shut and everyone who had a membership at that WeWork location spent WEEKS trying to get someone from the company to come let them in. They were being billed!

[@VitalVampyr]

I don't think "that time" with the smart thermostats was ever. Energy companies have no real incentive to prevent people from using power at off peak times (such as when they're sleeping) since selling power is how they make money. They only want to reduce load in peak times since that's when power is most expensive for them to buy and if the load is too high it causes a blackout (meaning they can't sell any power and will probably have to pay a bunch of people overtime fixing the power). Also when they do manage customer thermostats they just adjust the set temperature rather than cutting off climate control entirely. I've never heard of company managed thermostats that the customer couldn't manually override temporarily anyway.

[@CasimirWheelwright]

⁠​⁠@@VitalVampyrinstead of typing a long paragraph why no company would ever do something like that, how about you take two seconds and google it. It happened on August 7, 2022 in Colorado by an energy company called Xcel, and over 22,000 people had their thermostat disabled during a heat wave.

[@somewhatboxes]

thank you for the bit about touchscreens in cars. it genuinely feels like a lot of car reviewers talk about touchscreens in cars from the perspective of someone who has only played with it for an hour or two while the car was parked - not searching for specific functions while also driving on the highway (or worse, driving on city streets with pedestrians and cyclists around). the stuff they fixate on as being weird (or being neat) are clearly designed to be flashy and appealing at first, but grating and incessant over time.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

There's been a lot of pushback on the touch screens in cars due to just what a terrible idea it was. It's not quite as bad in a car like my wife's that has the sensors to stop on it's own and guide you back into your lane, but the car has physical buttons on the steering column for nearly everything that you'd likely want to do while driving.

[@staxmcgee9760]

The controller stick drift is my absolute MOST hated crappy technology. By design. Greedy overlords intentionally using faulty parts to make us spend more money.

[@em_the_bee]

You could certainly spend that money on good keyboard and mouse :^)

[@Markus-8Muireg]

​​@em_the_bee some games (mostly Japanese ones) need a Controller, keyboard and mouse controls in Elden Ring for example are insulting. Also, don't gaming mice have mouse buttons that break surprisingly frequently?

[@em_the_bee]

@@Markus-8Muireg It depends on the mouse. If I understand correctly, they don't really "break"; they fall out of place a bit, it's a 5-10 minute repair if you have a screw driver And it's not like it happens any often. If anything, the wheel is the weaker part (though it's still not gonna randomly break if you don't knock it on the table or throw it around)

[@staxmcgee9760]

@@em_the_bee Nope, not for me. I never understood anyone that would PREFER keyboard and mouse over a controller. Carpal tunnel much?? No thanks lol

[@colemanbubar5098]

Gulikit makes great controllers with hall effect joysticks that never develop stick drift

[@djentlemann6663]

Completely agree about the whole physical button thing. I bought some cheap bluetooth earphones, the ones that have a wire connecting the left and right together so u dont lose em and they worked fine except the bar where u turn them on and off had fucking touch buttons for volume up and down, meaning that every time they slightly brushed my neck , shoulder etc, the volume would change or the song would skip pause etc. Considering you had to wear them with the wires resting on your neck so they didnt dangle around and fall off made it one of the dumbest uses of touch buttons ive ever come across.

[@ZeroMilk]

That sounds like a proper pain in the ass. I would’ve taken great pleasure in setting those headphones on fire 🔥

[@VuvuzelaVirtuoso]

I was so frustrated when looking for reviews on stuff like "true wireless" (aka AirPod-style) headphones years ago because I kept finding so much shit that was just reviewers ranking them with almost no regard for audio or how well they connect, just on the "next gen convenience" of how much you could do with the on-bud touch controls. I have yet to actually have a positive experience with wireless earbud controls like this that, I have only had my volume randomly get adjusted down to nothing or blasting the shit out of my eardrums because of me/some jackets accidentally touching the fucking things in a certain way.

[@MultiCool55]

One of the reasons I'm glad I splurged on a pair of Skullcandy Crushers, they sound good and have actual buttons instead of shitty touch controls.

[@jessh4016]

I had some bluetooth ones without a wire, but the touch buttons were on each earphone and they were too sensitive so they kept randomly pausing, skipping songs, or maxing/turning off the volume every time they...touched my ear.

[@AliceLoverdrive]

@@VuvuzelaVirtuoso I got gifted buds and I fucking hate them When I walk into a store or otherwise need to talk to someone, I HAVE to pause whatever I'm listening to, because good ol' option of unplugging one earphone and letting it dangle on the wire isn't available anymore

[@oisinholz]

Its tiny snippets like "Micheal-soft" that makes me absolutely adore your channel. You're an absolute king! Keep up the great work

[@watwatwatwat]

Dwight?

[@maxwellhouse750]

Thank you for the comment on physical climate controls in cars. I so agree. I almost handed in my 2013 Explorer which had plenty of life in it for the small Bronco because I liked the look and climate controls. Screen climate controls are butt awful. Both nice vehicles but in the end I kept the Explorer because it is more comfortable and the trade value wasn’t right.

[@mama_krama]

Thank you for speaking out against the cancer that is default TV settings, even at the high-end. Every time I walk into a friend's house and see their disgusting TV I turn into an RTings evangelist and ask for their remote.

[@mactep1]

Yup, even a really crappy budget smart tv can look really nice if you bother to spend just a few minutes adjusting the settings, not that i care about it being a smart TV, it was what i available, used the smart features twice and then disconnected it from them wifi.

[@Autunite]

Yep, first thing I did when I got my new OLED was to turn off motion smoothing and all the unnecessary dynamic settings, and instead tune it manually.

[@jaymills1111]

@@Autunite Fucking motion smoothing has had me looking up whether or not a game has had a new shittily implimented 60fps cap any time I see it

[@deefable]

My friends no longer let me touch the game settings bc of this

[@nezunish-898]

True do , had to fix my grandma TV as she complain why the TV look bad . Turn out the all the gimicky setting make the TV quality worse.

[@Cascadia88]

I go to hotels a decent amount for work (watching this on the hotel tv rn) and those tvs have the most insane set ups I’ve ever seen. The one I was in 2 nights ago was a smart tv but the remote didn’t have any arrow keys, an enter button or a back button. So in order to use it you had to get up and go behind the tv and use a arcade joystick to select anything and if you wanted to go back you had to turn off the tv, turn it back on, and reenter the app

[@RubenTheCartographer]

Ho-ly. Shit.

[@richardpolson7831]

I was in a hotel recently and the TV just had a QR code and said, to paraphrase, "scan this to cast whatever the fuck you want from your phone" Jesus christ was a god send, no signing into netflix/google/whatever on some random device that thousands of people use.

[@Hadley.Sinclaire]

Neat channel babe 88

[@GreenScreenBartender]

Pretty sure hotel TVs are purposely programmed to be as terrible as possible EXCEPT to order a pay-per-view movie.

[@Cascadia88]

@jerme974 the remote says “one for all”, I took a photo of it because of how ridiculous it was

[@charlievanderwal9654]

3:15 is a perfect example of how adding goblin like behavior improves literally anything.

[@Gretasings]

THANK you for mentioning motion smoothing. Some people litterly cannot tell when it is on and it BLOWs my mind and GRINDS my gears and it must be banned from this realm.

[@HalfDayHero]

This reminds me of my Grandad who bought an off-brand surround-sound system and forever placed all 6 of the speakers directly under his TV.

[@jonmcknlegg]

9:47 Oh my god the "OUUYAA~" is sending me

[@AceRevero]

It felt like a fever dream, remembering all the weird, yet effective technology back in 2000's, and kinda a bummer on how current technology just struggles and always updating. But still, ya always bring Top notch comedy to the table! Respect to you, Jaquan, and to Jakey, Jakey, and Jakey.

[@jakeriffel3643]

You just put words to every single little thing that has been annoying the shit out of me for the past year! THANK YOU!!

[@WishMakers]

"Why is new tech always trying to get rid of time tested stuff" In the world of an industry trying to infinitely grow where it was thought there are no limits (even though diminishing returns is a concept that Exists), the phrase "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is lost on them This might be the most cathartic Jakey video ever, thank you for vocalizing this lmao

[@tycho-bro-hey]

I’m pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity (electrical engineering actually with emphasis on security) and I can say that this crappy tech we put in our cars and other appliances is a huge security risk. Excited to see what happens next ;)

[@behavior2836]

Could you elaborate? sounds interesting!

[@alexanderredhorse1297]

@@behavior2836 i mean, you dont need to "pursue a PhD in Cyber" to know what this goober just said (he isnt pursuing shit). but basically these garbage "smart" devices connect to your home gateway, which if a vector from outside LAN can access one of those garbage devices - like your "smart washing machine" for instance it can quickly other systems on the network that could potentially have sensitive information. If you think about the average household - most people prolly aren't thinking about ways their "smart fridge" might not have security measures implemented to NOT communicate with desktop computers/phones - but it doesn't matter either way once the vector has accessed the home gateway - even with the proper security settings on your personal devices - some attack vectors can still gain access depending on other factors with security on your network and of course following proper protocol - like not sticking random USB drives into your systems, etc.

[@nwerd7584]

its supposed to be, insurance and constant repairs. thats why I dont drive a car.

[@tycho-bro-hey]

im pursuing your mother.@@alexanderredhorse1297 you're right, you don't need to be a smarty pants to know that this off-the-shelf tech with shitty SBOMs and HBOMs is riddled with programming errors from ass programmers that only know JavaScript but are writing in C and hardware from all of the world with hidden exploits. on a high-level, your comment is right - the attack surface is increasing as we add more bells and whistles to our devices. The Internet of Things comes with benefits but its a double-edged sword. But it only takes a few nincompoops to fuck something up. But I politely disagree that you need higher academics to understand how we can maintain efficacy in our devices and resilience - especially since a lot of this shitty tech is being thrown into mission-critical devices like cars and our Nation's powergrid. IF you are curious to take a deeper dive, take a look at how the Formal Methods community is mathematically proving security properties in their code. There is an operating system that was built from scratch using rigorous and concise proofs. It was deployed and tested in a drone and was 'unhackable' - its called the seL4 microkernel. TAKE A HIKE.

[@jashelps]

​@@behavior2836You can basically remote control cars in some fashion since like the first cars that had driving functions connected to a computer that allows wireless bi directional communication for like 15years + already Best thing its not even that hard to do I can start my moms car with my old ass laptop since 2011, make the speakers go boom and activate cruise control never been patched or anything on that opel astra something something and that was me just bein a dumb ass kid doing a it course safety analysis of a wireless connecting device

[@ZavierG1]

I once saw a couple in Walmart and the husband was amazed at how cheap tvs have become. His wife said "yup. egg prices are up, tv prices are down." As if there was a correlation between the two

[@SageArdor]

I want to have a glass of wine with that wife, and I don't even drink.

[@aojeda133]

Doesn’t sound like they were making a correlation to me. More that they found it odd that eggs prices are going up but something like a tv is coming down in price.

[@paladinluke37]

Sheeeeeit maybe there is

[@darastakid88]

@@aojeda133my exact thoughts. He was making a observation that eggs are up and tvs are down. There is no way he was implying the since egg prices are up tvs prices must go down.

[@jmanners]

They're beginning to use egg technology in the tvs

[@Abudzin]

7:08 this part about getting rid of buttons reminds me of a quote by Angry Video Game Nerd: "when did simple convinience become obsolete?"

[@EleanorBlythe]

I could honestly watch 3 hours of you just talking about tech and nerdy stuff. It’s like sitting down with an old friend. Love this video Jakey!

[@TimeBucks]

Very entertaining sense of humor

[@morellatovar4151]

Bien

[@indrajpatel8480]

Very nice

[@Aseal223]

Good

[@ArjunParamanik-jd9dw]

Hi

[@ArjunParamanik-jd9dw]

Hi

[@Majinmcmuffin]

I love this, two episodes In less than a year is genuinely making me giddy like a middle school girl talking to her crush

[@durbeshpatel3047]

Buttons in a car is a big thing, you simply do not get any tactile feedback from a touchscreen, so you have to look at it.

[@Stanimus]

It's always a good day when we get a new nakey jakey vid

[@thecoldduvet7381]

Speak for yourself ahaha, but I defo appreciate a nakeyjakey video

[@ljeans531]

That reddit bit was too relatable...😂

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yo PapaStanimus ✌😄🤙

[@QuantumTelephone]

It's always a nightmare day when Papa Stanimus uploads a short where he steals someone else's content, gives the most basic observation to give it a veneer of "fair use", and not credit the original creator who he is profiting off of. You're a just a greasier Sssniperwolf

[@WaffleShortage]

i had totally forgotten about reflowing solder on consoles by baking them in the oven lmao. That's a great 'back in my day' moment. "Back in my day, when your videogames stopped working, you could blow the cartridges out with air, or just bake the whole console in the oven"

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

The whole console? Just the circuit board, no?

[@absynth8086]

​@alexc4924 you must be fun at parties. A real ball of joy

[@saikousocial]

I feel like I'm dreaming seeing more than 1 NakeyJakey upload in less than 4 months.

[@Akelsien]

that Gameboy SP joke hit home, i was going through my old Gameboy games and tried to turn it on and it still worked i was mind blown

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

That's no joke, that thing was designed amazingly. Still love how compact it is.

[@jaztitch]

Had a 360 that got the red ring of death. Resolved it by cleaning the stock thermal paste off, applying THE CORRECT AMOUNT IN AN EVEN SPREAD and attaching a better heatsink. The whole issue was that a huge number of 360s were haphazardly assembled in an attempt to push them out as fast as possible, resulting in thermal paste being incorrectly applied, leading to overheating issues. Add in terrible airflow and poor heat dissipation and you had the RROD issue.

[@jakasaras5525]

The ball full of nickels moment at 3:15 was a million times funnier than it needed to be

[@valdezinatorpro1377]

Dude, completely agree with what you said about the PS5 controller. I dropped mine a while ago and I almost got a heart attack thinking I broke it. Let's make handheld devices more durable, because human beings are not good at holding things.

[@MrGrimlocke]

Do ps5 controllers really break that easily? I only have a ps4, but my controller that I got with the console in 2015 still works perfectly. Are the ps5 controllers worse?

[@LukieLuke5]

​@@MrGrimlockeThe Ps4 triggers would wear out on me super fast. Not so much the sticks. But still they weren't well made controllers either.

[@PixyEm]

They really knew how to build durable crap back in the 90s. Can you even break a gameboy?

[@valdezinatorpro1377]

@@MrGrimlocke The biggest thing I'm worried about is the adaptive triggers snapping. It feels pretty delicate, and there have been reports of it malfunctioning.

[@valdezinatorpro1377]

@@PixyEm Prolly used tech made during the cold war.

[@eltondefrance1201]

Cant believe Jakey passes it to Jakey and to Jakey like that in the ad read. Feels like the beastie boys

[@shyrain67]

nakeyjakey never disappoints. he is genuinely just one of the funniest guys on youtube, and the yoga ball editing he does is so iconic

[@KevsShwaShwa]

Every day is amazing when Nakey drops a video. Thanks for making me laugh multiple times and undo the healing from my surgery.

[@zapptuff5186]

Any time a workplace or school etc decides to randomly move their platforms from one software suite to another it always is the worst. Beyond the sudden learning curve the emails will have been locked in some way, you'll lose stuff in your cloud storage and when my university just did it I literally couldn't cut, copy or paste text in the email application.

[@CursedWheelieBin]

Whomever says “yes, let’s do that” should be fired out of a cannon into the heart of the sun! My workplace installed MS Teams and it’s a living nightmare, complete with slo-motion. Fortunately if I wait half an hour for it to finally open, I can access the settings and untick the dreaded “auto start-up” option. That seems to resume some functionality to my work PC. Just…..Why? Whyyyy!?!?

[@Sturdy_Penguin]

I know this video is already over a year old but god damn that intro about the father with the TV hit me so hard it gave me a concussion. I swear my father has the exact same setup. Has a 4K smart TV, has a cable connection that costs over $100/month, and still watches channels via antenna and either offering to help (stops you every ten seconds to take the control back because he thinks he knows what you're doing so you wait patiently for two minutes of pointless flailing through options until you get the remote back for another ten seconds) or just suffering through it.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

That sucks so bad, I don't know why boomers can't see it. It's like so long as the tv is big and on it looks fine to them.

[@micycle8778]

i feel like a lot of the dirt cup CPUs are actually fine, it's just that programmers are really bad at performance nowadays, like we have made decisions that make programming easier while taking a huge sacrifice to performance because we assumed hardware would always just get faster.

[@WARnTEA]

Yea thats usually the case. I think these low cpu devices with have a similar experience to how bluetooth went from being a cute technology to being magic. All of a sudden it was so power efficient and could transmit over long distances even on small/cheap earbuds. That was basically a programming success, they optimized the programming for power efficiency, and that power efficiency allowed for longer transmission distances and lower latency. I expect AI programming to be able to fix a lot of the inefficiencies that modern programming has created to make it easier for a humans to program.

[@gideonunger7284]

@@WARnTEA ahahahhahaha. hahahhahh. ahahahhahahaha. hahahahahahahahhaa. AI??!? that is the exact thing that will make it 10x worse. those models are firstly mostly trained for languages already slow like js and python since thats where the AI users are. then its trained on what is already the slow code. current ai has no problem solving ability whatsoever. its just a clever word completer so it will output code thats current or worse. why are people that fundamentally do not understand how current AI models work always the most confident in its abilty. like you dont know how it works. just sit this opinion out my dude.

[@Tobiemoss]

lamers just brute force programs these days

[@hoorayimhelping3978]

I'm a professional programmer and that's pretty close to what happened. Over the past 25 - 30 years, hardware got cheaper, but programmers got more expensive. So it makes complete business sense to write software so that it's easier for programmers to maintain and understand at the expense of it being less performant, because it's much cheaper for businesses (and consumers) overall, since it was more economical to throw hardware, rather than people at the problem. We're coming to the end of that though; hardware power is hitting diminishing returns (in 2009, you pretty much needed a new smartphone after two years - now you can keep your phone for five or six without much trouble) and after 15 years of cheap money being thrown at software startups, we're going to start seeing the need for more efficient software and better programmers.

[@PauLtus_B]

I think there's truth to that. I think it's why some Nintendo games seems to perform so well despite running on underpowered hardware. If the engine is optimised for this specific system and, more importantly, optimised for the needs of this specific game, it's gonna run much better. You can even look back at Rollercoaster Tycoon, which was made in Assembly. I think it's kinda depressing how many supposed "AAA"-games are built on Unreal Engine instead of an engine that was built for the specific needs of that specific game. I'm not going to claim Unreal Engine isn't a great tool or that there aren't a lot of talented people working really hard on these projects, but with any tool that is aimed for more generalised use, you're going to waste computing power on things your program doesn't actually need, or compute things twice that you'd only have to compute once. I've programmed myself on a not-very advanced level. But I've nonetheless experienced it myself that I could save about 85% performance cost simply by starting to work outside of the in-built programming language.

[@bassist789]

You know it’s a great channel when the top comment on nearly every video in recent history is just a different analogy for how exciting each new upload is. I’ve come to expect that with this channel! You’re the dude, Jakey!

[@favoritemustard3542]

👍🍔🥤🍟👍

[@Khyrberos]

That's a really good observation

[@trapathy3302]

The whole "lets have another launcher outside of steam that you need to have or you cant play the game and you also have to make an account for" thing is the one that gets to me the most. Ive lost access to games that i clearly own on steam, but i don't have the account info, really stupid system

[@RobertJones-bs9pf]

As I feel my body and soul aging, I become more and more convinced that touchscreens are inherently a design flaw.

[@golfrguy04]

I love when Jakey is back! Thanks for continuing to give us great content, man!

[@Winford.Studios]

He’s BEEN back

[@GirAiDWinters]

I think the airplane AC situation is more of the stewardess being too polite to say "burn, you peasant" than crappy tech.

[@KattDa]

The crappy tech is Capitalism

[@soukai]

It's crappy tech,

[@blitheringrando1410]

"We could make your flight comfortable, but then you wouldnt pay more for first class next time" 😂

[@adre2194]

What reason would the stewardess have to harbour hostility against the regular passengers? It's not like they get paid any more if you're flying first class.

[@Mordecrox]

​@@adre2194have you paid for their hospitality? In corporate I found during the building of our new office that director, president and regular chairs costed the same, but peons have to be "put in their place". One tried to take a prez chair armed with this knowledge, was made to work with an actual cheapo chair that didn't even had arm rests or swivel for the audacity

[@Moechella444]

Jakey is quality over quantity. dude might upload twice in a year but they're absolute bangers. I'm so glad he doesn't rush it.

[@PhobosDDeimos]

Just like JonTron was. I like it.

[@ajpi6220]

Even in the darkest hour of my 12h shift work Jakey made me chucke. Thanks Jakey.

[@Boryathecat]

7:15 Jacob trying to hold his laughter after saying "Sony clitoris" is just hilarious

[@BascTechnology]

i was looking for this comment

[@OutHereOnThePerimeter]

OK…it’s actually really uncanny how specifically relatable that intro was 😂. I just got back from visiting home and you just precisely described Day 1 of my trip, down to the most minute details…

[@nicolettel2253]

Remote fans fit into this category too. Instead of simply getting up to pull on some string, you instead have to look throughout the room digging around for the little remote that determines your sweat levels from now on

[@taylorcoffey4115]

Electrician here; they are also terrible to try and pair a remote to a fan if it’s not done from the factory. I’ve spent hours trying to get remotes to pair with the receiver. Terrible technology.

[@nickanat]

Just a heads up: Most fans with a remote will let you toggle the speed by toggling the power switch on the wall a few times quickly. I only know because 20+ years ago my parents lost the remote for the living room fan, and about 10 years ago I discovered by accident that toggling the power switch made the fan beep and change speeds and light settings. (In our case, slow toggles adjust the fan speed, quick toggles adjusted the light dimmer)

[@DE23]

Only really useful if you have the fan in a bedroom and the remote on a bedside table

[@broomguy7]

My Switch Joycons drift around like it's midnight in Tokyo circa 1992, meanwhile my old-as-dirt PS2 controllers work flawlessly whenever I feel like playing a PS2 game.

[@gimik2593]

I remember being in high school, and I would use skull candy earbuds to listen to my music with wires. I liked them because there were nice, cheap, and lasted me a good enough time to where I though “yeah $20 every 6 months is fine” (It was also usually only one earbud breaking so usable until I got a replacement). Then I got an upgrade from my iPhone 7 to 10 as a graduation gift and saw my headphone jack was now gone. So I finally cracked and got a pair of wireless ones, only for these stupid things to break a year in and being at least $100 made me very upset with the “innovations” for technology.

[@bcc5701]

Airpods man. I don’t give a shit about apple but I have thousands of days on my regulars and on my pros and they still work

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

I get 40 dollar Sony Bluetooth headsets... They last me over a year... Usually because I loose the rubber nubs but the headset is still good, loll

[@raeganj6744]

I use $30 wireless skullcandy earbuds and they usually have lasted me a year or two because I end up misplacing an earbud

[@eividaslavrijanec5090]

Or just buy the adapter for a few bucks

[@WaffleShortage]

wireless earbuds are also just fucking dumb because you'll lose them so easily lol. I have some bluetooth deals that wrap around my head for athletic use, and they are much nicer. I hate earbuds anyway, regardless of how they connect to my device.

[@thedarknight5714]

I've literally (figuratively -- or not) been dealing with the same problems recently after finding my mom's old 55inch "smart" TV. Thanks for the mental support, Jakey.

[@I_Dislike_YouTube_Handles]

As a general rule of thumb, the more things a product claims it can do, the shittier it can do all those things.

[@bounceysteve]

5:20 the sponsorship bar slows down

[@TheGreshproductions]

I work as IRL tech support for a company and my job may not be to choose what's being installed but I definitely have to figure out how to setup whatever garbage technology the higher ups think is a good idea and help the many people who also don't understand a lot of this shit. This video spoke to my soul unlike any other, Thank you Mr.JakeyNakey

[@cavehermit5992]

I always used to refer to motion smoothing as "Shrek playing on a Costco display TV" mode since that was the first time I remember encountering that weird uncanny effect as a kid, and I didn't actually know motion smoothing was a thing on newer TVs

[@MrHomelessHobos]

Costco display tv

[@WaffleShortage]

for me it was always like the cooking segments on morning shows that were like, kind of news shows and then they'd bring in some celeb or something to cook some shit in their studio kitchen.

[@jackmanners9740]

The crappy car infotainment systems really is a point which has always seemed like it should be discussed more than it is, like you can get a brand new, high end consumer vehicle and it always a touchscreen with the same responsiveness and default UI of a mobile phone from 2006

[@jonragnarsson]

THANK YOU! I tried brand new VW ID.3 the other day, and the whole care is really nice, (as you would expect from a German design) but the infotainment system... a bit lacking to say the least. And touch buttons for volume and climate control is a big NO-NO! Please car makers, stop it.

[@slaw8363]

Instantaneous communication, people only started calling themselves introverts after we started being expected to be within reach at all times

[@thanatoast]

I hate the Joycon so much. It's not only almost impossible to get them repaired here in LatAm, but it's way too expensive if you don't have a valid warranty on them. Luckily the joysticks are easy to replace if you know what you're doing and have the right tools, but it's such an annoying thing that these companies can't develop a controler that doesn't break so quickly. It very much feels like they just want you to buy a new one every year or so.

[@billforson3143]

The ability to fix the problem has existed for years, PlayStation 2 had drift canceling technology, the reason it has been abandoned is so they can sell more controllers

[@manuelchapa767]

I got one of those hall effect joystick controllers (gulikit is the brand) and so far no drift. The no dead zones thing is also pretty sweet

[@whogavehimafork]

Hell even here in my corner of the United States no one repairs them. You just have to buy new ones or repair them yourself. Tech is such a pain in the ass nowadays

[@Guranga93]

The Sega Dreamcast solved joystick drift 20 years ago

[@SpikesSpikesSpikes]

Wow! Your cuck console is bad? Big surprise!

[@zerazukin]

this video is made for me as a form of therapy for my immeasurable anger at tech being expensive but also super inaccessible

[@patrickperring4203]

1 minute into the video I just wanted to say. I’m currently staying with my parents and that tv situation was the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard. Except for the fact they have four controllers and I have no idea which is what and what does which.

[@snoopy_poopy]

The 4 controllers are so real. Bonus points if they are slightly chewed because either a kid or dog went ham on them

[@lainey6474]

One is the sound bar, one is the TV itself, one is the Roku and one belonged to a VHS player your parents got rid of 15 years ago but swears still does something.

[@korosuke1788]

I think peak consumer tech was around 2010. After that, it's all disposable garbage at twice the price. Bluetooth earbuds being the most obvious example. Wire is objectevely better. They have higher "sound definition" or whatever you call it in English, absolutely no chance it will give you a brain tumor, cheaper, etc. The only reason some people prefer wireless is because they have no idea that comfortable wire earbuds actually did exist back in the day, and are still available if you know what you're looking for.

[@nathanjereb9944]

The minivan my family had for 15-16 years was able to wistand the wrath of 2 children, 2 dogs (at a given moment), and only needed to be jumpstarted only once before finally kicking the bucket in a car crash (no one was hurt aside from a minor wiplash). But the battery of the new car we had for about a year now has been needed to be jumpstarted twice because the battery died WHILE IT WAS OFF THE BOTH TIMES! It was already bad enough to be a "minor defect" (what the manufacturers called it), but this is a car that has features (screen in dashboard, built-in gps, and a trunk that opens to a push of a button) that, you know, REQUIRE ELECTRICITY TO FUNCTION, is a huge overstatement

[@Berd]

hey nakey try isopropyl alcohol on your joycons it worked for mine ok see ya

[@spookydooky6006]

i dunked mine in a bit of chicken broth. it didn't work

[@wuhanspaceprogram]

@@spookydooky6006 Beef broth. It's got to be beef.

[@TayTayXperia]

Nah burd,Imma lock you up.There to young to be drinking,

[@Rahnonymous]

​@@wuhanspaceprogramIt depends on the salt content. Less than 5% is golden, 5-10% is a bit dicey, and anything more than 10% is just lottery ticket odds.

[@SanAntonioJoker]

weren't you accused of child groomin'

[@haazenpfeffer]

Growing up I had one of those goofy Sansa MP3 players, and it was actually cool as hell, because you could load a custom firmware... which could then load gameboy and NES roms, even allowed you to increase the sound quality and play other filetypes. It was mildly satisfying to say, "Can your iPod do this?"

[@Bradkinn_music]

Same I still have my sansa!

[@raederle9070]

I'm already a fan and your topics are often a step beyond entertainment into the realm of thoughtful and interesting - but in this one your comedic rhythm and editing has ratcheted up again! Thanks for the excellent info-tainment - and also that lovely sense of connection you get when someone else 'gets it' and articulates it :-D