Could be any modern technology that is popular, trendy but you refuse to adopt it for any particular reason. It could be environmental, social, political, legacy support or simple belief that it does not solve any significant problem.
Ask HN: What are some modern technologies that you refuse to adopt?
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#2For me it's: Smart Watch, AI image generators, cryptocurrencies, auto payments of bills.
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#3Any new editor, airplanes, tablets, smart watches (as mentioned by catstor), VR, e-readers (though these are actually very good, mine just died).
It's not any particular reason, they don't seem to improve my life much? The e-reader was best for sure.
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#4That would be smart devices: TVs, fridges, teapots, watches, phones
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#5Ai for anything but translations
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#6IoT. I have no interest in home appliances with fancy screen, internet connectivity, apps, and any of that other nonsense.
I’m also pretty skeptical of the whole smart home market. A lot of it seems like technology in search of a problem… and it also seems very buggy.
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#7- Proprietary messaging apps like WhatsApps, Facebook Messenger etc. I think it's ridiculous that some people/countries are practically held hostage by them.
- Electron/Javascript based apps
- Chromium (Blink) and Webkit based browsers
- GTK4/libadwaita
- node.js
- And well, less of on refusal to adopt, but more like a refusal to acknowledge their value: bloated/modern web frameworks like React. I honestly can't think of a single useful website that absolutely cannot work without a bloated framework, that I'd actually need in my daily life, which couldn't have been achieved by a regular old-school website or a native app. Like literally, there's not a single actually useful website that I visit regularly, that I can look at and go "oh, this site (or the service they offer) absolutely cannot work without a modern bloated JS framework".
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#8Short videos, stories, etc. I refuse getting addicted to them. Terrifying watching everyone around me consuming the stuff like we are in a crack house.
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#9Short videos, stories, etc. I refuse getting addicted to them. Terrifying watching everyone around me consuming the stuff like we are in a crack house.
You'd get addicted to short stories?
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#10Anything "smart". Can't avoid TVs unfortunately.
Electric vehicles. I don't have a problem with the concept but similar to the above, you can be held hostage with a change in software. And the second hand market is a joke.
Nearly all web frameworks, especially for app development.
All social media, cryptocurrency, and most tech pushed by big tech to general consumers.