We talk a lot about enshittification of technology, so tell me about technology that is getting better!
I personally love the progress of electric scooters. I’ve been zooming around on a 400$ escooter for a year and it works so well. It has a range of around 20 miles and top speed of 15 mph, so it works just super well for my uses, and 10 years ago scooters with that range/speed/price were no where near a thing.
Said like 80 times in this thread already but, Open Source & Free software (papa stallman will murder my family if I don’t make the distinction)
Fifteen years ago when I first got into it, Linux was a programmer/sysadmin’s OS that could cover one’s web browsing needs and run some media players and retro console emulators.
Nowadays it is a reasonable daily driver for high-end gaming, it can cover 85% of the creative tasks I do for work, plus all the shit it did back then, all the while being faster, lighter, and comfier than windows.
There’s good libre applications for pretty much everything I care about.
And now we even have open-source powered social media (hi we’re in Lemmy)
Fuck, even if I’m this close to butlerian jihad thinking in regards to the whole concept, I’ll give it up for the advancement of open source AI models. I might think the whole invention is poison, but better for it to be a public, shared, community built poison than one under the thumb of three megacorps.
Nah, I’ve been using Linux vasy only desktop for over 20 years now, 15 years algo it was already so much more than a sysadmin OS with a browser. Granted, it had little games but everything else was there already.