Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does anyone else feel like technology - specifically consumer tech - kinda peaked over a decade ago? I’m 37, and I remember being awed between like 2011 and 2014 with phones, voice assistants, smart home devices, and what websites were capable of. Now it seems like much of this stuff either hasn’t improved all that much, or is straight up worse than it used to be. Am I crazy? Have I just been out of the market for this stuff for too long?

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Oh, I just simply used the data URI with base64-encoded MP3. It can be pasted directly into browser.

      However, you could get far more with codec2, although it’s very much a speech only codec. It goes as low as 700bps. So… roughly 20 - 25 seconds the same way, although you’d have to use the codec2 decoder instead of browser.
      Sample: https://www.rowetel.com/downloads/codec2/hts2a_700c.wav
      “These days a chicken is a rare dish”

      Anyway, back to the MP3…

      Just paste it into a browser.