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What's a piece of technology you LOVE the progress of? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Linux is pretty sweet. I haven't got a new computer in over a decade, and don't plan to, and this OS just continues to work like a dream.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago

this is the year of the linux desktop after all

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I may become a Linux boy once windows 10 is EOL.

The enshittification of Windows seems to be accelerating at a crazy rate. Haven't used linux in like 15 years when I tried using uBuntu, and I've heard it's only grown exponentially better.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

I also bounced off of Ubuntu, when it first came out and nowadays it is even more ridiculously simple to I install and start using.

No guarantees that you won't have to do a bit of research of you've got particular hw or sw that you want to use, but as far as a general purpose os it has it all