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.

  • Count Regal Inkwell
    15·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      Assuming you mean LLM’s and image generation, yeah open source is much better! Cause that way it’ll be used for dumb silly things.

      An LLM in a video game? Sure, could be cool. A game like spore where it generates species, and it uses image generation? Could be cool. Also if an artist wants inspiration from AI images, I don’t hate on anyone’s process. All those things I feel like are better if the people using them are in control of them.