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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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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I have driven manual shift cars for my whole life, and the transmission in my new (ish, about 10 years) car is incredible.

The first one was a 3 speed Mustang without hydraulic clutch. It was so hard to shift I only let one other person drive it. 1st speed so rough, 2nd at like 10mph, 3rd at about 30, that was it. It was just springs and chains and gears.

This one? Smooth as silk, there is enough overlap between gears that it is so easy to shift, 6 speeds, the 6th gear I can drive 90mph and it is cool and comfortable. It's ridiculously easy to drive and so much fun.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"AI", especially art. I've spent years trying to learn to draw on and off and have never gotten good at it, but now I can use words to create illustrations I want in a level of quality and detail I could never dream of.

Now I just want the interface to be easier and more able to understand natural language and be capable of making directed changes better.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Have you check out the stable diffusion plugin for Krita? The in painting technique seemed very cool watching someone work with it.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

GNU Taler

[–] gencha@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago

We have some pretty amazing drugs today. Both commercial and recreational.

I'm happy you like your scooter, but it'll soon be a piece of toxic garbage like most outdated technology.

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