not_IOalso expensive
librekittyi’ll paste my reply from mastodon:
gotta follow FOSS tech, endless wonder ✨
I was gonna say the same
I am actually excited for tech from the world of foss
I love simply reading patch notes and going like
“Ahhh yeah that annoyed me but I did not realize”
Thanks to all the hard working devs keeping things interesting and competitive with big tech
Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?
Tech is not just software 🙄.
DiplomjodlerAny laptop can be a FOSS laptop.
A truly foss laptop would be repairable with readily available hardware.
FOSS just stands for “free and open source software”. While repairability fits in with the ethos, it’s a separate issue.
FOSS is just software… it’s literally what’s that acronym means.
steal_your_faceYeah you gotta have FOSH
Chonky boi but I like it
Because the last S in FOSS stands for software?
Then why the fuck do you think just software will solve enshittification of TECH, as mentioned in OP’s post?
That’s right, you can’t. Dumbass.
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firmware is software, which often powers hardware 🙄
That’s cool buddy, next time someone talks about Tech in general (the post you clearly didn’t read from OP), you can spew your strawman bullshit about how FOSS solves enshittification. And be wrong as all fuck.
Who sharted in your coffee this morning?
Beeing excited about parts of tech does not warrant you to be a grumpy old man.
Also RISC-V exists and there are laptops, there you go
They are not amazing in performance but it is pretty amazing that they exist at all.
Saying FOSS solves enshittification and disregarding the fact that this completely ignores the entire hardware enshittification side of things is dumb as all hell.
And I will not stand for dumb bullshit.
The laptops you mentioned are not FOSS because they’re neither free nor software. So my point stands about the shit the top comment in this thread is spewing about FOSS as the enshittification solution.
Endless wonder if you enjoy reading patch notes like:
Fixed a bug that allowed the end user to select a drop-down menu when they selected a variable date.
Chloé 🥕for real, on windows getting an update meant “ugh what thing do i need to disable now”
now on Linux, it’s “whoa, that’s a cool feature!” and “OMG THEY FINALLY FIXED THAT FINALLY”
the most negative thing is when they change something and you gotta get used to the new way. im not the biggest fan of the recent changes to Dolphin (the file manager, not the emulator), but it’s fine and I’ll get used to it. it’s not worse now, just different
You can revert some of the changes such as bringing bottom bar back from app’s settings
mercIn the FOSS world, I really appreciate what’s happening to immutable / atomic distros like Bazzite. It feels great to have a system that “just works” while not being locked down like an Android or iPhone.
The Fediverse gives me a lot of hope too. It will probably never surpass the centralized corporate-owned sites. But, who cares? Lemmy and Mastodon are already filling a void for me. I used to spend most of my time on Reddit, and Reddit was at its best when it was significantly smaller than competitors like Digg. Digg imploding and all the Dig Dugs moving to Reddit was one step in a whole chain of events that made Reddit suck.
Proton is another game changer. I used to need a Windows desktop if I wanted to play PC games. I hated it, but I loved gaming. Now I only boot Windows once a month or so (mostly driver-related things).
ChozoI've been having the same thought lately. I feel like consumer tech has stagnated since the early 2010s. I miss watching announcements each summer as companies announced their new products and new features, and introducing literal new ways of life.
These days, there's nothing new anymore. This year's phone is the same as last year's and the year before that, except now it has more AI. This year's game console is the same as the last one, but now it has even more restrictions on game ownership. This year's car is the same as last year, but now it has a monthly subscription for power steering.
It’s a plateau. Current tools are good enough and we don’t have the technology to do anything significantly better. Apple tried with this silly AR/VR headset and failed. They really put state of the art tech in it and it still wasn’t better then normal laptop. Couple startups tried the AI assistant type tools and also failed. I think the next leap will be some brain-computer interfaces but those are probably decades away.
Apple’s headset wasn’t really innovative in any way that mattered. It was just a bad VR headset that meant it was only really suitable for AR.
As always, Apple waited until the tech matured and tried doing it the right way. It wasn’t innovative but it was the best thing you can make at a price consumes can still afford.
You think consumers can afford an Apple headset? I’d argue one of the reasons it failed is that it was completely unaffordable.
It was on the verge of affordability. Definitely not something average consumer would buy but definitely achievable for the upper-middle class. I was also aimed at professionals and if a device can you help do your work faster it’s a great investment. The problem was it didn’t let people work faster because despite all the tech it still sucked.
I think it was way over the verge, in fact, a few verges over in another verge entirely.
If a device can help you do your work faster it might be a great investment based on how much faster it can help you do your work. For a $3500 USD investment, the Apple AR headset would have had to make you massively more productive to justify that up-front cost, or it would have to be something you could expect to last for decades while you paid off that up-front cost with increased productivity.
ookThe Steamdeck got me pretty excited to be honest. But uhm, that’s about it.
If you dont restrict yourself to only hardware then there is plenty of cool stuff. Im using git repo RSS feeds to inject changelogs directly into my veins and its great tbh. There are cool new open source TTS and STT models releasing, single camera motion tracking is getting really good, etc. You just shouldnt look towards commercial products for this excitement, because those are always just enshittified lock in traps. The real juice is in hardware independent open source software that wont fuck you without consent.
Aurora Store (Play Store) apps’ updates? No fun. Not even good changelogs, just generic, unchanging (or slow / rare changing) ones.
F-droid and FOSS in general, on the other hand? Lemme see what’s new. For each and every app.
Without good hardware to interface with software is useless.
Me too. It revived the feeling I had when I was teen when a new console was released. Never purchased a device so quickly since valves released the trailer
Yeah, thats the last time I was genuinely excited for something new. Before that it was usually gaming consoles, and the ps4 just wasn’t the excitement factor that ps3 was.
Skullgridthe ps4 just wasn’t the excitement factor that ps3 was.
You liked real time weapon change and battles that actually took place in ancient japan with giant enemy crabs that much?
On the upside, won’t spend as much.
Yeah I saved a fuckload in phones since they stopped putting the features I want in them. Thanks for setting that trend apple!
We need a resurgence in getting excited about manually finding weird stuff in weird corners of the internet.
Tear down the walls of all the shit gardens! Make Internet Feral Again!!!
recently my partner got back on tumblr and it reminded me of the old internet. i was never a user but i’d stumble upon it from time to time back in the day and it seems to my outsiders eyes very much as it did then. seeing the way people interact with posts and have conversations is distinctly different from most modern social media platforms. and now after writing that i’m just thinking about stumbleupon and all the chaotic and random rabbit holes you be sent down from there. i miss the old internet
Yeah, I was reminded of webrings earlier this week. Which was an idea that was so short of accomplishing the goal of web discovery before search engines, but at scale today would be something worth looking at again. Basically decentralized internet tribes. As long as there’s activitypub plugins, it’s even federated.
Tech was great when it didn’t literally try to steal your personal information
The only real tech that has gotten me excited lately is to steam deck, framework computers, and these little info displays called trmnl.
rmukAdd the new Pebble watches to that list and, yeah, same. I’ve preordered the Time 2 and it’s the first time I’ve been excited for a new gadget in years.
Nice! I actually had a preorder but canceled it. Had the original plastic pebble so they have a special place in my heart, but I’ve gone back to a dumb watch and have been enjoying being more disconnected.
SoftestSapphicI’m pretty hyped for the new Seagate HDDs with dozens of TB on a cheap external drive.
Oh yeah true. I almost pulled the trigger on there 26tb drives that are shuckabke for an extension on my nas
Oh shit, that price seems too good to be true. My NAS has a couple of 12TB drives in it that cost more than these.
I remember when that was the price for a 1 gb full sized sd card.
Reminder to book your colonoscopy :p
Fuck you for reminding my, and thank you too.
I’m gonna buy like 3 of these soon if nobody stops me lol
I’m currently hemming and hawing over upgrading the drives in my server. I’ve got a pair of 4TB drives are are mostly full, and it looks like I could upgrade to 10-12TB for less than $300 (I also have a new chassis that I might put into service at the same time which can hold a lot more drives, plus my wife’s old CPU and MOBO would be a decent side-grade, so maybe I’ll also shift to RAID-Z1 with 3-4 drives over time and an external backup drive via PBS now that it officially supports external drives)
Be me, still waiting for the Deckard…
That’s valve’s rumored new vr headset right? I had the index but didn’t use it enough so I sold it. VR is cool though.
It is! I have an Index myself that I once used to use quite a bit, but I find I avoid it lately because of how cumbersome it is. I really want an inside out all in one VR setup, as I think it would help me overcome those hurdles, but no way in hell am I buying a Quest from Meta.
Already have a stream deck, the framework computer and trmnl look really cool!
… What other cool stuff don’t I know about??
LizTech I am excited for:
Better and larger color e-ink. I’m not excited for the software in this particular case, but the hardware is excellent.
The NocFree &, the only wireless, split, 75% staggered column keyboard I’ve been able to find (I would have preferred a full keyboard but I’ll take what I can get) It should be great for disability accommodation.
Sony A9 III While the A9 III is way too expensive for me, this camera basically promises that eventually global shutters should make their way down to mid-level prosumer cameras, and I’ll eventually get a used one or something. I just wish Sony didn’t artificially handicap third party lenses.
I have a Framework 16 and I love it.
Color E-Ink That Actually Looks Good: Reflection Frame with E-Ink Spectra 6
Who would have thought that a system that rewards creating problems to solve would stifle the tech that addresses real problems?
You know what I miss? PDAs. 20 years ago I had a PDA with physical keyboard and WiFi running Debian. It wasn’t even that expensive. Today those simply don’t exists. From time to time something gets released on Kickstarter but it’s usually very expensive. What happened? I would expect that with all the advances we would have more gadgets like this today, not less. Is it really matter of scale? I’m sure those old PDAs weren’t selling in millions. What is it?