also expensive
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The Steamdeck got me pretty excited to be honest. But uhm, that's about it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Any laptop can be a FOSS laptop.
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Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?
Tech is not just software
.Because the last S in FOSS stands for software?
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FOSS just stands for "free and open source software". While repairability fits in with the ethos, it's a separate issue.
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i'll paste my reply from mastodon:
gotta follow FOSS tech, endless wonder
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
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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.
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Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?
Tech is not just software
.firmware is software, which often powers hardware
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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.
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Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?
Tech is not just software
.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.
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The Steamdeck got me pretty excited to be honest. But uhm, that's about it.
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
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The Steamdeck got me pretty excited to be honest. But uhm, that's about it.
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.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]the 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?
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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!!!!!
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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
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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.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Tech was great when it didn't try to steal your personal information
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wrote last edited by [email protected]The only real tech that has gotten me excited lately is the steam deck, framework computers, and these little info displays called trmnl.
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The only real tech that has gotten me excited lately is the steam deck, framework computers, and these little info displays called trmnl.
Add 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.
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Add 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.
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Who would have thought that a system that rewards creating problems to solve would stifle the tech that addresses real problems?
