What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?
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Maybe not completely obsolete, but landline phones and fax machines.
I rarely see anyone using mp3 players anymore
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Brit here. We (the household) had our landline switched over from analog to digital last year so if our internet connection drops out we won't be able to use the landline. the reasoning was the phone cables are getting old and the government doesn't want to spend money to replace them so landlines just connect to the router now. i know landlines aren't obsolete but the technology which made them redundant is, at least in my area. the rollover is expected to be completed by 2027 iirc
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Original question by @[email protected]
It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.
sim-cards
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Yeah. And with how streaming is going, it's either discs or piracy lol.
It sure is!
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I literally got a tech support call last week asking, "How do I legally get MP3s to put on this new MP3 player I just got?"
I was kinda stumped. "Umm... Rip a CD?"Rip a…a what? What do you mean, “rip?”
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Windows.
I could see Linux finally talking off, but legacy uses will float around for decades
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Good to know! Legal, non-DRM?
Do they have popular artists?Completely legal and non-DRM yes. You buy digital albums and can choose what type of files you download. (MP3, FLAC, WAV, ALAC, AIFF, and more). Artists can even offer a license for a choose-your-own-amount donation.
I'm not too sure about popular artists, but they do have a lot of great indie artists. A lot of small bands use it, as well as a lot of music producers from smaller subgenres. (Darkpsy for example)
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And the modded firmware Blu-ray drives
Wait what does modding firmware for blueray drives enable?
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Wait what does modding firmware for blueray drives enable?
Region free playback and the ability to convert the entire disk into a mkv
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LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn't gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.
I'll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that's very generous.
Thats assuming that future iterations of the models cost as much as the current models do to run.
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LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn't gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.
I'll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that's very generous.
I came here to say exactly this. Well done.
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Thats assuming that future iterations of the models cost as much as the current models do to run.
Not at all. It's assuming they don't suddenly drop in cost 99%
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Yeah. And with how streaming is going, it's either discs or piracy lol.
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Original question by @[email protected]
It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.
I doubt DVD or Blurays are going away that soon, I could even see it making a comeback as people figure out that it is an objectively better product
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I doubt DVD or Blurays are going away that soon, I could even see it making a comeback as people figure out that it is an objectively better product
Waiting for blurays to just come with an activation code like a lot of PC game copies do already
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I doubt DVD or Blurays are going away that soon, I could even see it making a comeback as people figure out that it is an objectively better product
It's objectively worse from a profit standpoint, so I can definitely see them disappearing outside of secondhand sales
