You just woke up from a 10 year coma. What new technology are you most impressed by?
For me, it'd probably be $100~ 1TB microSD cards.
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You just woke up from a 10 year coma. What new technology are you most impressed by?
You just woke up from a 10 year coma. What new technology are you most impressed by?
For me, it'd probably be $100~ 1TB microSD cards.
Linux gaming.
Kek.
This is honestly a pretty big one
Crazy how gaming on Linux is as easy as running games on windows for like 90% of games.
U cant play all the gaymes tho
you can play damn near all the games
Unless you wanna pirate them.
why, cracks don't work?
for me to run a cracked game i just make a new folder for the prefix then run the setup.exe in lutris. its just as easy as windows.
this genuinely blows me today
you have no idea how much time i spent as a teen trying to make linux gaming work on my 1000$ PC 10 years ago
>you have no idea how much time i spent as a teen trying to make linux gaming work on my 1000$ PC 10 years ago
I hope you had NVIDIA at least. I used a $500 laptop with ATI graphics.
While linux has come a long way with gaming, It has a long way to go. Games do work, but they each have there own annoyances, problems that don't exist on windows 10 or they just don't work at all. Off the top of my head of games that have problems/worse performance/don't work. fallout new vegas, fallout 3, payday 2, arma 3, dayz, dead by daylight, RS6, apex legends, valorant. Even the cherry picked CSGO are disingenous because while you do get higher FPS, It's more unstable and you have more frame drops and lower 0.1%'s on linux.
i think the steam deck will change these opinions as time goes on. they could have went with windows, but they decided to throw employees time (money) into developing a linux console. the proton github repo was only recently made at `2018-03-13T18:45:27Z' and its affect on compatibility has been incredible since.
i think we're only going up.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/23/22690670/epic-eac-anti-cheat-linux-valve-steam-deck-support-games
>It has a long way to go
your points seem more like quirks than it seeming Linux isnt even half way there, which you are implying.
the largest vidya retailer, valve, made the steam deck, which wouldnt even be a dream if it really had a long way to go
like if Linux was still trash for games, then it would have elicited laughs if anyone proposed Arch Linux instead of Windows to build their own console. Yet it had millions upon millions of money invested, and got sold out several times
anon is right, this was huge
dont be stuck in the past
i get fine fps on all of those. never tried apex tho. maybe your pc is just shit.
Flying cars hopefully...
>retards have trouble with normal cars
>implying same retards can be pilots
keep dreaming
yeah, the only way I see flying cars happening is when full autopilot will be a viable technology
we're several hundred years away from this.
They're called planes you moron.
People already can’t drive on the road, you expect the air to be any better?
they're called airplanes and helicopters
you can't have these because people would discover dome
the skylake-x architecture is absolutely fucking insane. like yeah ok its 10/18/28 core cpus thats cool but each core has two avx-512 FMAs that can each do 16 double-precision floating point numbers per clock cycle.
my cpu can upscale video faster than a 1070
i said 'fma' because that picture labeled it that but i dont know why that picture does that, it just means 'fuse multiply add'
>avx-512
waste of die space
>my cpu can upscale video faster than a 1070
on paper, but unlike your retarded CPU with its extremely long pipeline and extremely low bandwidth efficiency per core means that you're not doing shit at real time, even if its faster for operations that only need really big numbers.
also a 5950x has nearly the same fp64 thoughput as 10980xe with less cores and it doesn't even have 512bit FMAs hahahaha
Nothing. Under Capitalism all technology is only used to enslave us.
If we lived in an Anarchist society everything would be open and collaborative, not designed to make us click shit like dumb monkeys, scam our friends, and exhaust ourselves to make scum like Jeff Bezos go into Space once.
There is no good technology under Capitalism.
>Anarchykiddie
>Implying there would be even technology
there would be more technology to support the crypto that keeps us all honest. but keep on believing we need a human central authority for things.
whats stopping a big rich ape from pushing you in the mud amd beheading your wife
Low quality bait
if we lived in an anarchist society, you wouldn't have to worry about technology at all because you would spend the vast majority of your time acquiring food and defending it from raiders
Nice rightoid falseflag, now go leave.
the leftoid persecution complex is funny as heck
somehow even funnier than the gnomish version that fascists have
prolly because it is all encompassing. It isnt an evil character(s), but the whole system itself
tldr LMAO
ok now substitute "anarchist" with "fully automated gay luxury communist" and we're good
better dead than red
can anybody explain to me read/write cycle limits on micro sds? if one has a 10,000 read cycle limit, does that mean i can only use an application 10,000 times before it shits the bed?
yeah nothing is ever really destroyed when you delete a file.
All it does it lose the location pointing to it.
Flash memory usually has a write cycle limit, not read.
10000 write cycle limit => the entire capacity can be written over 10000 times
e.g. A 1TB SD card with 1000 cycle limit can basically be written with 1000TB worth of data until the flash memory wears out. However, since they're so slow, most manufacturers don't even bother mentioning this spec. SanDisk has a lifetime warranty on most of their consumer stuff.
I'm assuming this impresses you as it demonstrates the massive loss in the value of a dollar
I am amazed by how good smartphones have become and how cheap they are.
Amazon blows my mind. The idea that all mom and pop stores including walmart are succumbing to the beast.
Social media would blow my mind and this "algorithm assisted personal computing." Also the insane censorship that comes along with it.
The idea of linux having taken over everything and dominated mobile will have been a shocker.
sir Clive Sinclair predict this
Got mine ready for my Steam Deck.
Good luck getting modern games to run off of that thing. Performance is abysmal compared to an SSD.
Every game Valve showed off was run from a card slower than mine.
Better than HDD, specially in random read. It's not like the Deck will be able to run anything that would be bottlenecked by SD speeds either.
It does about 100MB/s seq and 10MB/s random. Shit's all over Xbox One/PS4 HDDs already.
>It does about 100MB/s seq and 10MB/s random
like he said, abysmal
>Shit's all over Xbox One/PS4 HDDs
who cares about console peasant bullshit
Deck's performs about the same as these consoles. These speeds are fine for what it can do.
Yeah enjoy running 1TB of games off of something that can only handle maybe 40-60MB/s.
It's fine. People tested it already. It's more fine than people let you to believe.
>40-60MB/s
It's not '10s anymore grandpa.
SanDisk quotes "up to 160MB/s" which is already shit and I doubt you'll actually get that.
for me, it's communication software, video calling and conferencing
>teams / zoom / skipe
>whatsapp / fb messenger / signal / telegram
>file sharing
>mobile network and coverage
>proliferation of wifi
>navigation
sure, things like this existed back in the day, but now it's all just to quick and painless and the younger generations adopted them so quickly, it's like there is no point of friction at all
i remember back in high school ~ 2011 we struggled with facebook groups to communicate between class mates,
if it were to send files, that was an entire struggle all by itself, sms was limited in scope, video calls on phones were just not a thing
navigation mas spotty routes were trash, still easy to get lost, now it's almost impossible
20TB HDDs. I know the kiddies like SSDs for their gaymz but having 20TB drives for storage is amazing. 10 years ago I probably had about 1TB in my PC, now it's at 45TB. And that's all backed up too.
>still using that 2011 1tb hdd
🙁
real talk
I got to the conclusion that practically limitless storage like this leads to severe data hoarding
and without a proper personal sorting system and naming convention, it gets really messy really fast
>New Folder
>New Folder (2)
>New Folder (3)
>Pictures
>Pictures (2)
>Picture Holiday 2018
>Wedding Cousin Anon 2012
>Wedding Cousin Anon 2012.zip
even worse when it's spread over multiple hdd's some not even plugged in (at least with the big hdd they are all aggregated in one place)
I'm talking from a personal use context, I've seen that exact scenario countless times
Anon have you been looking st my desktop?
For sure you need to have a decent file structure set up or you're going to create a clusterfuck. I'm happy with everything but it'll take a long time to set up.
Except images. Fuck knows how to horde that stuff properly. It's my one messy thing I can never sort out, but I don't care about images that much anyway.
basically my NAS, every so often I just toss everything I haven't used in a while in an "old" folder, and toss that folder into another "old" folder, etc till it becomes impossible to find anything, I always tell myself I should clean up but I never actually do it /shrug
>catastrophic storage failure
>instantly lost 20TB of stuff
Should never put all your eggs in one basket.
it doesn't matter how small your disks are if you don't back them up
How about buy 2-3 20 TB HDD and copy/duplicate everything to those drives manually?
Smart people would only put valuable data on these if they have multiple set up in raid.
That's why I back up everything on 1.44mb floppy disks
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Falcon 9 and Starship
Consumer tech didn't really change meaningfully since 2011
>same things but better/faster or actually worse in some cases
This is the actual impressive shit
impressed even though i anticipated this happening in early 2010s because the madman actually managed to make it out of the aerospace dark age starting the new renaissance
Game streaming, when it works you don't see any difference between it and native gaming
hella fye pogchamp no cap bih
Greenpass
It was unimaginable to scan a qr-code to work and to access public services.
Modern techonlogy brought us the greenpass giving use hope to fight against this global pandemic.
If the global pandemic started in 2011 many more people would have died
Ah and also vaccines, they developed it pretty fast, but without the qr-code of the greenpass they are useless anyway. The greenpass is here to protect us. I'm so proud of showing my greenpass: I am protecting my self AND the others in this deadly global pandemic every time I show it
God is more effective than the vaccine. At least God doesn't give me myocarditis and blood clots that cause my limbs to rot off.
>God
debunked
>deboonked
wtf she looks manlier than gates
He gives plenty of other people those things.
>pollute the air, water and ground with nasty chemicals, plastic, etc.
>"why is god giving everyone cancer?!"
>smoke and drink while pregnant
>birth defects
>"why did god cause this horrible thing to happen to my baby?!"
>a literal bar code
Ten year coma, not 50 year.
this shit has to be a bait
t. super-spreader
n-word.
an entire population of vaccinated people in the same room is what will trigger vaccine escape
it's incredible how much trust we have to put into medical fields that are basically "i couldn't do math so i signed up for this"
Do you even listen to television and politicians?
>Greenpass is our only hope to terminate the global pandemic and go back to normal
The virus does not spread when you've checked the greenpass's qr-code. Simple as that.
alright it's bait
>Do you even listen to television and politicians?
I'm not that anon, but I don't, and I'm not really seeing why I should. The people telling me to watch the news don't seem to enjoy it themselves.
onlyfans-as-a-simp-service
Legit virtual reality
Cheap android chink phones that are actually decent.
I can't believe how quick cheapo Asian phones went from stuttering slow pieces junk to pretty good. After this Poco X3 I don't see any point in ever going back to samshit or crapple.
smartphones
it's pretty niche things, but since I like cycling:
>wireless electronic groupsets
>strava
>smart turbo trainers and virtual racing on them in zwift and other similar platform
Honestly fpbp, the microsd thing is still pretty insane. Like you can shove that shit up your nose or whatever, hide it in your foreskin. Honestly tho not sure if that much has happened in the last 10 years. Like, the PS5 isn't really exciting to anyone, is it?
the fact that building a pc today requires almost no cables
remember when we had to wire power and data for an HDD plus a 120GB SSD for OS and games?
Reliable, high-speed internet in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Globally.
Forgot image
Definitely not a thing anywhere in Africa, rural parts of eastern Russia, South America or rural India. Any 3rd world country has terrible, terrible access to the internet. All websites are bloated JS filled pieces of shit now that refuse to load if your connection is too slow.
Internet penetration even for developing countries is close to 50% already, India being well above that at 65% and Russia being on par with the global average for developed countries at +85%, but I'm pretty sure he was referencing the Starlink program which plans to make internet available globally regardless of location, though it's still behind a steep paywall.
Having access to the internet and having usable speeds are two different things. Loading something like BBC World News or any social media platform is impossible with 50kbps.
8mbit average mobile speed in India and 14mbps for Russia, broadbands average 55mbps for India and 85mbps for Russia. 4G and broadband are widely available and nobodys using 56kbps screeching modems anymore.
sky observation is gone
>literal anime girl plays vidya
:3
This. This shit is unhealthy. It sucked away too much of my time. This shit is worse than watching anime. It can destroy your life. You should never start watching vtubers. Consider this a warning from the one that experienced it.
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>This shit is worse than watching anime. It can destroy your life. You should never start watching vtubers.
Yeah... yeah I guess that's true...
I could never get into that shit, no matter how cute their masks are it's still a 3DPD behind it. I'm not interested in bowing down to some whore playing games.
Fortunately I'm not brain damaged so there's no risk for me, but thanks for the warning.
The average smartphone is pretty powerful, increasingly seems to do everything, replaces traditional computers for a lot of tasks. And it’s got all this spooky AI shit going on.
Flash memory capacity has increased at a steady predictable rate for decades. The fact that 10 years ago you couldn't have predicted 1TB flash only paints you as a complete moron.
Smartphones and especially smartphone cameras. 2011 was the age of the Galaxy S2 and iPhone 4s.
Laptop screens. In 2011, 1366x768 TN panels were running rampant.
Also VR. If you told me that in 10 years I will be able to buy a 300$ standalone headset that is actually good, i would've called bullshit. I know the quest 2 is subsidized by Facebook fuckery, but still, it's impressive.
Reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
I had a samsung galaxy S2 and it has a camera on par or better than my motorola e9
Try a phone that's not bottom of the barrel mediatek chinkshit.
Go back
subscription based life
from houses to food
Rent has always existed and n-words had food stamps for a while
That I can sell my RX480 for the same price I bought it for before falling into coma.
M1 MacBook Air
>play Warzone
>call someone a homosexual
>get banned forever
Wtf?
What's with the recent influx of people waking up from comas?
Mac Pros for $50
Time travel. I took a short nap and I'm 10 years into the future!
Mobile cameras, especially at night.
Youtube videos. I can literally spend my entire day on that one website alone. Such high quality videos if you know where to find it. For free.
Nothing. Technology has stagnated
Why is a 1TB microSD card so small when an M2 SSD is like 15 times larger.
I know that m2 SSDs have RAM chips on it to make it very fast, but still, why do they need their own board when a microSD card can store as much on a little chip the size of a nail.
Because:
1) a SSD using the same density as MicroSd card woud make it grossly expensive.
2) SSDs are way more resilient to wear, physical damage and electric noise.
3) MicroSds speeds (about 90 Mbps) are NOT in the same category even than SSDs m.k.1 (700-1000 Mbps), to m.k.2 (easily 7 Gbps) they are 2 orders of magnitude apart
4) if microsds want to become faster they also need to have a longer read/write life wich in turn would make them bigger, ad then the power managment even bigger and so on
M.2 Killed SATA
R7 5700G equal in a 12inch laptop
>people saying smartphones
maybe it's just because i'm old and boring now, but i do about the same things on my phone now that i did on my phone in 2011
they're fast, sure, but they're boring utilities now
they take nice pictures now, i guess
I'd be astounded that everyone in society has a pocket computer with as much power as my 2000s desktop computer. I would also be disturbed that everyone is constantly staring at their pocket computer when they are out and about, since that didn't really start (by my recollection) until around 2013 or so. 2011 still had normal social interactions by comparison.
Incidentally, I knew someone who did peace corps around this time, and they were weirded out by that exact thing. It went from "oh yeah one person I know has an iphone" to "everyone is using and staring at a smartphone all of the time in public" pretty quickly (like 2011 to 2014).
I've been a hikikomori since 2009 and only go out ~1 time a year (some times skipping a few years) for bureaucracy that I can't avoid, and it's weird as fuck every time.
I also feel like a weirdo, sitting in a waiting room and being the only one not on a phone the entire time.
Also huge screens everywhere.
You're not the weird one, it's everyone who is addicted to connecting with people around the world instead of with people next to them
I guess it's all relative, isn't it?
>What new technology are you most impressed by?
the new NLP models like GPT and deep learning on gpus
2011 was still kindof sortof a GOFAI-year.
I think I would be most impressed by what AMD has done. I just bought a 6 core processor that will boost to 4.6 Ghz at 65w TDP for $270. That is kind of crazy to me without the coma.
the fucking internet and the mars space program
>1TB sd card
>TBW before failure: 2TB
kek
10 years ago was 2011 so honestly, nothing. Nothing would impress me. Everything we have now was the same in 2011. Ok, 1TB microsd is cool, but not impressive. It's like resolution on a monitor, its inevitable they'll make something with more of x. I won't be impressed in 10 more years when a microsd has 100TB or my monitor is 32K.
In fact I have extremely high expectations, so if we don't have brain-interface devices in mass production or a colony on mars already I'll be extremely let down. Technology is moving too slow for me to be impressed.
probably shows how little you knew of technology in 2011 beyond consumerism
This shit actually baffled me when I first saw it. It baffled me again when I found out that people can donate to make it vibrate on stream.
Human ingenuity.
>vibrate on stream by donation
That is disturbing, a level of pay to play for which I was not ready.
There's a fleshlight version where you can pair two over the internet and what one does is replicated in the other, so one keeps his still and fully inserted while the other jerks off to make the still one emulate its activity.
5G would genuinely impress me until I learnt about how it was making people sick
>5G conspiracy-tard
yeah, it should be stronger imo
integer scaling done by gpu.
feels good being able to use the 1080p resolution on a 4k screen and it looks just as good as 1080p on a native 1080p screen.
Why can't every 4K screen do this? Fuck.
Bitcoin being worth any actual amount of money
How cheap storage is
Sex toys that can sync with porn videos
VR maybe.
I can store entire TV show episode collections, tens of thousands of episodes, hundreds of shows, on a hard drive that fits in my pocket, and I can view them on a fucking pocket phone with a higher-quality screen than the TV I had in 2010. If that doesn't make every kid who grew up with James Bond think that they're in the future, then I don't know what does.
related to this, actually working television watches/telephone watches. Shit still blows my mind. Also, that I can, through online TV services, watch TV from across the world through my computer.
The best technology so far is quest 2
>hardware
the AMD turnaround
>software
not needing flash, java, etc in the browser on a daily basis
Surprised no one here is talking about blockchain tech. Every big tech company is at risk of a decentralized version coming up and rendering their most reputable obsolete. Facebook, Twitter, Uber, all of those could be recreated purely through smartcontracts and eliminate censorship and in Uber's case, increase the salaries of drivers significantly since there's no middleman to take their cut.
I know that I wouldn't be impressed with the state of Linux.
>You just woke up from a 10 year coma
so 2010? Nothing impressive, new tech was kind of expected from that time.
Now if we're talking about 1990 -> 2021 you got my interest
what would surprise you then from 1990 to 2021
>1990 to 2021
>why are TVs so thin now?
>cars get so curvy and larger
>touchscreens
>the internet in general
I would probably be impressed how they managed to gay up the entire internet.
Smartphones because they are capable than old computers.
captchas
This thing is the single most impressive things to happen in 10 years.
The fact that not only it launched and succeeded, but the fact that it's an actual, useful, driveable car, that it's economically viable and that a lot of people are buying it. And I don't mean just Tesla, I mean most EV that are produced now. If you said an all-electric vehicle would be viable in 2010, people would call it a fad and call you a looney and joke about having to pull a plug behind you. But here we are, every time I drive, I spot a lot of them in the wild.
Another impressive technology is wireless charging. Not that the tech itself is impressive - we knew about that for years, but the fact that it's used in consumer applications is impressive.
USB Type-C is another impressive tech. Well, 2011 was a year before Lighning was introduced, but back then the only widespread symmetric connector was the TRS jack. To think that such a simple idea as having a cable you could plug any way was not made earlier actually impresses me.
Bitcoin and crypto price and popularity, too. Back when I heard of it, in my wildest dreams I thought it would reach the price of like 100-300$ and could be used as a universal currency, but as of now it's a huge asset with 5-digit values, and there is a myriad of crypto trying to mimic it's success.
Batteries are still holding us back. Energy density is laughable compared to gasoline. Degradation also sucks
True, but you can easily drive them to work, grocery store and back home without a single charge, and then charge with the cheap electricity (depending on where you live).
I stopped caring about new tech at around that point anyway. Smartphones peaked at around 2014, but who cares; they also brought social cancer.
I predict nothing groundbreaking within the next 10 years. Maybe Dolphin will run Rogue Squadron 3 flawlessly.
the collective innovative will of mankind is all bound up developing incrementally better versions of consumer goods at the moment
>You just woke up from a 10 year coma. What new technology are you most impressed by?
USB-C
mini/microled monitors at an affordable price, monitor technology hasnt progressed in a while
Nothing really, it's been the same shit since 2011 but with more censorship and surveillance.
Honestly the most interesting thing is cheap drones and actual VR headsets (of which I've never tried one because they are prohibitively expensive in my country).
Large monitors were already affordable in 2011 and cellphones peaked in 2015 just to become enormous bricks full of googleshit (yeah yeah rooting, whatever. You can't root the 6.5" size out of the devices though).
I'd be kinda impressed at AMD's performance, but that's just an incremental update and it would be actually kind of underwhelming to see we're still at something like 8 to 16 cores when 4 core CPUs were already the norm in 2008.
That we had a vaccine for a pandemic I'm under 8 months
>I'm under 8 months
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