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What's a piece of technology you LOVE the progress of? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 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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[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Charging for cell phones. So much better than a decade ago.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know the funniest thing? Smartphone charging has been made much more powerful in the last years. Now, instead of 10W, they can seep 80W and charge really fast.

However, due to smartphones also using way more power than before and having way bigger batteries, all those improvements are completely offset.

I have a phone from 2017 and another one from 2023. Both take the same time to charge, and the new one needs a 40W brick, while the old one is happy charging on a 2.5W computer PSU. But the old phone lasts longer than the new one!

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, wireless charging is the pinnacle of design and totally isn't a huge waste of power for a slight increase in convenience. Also I've haven't read it myself, but I've hearsay'd some amazing(ly awful) things about the USB-C spec (or lack thereof).