Have you become jaded with tech advancements and think it's getting gay?

[ToroidalBoat]

In Current Year, there is tech oversaturation. The "Internet Of Things" this, "smart" appliances that, "Zoom meetings" this, and of course "social media" and "smartphones" being too prevalent. And like I mentioned before, it seems new tech always has this "crappy watered down smartphone feel" to it. And that's not even going into censorship.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Generally yes. Some of the AI stuff was cool for a while until the novelty wore off. Otherwise, I'd rather not even talk much/think about technology unless it causes it to last longer or gives me control, and it's obvious they're going in the opposite direction on both those things.

 

[User names must be unique]

yes but every once in a while I stumble upon something kinda fun that makes me think tech is not so bad.

last thing was nzp.gay which is a call of duty:waw version of nazi zombies playable in the browser window. I do not vouch for the safety of this site while there is no sign up or any of that bullshit they could be loading who knows what.

 

[longer-study]

I think a lot of people don't realize what the root cause of the "enshittification" of tech is: venture capital, investors, and "sensitivity" (ie. the Sweet Baby thing).

This guy explains it pretty well. I don't agree with a lot of his political views, but he's correct about a lot of things: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/

 

[Irregardless]

I would say yes, and that IMO has a lot to do with the feeling that most of the technological "advancements" we've had over the past decade or so have been social/cosmetic. Like the biggest difference between 2024 and 2014 technologically is just how many people are on the internet, or are internet aware. Social media is now a huge part of society, things look a bit sleeker, and sure the internet is faster, but when you compare 2024 to 2014 versus 2014 to 2004, the amount changed the previous 10 years in dwarfed in comparison to the 10 years proceeding it.

 

[foam rolla]

And that's not even going into censorship.

I'm getting more and more baffled by self censorship on social media and YT because they're scared of the vague possibility of being struck down.

Like seeing a post where someone writes "A man has been k***** today through the act of sui*** when he sh** himself with a g*n." Like you can't even read a story without having to play Wheel of Fortune in your head to decode.

Also can't get through a YT video without some pansy bleeping out every fifth word because he's so scared of being demonetized so it makes listing to his video a complete mess.

Like the biggest difference between 2024 and 2014 technologically is just how many people are on the internet, or are internet aware.

I realized the Internet was doomed as a child when the school computers which never had any regular people using them was all of a sudden inundated by every dumb broad because they realized they could get onto chat rooms and talk to a twenty something groomers who were hanging around public chat rooms trying to hook up with school girls.

Outside of that, they had little interest in tech.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I cannot tell if this is a troll, but advancements have slowed to an absolute crawl compared to the last 20 years.

CPUs aren't getting faster. We're running into quantum tunneling issues with transistors being so close together, the nanoscale issue has not been solved and we have microprocessors out there with >40% error rates in computational tasks due to interference and crosstalk. That means almost half the work your modern CPU does is discarded when error-correction kicks in.
It's why we just put more cores into CPUs now instead of more transistors into a package.

I could sperg more but that one item has stymied all advancements.

AMD has improved CPU performance (single-threaded) by around 20-30% per major generation since Zen 1, from higher IPC and clocks (making the Ryzen 7 7700X about twice as fast as the Ryzen 7 1800X). GPUs are improving faster than that. I don't know what error rate you're referring to, but if it's not going to increase from e.g. 40% to 70% imminently then it's not negating other gains.

"Nanoscale issues" are being dealt with by the foundries, it's just that there's always a new set of issues to solve and the results are less impressive than in the past. Now we are seeing the introduction of GAAFETs to replace FinFETs, backside power delivery, high-NA EUV, stacked SRAM to mitigate SRAM scaling stagnation, etc. Maybe we'll see a variation on TFETs in the future to harness instead of resist quantum tunneling.

More cores can mean more performance, it's just not useful to everyone because of Amdahl's law and shitty programming. Most people don't "need" more than a quad-core from 10 years ago. But if you do, there are mainstream 16-24 core CPUs available.

The free lunch of the 90s is gone, but requirements have plateaued because of the stagnation. You can pick up a refurbished or new PC for $100-200 that will be good enough for shitposting, videos, work, playing old games on iGPU, etc.

We might witness an exciting performance growth spurt if 3D computers take off. Need to break the memory wall? Put layers of memory nanometers away from the logic, and cool it somehow.

 

[Toolbox]

Idk. I've been enjoying 5g and ai advancements.

Not sure what major benefit 5G has really brought to the table, but AI has been some of the most insane shit in years that actually feels like something new. Unfortunate that people have been taking advantage mostly of image gen ai to spam the net and enshittify it more, and LLMs aren't left out with bots being superpowered and capable of more real responses.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I personally have been very impressed with the hardware developments in recent years, to the point where there are areas where I'm not even sure what can be done is even really needed. It's mostly the software that's been a huge let down and the best hardware is pointless if you don't have good software to go with it.

 

[Battlefield42]

I think tech peaked for me when i saw a fleshlight with game controller mounted to it. Nothing can beat that

 

[merry schizoid]

Not sure what major benefit 5G has really brought to the table, but AI has been some of the most insane shit in years that actually feels like something new. Unfortunate that people have been taking advantage mostly of image gen ai to spam the net and enshittify it more, and LLMs aren't left out with bots being superpowered and capable of more real responses.

5g is faster. I agree with the rest of what you said.

 

[Toolbox]

5g is faster. I agree with the rest of what you said.

I still only buy that it's faster in areas where it's use hasn't yet hit the peak, as most people have yet to switch to 5G phones and probably won't for a while. This has been professed about every iterative 'improvement' in cellular tech but the actual REAL WORLD bumps in speed have been minimal, at several costs. 5G is probably more expensive to deploy than any previous system, requiring tons of micro nodes to actually be able to beat 4G Lte out.

 

[Two Dollars]

The actual tech advancements have been great, the part that’s shit is what people do with those advancements. Take 4K for example. It’s great in the sense that it’s extremely detailed, but it uses four times as many pixels as 1080p for very diminishing returns. Games have low and inconsistent framerates because they’re desperate to technically hit the highest possible resolution, and movies take up way more disk space for something you’ll barely notice. I’d rather they use that technology to make 1080p look as good as possible before moving up to something more intensive.

 

[Sniperwoof]

One of the weird things thats made a comback after basically being solved and not an issue anymore is overheating and that's entirely due to the obsession with making tech devices as thin as humanly possible.

Nigger the fan/heat sink has to go somewhere.

 

[Susanna]

The actual tech advancements have been great, the part that’s shit is what people do with those advancements. Take 4K for example. It’s great in the sense that it’s extremely detailed, but it uses four times as many pixels as 1080p for very diminishing returns. Games have low and inconsistent framerates because they’re desperate to technically hit the highest possible resolution, and movies take up way more disk space for something you’ll barely notice. I’d rather they use that technology to make 1080p look as good as possible before moving up to something more intensive.

I have a 48" monitor, if it were any less than 4k I'd be seeing individual pixels.
Upscaling is genuinely a great solution to this problem. You can render at a lower resolution, then upscale to make it smooth on higher resolutions at a minimal performance penalty.

 

[Whiskey]

I find novelties like vr more interesting then true advancements... there hasn't really been many revolutionary changes I can recall of late.

 

[Stalphos Johnson]

There's a blog I read, where the author makes a convincing case that we haven't had any real advancement in technology since the 50s and most new "innovations" are refinements of already existing technology. He's revisited the idea a couple times, and I believe it's true to a degree. Maybe we're just getting to the point where the spell is broken and we're starting to come to terms with it.

 

[Toolbox]

I find novelties like vr more interesting then true advancements... there hasn't really been many revolutionary changes I can recall of late.

The Oculus inspired wave of VR development basically plateaued at having made decent full body tracking and headsets that weren't so low quality/low HZ they made everyone want to barf while using them. The biggest hurdle is making a decent and cheap 3D treadmill and finding out how to emulate senses other than vision and hearing. Those will be really tough to get around.

 

[George Lucas]

Until we get a true successor to the integrated circuit, technology development will continue to plateau and feel mediocre compared to the crazy innovations of the 70s to 90s.

That said, there’re a lot of practical ways you can make your experience less gay. Buy cheap appliance brands that don’t have smart features. My kitchen is all Whirlpool dumb shit appliances. Yeah, they’re not anywhere close to the build quality of your grandma’s stuff, but at least you don’t have to worry about not being able to wash your underwear when the washing machine has an ‘Oops! Something went wrong!’ aneurism.

Avoid emerging technology. That means don’t buy the latest Femto-sgRYGB OLED watchmacallit TV (yeah I just made that up) because it will probably have a major flaw and suck in a few months. Just buy a solid Sony or Sharp or whatever LCD, preferably an older model with the firmware updates already online. You get what you pay for. Avoid cheap Chinese brands. Avoid brands that have ‘resurrected’ (like RCA; are they even still around?). You can’t avoid smart shit these days, but you can use burner accounts and firewalls/VLANs to protect your privacy.

Never update right away. Be skeptical of anything that automatically updates. Hack that shit out if you have to. Read release notes and forums before updating anything. You can’t even trust open source software updates to not break your shit these days. Use a boring OS like Windows set to an enterprise update channel (i.e. slow) or Debian stable.

Delete or deactivate old accounts on sites you don’t use anymore. Use the GPDR to your advantage. Even if you’re not European, the morons running these sites don’t care and will comply with your request anyway.