Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone MRNA vaccines
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
Steam Controller (2026). I've wanted a controller like the steam deck for a while, happy with it
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone EVs have gotta be up there for some people? I live in NYC so no need for a car at all, but my suburban parents seem happy to be moving away from gas
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@foone MRNA vaccines
@SvenGeier excellent choice!
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone active noise cancelling
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone my first thought was 3d printer, but I didn't spend money on that, I got it from a friend years later
then second thought was smartphone, but I was too young at that time to like process that kind of thing/have money to spend
uh I guess the switch? but like that was for the games and I never use it in portable mode so that might as well have been like games on steam
I'm really struggling to think of anything
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone Streaming boxes (AppleTV, Roku, etc)
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone@digipres.club probably my pinepower with the swappable wall plugs. recent but not exactly cutting edge tech, the same thing could have been done 15 years ago
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone i think smartwatch , probably ? when google first released their pixel watch i was very excited because there was finally an android smartwatch that was physically small and had very good integration with the OS , and i bought one within the first few weeks of it being available. i haven't had any regrets
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone Decent machine translation, run locally, on my mobile phone.
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@foone MRNA vaccines
@SvenGeier @foone I was going to comment “affordable VR headsets” but actually yeah mRNA vaccines are a game changer
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone that's easy, since I just got it a month ago. The Comma 4 from comma.ai
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone I bought one of those chinese waterproof android phones with a ham radio and a laser pointer (and an FM radio though I didn't use that much) and I was pretty happy with it. like I personally hate mediatek now because they didn't get android upgrades but the technology as an integration was amazing. huge battery, charm/lanyard slot. wish I could put postmarketOS on there
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone@digipres.club Most recent technology? A smart watch, on the grounds of I need timers to help manage my ADHD and it would be nice to have a wearable one since I don't carry my phone around with me normally.
It satisfied for maybe a year. Then I lost the charger for a bit, and Google bought the company and forced me to link the account with a Google account. I didn't want to do that for privacy reasons, so I couldn't set the clock after it ran out of power.
Most recent purchase? A knitting loom. -
Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
@foone I was definitely eager to get FTTP (fibre networking all the way to the house) when they'd finally laid the cables down the street.
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Embarrassingly the first thing I thought was "portable mp3 players" but surely there's something newer.
Smartphones? Yeah their reputation is mixed, but having a browser in your pocket is really a game changer.
That's still some 16+ years old though.
@foone humorously ‘portable digital audio player’ is where i keep landing as well. and then i try to think past that but everything else either kinda makes my life shit or at least i think my life would not be noticeably worse without…
…~maybe~ i could come up with something in the pro audio world but even that seems a stretch…
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Adhoc poll: what's the most recent technology you've seen and gone "wow I gotta get that" and spent money to get access to, and were at least mostly happy with?
Not something pushed on you, not some new framework that was annoying to learn but everything is using it now, not some Next Big Thing that turned out to be a disappointment, or something constantly pushed on you by advertising that you didn't ever want to use, but a "wow that's neat, I need that!" technology?
