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.

  • superkret
    1806·
    3 months ago

    I know, I know, it’s getting boring, but…Linux.
    Nowadays you install it by clicking “next” a few times, and when you’re done, the latest updates are already installed, the firmware for your hardware is installed, your wifi is connected, your networked printer/scanner combo is already recognized and set up, storage media or devices you plug in are auto-mounted, most games work out of the box, bluetooth works, MS Office files can be opened without becoming a garbled mess, touch screens work, touchpads work better than on Windows, …

    It didn’t used to be this way. 20 years ago, Linux ran only on desktop PCs with Ethernet cable connection, all games had a penguin as the main character, shopping for a printer made salesmen look at you like you’re from Mars, and when someone sent you a .doc file, you sent back a reply to please use a free format or PDF.

    • neidu2@feddit.nl
      11·
      3 months ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with you, but today I feel like ranting about the debian 12 installer a bit and its inability to accept that, yes, I do in fact want to install grub on two separate hard drives at once, so that I have two sets of /boot/EFI

      The OS itself allows installation on mdraid, but grub does not. So in the end I had to set up one /boot/EFI partition on one drive, and reserve an identically sized partition on the other drive so I could manually duplicate the grub installation afterwards. Took me a few hours of hair pulling and way too much coffee to figure that one out.

      • superkret
        111·
        3 months ago

        Have you ever tried something like this with a Windows installer?

        • neidu2@feddit.nl
          91·
          3 months ago

          I haven’t used a windows installer in a decade, so no. Does windows even allow basic partition8ng during install?

          • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
            8·
            3 months ago

            Basic, yes. But windows still assumes it knows better than you and does whatever it wants anyway. But you can set up separate partitions for C:\ and D:, etc

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Linux has been easier to install than Windows for a while now, particularly with all the goofy hacks you have to pull out just to make an offline account on Win11.

    • christophski@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I just used Virtualbox’s auto install feature yesterday and it was insane. Literally just put in name and password and iso and it did the rest.