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.
E-Ink and Ebooks in generell. Maybe not all the shitty Software/DRM that often comes with them but the technology itself is amazing.
That is incredible tech. And now they’re backlit and in color? Amazing. The only thing holding me back is shitty software and DRM. If there was a color eReader I could run something like Alpine on I would get one instantly. Instead it is often some proprietary shovelware begging to subscribe to their proprietary cloud service.
E-ink screens aren’t backlit. It’s one of the reasons they are so easy on the eyes. They are front-lit. There are LED’s at the edge of the screen and a light guide on top of the screen that diffuses it onto the e-ink screen. Instead of staring directly into a lightbulb like with LCD the light you see is reflected off the page.
I’ve heard the coloured ones are not as cool and page transitions are slow
Yeah I 100% percent agree. But as far as I know most of the eBook reader also slow plain ePub or PDF and than you can often find these online or order them directly at the publisher. Sometimes you buy them at the publisher there will be only a signature and no DRM.
Interesting take. This is a technology that is often claimed to be a slow mover, so I’m curious what you’ve seen that suggests the opposite.
Some believe that competition is finally ramping up.
We have color and okayish refresh rates now!
The variable refresh rates on my newest one do make it more viable for other tasks like web browsing, that’s true.
I think I like that the progress that happens actually make sense and makes my life better. Of course there is almost no progress that you can feel I’m this technology over the course of one year but that eInk in gnerell became a think over the course of my life still amaze me everytime I think about it
Yeah it is pretty cool, I agree!