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.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Part of it is the manufacturing process is unified between TVs, monitors, smartphone screens, car screens and anything else with a screen in it. Its all the same manufacturing process and they just slice and dice the LCDs based on what’s in demand and what they can cut out of each panel

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Mostly from ads and tracking you

      Edit: especially on TVs. They’re subsidizing an upfront loss to make more from selling data with the Smart TV features