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We have reasonably powerful single board general purpose computers. Open source desktop operating systems have surpassed windows and Mac in terms of quality. I

We have reasonably powerful single board general purpose computers. Open source desktop operating systems have surpassed windows and Mac in terms of quality. It's true. AMD is stronger than ever. Mice and keyboards have improved massively. TVs finally allow higher than 60 Hz input. Took them 20 years. Electric vehicles are about to become the norm. Not just cars. I could go on for a while but frankly I am way more excited about biology. Feels like we're just a couple of major breakthroughs away from making huge leaps that could shake things quite a bit

musicale 5y ago
> keyboards have improved massively Features such as RGB lighting/doubleshot keycaps, Bluetooth, and USB are nice, but for me the massive improvements have been retro features from the 1980s (or earlier), such as electromechanical switches, tactile feedback, keybed curve/sculpting, and well-made, swappable keycaps (including ones made from PBT as well as ABS plastic.) And excepting Apple laptops (I still have the "butterfly" keyboard as well as the trackpad with poor palm rejection.)
- Ekaros 5y ago
  Doubleshot are also retro 80s? Backlights and true wirelesses are only real new features I see. Then again I haven't tried anything analog.
- beebeepka 5y ago
  My mechanical keyboard allows you to adjust actuation point per key. Never tried this specific feature as it requires installing their software but I do change the global actuation when playing games and coding. Remember old mice? Remember having ps/2 being stuck to 85 Hz, or when you had to trick windows into clocking usb to 250hz, even 500hz and that 1khz was outright impossible? This Quake player remembers
  - makapuf 5y ago
    I remember having to clean the mouse ball and their small rolling cylinders...
cblconfederate 5y ago
Biology and neurotechnology is where it's at. Neurotech in particular will make obsolete a large fraction of consumer tech. Electronic tech likes to pat itself in the back for the incremental benefits of centralizing everything, but they forget that it comes at the cost of innovation.

musicale 5y ago

> keyboards have improved massively Features such as RGB lighting/doubleshot keycaps, Bluetooth, and USB are nice, but for me the massive improvements have been retro features from the 1980s (or earlier), such as electromechanical switches, tactile feedback, keybed curve/sculpting, and well-made, swappable keycaps (including ones made from PBT as well as ABS plastic.) And excepting Apple laptops (I still have the "butterfly" keyboard as well as the trackpad with poor palm rejection.)

Ekaros 5y ago
Doubleshot are also retro 80s? Backlights and true wirelesses are only real new features I see. Then again I haven't tried anything analog.
beebeepka 5y ago
My mechanical keyboard allows you to adjust actuation point per key. Never tried this specific feature as it requires installing their software but I do change the global actuation when playing games and coding. Remember old mice? Remember having ps/2 being stuck to 85 Hz, or when you had to trick windows into clocking usb to 250hz, even 500hz and that 1khz was outright impossible? This Quake player remembers
- makapuf 5y ago
  I remember having to clean the mouse ball and their small rolling cylinders...

cblconfederate 5y ago

Biology and neurotechnology is where it's at. Neurotech in particular will make obsolete a large fraction of consumer tech. Electronic tech likes to pat itself in the back for the incremental benefits of centralizing everything, but they forget that it comes at the cost of innovation.