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Name a single technological breakthrough in the past decade that has improved your life in some way (hexbear.net)

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I feel as if technology has stagnated, all that are left are grifts or just make everything terrible, like AI. I was thinking Zoom calls maybe? The tech has definitely improved since Skype.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even the price doesn't seem to have changed all that much over the decade

They're heavily subsidized to get people into the Amazon ebook ecosystem, where they can make massive profits through not having to provide a physical object.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well then I'm happy I bought it at a loss to Amazon because I exclusively read pirated books and classics that are sold on the Kindle store for like two bucks lol