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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] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Definitely noise cancelling has improved significantly within the last decade, and it's been super handy for me. I love being able to just turn off the noise when I'm on a plane, or the loud person on the bus or train.

Mics on the same headphones seem much better too; in all the cases where i'd previously need to check on the phone "can you hear me!?", now they just always can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

And as pointed out somewhere else in the thread, it's gotten cheap, too. I got some over-ear headphones I wear on planes or on the train, and they have really good noise canceling, for under 50 dollars when I bought them. They're not as good as Sennheiser or Sony, but they're 1/6 of the price so pretty good ANC is more than plenty.

BTW, love the username and profile pic. Petrodragonic apocalypse is maybe top 2 KG&LZ albums to me.