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GPS and maps on phone along with train and bus tracking wherever i am and easier taxi booking. This enabled me to do things i otherwise never would have done and afforded a degree of spontaneity that helped me build a lot of friendships. Without this I probably wouldn't have ever gone outside. I know this stuff is a bit older than a decade but i didn't get a smart phone until quite late lol

The cybertruck has been an incredible source of entertainment

Gene therapy & mRNA vaccines seem to have kicked off in the last decade.

NVMe storage

My 5G chip implant prevents me from getting coronavirus

there are none and no one in this thread have posted any. GPS? ever heard of a map? wireless earbuds? yeah i love worse sound quality and throwing lithium into the landfill. SSDs? yeah i love it when my slop machine gets me faster to my slop

nothing good has happened in the last thirty plus years

Calling Zoom a "breakthrough" doesn't sit right to me. I like your other word "improvement" better for something like this.

However if we're using a more expansive definition of breakthrough, my answer is Disco Elysium

For me professionally: managed cloud-hosted services have come along considerably (aws aurora in particular is really slick) and processor improvements have allowed me to scale down the fleet of servers I manage (less power and $ usage is great)

Like someone else mentioned, mRNA vaccines for sure.

Cellphone infrastructure, i live out in the sticks and didn't reliably get service in my area until 2-3 years ago

active noise cancellation in headphones has gotten a lot better in the last 10 years for sure, adding ANC to earbuds has been a gamechanger for my autistic ass

Regrettably, some internet-connected devices have also been really useful from an accessibility standpoint for me too. Just getting push notifications when my laundry is done has been a huge help with ADHD-related laundry struggles

Oh and the proliferation of backup cameras in cars has been very nice (albeit not as nice as widespread reliable public transit would be)

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I'm having a hard time even thinking of significant technological breakthroughs from the last 10 years. It seems like we're in an incremental improvement plateau. Someone said mRNA vaccines and that's a good one. "AI" is mostly a grift, but I do like the call screening feature on my Android phone; I basically never get bothered by spam calls anymore, because a robot screens all my calls and doesn't ring my phone unless it's someone I know or the caller can articulate what they want. That's nice I guess.

cloud gaming streaming bullshit, not because of actual cloud gaming, but so i can play split screen games with no netcode over the internet with friends

Unless we count the field of medicine idk if I can think of one. And even then some were being gatekept

piracy

Most all of the FOSS alternatives that have popped up over the last ten years have been major. There is a decent FOSS alternative for just about everything I need on the computer.

Discord is nice. I like being able to stream games/movies with my friends.

My Steam Deck.

Also, I love my smart watch. It makes things easier and helps keep up on my health.

Then compared to a decade ago, android phones and the OS have gotten a ton better.

Also, solar has gotten a lot cheaper and many electric companies have started storing electricity in large zinc batteries to reduce pollution and prevent brown outs.

EV cars suck less, but they still aren't quite ready to replace gas completely. I think that will happen over the next decade.

Really, just the internet sucks more now.

Electric unicycles have been improving fast over the last decade, and all that development has been happening in China. The initial invention of the modern style seatless EUC was around 2010, but that inventor is just patent squatting at this point so there's zero US work in the category.

I thought I'd be cheeky and look up a list of shit that's come out since 2015 but was inundated with AI slop telling me about random bullshit so

Yeah it's all shit

VR. The Oculus Rift was the first modern VR headset and is from around 2015, 2016. I use VR several times a week. Helps me keep social with people who share my niche interests.

China is doing cool things with 5G networks and drone technology. Respectively, remote surgery and pesticide deployment are the two uses I can recall, but there are many other useful implementations as well.

Mountain bikes have gotten so much better in the last 20 years.

I really do think that LLMs are the only technological breakthrough that's improved my life in the last decade, and 75% of those gains just fill the void left by Google search's deterioration. And may even be a net negative, since spammers and spreading misinformation benefit 100x more from the technology than I do.

Not gonna lie, ai has helped me a fair bit. It's so good for job applications.

linux gaming, steam deck, gigabit internet proliferating in my country.

I definitely echo what @[email protected] said, but will also add that the Rust programming language has been a great development.