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Is anything in the tech world interesting or good any more? I remember being excited 20 years ago for new inventions. Now its slop, slop, slop, authoritarian surveillance fascism, slop slop slop
Foss projects and indie games are about the only interesting thing now.
I'll go back to 2005 soon as someone invents a Foss time machine !
This knowledge does me no good if I can't go to one of these exoplanets and meet a nice Orion lady.
Steam Machine?
Handheld emulation devices
Yes! Super interesting devices, a friendly community, lots of development and you’ll be playing games made before gaming went full enshitification.
Imagine a non-FOSS time machine
We have transferred your clone to 2005, please step into the incinerator.
Non-FOSS time machine? It's 2005 as a service. Monthly subscription.
I've been enjoying the advances in escape room games. mc2games makes some good ones.
The HL2 VR mods are pretty good if you have a headset. Reloading a gun with your physical hands is pretty immersive.
There's been a silent rise in mystery-themed (Ace Attorney adjacent) games in the East recently. The mysteries get better and better.
Russian games have been innovating a bit to attract Western customers. "No I'm not Human" is one of those. There are also some Russian visual novels that are good thrillers.
Of the games China makes that aren't gachaslop, some have tried to innovate. This one syncs what the character doing with real world time. So if it would take 10 minutes for a character to do something, it would take 10 actual minutes. The game doesn't even have to be on during those 10 minutes, so it can be something where you check in every now and then.
Oh man I miss old flash-based escape the room games. Remember the Crimson Room?
I still tune into TechQuickie every once in awhile and I noted how start the difference is between shows like that today and five years ago. All news is bad news anymore.
Is that the show with the liars and thieves?
It’s a show about tech news?
No, you're not allowed to like anything created by someone who's ever done something wrong on the internet!
I think you mean TechLinked
I meant TechQuickie.
But Techlinked also
Once we created standards to create everything we see today it became to expensive to invest in alternative home grown solutions. Sadly with the focus of maximizing profit over innovation most ideas just revolve around the existing infrastructure in place to do what they want. I hate it as well and everything feels very stagnant.
That and large shitty patent laws
Ironically, there are a couple of things in the tech world right now that I'm extremely interested in. But you would likely downvote me if I mentioned them.
You got downvoted for mentioning you'd get downvoted! OK, I'll bite. Based on OP's comments, As long as it isn't in AI, surveillance or Microslop WIndows, maybe you have found something for us all?
Afraid I can't help you, then.
It's really quite ironic, this is the sort of tech that science fiction has been dreaming of for decades. And now it can't even be mentioned in tech-oriented forums, can't even be hinted at, without mobs of negative-nellies dumping on it.
Ah well. I continue to have fun with it, downvotes can't stop that.
No it isn't. LLM's are a fucking technological dead end and will never reach AGI's.
Quit sucking off Sam Altman and go look into actual AI research, douchebag
Dreaming of, or warning about?
This is going to be one of those "Torment Nexus" things, I take it?
I’m anxious about being on the layoff list because I submitted my self-appraisal without reading the step that says: use ai to summarize your assessment and copy-paste to the summary field. Dammit, I wrote it myself
You just can't quit bringing up your ai girlfriend, can you ?
You'll note that I was asked.
So what, who cares about downvotes on Lemmy? Even one more person finding out about some awesome tech is worth it!
Unfortunately they're just a fucking AI-bro. Not worth your time
Quite true.
Well, I guess the most games-oriented thing is that at the moment I'm generating some cover art for some music I generated earlier to use as part of a tabletop roleplaying campaign I'm in. Custom art, custom music, stuff that a few years ago would have cost me thousands of dollars to commission (and therefore that I would never have dreamed of commissioning - it's just for me and a couple of friends). That's pretty awesome, IMO.