QOTD: What’s your favorite technological advancement in the last ~10 years? 🤔

I’ll go first: Noise cancelling headphones. 😂 I often put them on in the evenings, no music, just enjoying the silence. ✌️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hm, that has to be VR.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, definitely VR!

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net VR, really? You have one of those things? 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Bloody AI stuff! 🤪😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com , yeah, I have one. First one I bought was the first oculus on kickstarter. Then facebook delivered their first (after they bought oculus) on my doorstep for free (since I backed the first oculus on kickstarter). I use it a lot, especially for Xplane (flight sim) and Elite: Dangerous etc. It’s not one of those quest standalone VR headsets I have, it’s the one you hook up to a computer.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are drivers and such for linux as well. I also think it works fine with steamVR on linux (But currently my main computer for gaming is running windows) so I have not tested VR on linux yet. I am planning on installing linux on that machine when I get a extra disk for it soon. (I run linux on all other laptops I have, but those are not good enough for VR stuff).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The success of large neural nets. People love to criticize today’s LLMs and image models, but if you compare them to what we had before, the progress is astonishing.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s a tough one. Maybe drones and cameras. They make for greater videos to watch online (no, I don’t have any of that). Not to forget high-speed internet, that’s sloooowly getting rolled out.