We talk a lot about enshittification of technology, so tell me about technology that is getting better!

I personally love the progress of electric scooters. I’ve been zooming around on a 400$ escooter for a year and it works so well. It has a range of around 20 miles and top speed of 15 mph, so it works just super well for my uses, and 10 years ago scooters with that range/speed/price were no where near a thing.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        That’s really cool! I need a pedoscope apparently. A real shame most stuff like that is dangerous.

      • Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Americans drinking lead water and testing cocaine to see if it cures laziness, fitting shoes with x-rays, you’re truly the most adventurous people in some ways!

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I would much rather do x-rays at home with an app or something, than have to go to the hospital to get them done.

      • 2001aCentenaryofFederation@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        for sure, it’s just that xrays are ionizing radiation and as such are extremely hazardouss. xray techs wont even be in the same room as the machine when its on. the glass they’re looking at you through is leaded to prevent their repeated exposure to it.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Near-field radio-wave shenanigans might fake it. There’s all kinds of electromagnetism passing through you and you’re interfering with some of it. Resolution is limited by wave-length… unless the sensor is within that distance. That’s still going to be blurry, but deconvolution mmmight recover enough detail to go “yep, that’s broken.”