It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.
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Electric cars and bigger vehicles. The electricity storage tech is just not there yet. However, I think it’s perfectly suitable for personal transportation like scooters and bikes.
My electric skateboard still blows my mind. It’s crazy how well it works as compared to gasoline skateboards.
For me, the sweet spot is in plug in hybrids, as long as you actually, you know, plug them in. You can cover all your daily commute and grocery getting 100% electric and then if you need to take a longer trip occasionally, you’re covered by the gasoline engine. We use like one tank of gas every 4 months on ours.
Anything hyped on Hacker News. Tech bros are only about their big payday. Very little of their shit improves the world and they disrupt industries and social structures without creating worthwhile replacements. They receive too much attention and have way too much access to capital which could be used more productively elsewhere. They are ruining my enjoyment of technology. I am very wary of services infringing my privacy, stealing my intellectual works, leaving me open to hackers, marketers and predatory business models, putting people out of work, promoting unfair employment practices, disconnecting people from their friends, family and community, promoting social division etc.
For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.
What in the world is the “metaverse”? Are you referring to the thing “Meta” tries to call virtual reality?
Easy. AI.
It wasn’t a very long initial question (only a few sentences), but you somehow missed the only qualifier to the whole thing, “…Besides AI,” within that short intro.
Guilty, you’re right.
It is kind of misleading to leave it out of the title and hide it in the middle of the post. “Besides AI” could’ve easily fit in the post title.
No, people should read an entire thought prior to responding to it.
The post title was an entire thought in the form of a question. It invited people to come and share their opinions.
Not to mention that in many clients, the title is presented first before the post body. So someone could come up with their answer after reading everything initially presented to them about this post.
Also, skimming is a useful thing that people do, lol
There’s an entire sub-sector based on that cop-out defence. You’ve … heard of clickbait, right?
Most things to do with Green Energy. Don’t get me wrong, I think solar panels or wind turbines are great. I just think that most of the reported figures are technically correct but chosen to give a misleadingly positive impression of the gains.
Relevant smbc: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/capacity
It’s a slow war but it is being won.
Small modular reactors. You see these being proposed but so far they’re not being built.
The two nuclear developmemts I’m watching closest are the test molten salt reactor in Oak Ridge, TN and just recently heard about a new permit to build one for Abilene Christian University in Texas.
Molten salt sounds like a terrible design for modular, the whole problem is if it loses power it freezes solid, you’d want a huge one with tons of backup imho.
I’d imagine a tiny pebble bed or traveling wave, something fairly inert and safe.
Edit: I guess that’s the point, give someone a reactor, if they screw it up it safely freezes dead. Problem solved.
There have been others building a prototype or research reactor, but the M in SMR also stands for mass-produced and nobody got even close to that.
Melbourne street fashion. Literally asian style pump flip flops with socks half way up your calves. 80s tracksuit baggies. Trying REALLY hard to look like they’re not trying. The city is loving it.
I’m going to need pics.
No worries. Still interesting!
Passkeys. They’ll probably improve eventually but I feel like right now it’s a mess.
On Android you are forced to use the default implementation, only in 14 and above can you use password managers for them.
On desktop it’s somewhat less messy but you can use the system storage or a password manager extension. Some sites only let you use them for 2FA, some full login, some can’t be put in a password manager from my experience and so on.
Just a mess right now.
I am mostly concerned about potentially needing specific Big Tech implementations for them in some way… I don’t mind using, say, KeepassXC for it, because it is independent from any account or hardware, as well as easily backupable. But NOT anything tied to a Google or MS account.
Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but Paypal says it restricts what passkeys can be used, so it is apparently possible:
Passkeys are currently available for eligible personal accounts. An eligible Apple or Android device is required to create a passkey.
Other than AI, it’s automation. It’s pretty good when it works but has the same overall intent as AI (in reducing the human labor force), just on a smaller level. At least automation isn’t consistently delivering inaccurate information.
I was at my company’s booth at a career fair earlier this week and it felt like every other student was looking for an internship in “machine learning”. When I asked follow up questions about what sort of experience they’d had or projects done or what they wanted to do with it in their career, crickets.
To be fair, 2nd most popular was “CAD” which is also not a job.
“CAD” which is also not a job.
mechanical engineers: Record scratch
Do you just do CAD though? Our Mech Es do a lot in CAD but not solely. Even our drafters do a lot of things not in CAD. If anyone ever asked me what I do for work, “CAD” would not be my answer.
I categorize it as a tool, not a job. And personally, I would find a job that is, say, 75% or more CAD to be boring as hell.
What sort of automation specifically are you referring to? I work in commercial building automation, which is basically tying various systems like fire/burg alarms, access control, energy/lighting management, intercoms, and everything else together using TCP/IP networking, RS-232/485, and dry-contact relay triggers everywhere. For instance, unlocking all doors and stopping elevator access when the fire alarm goes off. Or automatically disarming a burglar alarm and turning on the lights when the first person in the morning scans their badge. In that sense, it works great and has been working for decades.
If you mean robots taking all our jobs, yeah that’s about 100 years out.
Take a look at any factory floor and robots (machines) already have taken 80% of jobs.
I literally worked on a factory line in the summer of 2015 right next to the robot they built over the course of that summer to replace us. Felt like John Henry.
That doesn’t sound overhyped. Sounds like it is effective
That’s super interesting. How do you get started at something like that? Or where would a newcomer start to learn more about it?
With me, I started applying at electronic security companies 20 years ago as a helper to pull cable and hang cameras, the simpler, more labor intensive stuff. They are always looking for people like that as the older folks like me go more into the head end set up and programming because our bodies hurt too much 😁. I learned 90% of what I know from on the job training, the rest I already had sort of a background in electronics because of my personal hobbies.
Carbon capture tech.
That one is still being promoted but in the end the CO2 is mainly used to get more oil out of wells.
Agreed. Future carbon capture capabilities are used to justify current emissions.
I’d rather grown more Hemp
I hate this one. People who have been following carbon capture for years know who is doing it sincerely and who is using it for greenwashing. Of course oil companies who say they’re doing carbon capture are doing greenwashing, no one should be surprised about that. Companies like Climeworks are doing real CCS.
Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.
Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.
Mobile apps. They have so much money and users and it still feels like there isn’t as many cool mobile apps as there are cool computer program.
Mobile apps often feel like a web browser with the URL bar.
It’s totally possible to make cool mobile apps, but most of the ones you see are just a big company porting their website.
I know but I expected there to be more cool apps and less shit ones. I’m disappointed by what mobiles have become.
Arm on Laptops and Desktops
Wtf is an “arm” in this context?
Your question is reasonable, most people are not aware of CPU architectures
Maaaybe replace the wtf with what next time you ask a question.
or no
The Arm architecture (Arm_64) which powers Apple and Snapdragon in comparison to AMD_64 (x86_64) which powers Intel and AMD (Intel created x86 and AMD created x86_64)
I’d disagree but first I want to hear your opinion on riscv
RiscV is a fundamentally different story then Arm, currently speaking RiscV is not there yet however I have more hope in the future of RiscV then Arm. Both hardware and software side RiscV is not ready however the idea of a fully open source computer still excites me. I understand however that I may be speaking more out of idealism and im certainly biased however I still hope that RiscV overtakes Arm.
Well arm cpu’s get you insane battery life (ie. Macbook M series or new snapdragons). The architecture has not settled in yet but it will take some time
You’re still paying an insane amount of money for something that can basically only do basic document editing and web browsing.
Wut? Aren’t apple’s cpus based on arm and are able to run modern games like bg3?
Considering these things can run heavy stuff even through emulation means the performance is there. The codes that these things run is just not optimized for the architecture yet. Once that’s done, I dont see a problem but yeah it’s early stages
If you run mostly Foss this isn’t even a problem, there’s almost always an arm build (prism launcher even has arm on windows support)
I don’t understand the appeal of foldable screen smart phones. Seems like nothing more than a gimmick to me.
We’ve reached the point where they can’t make phones any bigger unless you can fold them up.
Agreed though it seems nuts to pay more for a “feature” on your phone that will only cause it to wear out faster.
5G, all phone carriers in my country promises gigabit speeds but in my tests results shows slower speeds than current 4G and coverage is worse
Works great here with almost 100% coverage
Not apologizing for carriers, some are really on the edge of lying to consumers, but you have to separate the 2 parts that make 5G different from 4G.
- Higher frequencies: means higher throughput but also shorter range (you can literally block that signal with your hand). Only works if your phone supports these higher frequency bands, you have to be in areas where the carrier has deployed cells supporting those, and you have to be close enough.
- Increased efficiency: mostly affects carriers, you likely won’t notice the difference. Basically means, areas that were congested before with LTE will now see less congestion.
I found most 5G ads infuriating. If you know the tech, you understand whats going on and how they aren’t telling the complete story. If you don’t know the tech, you’ll think, “Yay, higher speeds.” Nope…
that technology doesn’t even make sense
From what I understand, 5G was first about increased capacity. Increased speed was a secondary point. It optimizes how multiple users can share the same bands, and adds use of higher frequency bands that don’t propogate as far. So for very high congestion areas, they can deploy smaller cells and which each can maintain higher speeds per user. I think the “faster” part was just marketing to get users to buy into the new technology. I mean I think that was the intent. Something about the implementation needs tuning though.
It ain’t just your country… 5g speeds marketing was total bullshit.
So if that was the lie… Why did they shill it so hard?
Shit!
I came here to say AI, which I’m not allowed to.
Only an AI would be held back by such artificial restraints…
