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What's a piece of technology you LOVE the progress of? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I always thought LibreOffice was shit and it always felt like I was using a "replacement". However, after finally using Word again after many years I've come to the conclusion that it's actually not miles ahead and also quite shit. The docx format is bad, so Word is still better at dealing with it purely because it's their format, but LibreOffice honestly has a nore logical but uglier design. The Word top bar is pure pain