What tech is most interesting to you right now?

[purbeast0]

how much were they?
where do you buy them?

im looking for Gauntlet.
*Elf* needs food badly!

I got KI2 back in like 2002 or something for $300. I could sell the board alone now for like $1k+ easily.

Maximum Force I paid $300 for from a local business. Both guns had issues but were really easy to fix. Then all the light gun arcade boards I have all vary in price.

I got the Rush 2049 SE's from a local dude for $1k for the pair.

 

[JEDI]

Agricultural Tech has me most interested at the moment. We have what 7-8+ BILLION people on this planet with that number expected to steadily increase over the coming years. That is a lot of fucking mouths to feed.
So how will human kind adapt to make it possible? The old ways won't/ arguably aren't already sustainable so we as a planet have to come up with better solutions to a world wide problem.

we wont survive.
i think it's calculated 7B is when the population will start to collapse with current aggro tech.
or was it 9B?

 

[dank69]

Fembot.

 

[Ken g6]

I'm interested in getting an electric vehicle (or PHEV) when this chip thing subsides.

But I recently got a Raspberry Pi, and it's pretty nice too.

 

[highland145]

Fembot.

Pris.

 

[IronWing]

Augmented reality
Self driving cars
Shortwave UV LEDs (fluorescent mineral hobby needs more power!)
Cheaper shortwave UV bandpass filters (current mass produced filters cost > $25/square inch, ~$4/square cm).

 

[MtnMan]

Pole

People that use the wrong word.

 

[Muse]

Pole

People that use the wrong word.

He must be a pole-tician, a lot of those habitually use wrong words.

 

[nakedfrog]

we wont survive.
i think it's calculated 7B is when the population will start to collapse with current aggro tech.
or was it 9B?

It's been updated as the decades go by. We're already at 8 billion people (give or take), so probably not 7 billion.

 

[Muse]

It's been updated as the decades go by. We're already at 8 billion people (give or take), so probably not 7 billion.

We got issues, though. Global warming is gonna be a bitch going forward.

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[JEDI]

Pris.

3holeEve

 

[nakedfrog]

We got issues, though. Global warming is gonna be a bitch going forward.

We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton: 9781616959364 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We’re Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our...

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Oh, yeah, no doubt about that
Hoping for my (as of yet theoretical) grandkid's sake that we figure out a tech solution.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I bought my first computer (used) in 1993 from an EE who had put it together from components including a proprietary local bus mobo (and a 486DX Intel CPU, which I replaced with an AMD 486DX2), because the Visa local bus was only on the horizon then, hadn't come out. It was Windows 3.1, preloaded. It was a listing in local newspaper classified section. He was selling it because he and his wife decided that a laptop was all they needed. He made his money in Autocad. You can do more with a desktop than a laptop, but for most stuff I don't see a difference.

Laptops are more utilitarian from my perspective. They serve a purpose, but, they are generally harder to work on and give less "bang for the buck". I will use a laptop for work, or when on a road trip, but, i prefer desktops in general.

Any time i replace/upgrade a motherboard, cpu, gpu, or ssd, I wind up upgrading my htpc, or my wifes pc, or my cousins pc, or i donate some hardware to my brother or a friend
I can buy a motherboard, and keep it for like -10 years, maybe upgrading the CPU and GPU once or twice during its lifetime.

If I spend $300 on an upgrade, one of my family members down the line gets a free upgrade out of it.


Also, if a power supply blows up, or a video card burns out, or a motherboard fails, I only have to replace that specific part that fails, and dont have to replace a whole laptop because of it, or dont have to attempt complicated microscope tweezers surgery like replacing keyboard or power supply on a laptop.

I hate taking apart laptops and putting them back together again.
I dont mind messing with a big tower case or most rack mounts.

 

[kt]

Laptops are more utilitarian from my perspective. They serve a purpose, but, they are generally harder to work on and give less "bang for the buck". I will use a laptop for work, or when on a road trip, but, i prefer desktops in general.

Any time i replace/upgrade a motherboard, cpu, gpu, or ssd, I wind up upgrading my htpc, or my wifes pc, or my cousins pc, or i donate some hardware to my brother or a friend
I can buy a motherboard, and keep it for like -10 years, maybe upgrading the CPU and GPU once or twice during its lifetime.

If I spend $300 on an upgrade, one of my family members down the line gets a free upgrade out of it.


Also, if a power supply blows up, or a video card burns out, or a motherboard fails, I only have to replace that specific part that fails, and dont have to replace a whole laptop because of it, or dont have to attempt complicated microscope tweezers surgery like replacing keyboard or power supply on a laptop.

I hate taking apart laptops and putting them back together again.
I dont mind messing with a big tower case or most rack mounts.

It's been years since I've used my desktop PC and been mainly using my laptop connected to a docking station + dual monitors. When connected to a docking station, the laptop works just the same as a desktop PC. Same keyboard/mouse and monitors, only difference is the CPU/GPU.

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's been years since I've used my desktop PC and been mainly using my laptop connected to a docking station + dual monitors. When connected to a docking station, the laptop works just the same as a desktop PC. Same keyboard/mouse and monitors, only difference is the CPU/GPU.

I used to run 3x monitors for games, but, recently downsized to a single 3440x1440 display. It taxes my GPU a little bit less vs 5760x1080, so I can still get 60+ fps out of a Geforce 2060

 

[JEDI]

I used to run 3x monitors for games, but, recently downsized to a single 3440x1440 display.

1440p makes baby jesus cry.

i should have gotten the 30" 1600p instead of the 27" 1440p monitor

 

[Red Squirrel]

IMO the best step after HD is to just go straight to 4k. Everything else is a compromise.

 

[Muse]

Laptops are more utilitarian from my perspective. They serve a purpose, but, they are generally harder to work on and give less "bang for the buck". I will use a laptop for work, or when on a road trip, but, i prefer desktops in general.

Any time i replace/upgrade a motherboard, cpu, gpu, or ssd, I wind up upgrading my htpc, or my wifes pc, or my cousins pc, or i donate some hardware to my brother or a friend
I can buy a motherboard, and keep it for like -10 years, maybe upgrading the CPU and GPU once or twice during its lifetime.

If I spend $300 on an upgrade, one of my family members down the line gets a free upgrade out of it.


Also, if a power supply blows up, or a video card burns out, or a motherboard fails, I only have to replace that specific part that fails, and dont have to replace a whole laptop because of it, or dont have to attempt complicated microscope tweezers surgery like replacing keyboard or power supply on a laptop.

I hate taking apart laptops and putting them back together again.
I dont mind messing with a big tower case or most rack mounts.

I've bought a number of laptops, had BY FAR the best luck with Lenovo Thinkpads, of which I have 5 now, 2 are 15 yearish now (T60's), one 12 yearish (T61), a P1 first gen (typing on right now), a P1 third gen. I've had them apart some, so far aren't terribly hard to work on. The P1's are my faves by a mile just because they are so far in front tech-wise. The T61 is maxed out at 8GB RAM, which is paltry by today's standards. I have 32GB in the P1's, both of which are still in warranty. There's a mini-tower right next to me that I'm seldom using now. The only advantage I know of in using it is the internal optical drive. Also it's connected to a 43" 4K display. I could run the P1 on that, but I'm satisfied with the 15.5" display for the stuff I do with it.

The T60's and T61 have online tutorials by Lenovo for doing stuff inside. There's also a lot of forum support for the Thinkpads. I've gone there many times for info. They aren't the cheapest at all, but to me they are worth the price. I bought an LG Gram over a year ago. They are the lightest but I didn't like the ergonomics at all and returned it to Costco.

 

[JEDI]

IMO the best step after HD is to just go straight to 4k. Everything else is a compromise.

i still have a 24" CRT tv from last century.
i think i turned it on once in the past 10 yrs and that was for the SuperBowl.
there was a power outage in my area so cant go to any nearby bars to watch.

plugged the TV into my UPS 1200 and watched all 4 hrs of it.

hm.. i wonder how many days of TV i could watch if i had a 50" LED tv plugged into that UPS?
(im assuming the old CRT tv's are not energy efficient like today's TVs.)

 

[Muse]

A few weeks ago I ordered a 5 pack of red laser pointers for ten bucks, shipped. Don't mess with me!

 

[JEDI]

A few weeks ago I ordered a 5 pack of red laser pointers for ten bucks, shipped. Don't mess with me!

duct tape it to your rifle for pin point targeting?

go sniper go...

 

[Red Squirrel]

i still have a 24" CRT tv from last century.
i think i turned it on once in the past 10 yrs and that was for the SuperBowl.
there was a power outage in my area so cant go to any nearby bars to watch.

plugged the TV into my UPS 1200 and watched all 4 hrs of it.

hm.. i wonder how many days of TV i could watch if i had a 50" LED tv plugged into that UPS?
(im assuming the old CRT tv's are not energy efficient like today's TVs.)

Hold on to that as long as you can because you can't easily buy a non smart TV anymore, they all spy on you now. I still have a HDTV but from the early days when they were just starting to go smart. This one is technically a smart TV but it does not have the spy stuff, at least I don't think so. It supports things like reading from a USB stick, DLNA and that's about it.

 

[ultimatebob]

All those technologies are pretty old, established, and frankly kinda boring to follow right now. I'm more interested in newer stuff like self driving electric cars.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually EVs and battery tech is definitely something that interests me right now. I don't think I'll be able to afford any of the offerings any time soon but it's still cool to follow the progress on it and I really do hope EVs become more normalized. Big commercial and industrial EVs too would be great to see. They already do have electric mining trucks, though aparantly they don't last long since the nature of a mining shift basically runs the battery to empty every day so it's hard on it. Maybe this will improve over time though.

Electric planes would also be incredible, but I think we are still very far from that point. Though a compromise would be if we can find a way to use clean energy to produce hydrocarbons synthetically. Something like natural gas or propane and have planes run off that. The planes themselves would still pollute but if you can eliminate all the pollution involved in mining for oil, refining it etc it would still greatly reduce their footprint. Hydrogen seems like a no brainer but I don't think it has enough energy density.

 

[Muse]

Actually EVs and battery tech is definitely something that interests me right now. I don't think I'll be able to afford any of the offerings any time soon but it's still cool to follow the progress on it and I really do hope EVs become more normalized. Big commercial and industrial EVs too would be great to see. They already do have electric mining trucks, though aparantly they don't last long since the nature of a mining shift basically runs the battery to empty every day so it's hard on it. Maybe this will improve over time though.

Electric planes would also be incredible, but I think we are still very far from that point. Though a compromise would be if we can find a way to use clean energy to produce hydrocarbons synthetically. Something like natural gas or propane and have planes run off that. The planes themselves would still pollute but if you can eliminate all the pollution involved in mining for oil, refining it etc it would still greatly reduce their footprint. Hydrogen seems like a no brainer but I don't think it has enough energy density.

Saw a brief news story this week where a small fleet of super sonic passenger jets was just ordered. Last thing they said was the aircraft (the image shown was amazing!) will have zero carbon emissions!