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?
There's a buzz around the metaverse? Hell, even Meta has cancelled their meta project.
Both the love for Generative AI/LLM is overhyped, but so is the hate for it. They're actually pretty good tools, they won't save the world on their own in their current state.
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
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.
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...
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?
that technology doesn't even make sense
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.
yeah but they are all completely crippled by a touchscreen
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.
Arm on Laptops and Desktops
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.
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)
Wtf is an "arm" in this context?
Edit: downvoting someone for asking a question is super cool, apparently.
Maaaybe replace the wtf with what next time you ask a question.
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)
Cloud. Businesses went all in on cloud under this illusion of stable costs, but costs go up and contol/support have gone down, and I'm seeing businesses spin on-prem back up.
Id go so far as to say SaaS in general. Small startups are paying $5000/month to send emails and we've come to the point where inboxes are monopolized and if you don't pay up to a cloud provider your emails end up in spam.
Take this and repeat for everything. Monopolize, ratchet up the costs, profit.
1000% this. Without giving away too much information, I work(ed) for a cloud provider (not one of the big ones, there are a surprising number of smaller ones in the field you've probably never heard of before). I quit this week to take a position in local government with some quaint, on-prem setup.
Mix all that together and then put the remaining pressure on the human aspect still holding things up and there's a collapse coming. Once businesses get so big they're no longer "obligated" to provide support, they'll start charging you for it. This has always been a thing of course, anyone who's worked enterprise agreements knows that. But in classic corpo values, they're closing the gap. Pay more for support, get less in return. They'll keep turning that dial until something breaks catastrophically, that's capitalism baby.
And that's why you go with the big guys (and pay a premium for it).
I work for a SaaS company that offers a cloud version as well as a software license. We only support the big 3 because everyone else is just keeping their systems up with chewing gum and duct tape, and it's infuriatingly inconsistent. No way of offering a reasonable SLA or for our support guys to dig into an infra problem. And this includes relatively big players like Ali, Tencent, Yandex, DO or OVH.
In the end, 95% of customers pay less if they choose the cloud version, only if you have 24/7 steady load (and a high one) will it be cheaper to pay for infra, SREs, licenses and support.
Basically you save money on tech/support because of scale.
So you triple and quadruple your sales and marketing spend to get more business.
In the end it just doesn't work, except the smaller guys and a lot of them are just hanging on as the stacks get more complicated.
Aws and gcloud are thickening the stack and driving everyone else out of business.
spin on-prem back up.
"Repatriating"
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.
I'd rather grown more Hemp
Quantum computing? The hype isn't so bad lately and I'm somewhat optimistic but it's worth a mention.
I feel like it's hyped just enough. It does have the potential to revolutionize computing but we have no practical applications for it at the current point in its development. There's only so much you can hype something that can't even act as a simple calculator better than a handheld calculator can.
it has the potential to revolutionize some optimization problems that are hard to solve classically. It's going to be practically useless for the average user.
I'd to say that the quality of the hype is completely out of whack. People are expecting the current generation of generative neural networks to do things that they really can't.
The ammount of total excitement is probably actually too low if you group GNNs with AGI, though.
I feel like both new cars and phones have been overhyped for a while now.
Ai is simultaneously over and under hyped depending on context.
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