It can be a movie, a scientific discovery, food, whatever

  • Darkwatch00
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    81 year ago

    Bluetooth earbuds. Took me the longest time to buy a pair. Now I have them all the time.

    • @dromicieomimus@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I thought airpods/cordless buds were stupid when they first came out, I thought I would instantly lose the buds. now I can’t live without them.

    • hydro033
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      -11 year ago

      Sammmme. I was so against having to charge headphones to listen to them. No idea they would last as long as they did on one charge and my god do they perform well.

  • @Pechente@lemmy.ml
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    51 year ago

    The Nintendo Switch when it came out. I was super hyped and somehow the console even exceeded my expectations.

    Playing Breath of the Wild for the first time was amazing and even after 6 years the console still feels modern to me.

    • @Thavron@lemmy.ca
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      21 year ago

      Yep, every time someone mentions how long it’s been out, it surprises me again. It still ‘Nintendo’s brand new console’ to me.

      • eltimablo
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        11 year ago

        I feel you. The PS3 is still “last generation” to me and a Core 2 Duo still feels like a powerful new processor.

    • Sandra
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      11 year ago

      And then Tears of the Kingdom in turn lived up to the hype set for it. So great

    • Sir_Kevin
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      11 year ago

      I got a couple of electric scooters for me and my gf to fuck around on. Ended up selling my car.

      • Klunk
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        11 year ago

        Yeah I occasionally hire one of the escooters they have around town. They’re a blast. Been thinking about selling my car and just buying my own

  • negi
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    31 year ago

    SSD.
    It is way way faster than HDD.
    I can’t use HDD-only PC anymore.

    • @Admetus
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      21 year ago

      I had an extra SATA port on the side of my laptop that resembled a CD-ROM drive. Plugged in new SSD, installed win10, and it was so much faster. The original installation is festering until I finally back up all the data, cause I’m a data hoarder apparently. Doesn’t help I used the old drive, now D:\ as storage.

  • Brkdncr
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    31 year ago

    Lasers. They seem to have endless uses from playing with cats, scientific measurements, military, construction, heating, cooling, even used for space-based internet communications. There’s so many more uses that I’m not using.

    • Onii-Chan
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      A fucking laser gave me what I still maintain is my weirdest memory ever.

      I was in my upstairs bedroom, shining my little handheld laser into the park across the road from my house. Since it was so dark, the laser dot seemed to travel an extreme distance compared to what I was used to during the day, so I was just enjoying pointing it at anything interesting - just random shit like reflective signs, trashcans, anything shiny or metallic.

      After about five minutes, I decided to start toying around with the dot on a little sign that was sitting next to a small lake in the middle of the park, when all of a sudden, and I’m not really sure how to explain this, but I’ll try; for a split second, the red light from the laser reflected off EVERYTHING in the vicinity for about 700 meters in all directions - all the reflective signs, any water surfaces, all the houses on the other side of the park, car windows, metallic objects, etc. I was so fucking taken aback, that I stopped and tried to contemplate what the hell had just happened. I was wide awake and this happened clear as day right in front of me.

      To this day, I’ve still found no way of explaining how such a weak laser was able to a) reflect so much light off so many (hundreds) of surfaces simultaneously, if only for a fraction of a second, and b) if this is somehow a physical possibility, how perfectly anything in that park, alongside my own positioning from my house, would have had to align for each object to then perfectly - and without losing any luminosity - reflect the light into the next surface hundreds of times.

      It’s this shit that makes me think that just maybe those ‘glitch in the matrix’ people are onto something.

      EDIT: So I guess to stick to the topic at hand, another use case for lasers is making me question the laws of physics.

  • BiggestBulb
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    31 year ago

    Minecraft. Still super fun and there are servers for literally everyone (from pure vanilla to factions to semi-anarchy and anarchy)

  • @SpinalPhatPants@vlemmy.net
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    21 year ago

    Maybe a hot take, but Cyberpunk 2077. I didn’t experience most of the bugs people complained about and I loved almost everything about the game and world. It’s also only gotten better as they’ve patched it.

    • LChitman
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      21 year ago

      For me, it could never live up to the hype. But I am glad some people have enjoyed it so much and it has come a hell of a long way since release. I’ve been playing recently but going to wait for the new DLC and restart.

    • discodoubloon
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      I know I was kinda blinded by the potential early on, bu the world is the most ambitious ever created in a video game. The fact that all of the missions use it at face value is really crazy IMO. The game is groundbreaking for that alone.

  • komplekx
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    21 year ago

    More recent one, but tears of the kingdom is really the game I wanted it to be. Game of the year, maybe of the decade :D

  • bou
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    21 year ago

    The Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.

  • computersaysno
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    21 year ago

    Better Call Saul. I just finished the series a few days ago and I thought it was amazing. At the moment I believe it’s actually better than Breaking Bad so I’m gonna have to go and watch that next to compare.

    • @Admetus
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      21 year ago

      Holy crap did they finally finish the series? If so, I’m going to watch that last season!

  • Xiphorang
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    21 year ago

    The Wire. It really is the greatest TV show ever made like people say it is.