I guess I’m easy to please, but, recently I got myself a better bluetooth dongle over the holidays. I had one before, but it was stupid cheap, connection was frail and didn’t have good range. Now I have one with Bluetooth 5.4 and I’m amazed with what I can do with it.
I can funnel sound to any one of my bluetooth speakers so I don’t have it hogging my main speakers when I want something close by me.
Speaking of which, I wish I had really known this far earlier in my days of using a computer. But, being able to split audio in multiple ways. I can assign where sound is going to, program to program. One browser gets these headsets, that browser gets the TV speakers .etc
That kind of shit amazes me and damn shame I never explored this before.
Honestly it’s probably just how easily accessible things that are normally hard to reach for humans becomes.
If I want the upcoming weather, I can access a distributed network of government satellites, local weather monitoring stations, and independently operated weather monitoring relays, all combined together into an alert saying “It’s gonna rain in 15 minutes” 3 seconds after I open the app.
If I want to talk to an expert on a subject, the author of my favorite books, a politician, or simply my friends, I can just send them an email or often a DM.
If I want to know about practically anything, there’s either gonna be a site out there with someone tirelessly writing a 20 paragraph article about it, or a Wikipedia page contributed to by thousands of volunteers to make sure people like me could quickly find the information.
And if I want to share information I know about with other people, I can also go to Wikipedia, not as a viewer, but as an editor, and keep other people informed the moment they go to Wikipedia trying to answer a question of their own, or just feed their general curiosity.
This type of thing is way slower through books, live broadcast stations on TV, (though I suppose that still counts as “technology”, just more legacy), having to meet up with your friends in person before you can talk to them, having to travel to a research institution and schedule a meeting just to talk to an expert, etc.
It just feels magical to have a question, look it up, and just get an answer. Just like that.