China is doing cool things with 5G networks and drone technology. Respectively, remote surgery and pesticide deployment are the two uses I can recall, but there are many other useful implementations as well.
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cloud gaming streaming bullshit, not because of actual cloud gaming, but so i can play split screen games with no netcode over the internet with friends
Unless we count the field of medicine idk if I can think of one. And even then some were being gatekept
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We were doing that back on dial-up.
VR. The Oculus Rift was the first modern VR headset and is from around 2015, 2016. I use VR several times a week. Helps me keep social with people who share my niche interests.
Discord is nice. I like being able to stream games/movies with my friends.
linux gaming, steam deck, gigabit internet proliferating in my country.
I definitely echo what @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net said, but will also add that the Rust programming language has been a great development.
Electric unicycles have been improving fast over the last decade, and all that development has been happening in China. The initial invention of the modern style seatless EUC was around 2010, but that inventor is just patent squatting at this point so there's zero US work in the category.
I really do think that LLMs are the only technological breakthrough that's improved my life in the last decade, and 75% of those gains just fill the void left by Google search's deterioration. And may even be a net negative, since spammers and spreading misinformation benefit 100x more from the technology than I do.
Neural Networks for image recognition, BTRFS, Proton, cheap SSDs are great. However, there are some truly terrible pieces of technology made with good intentions, such as Gradle.
Not gonna lie, ai has helped me a fair bit. It's so good for job applications.
The James Webb telescope, quantum computing breakthroughs, sustained fusion reactions, almost ready to deploy thorium reactors, and AI even if you only see the dumbest applications of it right now.
My sun lamp/alarm clock wakes me up to artificial sunlight every morning at 5am. Is it actually a technological breakthrough from the last decade? Probably not. But in that timeframe, it's become mainstream enough to be consumer-grade affordable.