I’m late gen Z and when I first saw a 1TB micro SD in I too had a “Wow” moment. For me 1 TB was a rather big hard drive. What I want to say is that its insane how fast technology is developing.
A super computer at the size of your hand. Yet, I’m using one to type this comment right now (I’m of course talking about the smartphone)
Yeah MicroSD should’ve been replaced eons ago.
With what?
MicroSD express.
Nintendo Switch 2 is the only device I know uses it. Steam deck/machine needs it desperately. It would give similar performance to internal storage for cell phones.
According to cellphone companies, apparently non-removable storage
At least Johnny Mnemonic hasn’t happened yet… although Neuralink seems to be trying.
I’m sure Neuralink will only be used in the most responsible ways possible. Fitness trackers are a great example of… Okay I can’t do the sarcasm, the “wellness” industry is evil
Vr is pretty damn cool IMO, also emulation.
The fact almost any computer after 2010 ish can basically play every single game made for every console ever up to probably ps1/ps2, is insane.
IIRC Alan Turing was the one who came up with the concept of emulation, so that’s nothing new.
Damn, really? Dude was a treasure. And we treated him like shit.
The fact any computer can mimic any other computer (given enough computing power) is a mathematical fact of life. Said like this, it does sound pretty surreal.
I’d imagine someone living in the 70s during the insanely fast computer power progress would have no problem believing that a newer system could emulate older system’s code… Wouldn’t be surprised that it was already happening back then.
Yep, for example, emulation was being used at IBM in the late 60’s (and a descendant of it is still in use today, called z/VM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
Imagine showing VR porn games to Benjamin Franklin.
He’d never get anything done.
I’m still amazed by the fact that PS2 was backwards compatible with PS1 cause it had a PS1 module inside. Also, PS2 super slim was way too sleek, even for today’s standards
Yeah ps2 is just great. Still play it all the time.
Mine broke unfortunately
What broke, the laser ? Very easy fix
I think the tape that connects the laser. But it broken 12 years ago, I don’t have it anymore
using the PS1 CPU as the I/O processor when in PS2 mode, no less.
a lot of consoles did this actually! for example, the 3DS contains a DS, which in turn contains a GBA. the Wii U contains a Wii, which contains a GameCube.
What you said reminds me of this:
https://cheezburger.com/6923525/guys-impossible-garage-sale-find-is-one-for-the-books
That image has gotta be fake, right?
SDHC only goes up to 32GB and I’m pretty sure the successor SDXC only goes up to 2TB
I’m not quite sure how a card can be both U1 and U3 too
SD express should be able to surpass 2TB, but I don’t know if 4TB micro SD express cards have been made yet
SDUC can get up to 128TB btw
Has an SD card with 4tb ever been produced? Idk and i doubt
They can print whatever size they want on it if you’re buying from AliExpress 🤪
Back in early days of Aliexpress, I was looking at a bike frame by Trek. I messaged the shop and ask if they stock Specialized as well. Shop replied “Yes, of course we can put whatever decals you want on it”.
You are 100% correct, there is no such thing as a 4TB SD card. Largest you can get is 2TB. Western Digital has shown a 4TB MicroSDUC and even 8TB SDUC card at shows and events, but I don’t think it has found its way into production just yet. And with the extreme prices of flash these days, I doubt they will release it any time soon. The 4TB card would probably be $1500 - $2000 retail, who is going to buy that? And what is the use case?
The picture is some mockup someone made or maybe AI generated, but not of a real card.
It could be a real card from Temu. It’s actually a 1 GB card, but it says it’s 4TB.
You can actually store 4TB on most those cards (if you’re ok with automated data deletion to make room)
A friend bought a USB stick that had some amazing data size for the era for a cheap price, turned out it ran some sort of zip tool interface and compressed the data
No one claimed the compression algorithm was lossless! Everything fits inside a single bit if you squint
Yep. It’s a “write once, read never” storage medium.
/dev/null is the ultimate storage solution. You can write infinite bytes to it and it’ll never get full or wear out!
Very fast, too!
WORM/WORN, small difference, I say ship it.
This guy’s got upper management written all over him.
Led mouse instead of trackball/mechanical mouse.
Or having a mouse at all. Even in the late 80’s, mice were a luxury item. And those horrible resistive touch screens in the auto parts store were a nightmare compared to today’s capacitive phone screens.
Light pens were cool, though.
Yeah I paid $60 for a mouse in 1984/1985. My friend borrowed it to try it out and a few weeks later his mom got rid of his computer along with my mouse. Nooooooo!
i might get shade for it, but LLMs.
I remember reading in the 80’s, can’t remember where (this 60’s Time-Life book series, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Science_Library), where they were discussing the latest advances in training neural nets, and the idea that with a big enough net they could simulate the human brain. Maybe those Time books are on archive.org, I’ll have to look for them sometime.
On Wikipedia it seems that research dates back to the 40’s, but work was definitely in progress in the 50’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network_(machine_learning)
So for us old farts, LLMs (even though it’s different technology obviously) seem more like “finally” because since Eliza we’ve been hearing and dreaming about it for ages. Too bad that the reality of them is so dark! And every movie and show tried to warn us: 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Ultimate Computer (Star Trek TOS), TRON, Terminator 2… but we thought “nah, that’s just the movies”.
Nah, in the '70s they expected us to have stuff way better than LLMs by now.
Having a portable device that can play any song you want still blows my mind. I had a Walkman as a kid and thought that was great but being able to listen to anything at the touch of a button is so next level
Cloud services in general. Tech used to all be local, regardless of what it was. Everything cloud would blow the minds of people from the 70s. Though, we all know the tradeoffs these days
I might be misunderstanding, but dumb terminals are super old, dating back to the 60s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_3300). The idea of having your own personal computer, rather than time sharing, was very exciting to people. Like the Apple computer kit in the 70s, and the IBM PC in the early 80s. People wanted their own computer rather than having to rely on and pay for those centralized services. So I’d say that cloud services are more like a return to the bad old days rather than some exciting prospect.
Terminals existed in libraries even in the early 80s, probably earlier than that, to replace the card catalog. And to my knowledge each library didn’t have a minicomputer or mainframe in it, as that would have been way too expensive. I think they were probably using either dial up or some kind of old connection to a mainframe in the city, but I’m just speculating.
We went from dumb terminals to personal computers, now were back to dumb terminals
who the fuck can afford that shit if you don’t get scammed first 🤣
Cyberpunk 2077. Video game with Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba basically as themselves, and just the whole scope of the game. And the graphics.
Both of those actors were children in the 70s; can’t imagine they were particularly big among nerds at the time
True, but Keanu Reeves started being an icon in the 80s, at least, but I really meant the game had real people in it. Not just voice acting (e.g. V doesn’t necessarily look like Cherami Leigh), but the character looks like the well known actor. It’s a line I don’t think gaming crossed before, to that level.
Look at David Cage Games. Very different genre, and not always good or fun (Cage is a bit too full of himself), but e.g. Beyond: Two Souls had Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe years before Cyberpunk 2077.
I’ll have to look into that. I have a PS3, but I almost never play it… which is a shame, because I liked it, and PS3/360 was my favourite generation of console. Those games are still good, it’s just, on the Xbox side, I can play them on my Series X and they play better. Beyond: Two Souls looks like it was PlayStation exclusive (and Windows, but I’m a Mac user, so no dice there), so maybe I can pick up the PS3 version somewhere. Assuming the thing still works. It hasn’t been turned on in probably 2-3 years. But PlayStations are beasts, at least the old ones (never had a PS4 or PS5).
Didn’t mean to imply that Cyberpunk 2077 was the first video game to mocap real actors. Just the first one I recall, and that on top of its other technical accomplishments. Also, Elliot Page has always been cool (I’ve only seen him in a few things, like Hard Candy) and he’s a pretty good actor… but Keanu Reeves is kinda a whole other level. Plus, he’s playing a villain (sort of). So it was still kinda shocking and novel.
the first implant doctors you meet in the tutorial is a lookalike from the Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Memonic.
Which is based on one of the early short stories from William Gibson. Who Mike Pondsmith took a lot of inspiration from when writing the first Cyberpunk rulebook.
Synthstrom Deluge. Sampler, sequencer, synthesizer, all in one and open source. Portable too, takes a 18650.
This video isn’t solely a Deluge, but you get the sorta idea of what sort of power house this thing is in the hands of a music nerd.
Cameras in general. Good quality film cameras took some work and were heavy. Like bookbag heavy. You’d have to carry a little set of filters (thin lens caps that screwed onto the main lens) in addition to another lens or two to get a good range of options. Now, tap, done. Copies? NP. Black and white? Tap. No need to use up the roll of color film and then switch to black and white film.
And modern mid-range photo cameras come with crazy features. Autofocus that can detect human and even animal eyes and instantly focus on those. Lenses with whisper-quiet and crazy fast ultrasonic focusing motors. Image stabilization both in the lens and in the camera.
Oh, and your photo camera can record video, too, because why wouldn’t it?
Remember vid cams way back? On the shoulder with VHS tapes.
Can’t wait for this revolution in wildlife photography.
Obviously first is cell phones giving pocket access to the internet. And, what those two together have done to us. Along with, yes we all have video phones in our pockets, which would NOT be a surprise, but we don’t use it that way very much at all, preferring to text each other. That would be a big surprise.
Also, OnlyFans.
