I love that I can chat with people, and make friends, all over the world, in real time, so easily. There are some wonderful humans in the fediverse, and it is a genuine pleasure to chat with you.
I love that using renewable energy, and reducing grid dependency, is increasingly viable.
I love having a bicycle with a battery, so that I can use a car less, and cycle with a massive smile on my face. Wheee!
I love that I can run my business from home, and so get to both work *and* spend a lot of time around my wonderful wife.
Tech in 2026 isn't all bad, but sometimes I have to remind myself of that.
@neil There is too much doom and gloom to my taste including all the claims that the Internet isn't what it was. I was one of the first bringing Internet to the UK, with 300 baud modems, and I am upgrading my broadband to full fibre (the lowest tier is plenty) and reducing my monthly fee. And my amazingly powerful 6yo laptop runs for ~12h off a single charge and shifts 10s of megabytes per second given the chance, and Mastodon in near real time is as fun a USENET was with its ~1d response!