If you do root cause analysis on most of society’s ills, you pretty much always eventually arrive at “the economic and political system we use, is actively harmful to the vast majority of people”

Literally I can’t think of a single big problem we’re facing where this isn’t the case.

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

I think a lot of people have tvs that can’t handle darks well, so things like the dark knight, game of thrones, I remember the departed especially, if you have a lot of shadow it won’t show at all. So there was already a push from consumers to make things “easier to see” at the expense of good cinematography.

This is the thing that kills me, and it took that game of thrones episode for me to realise. I watched it just fine on a mid-range 4K from about 5 years before it came out. 80% of the people I talked to that week about it said they couldn’t see a thing.

People are out there getting scammed into buying the shittest panels available and now the media itself is being compromised because they’re the biggest market.

NK is safe because trump admires it. It’s the deluded model for how he wants to reconfigure the US with him at the top

Conversely, venezuela has oil and wasn’t giving it to America. They have a left wing government. Trump wants to keep the Epstein stuff out of the news, lest the final few people out there who still don’t realise he’s a human trafficking pedo, find out.

I don’t think nukes prevent this one. Frankly I think he would have done it anyway, despite the risk.

I don’t really use music notation software but rather DAWs, however if they can play using VSTs, I really like Noire from Native Instruments, the samples used are recorded from Nils Frahm’s own custom felt piano.

It’s not free (or even particularly cheap) but it’s popular enough I’m sure you can find it from not-so-legitimate sources if you knew where to look.

I don’t know any free felt pianos off the top of my head

I mean, it’s gonna ultimately have to work everywhere

People don’t like having cards they can’t use when they travel

It’s not gonna happen right away, but I don’t see how it doesn’t end up that way

Edit: although reading more it might not be equivalent to the existing kinds of cards as it seems to be a debit only provision (i.e. potentially lacking a lot of the protection you get from using a credit card as your main purchasing card). Will be interesting to see how this evolves

When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender. (Yes there’s also infrastructure being built, but they will out compete us for that too)

Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.

Food is another (though also tied to land ownership)

Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the solution is generally a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market.

Specifically for these companies, they’re simply too big. They need to be broken up and need to be prevented from getting this size again. If they truly cannot be broken up, they should be nationalised.

Failure to address these issues will result in these companies and people holding a total monopoly on all the resources available. More expensive electricity is only the beginning.

I wanted to say I’m ambivalent to text rendering

But that would be a lie to myself, I actually care about it quite a lot.

Most of my life is reading shit on screens; it’d better be good

Imagine making a language so bad Microsoft had to come along and fix it

FWIW basically every forum I was using 15-25 years ago had a karma system.

The feed didn’t really exist as you describe on early social media either

I am both

I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy

Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

8% feels like a pretty low estimate that’s probably based on the high end where the margins are high enough they can absorb some of the cost.

I’m already expecting the cheapest options are probably going to roughly double in price

Ahhh that makes a bit more sense but a cool bit of trivia at least.

I know the shield uses the same processor as the switch 1 (or something very similar), so I wondered if there was a chance of an actual native port, but then I guess we’d have also seen a switch native version in that case

I’m sorry there’s an android version of Twilight princess?!

Is this the link you intended to post?

Oh really? I’ve been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then?

What a ridiculous take, thanks for saving me the time

Okay so it wasn’t just me that thought the title was a weird way of wording it