You are right. Luckily we have a lot of choice when it comes to gaming hardware. I feel like Nintendo is better for families with kids, because you can easily share a moment by docking it to the big screen and play some Mario Kart or some other Nintendo couch multiplayer.

Yes, those too

Lemmy lacks a bit of polish

What if you ask if you can borrow their phone and password for an hour? They have nothing to hide?

It’s the internet. Dont question the weird!

You parents would just tell you something and you assumed it was true until you learned years later they where just winging it with bullshit.

How much proof do you need. The Wikipedia page alone have tons of sources.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/fbi

The Star Wars universe is not interesting enough for all the TV show and movies being made. George Lucas is not Tolkien and the world building was fine enough for the original trilogy, but it’s simply too boring for more content. Tolkiens work gets more interesting as you learn more about the details. Star Wars is the opposite. The more information you get the less interesting it is.

Also the Jedis are just cops/soldiers. They are not inherently good.

And Crusader Kings 3

Not if you steal your food.

The network effect is definitely at play. But the usability is not really there yet. Just finding communities through the app I’m using is not always working right.

I think both solutions are probably reasonable secure. Personally I use the proton solution, because I like that my data is in Europe and I prefer to pay for services. I like the more transparent and honest business where I pay and get something in return.

Lemmy is not ready for a more mainstream user base.

But is this actually a problem. Does people go around now and need proof that they bought some property?

To me it seems like blockchain is a solution looking for problems that doesn’t really exist.

So in theory it would be terrible to use as proof for ownership.

Nerdy communities always seem to attract some very opinionated people, which is a turn off for people just trying to do better.

I mean the US has done a lot of genocide. Hitler took inspiration from how the US dealt with it’s native people. It’s not that strange that a nation founded on genocide and slavery is okay with that.

You are not wrong. It’s a very unfair world we have build. And a lot of people are struggling even though there are plenty of resources to make sure every single person on earth could have their needs met and the opportunity to live a meaningful life.

BUT we have to dare to hope. Because otherwise we just give up and the people on top is counting on that. ”We have the power and there is nothing you can do about that”. I think David Graeber is one of the most hopeful people to read:

“Hope is a tricky business among intellectuals and activists. Cynicism, though it’s often inaccurate about both human nature and political possibilities, gives the appearance of sophistication; despair is often seen as sophisticated and worldly-wise while hopefulness is seen as naive, when the opposite is not infrequently true. Hope is risky; you can lose, and you often do, but the records show that if you try, sometimes you win.

His essay Despair Fatigue opens: “Is it possible to become bored with hopelessness?”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit

I think David Graeber and David Wengrove make a case that it has worked in bigger communities too.

Yea, it’s called indexing, it’s well documented: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0090.xml