I think our generation will definitely have consoles set up in nursing homes when we are elderly. No doubt about it.
Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:
When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.
This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.
This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.
So far, the highlights for me are Super Mario RPG remake, and a new Dragon Quest Monsters installment!
And just to add to that, anyone who has installed Linux before knows that everything isn’t guaranteed to just work out of the box. Laptop WiFi cards, for example, frequently have driver issues. So it’s not quite as simple as OP is saying, even with PCs.
One day Doom will be able to run through carrier pigeons.
This is actually hilarious that Reddit is so threatened by Lemmy that they are actively trying to intimidate people from posting a link. What a joke.
Did they block Lemmygrad? I thought they just blocked Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world. you may be right though.
I wouldn’t try to make too much sense out of Beehaw’s decisions. I don’t quite understand what they’re going for. Regardless of whether or not they blocked Lemmygrad, I agree with you that there’s a contradiction inherent in the whole idea of having a community about socialism (a topic about overthrowing the current political/economic order) but saying to “be nice” lol
I am ready and armed with Thomas the Tank Engine memes.
Beehaw added !socialism@beehaw.org if you want to talk about leftist topics, but the rules there are that you have to be nice to everybody. It is basically the opposite of the tenor of r/socialism, so take that under advisement.
I say this as a passive observer who has no skin in the game one way or another, I’m not a socialist.
Welcome aboard! 🏴☠️
Wow. Memory freaking unlocked. I had forgotten that these existed for probably 25 years until I saw this very post. Now it’s all coming back to me! I had the Jurassic Park one and never could figure out how to play it right as a kid, but still had fun.
Start posting magnet links to Nintendo Switch ROMs on r/piracy, and write “endorsed by Reddit, Inc” with a screenshot of the messages from Reddit encouraging the reopening.
I don’t think people actually would, if push came to shove. They’re just expressing nostalgia for a simpler time, which is pretty easy to understand, given all the dystopian effects of social media and smartphones.
I think smartphones have done a lot of harm, but they’ve still done far more good, which is why we use them. Especially in poorer countries where smartphones are often people’s only access to the internet.
That said, there’s nothing stopping any of these people in the article from being the change they want to see in the world. Not to send anybody to Reddit, but r/dumbphones is a fast growing subreddit for people that want to try that. A lot of the users are Gen Z who never got to try them and want to give it a whirl.
I know about Bombardier but didn’t know there were others!
They’re so hypocritical too. Steve Huffman will rant for hours about third party apps taking advantage of Reddit’s free API to make money from it, and then turn around and make money off of free moderators. He reeks of greed.
This is a far better ship than our last one.
God I hope they get sued into oblivion, and I hope that Steve is personally financially set back because of this whole series of events.
Here is the “after” picture to satisfy your brain.![](https://rammy.site/pictrs/image/84c58903-400a-4895-9679-406af9845da9.jpeg)