“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.
After a year of absence, I’ll give this instance another shot, things have gone better than I expected.
“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.
Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.
To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here
Subs=subscriptions.
Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever
Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.
New Comments is also good.
I’m puzzled what’s surprising about this.
I’m not LGBT, or American, but seeing people online suddenly talk openly with a great deal more vitriol and hatred about my friends, and even my child, caused me a fair bit of stress.
Jokes on them, we can’t sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway
Compared to account growth that’s low but a 33% growth in four days is hard to call “low”
There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.
I do think that it can be less encouraged though.
I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.
If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.
That’s never been my experience in the slightest.
I think the right way to go is fine a good local computer store with knowledgeable people and get their help parting out and assembling it. You get some repair coverage and benefits like that, they do the bulk of the work, and you can put your own options in on anything you’re knowledgeable about. It’s what I’ve done and it’s well worth it for the small extra cost.
I don’t understand why anyone is naïve enough to still preorder from companies like Bethesda.
Mostly I don’t understand pre-ordering games at all (patient gamers represent) but from Bethesda? You’re basically paying to get kicked in the shins. Surely we all know this by now.
Tempted to plug in, you mean?
Timecube, eh? Haven’t seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.
It’s exhausting seeing all these cringy “we’re going to win with shitposts” things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.
In my opinion we’re already more or less at the “functional” stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I’m so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It’s nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that’s a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they’ll become self-improving in that direction.
I love this story, thanks for sharing it.