In Nintendo world, games are generally more expensive in the online store compared to physical cartridges, at least that was the case when I bought my games

Reference for lazy ones: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Es geht wohl um Monobrauenzupfen 😁

Wir sehen momentan gerade die Folgen von Kapitalismus mit zu wenig Regulierungen (Firmen haben Monopolstellung ausgebaut, dominieren teils komplett Sektoren, KMU haben kaum Möglichkeiten Fuss zu fassen, sind abhängig von Investment der grossen Firmen, Staate sind alternativlos abhängig von gigantischen Firmen, etc).
Natürlich wird das alles besser wenn wir weniger regulieren, sehen wir ja, in USA läufts prächtig
🤦🏻

I have good experience with matrix-synapse 😄 together with the bridges for proprietary services, your matrix client could be the ultimate chat app

And some even support sync of group chats through puppeting (may not be TOS compliant on some services)

Would be a funny anime 🤔

I imagine communism as a system where we have a central free open knowledge base. Everything, every idea is there, so if you add yours it is you who added it and nobody can say they were it

I imagine it as a mix of git and science papers, I imagine a reputation based system of trust, changes are logged and there is always a documentation on what was changed and why

On the same system, you could as well do voting and stuff

The clue to this setup is, that there is no entity controlling it, but all of that is built upon “smart-contracts” stored (or at least the hashes of the changes) on a ledger, every person alive has their unique wallet/ID (like a birth certificate), so you can setup voting without an entity that is able to abuse it’s power

You could setup all laws like this

And to the argument that nobody would work, if they could not earn more than others doing nothing: no human ever does nothing, we are bored of nothing, we would get creative and innovative (as you see with FOSS stuff for example)

It would be a beautiful world where people would take time to create unbelievable art and others would invent mind blowing tech just for good representation and cheering of the community

After all, people want to be admired, and this is just as effective as money to motivate. You see that in the SCENE, but on many more levels as well

It only breaks if people are forced to screw others over in order to get food and sleep, in order to survive.

It used to change it to look like macOS (top bar + Dock and balls for window decoration), but after setting up a new PC, I couldn’t be bothered to spend time theming only to have some icons missing or displayed weirdly

I just use default now and couldn’t be happier to not encounter any unpleasant surprises after updates

You sure?

They are targeting the next generation, the next generation will not know how to search the internet without an AI chatbot

We all know that most parents will just let the “Digital Natives” do their thing or/and that kids in a certain age definitely know better than their parents who fear this “technological leap” and don’t get it anyway

😁✌🏻

We save flok video in cloud but cops cams are dumb enough that they can be turned off and on and that they save only locally, WTF

Same in macOS, but it is just a save as PDF button in the print menu rather than a fake printer like in Windows

But lemmy indeed triggers addictive behaviours on me… But same does any news app….
Great way to flee from regional reality (Doing work, being social, talk to people, ho for a walk with the dog, do housekeeping, etc.)
Everything gets delayed when I am on here, but still, Iam writing this 🙃

The usenet is text based as well 🌚

(You can still get 4k movie files iut of it)

We have such sort of cameras in Europe as well. Some even use a Service provider from china; literally Surveillance as a Service.

Of course, hi-speed trains are way better than personal cars and airplanes 😄

I just wanted to point out that the “fastest trains in the world” trophy is not something achieved saintly, but because it had to be the “best”, a la make big numbers bigger.
The growth of value for the people is minimal, but the (energy) costs are immense.
With trains, punctuation is way more important than max speed 😇

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/even-chinas-14-bln-population-cant-fill-all-its-vacant-homes-former-official-2023-09-23/

For the housing thing

Ma Man!

Having to install sudo on Arch manually is one thing that made me use endeavourOS (besides having yay and DE preinstalled)

They have entire cities with empty houses if I remember correctly, and the ultra high speed rail is immensely inefficient as air resistance is raising in square proportionally to speed

I think building houses that will never be used as similar bad as to less housing…