I wish I remember what young me used to do. What he used to wish he had the money to do. All that sort of stuff.

Because now pretty much all I do is work, scroll Reddit, and watch Youtube.

Lemmy feels pretty welcoming to me, but maybe that's because I'm used to Reddit.

I think a lot of PC users are spoiled, to be perfectly honest.

My work PC is an ancient micro Lenovo thing with a Skylake processor and 8GB of RAM, and it runs Windows 11 perfectly adequately. I generally need about 10 Firefox tabs open, as well as various other programs, and the only issue I find is that new Excel instances take a while to load - everything else feels perfectly reasonable. Don't tell anybody at work, but it even managed to play World of Warcraft at low graphics at the same time.

Not that this is a defence of Microsoft.

Playstation 1

Over 4000 games, many of which are weirdly experimental because "how to make 3D games" wasn't codified yet, and CDs gave developers about 200 times more space than they had on the biggest cartridges from the previous gen - not to mention the lower cost of production.

Also, most of the soundtracks are absolute bangers.

Edit: another point - growing up poor, I still got to experience a lot of the PS1's library because of the abundance of demo discs.

Why were you close enough to him that he knew about your affairs in the first place?

The worst part (maybe the second worst after all the slop poisoning the internet nowadays) is the proof that copyright law is only for us poors.

I download a copyrighted work and get a strongly worded letter from my ISP, or worse. They download all the copyrighted works; scrape the data from them; and charge for the ability to use said data to make derivative, non-transformative slop; and get fabulously wealthy from it.

The superrich own the media.

And the politicians.

I meant it more as a general thing - I should have said "we" instead.

They actually seem pretty chill about it here in New Zealand. My dad and I had one ISP notice in the early 2000s, but I've downloaded absolutely shitloads since and we haven't heard a peep.

Nowadays I tend to use Usenet anyway; the speed of even the healthiest torrents pales in comparison.

I pretty much just use it because my friends use it. Voice chat, screen sharing, and text chat are all generally really good (though I'm not a member of any massive servers which I imagine would make the text chat a lot worse). If my friends swapped to something else, I'd go with them and never use Discord again.

It looks okay, but the actual UX isn't very good. Simple things like DMing a friend, or making/accepting a friend request are way more arcane than they should be.

I guess I can't really blame Discord itself, but I hate that it killed forums. Its lack of searchability makes it almost completely useless at doing what forums used to do, but almost everybody migrated anyway.

It's been going on a long time. Penny Arcade coined the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in 2004.

LIMITED?!?!

With the obvious caveat that I'm not a lawyer - if Luigi's defence thinks this is the best strategy, then I think the case is as good as lost; he may as well plead guilty and stop wasting the court's time. He won't get any clemency - he (allegedly) killed a wealthy person.

...have they even proven that Luigi did it?

Unless they have, effectively admitting to it seems like a fucking stupid idea to me.

I remember being on Reddit some time ago, and in the comments somebody mentioned Linux. The next comment was "What's Linux?"

I try to keep that post in mind whenever I think anything is common knowledge.

If Nintendo has the power to brick your console, then do you truly own it?

This sort of shit needs to be illegal.

Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex's ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you're just as bad as the supposed "Plex shills".

Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I've always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there's absolutely no way I'd have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.

If only there had been a good dog with a gun.

If only there was a good 4-year-old with a gun to stop him.

Pretty damn rich coming from the CEO of a website that makes no content of its own.

Is "must make the dumbest fucking decision possible at all times" in the Mozilla CEO job description or something?

I have no CEO experience, but I'll make stupid fucking decisions for a fifth of the salary you're paying the current guy.