That is the correct translation.

And......how is any of that good for the rest of the world? Thats like saying "hitler is in charge for now, but he's a big softie. Once he goes the REAL nazis take over!"

I just fail to see how your vision of post trump death is good for the world if thats when the unregulated chaos begins.

We cannot normalize spreading of misinformation. If we do, the GOP will take that and run with it.

Unfortunately tRump is still alive. For now. The way he eats, that may change at any time. Until that happens we must stick to the truth.

I really don't care if he has mine. Worst thing he's going to find is me watching videos of women being really mean to mens balls.

But here's the thing. All these people in these videos AREN'T CHILDREN!!!

Which already means what I'M watching isn't a fraction as bad as what trump is actually DOING.

What I'm saying is, it shouldn't take up space by default.

If YOU want to install it, great. You can spend 30 seconds installing the driver. Why force 99.99% of users to take on bloat, when they'll never use it. Same thing with additional languages. If you speak other languages, great. You install them on your device. No reason I should have French installed on my device.

Now add the same idea with every bit of software. The OS itself should be bare minimum. Then you can add to your own installation.

I watch a Rerez video where he looks at force feedback flightsticks. These sticks came out around the year 2000, and use ports that modern PCs just don't have.

He tried plugging one made by microsoft into windows 11. This stick was made 26 years ago. It just worked. No setup. No drivers. Just, 26 year old stick.

The reason? They're still including drivers from Windows ME into Windows 11.

This is one very niche example, but the 300kb or whatever a driver size is, is being preinstalled in all windows 11 instalations. And Windows 10, and Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

I'm gonna guess you can count on one hand the number of people using this flight stick on Windows 11. It only works with a handful of games, because it only ever worked on a handful of games.

Why would this be included by default on Vista or later?

Imagine how many thousands of other files are like this. Taking up space, without a reason.

Well how about 256gb?

My PC has 16gb of ram, but it won't run Windows 11.

It won't run Windows 11, because I refuse to install such a rubbish invasive AI laced OS.

That's not the same thing. Colbert didn't tank the timeslot. He was the leader in ratings consistantly in his timeslot. All they had to do was NOT cancel the #1 in late night.

I'm less clear about the Xbox situation.

Wait.....people are just NOW realizing that Gates is a monster? Really? In 2026, this is the first people realized he's not a good dude?

I could have told you this 30 years ago before Epstein even HAD an island. He ran Microsoft like a mob boss. You don't think he's spilled blood in the process?

I thought it was obvious.

Gamestop knows they serve no purpose in the gaming world anymore. What's the point of buying physical, when it's just a disc with the game version 1.0, and manditory day 1 updates? It makes it essentially a digital download with ewaste.

Ebay on the other hand has a future still existing.

Right now gamestop is a glorified novelty shop with a video games and pop culture theme. They know that business plan won't last.

Ebay on the other hand, I can't see any reason why they would be interested in anyway in this lowball offer.

They aren't even back to what they were. They're lower than 2 weeks ago, but still about a dollar higher than before the war. It was going in my area for around $2.30 per gallon. Then they shot up to $5.50 a gallon. Now they're around $3.40 a gallon.

$3.40 is more than $2.30.

You would know. You've lived through this day on loop hundreds of times.

I grasp what you're saying. You're not grasping what I'm saying.

I'm saying as the price point came down through the 90s to $60, the amount of gamers went up.

And as $60 in the 2000s was worth less, gaming exploded in popularity again.

As it cost less, more people bought in. As costs rise, less people will buy.

A combination of high price tags, and low quality games caused the entire market to crash in 1983. To the point where video games was considered dead as disco.

We're nowhere close to that point right now, but this is the first time in 40 years they've reversed direction. Games have gotten cheaper over time, and the industry grew. Now they're making games more expensive. What is the logical outcome of that decision? If low prices make line go up, then high prices make line go.....where?

NES games were $80. Thats why most households usually only had 1-2 games.

It wasn't until resell shops came around that everyone sold their games, and bought 2-3 used games with that money.

Video gaming was unaffordable in the 80s too. I think if you compare lifetime sales of most NES games to most modern games, you'll find the trend was that if your game wasn't mario, it didn't sell all that well on the NES. Even Zelda in the early days had a rough start.

Whereas these days, the industry has grown so much due to keeping prices relatively stable for 40 years. So now consoles sell more, games in general sell 10x more.

Prop that price up and watch the sales fall.

Gaming is unaffordable? Yeah. GTA 6 is going to be $80, digital only, with single player locked behind a $100 price tag.

Yeah. Gaming IS unaffordable.

I mean.....you don't have to say that. It was implied the moment it happened. Cruelty is the point.

I wish I could favorite one of my own comments, and instantly link to it.

I have had an analogy that I'm sick of typing, over and over and over. I came up with it in 2020 to teach people why the democrats don't make actual progress.

And now, here, you've essentially summerized my analogy without even having read it. I wish I could just press 2 buttons and show you. But it's like 5 paragraphs long. And I just typed it up again about a week ago when that algae thing went down.

I don't know if it's possible to search a users comment history by keyword, but I'd search mine for "paint, republicans, democrats, home depot" that should do it.

Really? It didn't bring up a long message about throwing green paint on the white house lawn?

I can't imagine when else I'd have talked about home depot....

Really.....uh......really brought it all together there at the end. I was like "Oh no.....is Lemmy getting trump apologists?"

But nope. Swerved everything back on track by the end.