That’s not going to make anything better though. You’ll just go down a path of addiction and self-destruction. Plus it’s expensive.

No no, these things are getting better in my opinion, in Germany/EU at least!

It’s starting to show its cracks (see Facebook), I’ll count that as getting better.

Older Millennial here, they are right, too bad people my age didn’t get the memo. Never understood, even back in school, why getting plastered is celebrated.

In no particular order, from where I am:

• Linux/FOSS
• Renewable energy
• Crime rates
• Consumer protection laws
• Furry cons
• Vegan & vegetarian products
• The AI bubble (slowly)
• Left-wing parties

I don’t expect it, but I’m also not going to be complicit in them getting worse. Lethargy and cynicism means you’ve already lost, which is what the assholes at the top want.

I aim to please 🐱

I thought Interstellar was about as good as 2001.

I so am not, they are both horrible.

It isn’t twice as expensive though.

In most jurisdictions you are always just buying a license, physical media or not. Except now you have a physical thing that you need to protect from damage/loss because it’s tied to your license. Depending on where you are you might not even be legally allowed to create a backup, especially if there’s DRM involved.

The only advantage I see with physical media is the used market. Digital kills that, and I’m sure that that’s the big reason Sony is doing it. They don’t want to take your games, they want to stop you from buying someone else’s.

If they want to screw you over they will, they still control the full software stack. If you make a backup of the game you downloaded that might also simply not be allowed back on the machine, at least in theory.

What makes you think Sony/publishers will take away your games in some way that they don’t already without physical media?

Why? You having a physical thing doesn’t make you own the product any more or less.

Not saying you should buy the game. I’m not going to. But not because of physical media, it’s going to be the same old rubbish they’ve been peddling for over a decade, except even more focused on GTA Online.

I’m a Millennial and work in IT. We aren’t magical. There’s competent and incompetent people in all age groups. I wouldn’t even say we had better starting conditions overall because being good with tech was seen as cringe nerd stuff when I grew up.

I think your theory is mostly right though, just along the lines of competent/incompetent. So many people constantly choose what they believe the path of least resistance with tech, even if it actually isn’t. Don’t spend one or two minutes to learn how to save to PDF in Word, instead google “word to pdf” and upload whatever sensitive data you have in that DOCX to some shady website.

And what was up with 3 different styles of settings pages?

And from a company that used to scaremonger about Linux being inconsistent and therefore wasting time & money…

The idea of the Basilisk is constructed in such a way that it makes it sound inevitable, like some sort of mind virus that wills itself into existence through fear and panic, then asserts that it likely already happened. I think saying no to that is a pretty clear example of a universal principle because there so obviously isn’t an upside/a way to frame it as a positive. The whole concept is insane and explicitly only brings suffering. I trust that humanity wouldn’t ever do this because of that.

Categorical imperative is escape enough for me. Don’t assume it has been built, nobody in their right mind would do such a thing. Everything else is giving in to fear, panic and selfishness because spooky sci-fi devil computer.

It’s just whether you grew up / are more comfortable using Windows or Mac.

No, it’s clearly about the amount of fan art the mascots of each ecosystem have. That is also why Overwatch is clearly the greatest game of all time.

It’s one of the main reasons I decided not to use KDE for Linux trials at my workplace. KDE applications can use KIO with network shares and it’s actually pretty great, but I/we can’t stay strictly within the KDE ecosystem. GVFS is great because it provides a fallback, even for the terminal. KIO used to be able to do this too, through a GVFS compatibility layer, but development on that feature stopped.

So we’re doing Cinnamon, all the Windows-like familiarity of KDE and some of the stuff from Gnome/GTK that are just better there. Hope they can reach their Wayland goals this year though, no fraction scaling is pretty bad for some laptops. On the other hand, those displays shouldn’t exist in the first place…

The concept of zero is scary, so it’s a wizard shooting lightning from all orifices. Makes sense.