It needs to either become a generic commodity like a TV, or it will die.

We can’t have this fragmented system. Imagine if you needed a Sony TV for PS, one for Xbox, one for PC, a standalone one that could run it’s own exclusive content…

It’s good tech, and the immersion is unparalleled, but greedy company are going to burn it to the ground it so they can rule the ashes.

It’s fucking madness that you can’t even use it to watch 3D movies on Netflix etc. There needs to be a generic box that accepts USB or HDMI input from all devices so you can at least use it for things other than gaming, even if it just puts it all in a big virtual screen.

You don’t deserve the kind of generals Hitler had. That’s why you have JD Vance and Elon Musk.

Realistically it will live for as long as Google Chrome still works and sites don’t start getting picky about TLS 1.3.

I’ll save you the wait. It’s 1 with quite a bit of 6.

Normal people just don’t need PCs that much any more. Nearly everything that people did on a PC you can do on a phone.

If you can’t do it on a phone, then it’s usually called work, and employers can replace things as needed. Although we’ve still got customers using variants of Windows XP, so don’t hold your breath. Some employers just aren’t beholden to higher ups that demand security audits.

I too have played MMOs.

Oligarchy 101.

Treat public expenses like it’s coming out your own pocket.

Treat the public purse like it’s your own personal bank account.

Yeah, watching them all a couple of years ago I came to a similar conclusion. The first is important, if not necessarily great. The second is a classic.

After that it’s mostly toy adverts and money grubbing. I like Rogue One, some of the Mandalorian and Andor. It really opens up some decent fiction once you get away from the boring Jedi. Even the games have better stories than most of the movies.

I can’t believe they had the gall to release it in cinemas. It’s got “straight to streaming” written all over it.

They must be actively trying to hurt theatres at this point.

Yeah, really liked Talk to Me.

V/H/S Beyond is alright as well.

Salem’s Lot is awful.

Quiet Place Day One was surprisingly decent.

Haven’t got around to watching The Substance yet, but I’ve heard good things.

I don’t think Britain ever got out of being poor, and that at least had something to do with Brexit happening. Sure, there’s London with it’s finance people doing things that make money without actually needing to do any work, and other big cities do OK, but the rest of us scrape by. Former mining towns, former manufacturing towns… None of these places came back to life. They’re not anything now. Just former something towns. And by and large, they voted for Brexit to happen. It wasn’t a particularly sensible decision, but there you are. More of a protest vote that got out of hand.

That said, I think Portugal is still poorer by a long way. I lost count of the number of times I clicked Brazil while playing Geoguessr and it turned out it was Porto or something. It’s an East Europe country that happens to be in the west.

I don’t know how people even live there. Like do they view a flat, open the window, be greeted by a cacophony of engines and sirens and helicopters and go “OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING! SARAH COME OVER HERE AND LISTEN TO THIS! I CAN BARELY HEAR MYSELF THINK! I’LL GIVE YOU TWO THOUSAND POUNDS A MONTH FOR IT!”

No, never seen anything like that. Best we’ve got is the user avatars I guess.

I find it helps if you just call them “invaders”.

I think you could only call yourself a settler if you went somewhere uninhabitable and made it livable. Antarctica maybe. I don’t think “arable farmland right next door with brown people living on it” counts for much.

Because people dream of making it big, being viral, being an influencer with a ton of followers and money. That one second of fame is still tantalising to a lot of people.

Also a lot of these apps (not reddit, but the others like Facebook) are installed on phones by default. To many, they are just what the internet is.

Nana and grandad used to do email. Now it’s just racist rainbowflag-phobic reposting on Facebook and wondering why their grandkids that haven’t looked at FB in a decade don’t contact them.

Discoverability is poor on Lemmy and isn’t helped by the low user count.

Would be nice to revisit an old idea from Newsgroups, where you could sub to gaming and see everything, or gaming.playstation.ps5 or gaming.emulation.mame or whatever for sub-communities.

But then the decentralised nature works against it there as well.

I use Jerboa out of habit because it’s the first one I downloaded that more or less worked that also had the coloured bars down the side of the comments so I could keep track of what level of the comment thread Im looking at.

Heard good things about Thunder though.

It’s the usual narcissist trait of earnestly believing all your thoughts are important.

He totally has a framed photo of just himself in his office, just like his new buddy boy Donald. And I bet they don’t even like each other. They both want something and as soon as one of them get it the bromance will be over instantly.

Well this was 8 months ago.

https://lemmy.world/post/12509081

Still outstanding on Github

https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/477

I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.

I’ve just played the first level on a Spectrum emulator.

I have no real wish to play the second.

What Lemmy client are you using? Looks OK on the web and Jerboa.