5 years ago I would’ve called you insane, but with everything happening right now… it’s a distinct possibility.

RAM’s unaffordable, GPU’s will likely be harder to come by and more expensive. Microsoft is actively driving people away from Windows, Steam is launching their Steam Machine…

Here’s hoping many gamers will jump to Linux and grow that platform instead. But even then, too expensive hardware will be an issue.

We’re living in interesting times.

That’s called ‘being Dutch’ 😀

Well ‘buy local’ tends to be the solution most people offer when this particular discussions arises. But I agree that only solves some issues. Especially since local shops also get that stuff from the same sources.

I’m more of a ‘there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism’ kinda guy.

But frankly, I’ve got too much going on to worry about the ethics of where I’m sourcing pens and notepads. I’d rather focus on the big things.

It’s also a question of availability. Looking at my last ten purchases, simply none of those were available locally here. We don’t HAVE a camera store here to buy things like lens caps. The stationary store where I went didn’t HAVE large elastic bands, only small ones. Nor did they have the specific Pentel gel pen that I use for work. The shoes I bought (US size 17) are not available, since stores don’t stock past size 13.

I did buy a laptop stand, so technically I could’ve bought say, a plastic box or some books locally to do the same thing. But the stand is nicer.

For me, it’s not about the price. I’d rather spend 10 for something great than 1 for something that sort of works. I am by no means cheap. But I do have specific needs and tastes that my local stores don’t cater to.

And hey, if they won’t sell me what I need, I’m not going to feel bad about buying it somewhere that will 🤷‍♂️

This shit frustrates me to no end. These days I just look on Aliexpress first, just so I’m aware what the usual drop shipping item actually goes for.

It’s very annoying that platforms like Amazon tolerate this. Because it’s actively driving me away from them. I want to see good quality items, not the same Aliexpress shit priced ten times higher. But I can’t FIND the good stuff because the platform is literally full of garbage.

Hey, you and me both; sweet and salty is an excellent combination. But some people have not yet seen the light and the glory that is pineapple on pizza. Goddamn heathens.

No doubt the thing had some no-no thoughts. Probably regarding the acceptability of pineapple on pizza, or the total extinction of the human race. Either way, good on them for pulling the plug, I guess.

And those are the best ones, considering fuckwit writers and producers can’t run them into the ground while you’re enjoying them. The Wire, Sopranos etc. will always remain excellent.

Lower prices? Yeah, I’m sure they’ll get right on that…

You don’t reward a thief and murderer, you shoot them between the eyes. As a Dutchman, I wholeheartedly support shooting every uniformed Russian or allied you can find. Twice.

To be clear, I’m not ‘not adopting’ - I’m actively boycotting that shit. The whole TOM thing was annoying enough, but everything else surrounding it has proven to me that Microsoft cannot be trusted with that level of access to MY hardware.

So yeah, I’m going to put Linux on my PC and ultimately back to Mac full time, I imagine.

These will always be challenging topics for sure :-)

I love a bit of statistics to be honest. If you look at general web use of men versus women, it’s actually fairly close: 65 percent of women are online, versus 70 percent of men.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1362981/share-of-internet-users-worldwide-by-gender/?srsltid=AfmBOorKXVKN0UiT2Y390LczKu4wTJIUfgaandRAK1rCE22WrXwrgXow

There are obviously some discrepancies to be found, for example in less developed countries, women are online a lot less.

If you look at platforms, men certainly are a majority on all of them - which makes sense, since we obviously outnumber women online in general. But the gap tends to be smaller than most tend to think.

For example, Facebook is 43 percent women, 56 percent men. Reddit is around 65 percent male.

https://adamconnell.me/reddit-statistics/#%3A~%3Atext=Like+most+social+networks%2C+Reddit%2Cplatform's+audience+identifies+as+male.

Now, Lemmy might be a bit more niche which attracts a bit more men. But I imagine women will certainly be more than 6 percent here if we did a proper, honest platformwide survey.

I imagine the male-centric feel of these platforms is more determined by amount of posting and engagement. If men outpost women 2 to 1 for example, it’s going to feel way more like a guy place. I also imagine many women don’t feel like pointing out that they are women for obvious reasons, further skewing our perception. We think the person on the other end is male, and since they post nothing to the contrary, our assumption must be correct. Even if it isn’t.

I’d certainly love it if women felt safe enough to share their perspective without fear of being harassed. Even if it’s only 1 in 100 men doing it, it only takes 1 to ruin your day I imagine…

Where’d you get that stat? That feels high. I certainly have never been asked to show my penis on Lemmy or anything like that. The signup thing also doesn’t ask for gender.

I believe the French had a nice invention for that. And it’s not the ‘pain au chocolat’…

Here in the Netherlands, we use the Euro. Which has 1 and 2 cent coins. The Netherlands and a few other Euro countries basically stopped using those, instead rounding off to the nearest 5 cents when paying with physical money.

If you pay digitally, you still pay the exact amount without the rounding off.

Frankly, I was amazed that they thought those 1 and 2 cents were useful. You can buy nothing with them and they cost more to make than their worth.

I hope her parents took her out for pizza, ice cream and signed her up for a kickboxing class. Because I would be proud if she did that, honestly.

She asked them to stop, the school did nothing. Well, then it’s time to handle it yourself.

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, since Hollywood loves to blacklist folks in general for opinions outside work. But to outright claim X, Y or Z won’t be working at Paramount seems a bit of a stretch.

There’s a lot of wiggle room in that article. It’s reporting on ‘sources told Variety’ that Paramount is making a list, but that they’re not sure who’s on it. But that they assume these people would be.

It’s all silly anyway. Even folks like Kevin Spacey eventually get back to working in Hollywood. Hollywood principles only go so far once the media attention dies down.

Huh, I didn’t know that. I would’ve guessed they’d use some open source alternative.

There’s people who use that? That’s news to me.

As an avid gamer, it’s ANNOYING AS FUCK.

When a new game is out, I want to know about bugs and performance, not whether or not the writing is ‘woke’, what characters are LGBTQ or how somehow any other aspect of it is related to this culture war. Fuck off with that far right bullshit.

Gaming forums should be about games. Leave politics and other bullshit out of it.

These days I just look at YouTube reviews and skip Steam’s comment section for at least a month after launch.