That critical mass will never come because people don’t feel the data has been stolen from them.

Rather, it’s traded in exchange for whatever online services they use.

And to them it’s a decent trade.

Solution is stop using delivery services.

A lot of people.

I argue that the feel of BotW is a return to Zelda origins. It’s the most any game has felt like the original Zelda.

There original Zelda game was a game about exploring a giant over world to find it’s secrets. The dungeons weren’t puzzle filled, they were essentially just combat challenges.

… It’s that feeling that you are setting out on a difficult journey of exploration across a giant world with no support.

Every Zelda game since the original has felt smaller in comparison because the role of the over world got shrunk to just a thing to connect dungeons.

My favorite is AlttP which I think has the best balance between dungeons and over world exploration, but I prefer over world to modern dungeons we got in skyward sword and such.

I’m not giving up mobile deposit.

Leave my house? Duck that.

Can’t, really. Have several critical Windows only apps.

It’s a chicken and egg situation.

It’s frustrating because I don’t know it, and I don’t learn it because it’s frustrating.

Generally deploying some kind of service.

It’s things like this that prevent me from using Linux more.

I force myself to use it for projects where it’s an option because I feel I need to learn it better but I kind of dread it every time.

Inevitably I’m stuck frustrated reading conflicting guides from years ago and wondering just how badly I’m going to fuck things up this time.

Sometimes it all feels so esoteric.

I’ll tell you, I have my setup to the point where I go to one website, subscribe to a show, and episodes of that show appear to watch on my TV same day they are released.

I also set myself up to get email alerts telling me what new episodes I have to watch when they are done being downloaded.

… Setting all that up took me awhile and will take tech skills. But now that it’s set up, it’s zero touch aside from adding new shows.

Plus, I never have to worry about trying to find where to stream at it and even if my Internet goes out I can still watch my shows

alot of ppl on fedi are privacy-oriented and focused

I’m aware. I’m just reminding you that most outside the fediverse aren’t.

Not everyone cares so much about that.

Someone knowing things about me in general is not a big deal.

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Yeah, but I didn’t care about any of that.

Naw, lots of us stopped when Netflix streaming came in full swing.

Keep in mind that depending on the type of eye issue they may not need them all the time. In this example the person only needs then to read and it might actually make their vision worse to wear them when not.

… The very first link you provided shows a chart that has more assistance going to corn than beef, more going to soy than dairy and more going to wheat then pigs.

https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2020bdcat-1320x743.png

???

Hermit reporting for duty, sir!

Been listening to this all week.

It’s true, game prices today are the same as they have been for the past 40 years for AAA titles.

I can’t think of an industry which hasn’t had a price raise in decades.

Gaming had managed to get by on this thanks to increasing market volume as gaming became more mainstream in addition to extra revenue streams like micro transactions. But it’s hitting saturation now and won’t keep counteracting inflation forever