Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:
When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.
This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.
This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.
So far, the highlights for me are Super Mario RPG remake, and a new Dragon Quest Monsters installment!
Wow. Memory freaking unlocked. I had forgotten that these existed for probably 25 years until I saw this very post. Now it’s all coming back to me! I had the Jurassic Park one and never could figure out how to play it right as a kid, but still had fun.
I don’t think people actually would, if push came to shove. They’re just expressing nostalgia for a simpler time, which is pretty easy to understand, given all the dystopian effects of social media and smartphones.
I think smartphones have done a lot of harm, but they’ve still done far more good, which is why we use them. Especially in poorer countries where smartphones are often people’s only access to the internet.
That said, there’s nothing stopping any of these people in the article from being the change they want to see in the world. Not to send anybody to Reddit, but r/dumbphones is a fast growing subreddit for people that want to try that. A lot of the users are Gen Z who never got to try them and want to give it a whirl.
I like lemmy.world because it seems to be neutral and doesn’t have heavy handed moderators. Communities are allowed to bloom and grow. It’s scalable.
I respect what Beehaw wants to do, but their goals are not realistic if they want to be a platform of any significant size.
So far I also like the communities I’ve seen on Lemmy.ml, but there have been a lot of technical/server issues.
He comes across like an entitled child who has made up his mind and is too stubborn to admit when he’s wrong. Add onto that the fact that he bullies people with his lies and manipulation. Very much not an adult, let alone a CEO.
I think the “metaverse” is already dead. Zuckerberg tried to make it happen and it didn’t, and Meta doesn’t have the money to keep pumping into it. I think Meta will still produce the Quest headsets as a cheap alternative to the new Apple ones, but the idea of just hanging out in the metaverse is simply not going to happen.
I don’t know whether the Fediverse will “happen” for the vast majority of people who aren’t very tech savvy, but I’m enjoying it and it’s replaced Reddit for me.
If anything is going to be the next big thing in tech though, it’s AI. The fact that my 65+ year old parents know what ChatGPT is, and have used it, is unreal to me.
God I hope they get sued into oblivion, and I hope that Steve is personally financially set back because of this whole series of events.
Yeah, I left Beehaw. I understand what they’re trying to do, but I think they shouldn’t have tried to grow so much if they were intent on being such a walled garden. There was so much conversation on Reddit for people to come to Beehaw, and now the rug gets pulled out.
I really owe Steve one for opening my eyes to Lemmy. I’ll certainly never go back to Reddit, other than perhaps the occasional Google search for an IT question somebody solved 10 years ago.
But as far as actively contributing? Having a Reddit account? Nope, I’m done. I was very active on Reddit, and I haven’t posted since the announcement.
But despite me and many others leaving, I really feel for Christian and the other developers. They really got fucked. The 30 day turnaround was an absurd notice to give someone, and Steve didn’t have any defense to give for that, according to this article. He seems like a really ruthless, uncaring person.
He definitely has a choice. As a founder of Reddit, if he really believed that this was the wrong move, he could refuse to do something he disagreed with and make the board essentially have to fire him.
I walked away from a well paying job myself several years ago because I disagreed morally with choices being made by the company. It is absolutely something that people can do, especially someone of his means.
Unfortunately we live in a society where it’s easy to separate responsibility for actions taken at work with actions taken personally; indeed, that is the whole premise of a limited liability company. But I still hold Steve personally responsible for his choices, and I think he is selling out the values of Reddit, and his own values if he ever had any, for money.
I’m glad you said that, because I have access to both Birthright and Conquest, and couldn’t decide which one to play. I’ll pick Conquest if it’s your all time favorite!
What’s your favorite Fire Emblem game? I recently started getting into some of the older ones after playing the new ones. I really enjoyed Radiant Dawn, although it was super hard compared to the ones I was used to lol.
Have you ever played Lost Odyssey? It’s a more obscure title because it was an Xbox 360 exclusive, but it’s excellent. If only Microsoft had kept doing more of THAT, the Xbox would be in a heck of a better spot now.
If you have an Xbox 360, an Xbox One, or an XSS/XSX, it can be purchased for a pittance. And there’s also the Xenia emulator if you’d like to play your legal backup on PC or Steam Deck, but Xenia doesn’t emulate it perfectly yet.
Its one of my favorite games of all time.
Drug dealer character Stringer Bell in ‘The Wire’ had a good scene where he talked about the business strategy of repackaging and renaming something when you are unable to raise the quality of a product. Just rename it and customers think it’s better.
It’s a shame, because there are a ton of awesome niche communities on lemmy.world and shitjustworks. I was on Beehaw but I ended up moving to the smaller instance I’m on now so that I can actually access everything.
I think our generation will definitely have consoles set up in nursing homes when we are elderly. No doubt about it.