This is for bicycles, not motorcycles. Also:

Solo inventor says he’s not out to replace gears, just offer an alternative.

“I always imagined it going along the same line as when automobiles got automatic transmissions, and it got easier for more people to drive a car,” Mercer said. Lycra-clad weekend warriors, gearheads, professionals, and retrogrouches may always prefer direct control of their cogs. “I just think the vast majority of people out there are in the same boat, where they find themselves in too high a gear going uphill, and it can be a pain to get to a low-enough gear quickly,” he said.

But have they? I’m not qualified to say. I don’t have any actual data in front of me.

The question was do video games improve your life. I would argue you are the only person who can answer that question. This isn’t really a scientific question because its purely subjective. You’d need to narrow it down and define some criteria before you could try implementing a study for it.

If video games really were an unqualified good

I don’t think any sensible person would try to argue that. Nothing is an unqualified good. Watching 150 hours of tv would be just as bad as spending that time playing video games (video games would probably be better because at least you’re getting more brain stimulation). You can form unhealthy habits with anything. Video games are like any other hobby; you have to balance them with other hobbies/responsibilities. It’s good to know exactly what effects certain things like video games can have on your mind and body, but I don’t think its that useful to compare time spent with one hobby/responsibility to time spent with some other hobby/responsibility. And it always seems like only certain things are compared like that. People rarely ask if watching tv is good for their health, even if they do it more than you or I play video games. Why would playing guitar be better than playing a video game? What makes video games the lowest value hobby? (sorry this got kinda ranty. This sparked a lot of things in me i guess)

I am suggesting that “gamers say gaming is good for them, actually” does not provide useful data for analysis or discussion.

100% This article was a waste of time. I’m not disagreeing on that. Your comment gave me more to think about than that article.

I agree that this is ridiculous. But I think the issue is that the “middle men” are the retail stores that are used to doing retail things like lowering the price of older goods. Digital storefronts don’t have anybody going over “inventory” and checking if it needs to be marked down. And corporations being corporations, they don’t care about this oversight. Why spend time/money on lowering the amount of money they’ll make?

Thanks for pointing out Ladybird. It’s a pretty exciting project. But the author isn’t early in “announcing” anything. This isn’t a press release. He posted on his own blog about a pet project. That’s what the web is supposed to be. Not everything has to be for a big purpose or compete with everything else.

A one-man project starting from scratch is not going to be viable in this day and age.

It’s a pet project; it doesn’t need to be “viable”.

I think this attitude is part of the reason why we have so few browsers. Every time someone tries to start their own browser, even just for fun, a lot of the response is just bitching about how big and complex browsers are and how the effort to start a new one is wasted. It makes it so that people interested in writing their own browser (for fun or profit) are less likely to share about it and probably less likely to pursue it seriously

The fediverse is not fragile. It’s been around for a decade and a half during which time large corporate networks have taken over the world and then faded away. It’s always been small and likely always will be, but that isn’t a failure when your objective is to have a nice, communal network instead of a corporate, ad network that makes you $$$.

I don’t think we’re arguing different points. Even the largest instances were started by individuals not large companies. These are hobbyists doing something they think is fun or a useful/beneficial service. Their reasons for starting an instance (kbin, pleroma, lemmy, friendica, etc) are likely directly opposed to falling in line with policies from Meta.

Running a fediverse server is notoriously taxing. I don’t see people deciding to start up a node just so they can spend their time enforcing policies they don’t believe in that were handed down from Meta. The large majority of people who decide to start their own instance are probably doing it to gain some level of freedom over their social interactions online and falling in line with a large corporate overlord is antithetical to that

Why would that happen? The majority of instance admins have already said they’ll defederate with Threads. I doubt there are large number of instance who actively want to not only federate with Threads, but want to federate so bad that they’ll change their own moderation practices against their users’ wishes.

What are some good mosses to grow instead of grass?

They don’t need to enforce anything, you do. If you post anything onlline, they’ll scrape it. If you have a problem with that, the onus is on you to enforce your copyright (if you have it)

you’re right and that’s prolly the biggest limiting factor. I’d love to see like streaming co-ops where an organization maintains the infrastructure using OwnCast or something and individuals can join to use the server. The org would be more accountable to its members due to its smaller size and streamers would have more control over their channel and content.

I don’t think the #fediverse can solve this, but I can’t understand why ppl keep expecting better from the same system. Corporate silos are never going to be a healthy, sustainable way to build anything on top of. They have the power and as soon as they can, they’ll use it to exploit their “partners”/content producers and users.

Owncast and Peertube can’t reproduce what you’d get on one of the silos right now, but they’re the best we have. And they can’t exploit you because you control them (unless you’re on an instance you don’t run but even that is better because you have a choice of instances)

WTF. That would explain a lot. Now I’m wondering how much of the main story did I skip.

But that also makes that fight seem even more disappointing, to me, since i managed to easily beat it early.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I had the opposite experience with the final boss. I had around six hearts on the second row and the Hylian armor fully upgraded. I found the fight slow and unchallenging.

I also didn’t even realize it was going to be the final boss. The mission was titled something like “Research …” but we didn’t actually learn anything about that.

I did think the cutscenes were good and the music during the rights and cutscenes was really good.