Don’t mind me; I was just going for linguistic flourish rather than exact verisimilitude.

Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?

Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something

And by “or something,” you probably mean 3d printers.

Also you need at least a reasonable amount of economic output to have good quality of life. I’m not saying good quality of life should be defined as full-blown sigma grindset consumerism, but I don’t think most people would define it as cottagecore subsistence farming, either.

Aren’t these guys supposed to be tech geniuses or some shit?

Rich/famous tech people have never been “tech geniuses.” They’re always sociopathic business/marketing types.

I mean, that’s been obvious since Microsoft bought it.

But this is really more about how emulator devs ought to accept that Nintendo is going to try to persecute them and start keeping themselves anonymous to avoid being ruined by lawsuits, even though what they’re doing is neither illegal nor unethical.

We raise our CUPS to your pun.

Yes, all of them.

In the long run, shit like this is theft from the Public Domain.

Or finally in the case of medic from tf2. They become a fairly predictable 1 trick pony, low reward class.

I miss the medic from TFC. The double-barreled shotgun and the concussion grenades gave them options.

(I guess that’s kinda proving the point against “pure healers,” LOL)

Nobody should give a flying fuck what “Tendy doesn’t like” because they are not entitled to dictate what people are allowed to do with their own property.

The owner of a copy of a Pokemon game has every right to edit his save file, in exactly the same way that the owner of a paper copy of a novel has every right to cross stuff out and write his own fanfic in the margins. These are fundamental property rights that have been well-established for hundreds of years, that Nintendo and other megalomaniacal copyright tyrants are now trying to destroy.

I don’t care what bullshit justification they try to come up with for it; the bottom line is that it violates computer owners’ property rights.

It is absolutely unconscionable, ass-backwards, Bizarro-world bullshit to privilege temporary fake Imaginary Property (IP) over and above actual property!

Well, that’s disappointing.

Your post made me wonder, so I checked and of course it exists. Behold, a text-mode Lemmy client: Neon Modem Overdrive

Needs support for a turbo button.

Also, they should’ve made it a little bigger (micro-ATX) so that they could fit PCI and ISA slots for whatever weird retro hardware somebody might want to use.

Look, if the choice is “use Ubuntu because it’s easy and officially supported by Steam” or "give up and stuck with Windows (or even worse, a console) would you really suggest the latter?

“By loading this comment, you agree to give @grue@lemmy.world one million US dollars, payable in full within one week.”

See? Anybody can make up unconscionable bullshit. The extent to which Sony’s terms are enforced is only a measure of how many corrupt judges need to be gotten rid of.

Now, pay up!

I didn’t know this was something I agreed to when I bought my console.

That’s 'cause it wasn’t! Sony is “exceeding authorized access” – a felony under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – but won’t be prosecuted for $ome rea$on.

Anything including Ubuntu will be perfectly fine. Canonical’s shenanigans that us Free Software people like to bitch about are entirely irrelevant to new Linux users.

Why are you trying to hijack the thread to make it about your xenophobic hot take on immigration?

Having 500K-1M new people could mean having as many as 500K-1M new construction workers to build more housing, if that’s what the zoning code and the market (etc.) allowed. That that isn’t happening is a failure of those things, not the fault of the immigrants. There is absolutely no reason a properly-functioning society would be unable to keep up with the demand from population increases, and scapegoating immigrants will do absolutely fuck-all to fix any of the real causes of society’s failure to function properly.