It’s easy to look back at history and say “what a bunch of idiots”, but it’s important to remember that there was once a time when having plastic bags all around your home wasn’t such a ubiquitous thing like it is today. The things that seem obvious to us now were still new and untested at one time. The rise in plastic film suffocation started around the rise of dry-cleaning; until that point, there wasn’t much disposable plastic film in people’s lives, at all. Society had no prior experience to learn from, in this sense.

What we’re seeing here isn’t too dissimilar in this regard. Up until fairly recently, the concept of a globally-connected, unmoderated network that was accessible by children and predators alike just didn’t exist. That network existing in literally everybody’s pockets 24 hours a day is an even newer idea. And it’s not even just one network, it’s in almost every facet of kids’ lives these days.

We can all sit around and say “wow what a bunch of bad parents for allowing this to happen”, but many of those parents didn’t grow up in a world where this was a reality. While many of them grew up in a time where online predators existed, they didn’t grow up in a time when those predators could interact with children directly at any time and any location. They grew up in a time when you had a PC in your room, which you didn’t take with you, and that your parents could physically access; kids these days take their phone everywhere at all times, parental controls today are more useless than when we were kids, and it’s trivially easy for kids to hide their online presence from their parents now. Today’s parents, by and large, just simply do not have the experience needed to address this on a large scale.

The morbid reality is that the only reason it seems obvious not to let children play with plastic bags is because nearly every single plastic bag you’ve ever seen in your entire life says “this bag is not a toy”. You grew up in a world where that problem had already been solved, and at the cost of dozens of dead children. This is not yet a solved problem.

I mean, child mortality from plastic bag suffocation dropped after they started printing those warnings so I’m not sure why that’d be something to fear.

They ask Grok how they should feel about it.

I’ve been to court, and it never even occurred to me that the lawyers are not placed under oath. But they’re the ones that do most of the talking during a case. I wonder that the reasoning for not being under oath is.

I think you may just be lucky. The McD’s in my area are still just as awful as they’ve always been.

That’s cool and all, but when can I buy RAM again?

You know what? Good. I’m glad that Elon is now a valid military target.

Yes, but what was left of it after killing third-party apps was basically just advanced search functions. Nothing in the API was still usable as far as browsing/posting.

I’m pretty sure Elon misspelled his own name in his signature, too. It’s obvious that he forgot how to write in cursive and was remembering mid-way through, but he very clearly wrote his name as “Elon Muk”. Like… the last squiggle is just barely a K, but there is a distinct lack of an S, or even a space for an S.

I don’t think this is the right /c/ for genuine questions.

Helldivers was supposed to be a parody!

YSalsoK that you don’t need to “take over” an abandoned community, and you can simply remake it on a new instance. The usefulness of this will vary from community to community, but some communities may be better fits for a more niche or interest-specific instance. Spreading out communities across instances helps diversify the Fediverse, and helps to ensure that large swaths of communities don’t all go dark if Lemmy World is having server issues; this happens from time to time, and when it does it seems like 90+% of the threadiverse becomes unusable.

Lemmy World is probably still a good fit for most “general interest” type communities, but it’s also important that you don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Yeah, but I don’t think that has anything to do with the console’s Bluetooth stack, though. If a game requires a specific controller, that’s usually so that controller-specific features (like touchpad/gyro) will work, which wouldn’t work with an otherwise-standard controller HID profile. This also wouldn’t prevent the device from pairing, which is quite specific terminology that the author uses.

But the way the author describes it, it sounds like at an OS-level that you can’t pair third-party bluetooth accessories, which is such a wildly inaccurate statement to start an article off with, and immediately makes me question the credibility of everything else they write.

Sony locks the wireless stack to their own peripherals, so your headphones or controllers from other brands simply won’t pair :/

My PS5 pairs with third-party headsets and controllers without any issues, what are they talking about?

Ultimately, it’s the lack of any real reason to use it.

As a user, there’s no content on any PeerTube instances that I’m particularly interested in. Or if there is, I have no realistic way of locating it because the search/discovery features are effectively non-functional; unless you’re really into 3-hour videos titled “A Deep Dive into Every Reason why Richard Stallman was Right”, the recommendations are otherwise useless. There’s also no features that interest me that aren’t also available on any other platform I consume video from.

As a small creator (under 500 followers across 3 platforms), there’s no audience to show my content to on PeerTube, and no real way to gain an audience. There’s effectively zero exposure opportunities on PeerTube, and unless you already have a large audience that you can convince to move to a new platform, then nobody’s going to see your content. Even though I’m not making videos for any monetary gain and doing it purely because it’s fun for me, a big part of that fun comes from the engagement I get to have with the community. And if that community isn’t going to be active on PeerTube, then neither will I; this was the reason I stopped posting to Loops.

If I were a larger creator, or somebody whose income relied on video creation, then I would have even less inclination to use PeerTube because the monetization capabilities are basically nonexistent. Yes, you can add a KoFi link to your channel details, but you can also draw a QR code to your KoFi link on a cardboard sign and stand by the traffic lights for all that’s worth; in fact, I think that would actually still give you MORE exposure than PeerTube would, and you don’t even have to make videos to do that.

While I generally agree with the ideology behind PeerTube and want to see it succeed, it’s just not in any practical state for me, no matter which angle I look at it from.

Same energy.

The US was founded on action, not petition signatures of how “upset” you are.

I mean, the Declaration of Independence kinda was exactly that, but I know what you mean. :)

LLMs are generative AI.

These cunts live every day without nearly enough fear of being tarred and feathered. That really ought to change.

I think a big difference is that many people (in the US, at least) don’t choose their own fridge. Renters often have the fridge included with the home. There’s far fewer people who could reasonably inflict such a boycott.