Well to me lemmy is more like an anonymous forum. I don’t have friends or family on here.

Oh ya im pretty huge on marketplace unfortunately too…and for events and band gigs

Sometimes I feel I should and could do this, be a place for my community to have an uncentralized social place…but it would take a lot of time and energy and if I mess up it’ll scare everyone away from the fediverse for good…

I totally agree and I wish people understood that. But many are just like animals hooked on TikTok shorts and endless slop content and its the “norm”.

A big reason I am on fb still is for community events and band stuff. There is no other place for that sort of thing. If you dont post on fb, no one is coming to your show/event.

I totally agree, but people are addicted. And they want to keep in touch which is understandable. Id rather give them an alternative because they will go back to corpo net the second anytbing gets too hard.

Gotcha

Man I wish others would wake up as you have. People have gotten so damn lazy and stupid its hard to converse with them anymore. They want brainless algorithm feeds.

So youd feel ok listening to music written by a racist facist pedophile? Because thats who drives the ai bubble.

Listen to the billions of songs made before 2016 lol. You got a lot of catching up to do.

New does not equal good.

Beyond that, follow trustworthy artists. The only way to fight the slop is with community and trust.

Im pretty sure the Index works great with Linux right?

Meta headsets are largely shit. I have a quest 2 and I got sick of how invasive and maliciously coded it was so it just sits now. I dont need zucc seeing inside my house.

I actually turn off all traction control the second I get in my car. Abs is good, but that shitty traction control has almost caused more accidents than its helped. It also causes you to get stuck in deep snow by cuttng engine power. I know how to actually control my car in a slide, the nannies make it understeer which causes going right off into a ditch or another car.

Turn off your nannies and go drive around in an empty parking lot to practice car control! So many people have no idea what to do in a slide and they panic.

YES FOR GOOSE GAME!!

WISH IT WAS LONGER

very true!

while true, none of my n64 carts have the box or manual ha! but i do have some other games that are complete that i wouldn’t sell. they don’t take up that much space.

“Actually, if a Tesla could be proven do that, it would be done as a car company. Who in their right mind would buy something like that?”

You are hilarious. You think consumers have logic? They voted for Drumpf again after 4 years of hell. People STILL BUY teslas after musky did a full on nazi salute in public. If tesla were shown to kill immigrants on command, Americans would flock to buy even more of them.

You realize tesla was already caught remotely disabling a guy’s car because he was modding it?

They can do all of this already. They can set the accelerator to 100% remotely if they want to, would take zero effort and then they can say it was a malfunction.

Now we are all being pin point tracked with our phones and recorded already of course, but the Tesla has GPS they can access and find you at any time too.

To be fair, every car can do this now even if its gas, because of all the bullshit electronics In cars. Its super easy to disable a normal gas car by shutting down the coil packs.

This is why I keep saying the future sucks. Bring back 1999 please. Cars were perfect until about 2010. People were way to willing to give in to surveillance for sake of convenience. But humans are stupid and lazy above all.

True, until its illegal to use your own hardware and you are required to log into bezosnet from your Amazon issued mandatory dumb terminal (which must always be on and internet connected with camera, basically like alexa that idiots have in their homes).

OP has a right to be un trusting. Im damn glad im not any younger. If I were id be learning everything I can about using open source software and cyber security. Also its proven already that we are being recorded and monitored 24/7 from our smartphones, unless you have a graphene phone.

I grew up with all that old tech and it was still more robust. You could repair it. Best part: tech bros didnt control your life and embed ads into your fridge.

You cant repair shit now. And even if you can The code is locked down so hard it will take a shut in in Russia 13 years to hack it.

Analog tape is STILL the highest quality and longest lasting medium for audio. They are still making remastered off 70 year old tapes. Granted, those are fragile around magnets, but so are hdds. But also, even if a tape gets near a magnet, its not deleted. It merely may erase the high frequencies unless you use a bulk eraser magnet. After that, vinyl lasts literally forever, though it degrades as you play it. Cds do get bit rot if stored wrong.

Micro sd cards and ssds die at a milliseconds notice. Ive had tons of them just be dead after a year of sitting. Same with doa hdds, ive gotten more than 10 in the last couple years.

Now typewriters, all mechanical ones weren’t great, but an electric typewriter is the shit. Fast, loud, un corruptible offline writing. I myself would still just opt for a non internet connected linux laptop with auto backup for writing though.

Oh buddy, this is basically my worldview.

I have shelves of vhs tapes and dvds. Almost every common game console since 1975 and the games. 200 records, around 50 reel to reel tape, 250+ cds. I am all about real and authentic. Especially since today everything has been cheapened, strip mined, and sold for parts.

If its not physical, you dont own it (hard drives full of stuff counts too of course but its not quite the same).