I mean… the job markets are undeniably bad, it’s not an indefensible position that the rate should drop.

Trump has been openly and unabashedly trying to throw this guy out for ages, and he (accurately) talks constantly about how tariffs are a big cause of the current economic problems, he’s certainly not Trump’s lackey. I expect the rates to crater almost immediately after he’s gone, because Trump either doesn’t care about or literally doesn’t even understand the concept of long term consequences.

Not an unreasonable suggestion, the list of Mac compatible emulators is really impressive. Pretty much everything supports M1 Macs, even cutting edge emulators like ShadPS4 and Ryubing (PS4 + Switch emulators)

Ah, my bad, fishguy has been around so long I falsely assumed he handled the original! Thanks for the quick correction.

There’s an 8 deluxe mod by the same guy with a very similar name: https://www.ctgpdx.com/

Exactly, both of these are terrible, and a functional FTC would block either option, but if I have to take the risk, I’d much rather take the risk of Netflix getting a streaming monopoly than an even worse monopoly on News.

Yeah, I’m starting to think this is the heart of the cycle. When things are good, people stop worrying about the details and trust their governments to keep things as is, it’s only when things stop working that the average person starts paying attention and advocating for themselves, and history is forgotten until it repeats itself.

Exactly, actually, I’d say I agree. As much as we’re clearly in a bad state, I’d say for how late we are into this cycle, we’re still better off than in a dictatorship or the ways other systems unravel. I don’t think any political system can be incorruptible, so long as humans are involved (as they absolutely should be), and this isn’t the worst state imaginable.

As a friend often says, “democracy isn’t perfect, but it’s the best thing we’ve got so far”, and I think the same goes for regulated capitalism, with working anti-trust and taxation.

Generally agreed. Unregulated Capitalism is the real issue here, we used to have, like… within the lifetime of people we know, very regulated capitalism and a market that really worked for us, the average person was rapidly getting richer and we had real quality of life.

That said, a part of me admittedly thinks this may be inevitable though, because once capitalism is unregulated briefly, all hell breaks loose. Once any company has a monopoly and true market dominance, the only way to continue making line go up is to change the rules of the game by lobbying, and once money enters your government and corrupts its ability to regulate, the train never stops.

I suspect it keeps getting worse until things go violently wrong and the system resets. But even then, I think we as a society forget, and “try” deregulating capitalism again in a few hundred years, kicking off another cycle that ends in revolution.

Dang, that’s incredibly cool. Hadn’t heard of this!

Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I’ve seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.

Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn’t recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo’s database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it’s not exactly ironclad either.

Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!

Correct! This would be going out to family that doesn’t just live close enough to see her and take their own pictures, so being able to add more remotely is the whole point!

My recommendation generally (although the current price of memory makes this more difficult) is to buy a second NVMe drive and install Linux on that. No fussing with a second install on one drive, virtually no risk of Windows thrashing your Linux install or accidentally deleting your Windows data while partitioning, etc. And you can just wipe the drive and install something else if you don’t like it, or use it as storage if you ultimately don’t like Linux.

Man… tough choices.

I’m saving Dark Souls 1. It’s a beautiful game, great replay value I’ve barely begun to tap into, and really cool multiplayer features. Also a game I’d love to introduce more people to.

I’m also saving Hollow Knight. Trying to beat Pantheon of Hallownest, or Steel Soul mode, may just keep me busy until I die single-handedly.

I’m also saving Silksong. Screw it, same reasons as Hollow Knight, selfishly I want em both. I would go just Silksong, but it lacks the updates and endgame content that Hollow Knight has been fleshed out with.

Mario Odyssey? I got really into speedrunning this for a while, and it was a blast. I could get back into that, and push it a lot further with all the free time I’d have now that I’m not playing much else.

There really should be a multiplayer game on this list… I’m tempted by UFO 50, but that feels like cheating, so… Mario Kart World? The online is kinda trash, because they push the intermission courses too hard, but local multiplayer isn’t so affected, and mechanically the rail and wall grinding is deep mechanically, and I could sink a lot more solo playtime time into mastering all the time trials, which I loved dabbling with.

Really, this whole list is defined by games I could speedrun and otherwise try to get thousands of hours of playtime and challenges out of them.

This just makes me want to try to get it to hallucinate a Bible verse that doesn’t exist… but it’s not worth giving them the traffic to try.

Damn, I hate how often I look at a situation like that and just think… what a waste. Some morons came in and ruined the message most of us were trying to send to EA by making them the “Worst Company in America”. Now these gross bigots get a “win”, and EA gets to sidestep all the legitimate anti-consumer issues most people were railing against. What a waste. And it feels like that’s everything these days, someone gross is always “on your side” looking to claim your victories for their own narratives.

Looking through their history, gotta agree. Second one of these ChatGPT-posters I’ve blocked in two days, and this one even commented on the other post where I ended up blocking the OP.

Really hoping this doesn’t become a recurring trend on Lemmy.

Yeah, basically the only thing I really use the terminal for is ujust, a series of scripts maintained by Bazzite themselves. And ujust does have a script to install a GUI fan controller app, btw, which I’ve used to setup my own fan curves, and found it pretty darn usable despite it being the first time I’ve done such a thing.

The OS is immutable, so you’re probably right that lower level tasks are harder, but Bazzite themselves have stepped in and created a dedicated command for pretty much anything finicky I’ve thought to do in the past year or so.

Just for further context, here’s the docs page advocating for approximately this order of priority for installing stuff. I found myself returning to this page a lot when getting to grips with Bazzite as my first immutable distro.

It’s even more surprising given the common-ness of “copycats” with mass murders and such. Even with all this constant hype and fear around the idea every year, practically marketing it, seemingly nobody has ever bit and done it.

Honestly, the strongest advantage of PC, if you don’t mind a little tinkering, is modding. I’ve modded on console before, and it’s usually a pretty difficult process, and limited, compared to PC. The thing I find a little silly, is I did build the super expensive PC, and most of what I play would totally run on a console if they were open platforms.

But seriously, Celeste: Strawberry Jam was probably my favourite game of last year. I’m looking so forward to the release of the Fusion Collab, likely in the next year.

I’ve been playing Archipelago runs with friends over the past couple months with Hollow Knight and Nine Sols, and they’ve been a blast.

Emulation is also wild, tons of games I’ve enjoyed in the past, playable again with incredible mod support, I’m looking very forward to playing Kaze’s Return to Yoshi’s Island when it releases, and had a blast with the Majora’s Mask Recomp earlier this year.

And steam sales are ridiculous, a lot of these games are much cheaper much more regularly on PC.

If I’d spent say, 500$ on this PC, it would be very easy to save that amount in the price of games, and how many fewer games you’d need to fill your time with all these options, in just a couple years, assuming you play regularly.