I really hate this comparison. Like, yes, the Daggerfall map was huge. You could spend like 6+ hours walking from town to town, but there was nothing to see or find during that walk. Having a huge world is only impressive if it has stuff in it. Playing Daggerfall without using fast travel is functionally impossible and trying to do so is just an awful experience.

It was a technically impressive feat at the time to have a map with an actual realistic scale to it, but it just highlighted to me why games shouldn’t do that. Yes, it’s ridiculous that you can walk from city to city in Skyrim in like 5-10 minutes, but that makes for a better gameplay experience.

These are mostly issues created by the fact that lemmy is run via self-hosting on limited hardware, rather than being run by a company with a $2 billion in annual revenue. Personally I think it’s a small price to pay to not be on Reddit.

no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit

I can just paste an image or whatever directly into a comment field and it’s automatically uploaded and linked. For new posts, it’s drag-and-drop right onto the browser. This might be instance-specific, but what functionality were you hoping for?

I swear we recently had this same question, with the same argument and even similar phrasing, for $50 (USD) bills. What’s up with that?

“this is not the technology of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, or Rheinmetall”.

Well, it sure seems to be getting good results, and for a minuscule fraction of the cost, so maybe Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Rheinmetall should catch the fuck up.

We were using one for game consoles and 2 TVs but it was a long time ago. The exact name of what you want is an ‘HDMI Matrix Switcher’ and what you’ll very quickly see when you search that up is that the prices range wildly and go up into the thousands - you don’t need something of that caliber (that’s professional AV equipment level), but you should expect to pay a few hundred for one that has enough outputs.

If it’s only displays being shared and not keyboards / mice / etc., there’s HDMI switchers that operate on a many-to-many basis (where you can have multiple inputs, multiple outputs, and route them as you please). You press the button for the output, then press the button for the input you want to route there, and they all work independently. Those definitely work with consoles. This isn’t exactly what OP is looking for, as the ones I’ve used don’t let you save ‘scenes’ like they’re describing, but they do let you switch displays around easily. Some of them are sketchy with PCs; whether OP wants one that lets the PCs think all of the monitors are always plugged in, or one that makes them think the monitors have been disconnected is kind of up to personal preference but that’s a consideration.

If we hadn’t let hour+ long commutes in places with no reasonable public transport become normalized, it’d be much less of a problem. Americans routinely drive distances that would make Europeans slackjawed and for no good reason.

God supports atrocities as long as they’re perpetrated by followers, rather than against them.

Parents giving their children these devices, observing excessive attachment, and not cutting them off bear considerable responsibility.

While I do agree that parents should bear the brunt of the responsibility here, you must realize that kids are resourceful and no amount of parental oversight will stop a determined kid from accessing this content. Parents aren’t in their presence 24/7, and just like a kid whose parents deny them candy can find plenty of ways to obtain it without their parents knowing, the same is true for social media use. It’s the old adage that the more you tighten your grip, the more slips through your fingers.

liberty

You keep using that word, but this isn’t really about personal freedoms at all. It’s about companies that saw that their product was causing harm, and actively made the decision to continue promoting that harmful product in the name of profits. Their products were specifically engineered to cause these outcomes, and you’re defending their right to do that. Do you just propose we allow companies to do whatever they want in the name of profits, no matter the cost to society? If not, where do you draw the line? How much harm do they have to knowingly cause before you think it’s too much?

When risks are open & obvious, such as the overconsumption of certain foods & legal substances, that’s generally viewed as a matter of personal choice rather than unreasonably dangerous product defect.

We restrict alcohol and cigarette use by underage people, too, actually, because their effects are known to be harmful, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Nobody’s talking about making social media use illegal for adults.

Basically, I think you’re arguing against social media restrictions for kids which is fine but that’s a completely different discussion. It’s related, but it’s not what this article is about - this article is about holding corporations responsible for bad behavior. If that isn’t what you want to discuss, why are you here?

However, even supposing such features defectively make the system unreasonably dangerous in a reasonably foreseeable manner, that only demands that service providers provide fair warning. Once duty to warn has been met, users are reasonably aware of risks and responsibility shifts to risk-takers or parents who give children access despite reasonably knowing the risk.

Okay, I think you’re just not understanding the situation here. Meta did research on the effects of social media. They found that it was harmful. Even after determining that, they continued to promote it as not harmful. Zuckerberg even testified that that evidence that social media was harmful didn’t exist, after they had found evidence that it was. This all came to light because of whistleblower testimony. So even if we accept your premise here, that duty to inform was not met and that’s part of what’s at issue here.

Not just that, but our living bodies are composed of something like ~50% bacteria and other organisms, and with mites living in our pores, eyelashes, etc.

Wish I could just tap out and pass control over to them for a while, sometimes. “Here, you guys have fun, I’ll see you in 8 hours.”

To add to that, though, if the dead person’s estate isn’t enough to cover the back rent, the landlord has no recourse. They can’t go after (for example) the deceased person’s family for the money, unless those family members were specifically cosigners on the lease. (At least in the US; this could vary in other countries, but that’s not an area I’m knowledgeable about.)

Addictive Personality is a proposed set of traits that makes sufferers more vulnerable to developing addictive behaviors, including things like gambling or social media. Does it help to frame it in a different light for you if you think of it as those companies exploiting vulnerable peoples’ disorders to extract money from them?

Telling those people to just have self control is like telling someone with depression to just stop being sad.

One thing I think most people can agree makes America great: Our national park system. We have some absolutely beautiful, expansive and unique national parks. Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon are probably the most well-known but they’re only two of 63 total that we have.

Personally, I think natural wonders are better than man-made ones, and you can say what you want about America, but I don’t know anyone who’s gone to see the Grand Canyon (for example) and hasn’t been just utterly amazed by it.

It’s like if someone had a forum where insurrectionists were discussing how to build bombs and where they were going to use them, and the owners had an internal meeting where they said, “Hey, we’re hosting some pretty awful people, should we maybe report them or shut this down?” and the answer was, “Nah, they’re paying users, and we want their money.”

Pretty sure Section 230 wouldn’t protect them, either.

Here’s a thought experiment: imagine Instagram, but every single post is a video of paint drying. Same infinite scroll. Same autoplay. Same algorithmic recommendations. Same notification systems. Is anyone addicted? Is anyone harmed? Is anyone suing?

Of course not. Because infinite scroll is not inherently harmful. Autoplay is not inherently harmful. Algorithmic recommendations are not inherently harmful. These features only matter because of the content they deliver. The “addictive design” does nothing without the underlying user-generated content that makes people want to keep scrolling.

This feels like an awful argument to make. It’s not the presence of those things that make Meta and co so shit, it’s the fact that they provably understood the risks and the effects that their design was having, knew that it was harming people, and continued to do it anyway. I don’t care if we’re talking about a little forum run by a Grandma and Grandpa talking about their jam recipes; if they know that they’re causing harm and don’t change their behavior, they should be liable.

No wonder why they have a higher rate of obesity

To be fair, this isn’t just about portion sizes, it’s about what’s in those portions. We have a ton of heavily processed, wildly unhealthy food options, and they’re all the budget friendly ones. Getting things like fresh fruits and vegetables is much more expensive than it should be, so we have this weird situation where it’s possible for someone to be both food insecure and also overweight, just because the food they do get is so unhealthy and fattening.

I don’t know the wording on the declaration itself, but it’s distinctly possible that the US prison system is in direct opposition to it.

Your app might not support pfp changes, but if you log in on Web, you can do it in the profile settings page.

Starfox sure activates my brain’s pleasure centre.