I think the shared experience there is gaining most of your social interactions through an video game for a period of time during childhood. Its not always the same game and it doesnt even have to be online, but its the shared focal point among a group of people. Sort of like a coffee shop or park.

The problem is that kids dont make or have money. Its like burning their hand the first time, they need to attempt to pay for their own lives fully at least once to really understand it. I think its fair to restrict these types of things to mature rated games as a general rule.

Its more about having the option. I’d be more comfortable going to linux if I knew that there would be a way to continue using something in a pinch, even if I just need to figure out how to fix it later.

Dual booting will likely be a part of it, and microsoft will do whatever they need to make sure the bootloader is broken constantly.

All you are saying is that humans get used to anything over time. The discussion here is on what scenarios we want to happen though, not on what we can tolerate.

We do this still now but the recommendations come from other people.

Yeah thats why I said its shittier. Still costs money but the renter gets nothing for it.

Seriously, could get you stabbed in a police station parking lot or something…

Scammers go to fb marketplace over Craigslist because meta is slow to react if at all, while Craigslist is known to easily and freely offer information to law enforcement.

At least with Craigslist you know its not the platform scamming you or helping to scam you. Solid website.

Its common to pay a down payment to hold a rental, this is just a shittier version of that.

People do that, its pretty clear cut fraud though so it usually doesnt work out the best in the end.

Dont worry, they make up for it with awful social skills.

For youtube just use yt-dlp and download them, can be behind a vpn when you do it. Im not sure if that affects the creator making money though.

Humans love sharing new things with each other, its part of our social structure and how we ensure our own survival. Its as natural as hunger or thirst.

Counter point: I dont want to watch content that has a monetary incentive behind it.

Really saves a bunch of time. It seems to auto complete based on what directory you are in too which is really useful for some of the stuff I do.

Sort of, its Arch so all of the fun stuff that goes with that but they also have a package repo application that let’s you use a GUI instead. I find the CLI faster but the GUI will guide you to the correct packages a bit better than searching freehand on a browser.

Its yogurt!

Generally with humans, I assume about 99% act in good faith, regardless of what they are arguing for. Someone could argue for genocide in good faith, for example. The last 1% are sociopaths who have some intense issue with emotions or socializing, and do awful things on purpose.

I think most of the republicans are good faith, they just have shitty ideology and problem solving skills, and dont do enough to counter their own biases.