@TURBORETARD9000@creamqueen@mischievoustomato True. Just saying there has to be a reason why mass killings in Finland are always 5 or less casualties even though we have far less security and police officers in public spaces. It can't be just "Finnish people less violent hurrdurr" can it?
By eliminating/lessening the availability of a common murder weapon does make sense to me.
@coded_artist@beardalaxy Just you wait. In couple years playing Sony games online on PC also requires paid PSN account! This is just them laying the groundwork for it.
Unfortunately my bank account got frozen due to a misunderstanding I can get cleared on Monday. However I'd like to fly over and meet you this weekend. Could you send me 500$ worth of gift cards and share the codes in PMs? Please, do not redeem.
@mangeurdenuage@coolboymew It doesn't help those cheap chinese n64 controllers have actually digital joystics with only 4 directions instead of analog ones. I did try to research and buy a n64 controller to use on emulators few years back and there was nothing out there I could buy with a proper original n64 joystick. Feels bad man.
@icedquinn@7666@Pawlicker@mint I used eSATA a lot on my X5650 (X58) system around 2012-2019. Back when motherboards had tons of connectors and costed only pennies. I was then dumbfounded that my new motherboard didn't have a single eSATA port, only one PCIe port and costed twice the amount of that old motherboard in 2020 (also no three channel memory, but I guess that isn't important in DDR4 era).
"Thankfully" my HDD-dock also came with USB3 so I didn't have to buy anything new to do backups.
But for "real" archiving, the only certified method of doing it is to burn archiving quality CD-R discs with maximum of 20 years self life before replicating the data to a new CD. Nope, not even DVDs or Blurays ever got certified for archival due to them being too dense mediums or some such. HDD RAIDs and tapes are also deemed too dangerous, even though those are what everyone uses these days lol
@icedquinn@TURBORETARD9000@freon I'm one of those voluntary loners who don't want to participate on that song and dance. I get it though. Humans are a commodity for all services, so it makes sense people are trying to benefit from their target demographic as best as they can. That is why for example Tinder did the great bait and switch from being a "good" and affordable alternative to expensive bars, only to get turned to a gacha game with fake profiles and whatnot (I don't use Tinder but AFAIK that is what happened).
I'm not old enough to remember what dating before the internet and mobile phones was like. However (again AFAIK) people paired up by being in close proximity for long periods of time. So workplaces, hobbies, small towns or just visiting the same social places on the regular. Not really speed-dating, Tinder or any other "quick meetups" sort of way.
Also women were "traded" as a commodity by being paired with men by social/monetary pressure and their families setting up dates/bringing up good candidates for grandchildren. I don't think that happens at all anymore, but it was one way to "make connections" by involving family networks.
Sadly hobbies and social gathering places are pretty expensive these days. One thing people still claim to be a thing for singles to mingle are pair dancing events/festivals. Might be just a Finnish thing though. We call them "latotanssit" which means literally translated "barn dances".
@icedquinn@TURBORETARD9000@freon Shit take, but anything requiring active participation from other human beings shouldn't be a right. Forcing other people to do so infringes on their personal freedom/rights. If someone is willing to do it by their own free will then it doesn't need to be a right to begin with (but not everyone finds someone willing to do that).
Capitalism of course has loopholes for the rich in this regard too.
However once the human element gets "solved" (robotics/cyborgs/real AIs maybe?) then I can see it becoming a basic human right (to have access to something that provides this service).
@lain That's why composers have standardized naming conventions. Someone going: "Ah, that crescendo in the Never-Heard-Before piece was so good." And you know you can swirl your dry martini and go: "Ah, yes, my fellow academic, it was so loud."
(I listen to classical music, but I don't know have anything memorized. I just enjoy full concertos and chill out.)
@icedquinn@verita84@roboneko It's always funny to read Americans insisting that helping homeless to get housing is somehow evil. Meanwhile in Finland we don't have almost any homeless and drunks don't die on the streets (unless they black out in the snow I suppose, not that they are too poor to get indoors).
As far as I'm aware our society hasn't imploded yet.