IDK how old that picture is but it reminds me of my computer class back at school and the computers at the library. Back then Windows XP/2000 was the thing but there were many older NT 4.0 machines and I think even ancient 3.51 machines too lol.
The Internet was a very different thing back then. I used to spend ages on CBBC games and other random sites I've forgotten by now xD
Nah. If it became cheaper or I found one on Ebay for a much lower price one day then maybe. The price it is at now is just too much and you may as well just build a very decent mid range gaming PC for that amount.
I sure hope it does not increase the cost of future consoles. Many will be locked out of the gaming market altogether if that happens because a lot are living on the edge as it is already from paycheck to paycheck.
No, I've had some pretty good friendships and real ones are not supposed to be like that at all.
Thinking of people as disposable like that, of just getting them out the drawer using them when convenient and then putting them back in the drawer again, is one of the many symptoms of the throwaway society we have developed and is not normal at all.
We treat objects like this, we treat the Earth like this, we treat life itself like this, so it's unsurprising that we treat other people like this too, because it's become so normalised, we grow up thinking that way, that we don't even think of it as abnormal anymore.
LOL yeah I've yet to find any NSFW Lemmy/Piefed communities. They must be somewhere out there though xD
Lemmy is not Reddit and I'm so glad it's not. It's nowhere near as buggy for a start, and if an instance has issues you can just hop on to and browse another one instead of the whole fediverse and communities being inaccessible like on Reddit. Reddit was one of the most buggy things I'd ever used and I lost count the amount of times I had to close the app and reopen it again because profiles or posts would not load.
And another fantastic thing I just found out: karma has almost no meaning here!!! Not like on Reddit where a low enough karma could get your account in trouble and stop your posts and comments being seen. Here on Lemmy you can continue to have actual discussions without anything stupid like that getting in the way. People can contribute from day one without fear of shadowbans!!
So whatever problems Lemmy and the fediverse may have, I will take it any day over the buggy and karma obsessed cesspit that Reddit has become. Reddit used to be a place for disscussion when I joined there 5 years ago, now it's just a collection of data harvesting echo chambers.
Lemmy is what Reddit used to be.
That cold ice can still burn the skin!