patchymoose

I think our generation will definitely have consoles set up in nursing homes when we are elderly. No doubt about it.

So far, the highlights for me are Super Mario RPG remake, and a new Dragon Quest Monsters installment!

And just to add to that, anyone who has installed Linux before knows that everything isn't guaranteed to just work out of the box. Laptop WiFi cards, for example, frequently have driver issues. So it's not quite as simple as OP is saying, even with PCs.

One day Doom will be able to run through carrier pigeons.

I am ready and armed with Thomas the Tank Engine memes.

Beehaw added !socialism@beehaw.org if you want to talk about leftist topics, but the rules there are that you have to be nice to everybody. It is basically the opposite of the tenor of r/socialism, so take that under advisement.

I say this as a passive observer who has no skin in the game one way or another, I'm not a socialist.

Wow. Memory freaking unlocked. I had forgotten that these existed for probably 25 years until I saw this very post. Now it's all coming back to me! I had the Jurassic Park one and never could figure out how to play it right as a kid, but still had fun.

I don't think people actually would, if push came to shove. They're just expressing nostalgia for a simpler time, which is pretty easy to understand, given all the dystopian effects of social media and smartphones.

I think smartphones have done a lot of harm, but they've still done far more good, which is why we use them. Especially in poorer countries where smartphones are often people's only access to the internet.

That said, there's nothing stopping any of these people in the article from being the change they want to see in the world. Not to send anybody to Reddit, but r/dumbphones is a fast growing subreddit for people that want to try that. A lot of the users are Gen Z who never got to try them and want to give it a whirl.

They're so hypocritical too. Steve Huffman will rant for hours about third party apps taking advantage of Reddit's free API to make money from it, and then turn around and make money off of free moderators. He reeks of greed.

FINALLY!!!

God I hope they get sued into oblivion, and I hope that Steve is personally financially set back because of this whole series of events.

I did the same, and I also cancelled my premium account (I know, I shouldn't have paid for it in the first place).

There is a sub called r/lounge which is a "reward" for paying for Reddit Premium, and you also get temporary access if your post gets gilded. It's a pretty inane sub mainly for just idle chatting, but I really noticed the amount of posts in there drop off a cliff in the final week. They hide the subscriber count, so you can't see how many members there are. But just judging by post activity, I guarantee that it at least cut in half.