Exactly.

In the US, issuance of a photo ID is neither guaranteed nor free for all citizens. There is no simple registry for citizens within the US (unless you count the Social Security number which is incredibly flawed). While things such as driver’s licenses and passports serve as defacto identification, they are not universally held by everyone (fees are required for both, not everyone owns a vehicle, not everyone travels internationally). This also applies to home addresses and other proxies for voter identification, since they are generally insufficient in restrictive states.

Additionally, things such as voter roll purges and additional burdens placed on the participant (such as removing mail-in opportunities, since election day is not a holiday) tend to have the effect of excluding voters from participation, especially in lower-income communities who are unable to afford to take time off or go through the additional hurdles.

Throw on top of that the surveillance state apparatus and general distrust from the public regarding further extending our personal lives to the federal government since (and perhaps before) the 2001 Patriot Act, and you can see why a lot of people are not a fan of this push. The Real ID fiasco in the 2010s is a good example of outspoken pushback throughout implementation.

sidenote: a lot of the requirements for registration are put in place by GOP leaders to fuck over democratic party voter bases. An automatic registration system would be awesome, but no red tie would fuckin’ vote for it because it would doom their ability to have selective representation in their districts.

Lemmy is addictive in the same way that attending a routine community center event is addictive - you’re happy to come back and see old and new faces, and contribute towards keeping the conversations going.

If you want to set up a new event (instance/community), you can do it yourself, in your own environment, without external pressure.

I would call Facebook, Reddit, IG, etc… more like a casino. You pull constant refreshes for dopamine hits, are feed a stream of ads and content that ostracises you if you don’t stay with the current, and have no control over your personal data or any works you create.

I’d reckon that’s a byproduct of the console standard, no?

We’re slowly snowballing some of them here, luckily :)

Is that the compressed version? Kiwix’s latest copy is roughly 100GB including images.

Not sure if The Finals (Embark’s other game) has a bigger base in oceania or not, but it’s free, proton platinum, and has also some pretty sweet gameplay.

Lol even

I’ve been using Notepadqq as a Linux replacement, since it’s essentially a drop-in native clone.

Open source presentation presenters not aurafarm challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Huh. Neat.

Who’s SDF?

Rampocalypse is to blame. They’re simply not manufacturing any more units until memory prices drop (since raising prices on the SD would be a PR nightmare and they wouldn’t be able to eat the margins without that).

All the more reason to not use the epic games store…

In the end I guess it’s just centered around whatever this hypothetical gamer is looking for, but my current stance is predicated on Boots Theory, where purchasing an enticingly cheap console will absolutely screw you in the long run compared to an open platform such as the PC ecosystem. Open platforms are resistant from enshittification and software distribution monopolies, whereas the console market thrives on subsidized hardware that entraps their user into a locked in cage that seems impossible to leave the longer you spend.

I would even argue if I bought a cheap used office PC from some liquidated company for 50-60 USD and placed a modest GPU within it, even with lower specs compared to current console hardware, I have gotten better value for my money and have better future game and software prospects than the PS5/Switch2/Xbox Ecoystem owner.

But then that’s undermined by access to piracy then. Romsets for emulated consoles are widespread, and repacks of cross-platform releases are similarly ubiquitous.

Purchasing a closed hardware/software ecosystem makes little rational sense from a monetary perspective. It only makes more sense from a “simplicity” or “integration” perspective.

Some muzzle devices are explicitly designed to shatter glass alongside normal function - although they’re commonly found on breaching shotguns.

…and pay orders of magnitude more money for games, be forced into a subscription to play online, and be unable to run software like emulators officially.

Better than I can draw, this shit rocks

'cause they did, mate.