Microsoft often imposes some additional hardware requirements on major PC makers that sell Windows on their devices, beyond what is strictly necessary to run Windows itself.

Is this another of many examples of Microsoft asserting an unfair market monopoly?

I recently switched to Linux and it only just occurred to me within the last few weeks or so that’s it’s very strange that every keyboard I’ve used has a “Windows” key (often branded with the Windows logo).

Not really a “stinker” but I was disappointed with Tears of the Kingdom and have dropped it after 100 hours.

I don’t think it helps that I’ve been playing this whilst sat next to my fiancee playing the Witcher 3 on our Steam Deck. The difference between the two games is like night and day, despite the Witcher 3 being almost a decade older.

Tears of the Kingdom is just okay, in my opinion. I enjoyed it enough to get 100 hours out of it. I dropped Breath of the Wild after a similar amount of time too. They’re just not for me I guess, they don’t immerse me like other RPGs do.

There is! Donating to certain charities and/or charity funds is an effective way to fight climate change. Keep in mind some charities are more efficient than others at using their money.

I’m not sure this one is one that qualifies as effective but it is an example of what kind of things are out there: https://www.founderspledge.com/funds/climate-change-fund

Thank you too, for listening and for all the work you put in. And, of course, just to say explicitly I will respect whatever decision you come to even if it’s not one that caters to me and my weird social media habits. I wish you the best of luck with whatever you decide to do with Beehaw, I hope this community thrives wherever it goes.

What if we started out not federated with anyone, but clearly actively working towards it? Would you still follow?

Yes, definitely. I think it would make sense to start out this way on a new platform. With my preference for whitelist federation over blacklist federation, it feels right to me to start from zero and slowly add other instances to federate with after determining that another instance holds community values which align enough with ones own.

By federated, do you mean decentralized and interoperability with other platforms (TBD), or specifically federated with Lemmy, Kbin, etc?

I mean decentralized and allows interoperability with other platforms. It wouldn’t have to be Lemmy/Kbin/etc.

Do you desire ActivityPub (aka mastadon) federation or others acceptable, as long as it’s not just Beehaw here?

I’m most familiar with platforms on ActivityPub so it would be my personal preference but honestly it could be any distributed social networking protocol.

I’m primarily on Beehaw because I want to support federated platforms and help them grow. If Beehaw was to move to a centralized platform I wouldn’t be following, but I would if the platform was federated. I do really like the community and admins here.

Personally I have no attachment to Lemmy as a platform. Only within a day of joining Beehaw I discovered that the developers of Lemmy were… the way they are. So my intention has always been to bail Lemmy as soon as a viable alternative appeared.

Hearing about the issues you’ve been having with Lemmy as a platform and the Lemmy devs, and that you are considering leaving… doesn’t surprise me at all. Feels very sensible to bail I think.

Going on a bit of a tangent now. I’m struggling to put into words my opinion on blacklist vs whitelist federation but I’m going to try…

Blacklist federation feels as though it runs as an antithesis to what I seek in my internet communities. For me, I like that Beehaw required some text to be submitted before registering. But blacklist federation gives people an easy means to bypass that. It just seems impossible to maintain a safe community and productive conversations at least until these federated platforms are very mature, which will probably take years. Whitelist federation just feels like a must for me.

I’m not here to have a constant stream of content at all times. I am here for good content and deep discussions. Federated platforms are interesting to me not because I want to see everything that’s happening across the Fediverse at all times but primarily because it allows for even just a handful of communities who have similar priorities to spread out the technological, financial, and moderation load across one another.

The problem of “AI” and all labor-saving technology in the last few centuries is not the technology itself but is actually Capitalism.

Yes, you are absolutely correct.

I have something to add to the arguments you have already presented in your post.

The problem with Capitalism is that in order to live you have to make an income. In order to make an income you have to be able to work.

AI, and in the future, robotics, presents an issue to people because it creates less jobs for people to work. And what are people meant to do if they cannot work and therefore cannot earn income? Capitalism requires jobs in order to be a successful system, at least for the common folk like us.

But, should this be the reason that we work? In order to live?

This is how it has always been done, we have to work in order to survive. Whether it was because we worked to procure food otherwise we would starve, or if it’s to work to earn an income to buy food otherwise we would starve.

As humans, we are seeing perhaps the first breaths of an era where we could no longer need to work in order to survive. AI and robotics is still in its infancy and it presents a great danger if it is handled incorrectly (which is currently is). Imagine a future where menial, repetitive tasks are automated and we can all live lives of comfort as in order to eat, we only need to exist. We can focus our time to working for the sake of working, because we find the work meaningful, because it enriches our lives, and because it helps others. A world where we can create art for the sake of creating art and not because we need to create art in order to eat.

I know I am speaking in ideals here, and the real world is different. Basically, what I am trying to say, is that the future I strive for cannot be a Capitalist one. The issue is not the technology, it’s Capitalism.

I’m a vegetarian.

I was, and still am, surprised by how often people will go into a long rant justifying why they eat meat to me as soon as they find out I’m vegetarian. All the while I’m just sat there, not saying anything, because I literally do not care whether or not they eat meat.

Me being a vegetarian is a personal choice for me and myself only. You do you. I don’t care. You don’t need to explain yourself to me. It makes me feel so awkward.

People will often ask me why I’m a vegetarian too. But it feels like a very personal and heavy question to ask someone immediately after finding out they’re vegetarian… I don’t especially want to talk about animals dying all the time and how it makes me sad especially to strangers.

Edit/Addition: It feels like a lot of focus is brought on how vegetarians/vegans force their views onto other people but my experience personally is non-vegetarians/vegans trying to force me into conversations about this topic.