As a teacher from a country that passed a similar law a few months ago: this is stupid, it won’t work unless you get parents involved. Also, it offloads the parenting responsibility to already overworked teachers. You know a law that could actually be more effective? Ban the use of social media for those below 18. Another one? Make the use of parental controls mandatory for people below 18. This kind of law may only work if it’s implemented together with other changes where it’s possible to spread the responsibility over the issue across many layers. If all you’re doing is relying on schools and teachers, all this law will do is to contribute even more to the high levels of burnout teachers have. Can we please force parents to actually have to parent their fucking kids??

Sure, don’t trust your government. What are you trusting then? Sure as hell not corporations, I hope. Yourself? That’s what I would call of naiveté. An individual power is irrelevant in the modern world, even most communities are irrelevant (Lemmy is an example, we’re the 0,001%). Revolution sure is a nice idea, but I don’t see anyone getting off their arses and doing it (talking about it on Lemmy doesn’t matter, it’s a tiny little bubble), and honestly, I don’t even think revolutions are technically possible anymore (the powers that be are very keenly aware of its processes, mechanisms and risks, and media manipulation is so fucking easy these days). So you got to do something, you have to stand behind some power that can actually make a difference: there’s only one real/realistic choice: your government. I’ve seen what happens when the left starts voicing their mistrust of the government too carelessly. The right will take those complaints and shift them into their own, and things will snowball very quickly. People often mistake the idea of trust with the idea of blind faith. You can trust someone/something and still complain and fight against some of their actions and decisions. But you have to pick your battles very carefully. If you want a history lesson, look up what happened with Brazil in the period between 2011-2018. I was there, I lived through history. I can tell you that we should all really be fucking afraid of social medias and the internet, and if a government moves aggressively into regulating that, we should take a step back and think very hard while analysing the whole picture. Even if it looks like authoritarianism, it might still be the correct choice.

Don’t even try to reason with people here that governments should be responsible for blocking harmful agents to affect the population. Government control and communism are bad words here, it’s obviously much better to be free to spread misinformation and foreign propaganda, and if you can’t have such freedom, you’re obviously being oppressed by the government. I wish my ““free”” country had done the same ~10 years ago when social media truly became mainstream, and maybe we wouldn’t have suffered a coup d’état that was clearly in the best interests of other nations.

Not everyone lives in America. Most governments in the world are not just fronts for oligarchs. I trust the current government of my country to act in the better interests of the people most of the time (sadly we live in a capitalist dystopia, so sometimes lobbying can make politicians fuck up). If you don’t trust yours, you should look into what you can do to make a change.

Yeah, I just use the fork.

I just use Obsidian + Syncthing + MEGA. My obsidian folders are on my mega synced folder on my pc, and they are set up to use syncthing to push updates to all my other devices (2 phones and a tablet), but you can have as many devices as you want. It’s all free as well, and the cloud service can be any that you like.

2002~2003 We got a glorious “high speed cable internet” of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have “”“good”“” internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.

Enshrouded is like 30 dollars, so half the price of Veilguard. With a fraction of the AAA marketing Budget.

It’s in the same tier as Enshrouded, a crafting survival adventure indie game that doesn’t even come close to it in Budget, market and scale. Yeah, no, it wasn’t a success.

About 30% only are fps, plenty of variety in there.

Did you play with hard exploration turned on? I felt that hard exploration + hard combat is probably the best way to play. Puzzles were not incredibly complicated, but some of them did have that “aha!” moment (from the words of GMTK). The enemies were indeed a bit dumb, but I felt like that was part of that Indiana Jones movie charm (most of Indy’s villains in the movies are really dumb, case in point, the guy that steals the golden idol just to die five seconds after betraying him).

A tip I can give you is that the game never actually forces you to play stealth. You can literally kill all the fascist/Nazis you see, and progress normally. I played on hard combat mode, and just killed my way through the game, playing stealth only on parts that were swarming with enemies, and only for a little while, after knocking down some enemies and stacking some guns, it was all Rambo’s action.

It’s obviously a game made for people who like the movies, but it’s a very solid standalone game even if you remove Indiana from it. Good puzzles, nice action, great voice acting, good levels/environments. The one thing I learned after finishing the game though is that the secret “ending” is not worth the effort. Just play the story and the game at your own pace, and then look up the secret ending after you’re finished.

Nah. Nintendo has been a shitty company for the last 10 years at the very least. They make good games, but as a company they should fail and go out of business. They are extremely litigious, shutting down many fan projects simply for existing, which apparently is enough to have a chance to hurt their profits on decades old games. Their services suck as well, overpriced and lacking. They close down their online store fronts before everybody else, case in point, the xbox 360 online store was closed down recently, at the end of last year, meanwhile, the Wii has been dead for 6 years already, and it was a console released a year after the 360. There are many other examples on why you shouldn’t support Nintendo, a 15-minute search on the internet will give you plenty.

It makes no sense to me how they can think a 1300 dollar 10~15% more capable (at best) device is appealing in a market where the steam deck exists.

I cancelled mine last month, it was literally a couple of clicks. I got some ads about “all the things I would be losing” for some time after and that was it.

Truthfully 800, but there is an old model that costs “only” 300…

Thing is, Intel is 100% losing money on this, and they’re willing to lose money to gain any modicum of market share, but AMD has no such concern/incentive. But we shall see about the RX 8000 and how they’re going to do, considering they dropped top of the line and are allegedly focusing on fighting Nvidia on their turf (rt and ai features), maybe they’ll have something nicely cooked for us. I’m really happy with my RX 6750 XT though, playing everything new 1080p high at 60+.

PoE2 works really fine on a controller, some even say the game seems to be made for a controller first.

Yes, it’s amazing. Indy feels and plays like indy. Some of the parts in the late game made me even see how much he reacts like Indy to things. Also, the puzzles are interesting, the story is good, voice acting is mind boggling incredible, and even the action feels on point. I’m 50h into the game and still not finished (playing on max difficulties and going after every puzzle), even fights can feel really good when you have to plan every single step of the fight or else you get smoked in 3 seconds.