The less you know about your history, the easier it is to imagine you'd always be on the right side of it.
Video games always used to be an economic way of entertainment. With an amount equal to a restaurant dinner you could be entertained for hundreds of hours.
Nowadays, video games follow the trend of enshitification. Low quality, repeated material, bad gaming experience, data hoarding, the need to be always online even for a single player game and of course, the "you don't own, we can take it away anytime we want" mentality.
According to the court rulling, if you essentially want to play retro games, you should find a way to access the original hardware and run the software in mostly proprietary mediums like cartridges that could be damaged or corrupted. And the reason you can't do it is because you may actually have fun!
This ruling is so bongers it blows my mind.
So you should never, ever ever
- Use emulators like Retroarch
- Find the ROMs of various systems you like in various "archives" through the interwebs for research purposes ofcourse
- Use a frontend like ES-DE or launchbox to make things look beautiful.
- Scrape content through screenscraper or something similar to make your frontends even more beautiful. 5.Keep in mind that this combo ( Retroarch + frontend) works in mostly cross platform (windows, Linux, android etc.)
After all, as a researcher you have to be able to tinker a little bit.
Enjoy your research ;)
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee...
If you like automation and don't want to rely on the cloud (aka the big data corpos) then you could try our lord and saviour Home Assistant.
That's why you should be absent from reddit in the first place. Lp
A few thousand years ago the ancient Greeks said:
"δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ".
Roughly meaning: A wise person doesn't make the same mistake twise.
But again some people keep doing it
Actually you can, but the programming takes a lot longer to compile and the programming language iitself is, to say the least, vague.
Visualy, I'm as average it gets. White straight male, average height, common composition. But
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I' m Agnostic.
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Believe people are not defined by their occupation and how much they make.
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I m all for worker rights and fight for them
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Into politics and trying to have as an objective ipinion as possible. Also try to talk about politics
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My academic credentials are on the top 10% tier
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I care about my RL and digital privacy
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I use FOSS
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I look after my health as well as my weight
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Not a fan of Football
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I make efforts to own my data and software
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Travel a lot to other countries
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have my own Jellyfin server
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host a locally run smart home
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Run a separate Batocera machine with a lot of games from a lot of legacy systems
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Don't really care about where other people come from, or what is their religion, or gender, or sexual preference, or politics
I inderstand fully. I used ti go through the same. At the same time I noticed a big difference when i got married. And a huge one when i had kids. Having a child and being responsible for it is a life changing situation. I tell my self that i became an adult not when i turned 18 but when i became a parent. When this happened to me, my perspective about work stoped revolving about being the best, and turbed to be just and help others be better. That made me soon to realize that those 2 cannot get always together.
Tldr: work 2 live > live 2 work
Putting a sound to rhe scream
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCC6ZhRS7sY&list=PL4Hd5Ex1qc33vE9KDUOO1Hx8BaMgl0tQE&index=1&t=48s
The end of hope of accumulation of wealth has driven liberated a lot of people from the need of a daily grind.
Thats why we see the silent resignation, the negative responses to RTO and the "lack" of workforce.
This is actually not a bad thing, if only the filthy-wealthy weren't activelly working to destroy olthe only planet we can live on
The increase in energy consumption globally is still bigger than the increase of energy production from renewables. When this happens, hopefully soon, we will start seing reductions in fossil fuel, and especially oil, cosumption. The adoption of EVs will increase further as soon as bettery cosy falls further, wich is expected in the next few years due to increased supply of lithium and thecnologiasl breakthroughs in EV energy mangement
Lets cross our fingers
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report
Jailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died, the Russian prison service said.
ailed Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died, the Russian prison service said.