I’m all for it! Show me another direction that works!

Disney Plus is the only service I know of that actually has an access pin lockout system to keep kids in their kids account. All I want is a way for a 9 year old to watch tv without running into adult content. That turns out to be hard when your particular kid will actively seek out anything you tell them to avoid.

But honestly, Disney has the largest amount of appropriate content for them anyway. I think I’m stuck with this for now.

(not the op) but yeah, I agree with that.

That said, with the example of your mom, it sounds like it could be insecurity as much as it could be a closed mind. Some people really struggle with the idea that others might think they’re dumb, especially their children. So they assert things as fact, because they want to maintain the image that they have all the answers. Especially when kids are bright, some parents will fight tooth and nail to maintain an air of intellectual superiority, to assert intellectual dominance.

It may seem sad, but it’s pretty understandable, relatable even. - Humans be like that.

I so honestly wish I had time to do that.

Unfortunately, I just need tv to work and Disney+ is a way to throw money at the problem instead of time.

The crazy part is, I do have a 20TB Plex server, but there’s a problem with the machine and I just don’t have time to troubleshoot it. So despite already having much of that content, I’m paying to access it.

I mean as a buyer, use whatever coins you want, that’s fine. It’s not like you have to choose just one. You’re only limited by what coins any given store is willing to accept. That said, Bitcoin is accepted in more places than any other crypto. Similarly, there are more people with Bitcoin accounts than any other crypto. So as a seller, if you want to offer an option that more people can use, Bitcoin also makes sense from that angle.

But honestly, do whatever you want. Really that is the strength of crypto, the freedom to make your own choice and the inability of anyone else to stop you.

That’s an interesting knock off effect. Makes sense in retrospect, but I wouldn’t have predicted it.

But it’s the easiest to acquire and the most universally accepted, I’ve used it to buy things and it wasn’t hard.

I’m not saying it’s perfect, I’m not commenting on the ethical aspects, the environmental impact, any of that. Your thoughts on that are probably perfectly valid. But, if your goal is to use money that nobody can stop you from using, right now, Bitcoin is the right choice.

Ok, but who cares about the 99.9% of coins… If you’re buying something, use Bitcoin.

people still buy those games full-priced, so…

Wait, does nobody pirate games any more? I don’t think I bought a single game until I turned 25.

Well to me, borderlands 2 was the most fun I’ve had with a shooter since half-life 2 or CoD4. It’s one of the funniest games I’ve ever played as well. I think the writing in general is really top notch (props to Anthony Birch), the characters are memorable, the weapons and abilities are fun. All and all, BL2 really hit the mark in a lot of ways for me.

Borderlands 3 on the other hand, just wasn’t as good. It had a ton of great quality of life improvements, so that was nice. The player abilities were also largely really good, I liked most of the classes. But it had a ton of weaknesses… The level design was pretty awful, the much bigger maps really spread out the action absolutely killed the pacing. The story was pretty dumb, and while the villains were detestable, it was only in the way that all obnoxious teenagers are detestable. And the greatest sin, the loot was a mess. They actually threw way too many guns at you, so many that you never really get a chance to enjoy any of them. And way too many of them were uniques (with mysterious effects they never bother to explain).

Have they? Is Roku dominant in this market?

I might switch to a flip phone if it had gps and maps.

That’s simply the killer app for smart phones, at this point it’s a necessary part of my life. Without it I need a separate device just for that, and that device is actually less useful.

Edit: now that I’m reading other responses I have to agree, secure messaging and 2fa are really important too.

I could live without everything else, but to be honest, I don’t use much else. A few games, Lemmy, music apps, audiobook apps. Of those, Lemmy is the app most likely to leave me feeling upset, or like I want to doomscroll.

I think limiting the apps I use is the biggest thing I can do to not make the phone a negative influence for me. But to be clear, if that starts happening, Lemmy is the first to go, I already don’t use any other social media.

A long time back I got this game for free from the epic game store, it totally blew my mind. The world this game exists in is so well developed, I think the setting is my favorite character. I loved the panopticon, I loved offices covered in insane sticky notes, I of course loved the ashtray maze, oh my God that was freaking awesome.

This game is something special.

I’m about to be seeing a lot less Roku…

They know they’re entirely replaceable right? Like the Amazon fire tv, apple tv, Chromecast… Making their platform shittier really shouldn’t be their top priority if they want to stay in business.

I think palworld needs to start filling for ridiculous patents, go on the offensive.

That’s not the most dystopian surveillance tech around. It gets both more intrusive and more effective…

Think constant drone surveillance over a whole region. High res cameras, massive storage and long loiter times with glider like drones. You can just keep recording, and then when something like this happens, you just play the video back for the whole last day, following your suspect backward in time to when they left their home in the morning. The system isn’t even all that expensive to operate.

Say goodbye to privacy.

In all fairness, that is one of the strong use cases for computers in general. Doing simple yet tedious tasks accurately. When looking over 50 names checking for a particular letter, humans get bored and make mistakes. We actually aren’t great at that sort of task. I think simply calling this ineptitude both misses the point and under appreciates the reality of being human.

Alas, it is easier to call someone dumb than to try to understand them.

It’s those skateboards that done it, and the comic books the hooligans are readin. And all them lady folk wearin trousers! It’s the devil I tells ya!

God damnit Bobby…

Yeah, I have to agree. When a breach occurs (and it happens to just about every organization at some point or another) a press release this honest, responsible and immediate is not really the norm. I see this as a show of competence on the security front and integrity for the company as a whole.

I do wish Plex wasn’t further enshitifying their product more with every release, but that’s a different issue.

You could, but it looks pathetic.