I don’t want a big loud box near a tv.

With mATX or ITX you can make a shockingly small and attractive computer; examples include this mATX case or this ITX case. People have even designed 3d printable cases, plans for laser cut/CNC acrylic and metal, etc… If that’s not small or classy enough, the miniPC market has really taken off and depending on how modest your needs are, you can get by with things like Zimaboards or go all the way to something like the MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro - a very capable machine that has an Oculink port that allows you to connect an external GPU if you need even more power.

Generally speaking you’re never driving a media PC hard enough for the fans to ramp up, but if you somehow are, just buy quality fans and/or watercooling. I can speak for Noctua fans not just being a meme; they are actually very quiet.

How would you even control it ?

I have a small keyboard with a built in trackpad. It’s a bit bigger than a TV remote but not obnoxiously so, but given you get the ability to actually write stuff in instead of using an onscreen keyboard with an IR remote it’s a worthwhile trade.

This post is odd because you’re talking about on-rails shooters but Call of Juarez is not one of them (it’s an FPS).

voting with their wallet I’m onboard with your argument but I really don’t think voting with your wallet works in cases like this. When there are so few players in a system and they’re all colluding to make things worse, there is no vote.

I am deeply frustrated that people aren’t getting more involved. I link them to groups, I show them the consumer rights wiki, I talk to people about getting involved politically at the local level… So few people care. Things are going to have to get much worse before they take action, best thing we can do is have the framework in place for when they finally wake up.

Can you describe an example of detailed mass surveillance that has not been used against us?

I am not willing to trade a modicum of safety for one of the greatest privacy and ownership violations of all time.

I don’t understand what you’re failing to grasp. You see what you’re allowed to see. They are signal boosting shit heads while suppressing everyone else. If your message begins to spread, they will just pull the platform out from under your feet.

How do you propose to win on billionaire-owned social media when they can just kick your legs out at will the moment you stand too tall for their good? Look at all the Reddit protests that amounted to nothing besides getting moderators booted from their subs, they’re a perfect example of this.

“Social media” is not society; it’s a series of platforms built by billionaires for the purpose of control.

There’s some truth to that but the lack of algorithmic manipulation will make it easier to deal with. Plus you just have more options here on Lemmy to deal with it. Most instance operators have shown a willingness to restrict or even defederate from other instances when they are consistently shit to deal with.

Way I see it there are two productive paths to take here:

1. Start trying to convince women that privacy does in fact matter. Use examples like the menstruation tracking apps potentially being used to identify abortions to illustrate this point.
2. Try to relate to the men here on Lemmy and find a way to cooperate. You’ve got a largely fresh population of men here who don’t actually hate women, but have spent years in education being told they are dangerous rapists waiting to happen, or were treated as defective women by their teachers. They need good male role models and women who will treat them with respect, so that they can climb out of the pit without leaving the better parts of themselves behind.

An utterly unproductive use of your time would be trying to fight misogyny on oligarch-owned platforms. You will never win because they find this content useful, as it divides workers and wastes their time and social energy. Just get out, and help others do it too.

Well someone has to be first to switch platforms.

This isn’t a platform problem

It is though. You think the spreading of this content is an accident? They could change the algorithm tomorrow and it would disappear, but they won’t because this division is useful to them.

“Stop using social media” is literally the only real solution because oligarchs will never again risk letting us actually connect with each other. You stay on “social” media and you will just be getting run in circles by engagement algorithms and bots.

You cannot save Facebook, Instagram, X, or Reddit because their owners will not allow you to.

You’re not going to save Instagram. The owners do not want you to save it and you do not control it. It was a lost cause before you even knew there was a problem.

Some systemic problems cannot be solved from inside the system.

Mudrunner. Never did play these games, it’s pretty neat. Roadcraft hard mode is looking pretty appealing now.

Women often have to trade career progression for motherhood. That’s a big ask considering the decades we’ve spent letting neoliberals devalue motherhood and labour in and out of the home.

~20 years ago my wife was mocked at university for wanting to have children. It hasn’t improved much since.

Investors have very big brains and are never wrong, so when a company drops staff they say it’s good to see the company losing dead weight.

Us stupid small-brained normies see a company struggling to have an original idea shaving staff to stay afloat and say “that doesn’t look good”.

Then the big-brain investor loses money and posts on social media about how you can’t win them all. The joke is that us normies also lost money; the investor didnt lose their money, they lost yours, because they were managing your pension fund.

Do you think that generated depictions of the sexual abuse of children are ok in any context?

False equivalence.

Guy atomically made of shit takes has another shit take, colour me surprised.

I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It’s been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)