As of August 2024, cumulative sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console had risen to roughly 117.2 million units

Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game console worldwide in 2022

the Xbox One, was put to market in 2013 and sold roughly 58 million units in total until the end of its lifespan in 2020.

https://www.statista.com

I feel bad doing this though. I think Elon has turned a corner in my mind and is now officially so ugly on the inside I can’t help but notice the ridiculous face he wears.

Friday, am drunk. At least during the daylight I’ll be sober living my life.

Good news though, my workplace is attempting to form a union. Signed my card today. Fuck management, the spineless bastards.

I’m portable because I like the idea of being able to move without it being a big project. I think most people are utilitarian in that they buy things that address a specific problem they have, though maybe people who like minimalist ideas would have a different threshhold for what constitutes a ‘problem’ and favour products that address multiple problems in the simplest way.

When I moved I did sleep in a sleeping bag for a bit, but practically it’s much easier to wash a duvet cover than a sleeping bag. Same goes for hammock vs. bed. My bowl situation started at 1, but I ended up washing this one bowl all the time and it felt wasteful and effortful. I still do eat breakfast out of the pot, but I would argue it’s the best solution and others should copy me :) I’ll happily sit in one chair for a couple years before deciding a second chair or a couch is a requirement.

I think over a long period of time I’ll still be minimal, but have more specific things. It is genuinely more pleasant to eat salad from a salad size bowl/plate, pasta from a pasta bowl, soup or cereal from a cereal bowl, a latte from a latte mug, etc. Minimalism to me will always be about min/maxing items to squeeze the most joy out of life because I need that lift. Being spartan is hard living.

I think of minimalism as an aesthetic or study in aesthetics that helps people live in gratitude for the things they do have. Minimalism has a core rooted in calm and pleasantness and I feel like if this ‘nomadic’ minimalism you’re describing fits into that then it could be a branch of minimalism. But the picture here is kind of depressing, haphazard, and I can’t imagine the person whose place that is would like to live that way for a long time. They did take a picture of it… I did that when I moved into my place but it was like ‘look how I’m living in squalor’.

They’re wondering if there is a subset of the minimalist community whose goals are specifically nomadic.

I feel like lemmy is in a decent place right now. The main page is busy enough with a good amount of OC and alright discussion. It’s a lot to ask for 1000+ active niche communities. I have a few things that bug me and I’m not sure ballooning members would fix it: reddit-like anti-social behaviour, excessive reposts, and posts about MAGA people. I’ve blocked a lot of communities, some users, and very few nsfw instances.

The economy is in a weird spot where data looks alright (employment and gdp) but the covid economy hit everyone including your friendly neighborhood corporation. Ads are a simple and reliable way to turn up profits in a soft economy and declining global situation and inflation. Since companies have effectively stolen wages for so many years they can’t cope with modest wage spike on their bottom line or really any disruption anywhere in their business they use ads to print money. Maybe as time goes on business will benefit from slowing wage growth and increasing automation we will see ad growth scale back. Regulation would be nice but what are you going to do?

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/03/COVID-inequality-and-automation-acemoglu.htm

https://www.atlantafed.org/blogs/macroblog/2024/06/27/are-real-wages-catching-up

Zombeavers

I haven’t but this is the second time it’s popped up today so I’ll put it on now.

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

I watched this recently. Actual not-dumb characters is sooo nice. I’d written this off as just yet another Romero style zombie movie but it has it’s own thing going on. I think given how much I liked Tusk (saw it last night) and Dale and Tucker vs. Evil I have a soft spot for R rated horror comedy.

Pontypool pairs well with 30 days of night (and Tusk pairs well with The Substance).

Why doesn’t the government just give the loan to Constellation to restart the reactor? What’s the point of Microsoft in this.

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Wow how do you normally deal with that?

This is lemmy so they’re probably angry Germany isn’t bombing Israel like Iran

I’m very sour about it

This is the one I mean.

Don’t get me wrong - 100% of the reason I voted for Trudeau many years ago was to change our voting practice and I’m keen to learn more, but also lazy and not in the mood to interpret these graphs without more context.

If I look at this alongside the other zoning map someone posted will it make more sense?

kagi

I’ve been trying the trial/100 searches a month. Using very sparingly, but I like how it pulls up actual sites instead of ads disguised as websites. Idk if I’d pay $5 or $10USD to use it though. Bit steep.

Millionshort is another one, haven’t used them in a while. The results were meh but nice that you can filter out major websites.

kagi

I’m confused by this graphic