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no, bazzite. nice joke though.

reading is great. i don’t know how to put it, but if you compare the dune novel and the new dennis villeneuve movies you’ll see major differences, and in my opinion to the detriment of the movies. the dune novel is very focused on character’s thoughts and ideas. those thoughts and ideas can’t really easily be expressed in a movie, not with explicit verbalization (because the novel’s audiobook is 24 hours long) and not with best-effort facial expressions either. in dune’s case the movie is also very interested in spectacle and explosions and murder and visual drama, and while the novel is of course also very dramatic it’s a very different kind of dramatic. frank herbert’s novel is very interested in the world and its mechanics and its citizens in a way the movies don’t want to or can’t be.

there are definitely accessibility issues with some novels, and some novels that have critical acclaim only really become interesting with a lot of prior reading, but i do really like it. in my case i also take public transit daily, and it’s great to be able to just whip out an ereader and read something for twenty minutes.

and if you’re fed up with streaming services offering a worse selection of movies and tv shows every year, or with seemingly the general state of movies and tv worsening every year, novels don’t really have that issue. there are definitely still differences in quality, but you can read top 100 series in whatever genre you like for decades, and by the time you’re done you’ll find there are another twenty or more new series in that list. personal recommendations are also more interesting, because there are just so many novels to discover. someone whose reading opinion you might appreciate may have read hundreds of completely different novels than you. with movies and tv you probably won’t get recommendations for anything you weren’t really aware of before.

not saying it’s healthy, just that it can have good effects

it is a way to vent, and venting/relieving stress can be pretty good. it doesn’t really solve the underlying problem and actually adds some problems of its own, but y’know.

all good use cases, i must admit

what would you use it for? maybe petting a third cat?

now i know this might sound a little woke but I don’t think people should suffer just because they’re inexperienced or uneducated

can confirm; i watched and was interested

i didn’t mean it in a bad way, but sort of I guess.

just the corny story as a response sounds a bit like grok’s freshly squeezed plagiarism juice from what I can tell from popular grok screenshots on lemmy. I haven’t ever dealt with grok myself.

unironically sounds like what grok would write if this was a tweet and somebody asked for grok’s opinion, so you get my reddit star and also my entire reddit account if you like

yeah but do you really know that or are you only quoting woke “scientists”?

/s

ouch

gay thot enbies?

then you need to buy 6x more alcohol, which is clearly not worth it

true here in germany

Just think of all the incredible engagement players will feel as they gamble their latest limited edition skin away which they bought with their mom’s credit card or their first independent wages.

But hey, at least the slot machine has all your favorite characters and also streamers who have sold their soul. Market research shows that people with dysfunctional impulse control are much more easily exploited that way.

Life can be cruel.

phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it’s a microscopic size. That doesn’t mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.

as someone has been fiddling with dongles for years, it’s not that bad, and you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle. the apple dongle is excellent and beyond enough for iems and a lot of headphones. I personally have one dongle + iems for my phone and another dongle + headphones for my PC, and that setup works really well for me. You might want to consider it. Otherwise, those big beefy Bluetooth headphones might be semi-repairable, and there are of course also Fairphone Bluetooth earbuds that are apparently fairly repairable (though I know nothing about those). At least you can replace the batteries and the ear tips or pads, and that’s usually enough to last you a decade with these things.

A lot of people get cancer already and ice also already melts all the time so I don’t see why this is so special