I paid for my loans - why should we forgive the loans
first off... you do know that the economy doesn't just stay stagnant for decades, right? houses aren't $17,000 anymore. the fact that you were able to pay your loans before has little to do with how expensive student loans are now.
secondly, the logic of "i did it so they should have to do it to" is quite a toxic & nonproductive way to think about society, & societal change. what you need to realize is that this sentiment comes from a place of envy & bitterness rather than actual logic. you don't want things to improve for the next generation because you can't fathom someone having it easier than you. you could apply this logic to anything, & the final conclusion will always just be "why bother changing", it's not much different from the conclusions you'd reach through pessimistic nihilism. growing up i was poor, so much so that sometimes we didn't even have dinner, a house or even a car to sleep in. does that mean i should raise my future children in poverty too? why not? i did it, got through it, so the next generation should have to get through it too, right?
if, throughout human history, our entire reasoning for making changes in society was "well i had to do it so they have to too" then we'd still be in huts & making fire with sticks. our ancestors didn't work, fight, & die so that the next generation would have to live the exact same life as them, they worked so that their children could have better. & this drive for the next generation to have a better life than the last is the reason why we've worked so hard to improve, invent, & innovate over the course of human history. it's why we even have a safe society in the first place, & probably why your parents worked so hard to give you a great life too.
what is already the most entitled generation ever?
according to who, & what? from my perspective, the generation who had an economy so great that they could afford a house & family without college & yet still choose to complain about everything is the most entitled. but i guess we're all spoiled brats because we want to have an actual future.
Otherwise where does it stop? Are they going to forgive mortgages and car loans next? Why not? It’s the same principle.
slippery slope is known as a logical fallacy for a reason
right? the more that comes out about oceangate, the more baffled i am that this is a real company that actually generated revenue; i mean the context & details surrounding this story have become ironic enough to be almost cartoonish at this point. even the name of the company in itself seems like some sort of foreshadowing (well, if we're going by past uses of the -gate suffix)
in my experience being a part of both communities, there isn't a wearos piracy scene at all. i've seen a few shared watchfaces here & there since wearos (well, then android wear) launched, but i can count on my fingers how many times that's happened. definitely not enough to count as a scene or community imo.
to your first point of getting a watch to replace a phone though, as someone who's owned multiple wearos watches (both stock & oneui) & tried to use the watch as the primary device multiple times i'd recommend against it atm. even on the best wearos watches (the gw4/5 atm) the experience as a primary device is just, not there yet. while samsung did a lot for wearos, watch apps are still clunky & still omit even the most basic features, some of the worst offenders imo being the stock wearos/google apps (google clock still doesn't even let you set an alarm name, tone or snooze time).
this all applies of course when there even is a watch app, a lot of android apps either simply don't make one or ended up abandoning theirs years ago - even apps you'd expect to naturally have one like first party apps (gmail & google calendar were JUST announced after a decade of wearos being alive) or messaging apps. essentially, software-wise on a galaxy watch everything aside from built-in oneui apps & the few best wearos apps will just frustrate you & make you pull out your phone. on a stock wearos watch... lol.
an even bigger issue than software though, is hardware. while i don't have an lte watch, from what i've heard from people that do use their watches without their phones near regularly, watches still run terribly without piggybacking off the phone for everything, & using lte & disconnecting from the phone pretty much instantly causes heat, lag & battery usage to double. i've experienced a bit of this myself by turning my phone off & trying to do basic tasks like listening to music, texting & talking to assistant. though i (obviously) didn't get the heat & battery drain that comes with an lte connection, the whole experience just becomes kinda laggy & choppy when the companion app isn't connected
i was in the root/rom community for a decade & anytime i see anything about classic android i get nostalgic af. while i was a bit too late to own an htc dream, i still boot up my lg optimus v running android 2.2 (well, it was on a 4.4 rom at one point but i flashed it back to stock) every few years. while i don't miss the horrible ui, bugginess, slowness & clunkiness of android before 4.x, at the same time... i also kinda do for whatever reason lol. not enough to actually go back to it, but still. something about that white status bar, square icons & the overall mismashed together ui made of gray headerbars on top of white & black feels pleasant in a way i can't explain.
this especially makes you feel idiotic when you spend a long ass time finding & fixing a simple bug resulting from a typo then realize that it would've been caught immediately if you just wrote tests like you said you would 3 days ago
aw, I love funny pet names like that lol. one of our dogs is named bear even though he's small & skinny as a twig, & sometimes people will just comment "he doesn't look like a bear" & we'll answer "we named him after teddy bears, not the big ones". always gets a laugh
yesterday when I was walking the dog a kid came up to us & he was so excited to see him. he asked if he could pet him & play with him & I said yeah, & he smiled so wide it looked like it made his entire day. wholesome shit :)
if the rumors are true & microsoft is planning to make windows 365 the de-facto way to purchase windows in the future like with office, it'll be the dumbest move they've ever made & proof some new leadership is probably needed at some level. individual apps are one thing but no one wants something as critical & expansive as the os to just be a glorified rdp session, nor do they want it to be dependant on a subscription. i've told some of my non techie friends about this (all lifelong windows users) & they all said it'd be the one thing that makes them go to something else.
imo if you have a compatible machine (& prefer the taskbar at the bottom of the screen), then yes. it's essentially just 10 with some kernel/core updates & a new ui that's much better.
late commenting on this but finally, i'm so excited! sync is the only thing i'm still grieving from reddit, jerboa is nice & the devs have done a great job so far, but a bit too early stage for me atm
this site is one of my go tos for when i feel like starting a completely pointless argument 😂 just say "did y'all know pop tarts are technically a type of calzone?" & 30 seconds later you're having the dumbest debate known to man with the entire friend group
they can't see our posts & comments, actually. defederation goes both ways, the only thing they can still see of us is cached threads from before the defederation. these threads are effectively dead like a plant disconnected from it's roots, in that new posts & comments to them don't go anywhere. & we can do the same thing, go back a few days & you'll still see lemmy.world posts here.
yeah, i'd contact steam if it's really bothering you but otherwise just wait. steam support is one of the chillest cs teams i've ever dealt with so you shouldn't have any problem either way. also keep in mind a few popular games are on sale atm so they might just be processing some more than usual
i don't think we have anything to worry about, the metaverse is never going to be the next phase of the web. as someone who was enthusiastic about the whole vr boom at first & jumped to buy a quest, the vision zuck is pushing where everyone just has a quest 2/quest pro & uses it as a general computer or for social gatherings is unrealistic.
vr headsets are uncomfortable as hell to wear for more than a few minutes at a time, doing everything in the ui is clunky because you have to deal with vr virtual mice/keyboards, hand tracking is bad & so are the controllers, the people look low poly, low res & uncanny, the screens cause eyestrain & have weird lines/dots, i could go on & on about the numerous reasons why my quest has been in my closet since last year but you get the point.
imo we're simply not far enough technologically to create a good metaverse experience. and even if we were, well, most people still aren't going to want to spend most their time in a headset staring that close at a screen
not entirely. while steam does auto approve refunds for games that are both owned less than 14 days & played less than 2 hours (not sure if this part is automated or if they train staff to just glance at the playtime & click refund in their ticket system), they still have a refund department to vet & process refunds that fall outside of that category. they'll send you an email if what you're refunding doesn't fit the criteria for automatic approval:
if you played the game for over 2 hours, even if it's just by one minute, your request is gonna be in limbo for a while until a support team member gets to it. i've had it happen a few times over the years & in my experience it takes anywhere from like 1 or 2 days to as many as 5, depending on how busy it is (steam sales seem to slow them down). i've also heard from some on the steam community that even when a refund is auto approved it can sometimes still get stuck in the system for a few days.
not entirely. while steam does auto approve refunds for games that are both owned less than 14 days & played less than 2 hours, they have a refund department to vet & process refunds. they'll send an email if what you're refunding doesn't fit the criteria for automatic approval:
first off... you do know that the economy doesn't just stay stagnant for decades, right? houses aren't $17,000 anymore. the fact that you were able to pay your loans before has little to do with how expensive student loans are now.
secondly, the logic of "i did it so they should have to do it to" is quite a toxic & nonproductive way to think about society, & societal change. what you need to realize is that this sentiment comes from a place of envy & bitterness rather than actual logic. you don't want things to improve for the next generation because you can't fathom someone having it easier than you. you could apply this logic to anything, & the final conclusion will always just be "why bother changing", it's not much different from the conclusions you'd reach through pessimistic nihilism. growing up i was poor, so much so that sometimes we didn't even have dinner, a house or even a car to sleep in. does that mean i should raise my future children in poverty too? why not? i did it, got through it, so the next generation should have to get through it too, right?
if, throughout human history, our entire reasoning for making changes in society was "well i had to do it so they have to too" then we'd still be in huts & making fire with sticks. our ancestors didn't work, fight, & die so that the next generation would have to live the exact same life as them, they worked so that their children could have better. & this drive for the next generation to have a better life than the last is the reason why we've worked so hard to improve, invent, & innovate over the course of human history. it's why we even have a safe society in the first place, & probably why your parents worked so hard to give you a great life too.
according to who, & what? from my perspective, the generation who had an economy so great that they could afford a house & family without college & yet still choose to complain about everything is the most entitled. but i guess we're all spoiled brats because we want to have an actual future.
slippery slope is known as a logical fallacy for a reason