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  • Great question - but semi related, I really enjoy sim racing despite rarely driving a car in real life (maybe once a fortnight).

    The metaverse doesn’t appeal to me, or most people, but there’s something to be said about jumping in VR and taking a car to a track virtually with a good force feedback wheel, nice load cell pedals and a H-pattern shifter.

    Heck I even enjoy euro truck simulator from time to time.







  • andyMFK@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIs the fairphone really worth it?
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    How is buying a dongle you shouldn’t need better for the planet than a phone manufacturer providing a headphone jack??? The phone already has a DAC in it, they literally only need to include the actual port

    almost everyone I see in public transportation use wireless earbuds. Usually I look like the odd one out for wearing wired earphones.

    your sample is incredibly biased, you’re taking 1 demographic and assuming everyone acts like that. Go into a recording studio and see how many wireless headphones they use, Go to a concert and see how they are driving their speakers. Just because a lot of consumers use wireless earphones in an environment that doesn’t lend itself to good audio (like public transport), doesn’t mean most people are using it.










  • If you enjoy fighting this hard, if you have the free time, and the money and the energy to do so, and it makes you feel good, you should, but recognize it comes from a place of privilege.

    Most people are overworked, broke, and tired. To expect them to cycle to work and grow their own food, and spend their weekends community building, when megacorporations are polluting more everyday than anyone ever could in a lifetime, is out of touch with reality.

    Until we can make sweeping systemic changes to society, any individuals efforts to reduce consumption is futile, and thinking that everyone must do everything they can to save the human race because humans are so vital to the universe is delusional. Humans can go extinct, it’s fine, it wont matter.




  • We’re not going to all die in half a century.

    We haven’t even reached the tipping point yet so if you want to believe humans can still be saved, that is still technically a possibility - at least short term.

    Ultimately humanity will go extinct one day, there’s no way around that. If you want to believe the worst news (I’m not saying you shouldn’t) then sure, it looks like humanity is in its way out sooner than later. But it’s not within your lifetime, not even your kids if you have one, This is a slow burn, it’s gonna take hundreds of years at least.

    And ultimately there’s nothing you can do about it. Even if you go vegan and stop driving, it’s not going to change billionaire superyachts and private planes. It’s not going to stop Nestle ruining our rainforests. Or BP destroying our coasts with oil spills. It’s not going to stop our politicians being unable to enact policies to save ourselves.

    The extinction of humanity is not in your lifetime and not your fault. Stop worrying and go watch TV