I get you’re pissed that you have to wait for a train sometimes. I get it, it happens to me sometimes too. But do you really think the railroad crossing in your specific Mississippi town is the barometer upon which all transportation efficiency is measured?

Maybe your town and local trains just suck?

regular people are NOT going to spend that for a PC. Which means most of the software that’s going to be developed will target iOS and Android… and that’s it.

Were you in a coma for the last 10 years? Because it seems like you missed the part where this already came to pass many years ago.

A PC is just a server in a different box. Sure, home compute may become more niche, and Best Buy and Walmart might even stop selling consumer desktop PCs. But with enough open source software and stubbornness, the option to run your own hardware isn’t going anywhere.

I would be surprised if this is still true, at least for home use. It seems like the non-gamer, non-power user segment of the PC market just switched over to tablets and smartphones instead. PCs and laptops just aren’t really necessary anymore for “normal” people who just want to check their email, watch YouTube, and surf the web.

Hold up, you’re eating unpeeled bananas? Just chomping through the skin and chewing everything up?

Is that actually a thing?

They can flood the open market with cheap bonds, meaning that when the US auctions off freshly minted bonds, they’re worth significantly less and therefore yields are significantly higher, which can lead to a death spiral of either: 1) the US has to continuously issue bonds at higher and higher yields just to pay off the previous round of bonds, 2) the Fed prints money to buy the bonds and the dollar collapses, or 3) the US just doesn’t pay, and then we’re basically back to 1 moving forward.

Maybe it’s pedantic, but the Treasury doesn’t really buy them back. A Treasury bond is basically “the Treasury will give the holder of this bond X dollars at Y date”.

Nothing forces the Treasury to buy bonds from the market, but they are bound to pay the specified amount on the specified date.

The problem is, in a bond market collapse, inflation is going to skyrocket, and the bond holder has no option other than to take that hit because the payout is fixed.

Maybe part of why Lemmy skews older is because this is basically what "old" Reddit felt like.

Before Reddit became the Walmart of internet forums that put all the little guys out of business and gained enough critical mass to have a niche community for every topic under the sun, it was just a quirky place that catered towards tech, politics, and this exact sort of "general everyday discussion" you're talking about.

I loved that era of Reddit, and I love that Lemmy is providing something that's close to that experience.

I honestly consider that to be a feature, not a bug.

Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc. all started out great, then grew so large that they lost all their magic.

Why should we try to speed run that process with the Fediverse?

Seems like everyone is getting the 1% confused with billionaires. The average 1%er is something like a doctor or a plumber that owns his own business, not the assholes floating around on superyachts.