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Effective, sure. But, if a company is truly engaging, listening, adapting to the employees needs and feedback, unions would be a lot less needed or effective. When companies are exploiting workers, lowering wages and benefits, causing more problems and not listening to employees, unions can really make a huge difference. If the people are looking to unionize, the company is failing and the workers aren't being listened to and they want change to happen.

Unions can do a lot of good. I'm very pro-union. But, people don't go looking to unionize if things are going great and the company is really listening and adapting to employee concerns.

I remember jumping from Firefox to Chrome because Firefox became so shitty for a while. It's sad because at the time I had Firefox so tuned, bookmarks perfect, theme perfect, but it was slow and ate up all resources. Chrome was "fast as fuck, boy!", but it took a while to get used to it and get it how it was perfect. I'm still trying to get Firefox to where it's perfect again, but it's slow going. I'm still about 75% Chrome and 25% Firefox.

Kind of. But, without the "cool" factor. You were a geek, a nerd. Computers were for nerds for a while, the internet was like a computer library which were also only for nerds. Towards the late 90's, it started to become cool and then suddenly everyone and their grandpa had a computer and the internet.

It was a bit more difficult back then, too. I was dialing into Seattle (long distance) for my closest POP for the internet. Had to use trumpet for Windows because it didn't have a native dialer, and Mosaic for a browser. Before that, it was all BBS's. Always fun finding new sites (and we also had a "internet phonebook" that was a physical book with a list of most websites).

Yea, and they really implemented that poorly, too. Reddit video has to be the worst video playback (when it does play back) on the internet since 1996...

Yup. He made the mods and users the bad guys and he is just trying to be the good guy. He's a dick, probably a narcissist, too. He's the victim, blah blah blah.

Those little Snoos. That company is like a family. A bunch of rockstars. How could those evil mods and users do this to them?!

It's a bit of nostalgia, personal preference, and just overall masterful developers - but Super Mario World is a solid 10/10, easily the best game I've ever played. SMB3 is excellent as well.

For me, they still stand the test of time. I was a huge Sega fanboy back then, but I also loved Nintendo and the games they had. SMW just always blew me away, so every time I play it I think of that time. How advanced it was, how it played so much better than anything I've previously played. It was a serious masterpiece, and IMO still is.

Definitely a must play. Depending on your age, though, it may seem not as great as I'm claiming. I think it still is, but that's from my point of view. I'd really be interested in younger people's opinion that grew up on the Gamecube, Wii, and later console versions of Mario.

Like @R5N said - a lot of staple design concepts were pioneered in those games. Some that now are very commonplace. That's where I'm curious... Is it just normal for some while for us that played them on release they were so perfect and new?

Nice. I need to really complete my game for the C64 and then redo my old high school project using BASIC on an i286 (Fantasy Baseball, have the source code printed on the old dot matrix paper).

I love seeing people going back to their old projects and finishing them. :) I know I had a ton of ideas and notebooks filled with them (most of them are long lost).

My old C64 game has been a project that I've been wanting to finish for a long time and tried moving it to other systems to keep it modern. Might as well finish the old version and then make a modern version of it, too. :)

Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I'm thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I'm good with it.

Would it be for Raspberry Pi and Arduino type stuff, or any homebuilt SBC (6502/Z80, etc.)? I'd love to see a good community for both, but very interested in the old hardware like the 6502, TMS9918, etc..

My job bought me a decent (not great, not horrible) chair from Amazon. It was leagues ahead of what I previously had. I took my old one home. It sucks... Then COVID hit. I took my Amazon chair home. So much better. It's still home. :) I've had multiple back surgeries, and having that lumbar support and better posture really makes a huge difference. And the chair wasn't that expensive, either. It's a low end chair for those standards, but the price isn't that much more than the really cheap crappy ones. It's worth it to invest just a few more dollars into a higher quality chair. I'm sure it's worth it to spend a bit more than that for a much, much better chair.

Sometimes, investing just a little more into something can make a huge difference. Going frugal can mean spending a little more now but saving a lot more (in repurchasing, pain, Dr. bills, out of work for pain, whatever) in the long run. I look at trends and historical data for frugality.

Several of he hobby ones. Ben Eater (6502 based computers, 8 bit computer), local ones, history/science based ones, infosec/sysadmin/etc. ones. There are some Lemmy based ones, but it'll take a while to build up. I'm hoping that I can contribute to them and see them grow a bit. But, others are just where I could comment and enjoy as I lack the real knowledge to contribute very much (the history/science ones that required more in-depth knowledge and not just a "Wikipedia degree of arts of internet research for obscure questions".