Catch42 @ Catch42 @kbin.social

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It's another site in fediverse. It's a link aggregator like Lemmy is. I'm replying to your comment from kbin :)

Good. Property values are a necessary evil in our economic system to allocate finite amounts of land. Unlike say the value of a company that makes things, which reflects the utility gained from it's products, property values mostly represent scarcity, falling property values therefore indicates that we have partially mitigated that scarcity.

I think that's true for some niche topics, but other ones are better served by having dedicated communities from the start.

When I joined I made 2 magazines. One of them was about collecting Nintendo games and I quickly realized that I would have better discussions if I just joined the Nintendo magazine. I've basically abandoned it. The other I made, m/Otomegames I think is needed. We could post in the general gaming magazines, but there's a whole bunch conventions and inside jokes that people who don't play otome games wouldn't understand.

Now for my shameless plug: do you like otome games? Do you not know what otome games are, but romance/adventure games made for women sounds intriguing? Come join us - direct link. "@Otomegames @kbin.social" - remove the space for federated peeps

Forgot to switch to your alt?

For posts I upvote and boost. For comments I upvote, unless the person I'm responding to hasn't upvoted their own comment.

I see that difference as a rather significant one.

Apple could do this but they’d be driving away their customer base, the hardware is fine but software is really the reason to get an iphone.

I have a series 6 watch and it is very useful. I can check the time, the weather, and my parents timezone with a glance. It's nice to control my music without taking my phone out of my pocket, and I enjoy the fitness rings. I'm not a big sports/outdoory person so I can't speak to how useful it is in that regard. I will say though, I would probably wait until the series 9 comes out because it's expected to be the first time since the series 6 that they're significantly improving the efficiency of the chip.

This was such a useful suggestion, just got a bunch of replacement water filters for my fridge.

Yes, I did. I didn't think anything about it at the time, but as an adult is seems weird, and like someone else said cultish. Yet, I am conflicted, because one of my concerns about the USA is increasing partisanship driven diverging cultures. Having kids say the pledge of allegiance is generally unoffensive, especially when compared to our ongoing culture wars.

Most of the cost will not be borne by me personally. Even if the price of food goes up, as someone from a rich country I already spend relatively little of my income on food. I suspect this is the case for most people reading this thread right now. So for me it is about morals not money. Yet, I fundamentally agree with you; money not morals is the easiest way to convince people to make a change. That’s why I focused on it in my original post.

I want to push back on your idea that food prices will continue to go up. IRL, I work in food sustainability, which means that companies hire me to to help them decrease the environmental impact of their companies. While the increasing global temperatures will push down yields if nothing changes, things are constantly changing and tons of people are working very hard to make sure that food yields are resilient to increasing heat. Plus, and this is the area I work in, we are working to reduce food waste at the producer level which will also help reduce upward price pressure.

Anyway, I’ve enjoyed our discussion

Oh nice. I wanted to talk about used phones, but I've only ever bought new so I struggled.

Of course not, it all comes at great cost to the planet. We obviously disagree on the necessity of a phone for modern society. In my frame of thinking where it is a necessity, I write from the point of view that obviously keeping your phone longer is better. It doesn't even warrant mentioning. So my motivation for making this list was to encourage people to consider keeping their phones one year longer. To do that I have to list every single interval so that I can reach the people who most need the convincing: those who upgrade constantly.

Is being smug bad? It's a feeling I enjoy so I listed it as a genuine benefit.

I've heard a few people say this and honestly I'm still confused. I got my iPhone XR's battery replaced by apple themselves last year. I think it cost 80USD, which is too much, and EU law will be a welcome change. Hοwever, it's still saves money even if it delays your new phone purchase by only one year.

Whenever I meet someone who brags about intentionally doing something bad for the environment anti-green, I look at them with disgust. I had a co-worker tell me that she got around the emissions tests for her pickup by buying one of those devices online, and she had the audacity to look at me like she expected me to be impressed.

Oh, for reference, I like a 5 year upgrade cycle. Currently I have an iphone XR, and I'm planning to get an iphone 15 this winter.

I love it when we get answers to what were thought experiments due to new tech or discoveries.

I don't recall us defederating from them. Maybe try moving to beehaw.org, the definitely defederated from lemmy.ml and they have stricter moderation standards overall.

They do? That sucks. I've only had iPhones and have gotten the battery replaced in both of them. It's increased the lifespan of my phones by a couple of years, but it doesn't double it. I usually start to sick of my hardware after about 5 years.

Isn't that about 50 years? unless your grandkids are already born.