It’s not a requirement per se, but people without social skills make contact with others harder. The proliferation of online “meeting places” lead to the degradation of social skills that is then making people connect more difficult, making everyone lonelier.

In my opinion at least.

Amateurs, I doubt there’s a place I haven’t crashed into yet

People nowadays seem to forget that socialising is a skill. And to learn a skill one must learn by putting effort into and initially failing a lot.

Social platforms give the sensation of allowing one to skip this by jumping straight into ongoing conversations for a brief post, but that’s also not building any social skill.

Talk of the devil, is btrfs still wearing SSDs a lot?

Being a punk is rebelling. If you don’t rebel against something you aren’t a punk.

Average HOI4 experience

Well yeah… also being visible enough to not get shot by your own side through thick gunpowder smoke was kinda neat.

You’ve got nothing on the average dwarf fortress searches. Mermaid children bone farming ftw.

If the passkeys aren’t managed by your devices fully offline then you’re just deeper into being hostage to a corporation.

So what’s your alternative? I’ve lived in planned economy during the socialist era, and it wasn’t exactly great. You had to have friends telling you when shipments of toilet paper or food would arrive and make it early to the shop - otherwise you got nothing, because someone in the central planning office fucked up again.

ALIEN BEANS!