This is how existence works, yes. Being happy means adjusting your wants to what you have.
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Can’t compete with the global super rich? Lower your standards and be happy!”
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
XLE@piefed.social 1 month ago
“I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh I guess I should be happy that ICE only raided my neighbors and not me.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well…yes? Are you not happy you did not get raided? Would you rather have had that you also got raided?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My point is: Just because someone isn’t “suffering as much as others” doesn’t mean the stuff they go through (like the fears) aren’t valid.
Both points are true:
- You can recognize that, yes you have it better than others.
BUT ALSO:
- It doesn’t mean you should accept status quo forever.
Because accepting status quo is like saying, “why are you complaining about trump? at least you aren’t in taliban afghanistan or north korea”
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, numbnuts. It means you shouldn’t be happy.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
but you can’t compete with them. you should really be adjusting your wants! be happy you are alive
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
💩 take
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck Buddhism, amirite?
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If you’re upset with my feedback, adjust your expectations.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Isn’t this a Genet of Buddhism?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep, that’s all it is. Desire is the cause of suffering.
Which isn’t to say you should never desire anything. Just know the price and choose.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
yeah, people who live in the US of A should be just happy they are still alive!
zen@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If we were talking about stuff like healthcare, food, housing, electricity, clean water, public transit, or access to information, I’d be on the same page.
But this is a luxury hobby. And with luxury hobbies, there’s usually some flexibility. You don’t need a high-end PC to play games. You can run plenty on a lower-end setup, try different genres, or even step away from PC gaming altogether.
You could have friends over for a tabletop game, go for a run, hit the gym, or try something like rock climbing. There are lots of ways to spend your time without needing top-tier gear
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Just because they’ve trained you to believe you need the latest 2nm chips (which is conveniently their highest margin product) doesn’t mean you really need them.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
So personal computers of year 1999 gave their users that feeling of magic that can still be felt from media of that time, and state-of-the-art chips were being produced in fabs located not only on Taiwan, but USA, Israel, elsewhere.
Personal computers of today don’t give any feeling of magic to most their users, you have to look for it.
Yet considering a standard still above what you realistically need is somehow lowering your standards.
In year 2006 they’d say about computers how many books you can fit into this or that volume of memory, or which calculations you can perform, sometimes, to give you perspective. They don’t do that now, because then you’d be depressed how many resources you are using for something more vulgar than porn.
It’s just sad.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For most people, computers became powerful enough around the year 2005. A machine from late in the Windows XP era could run 3D games, CAD software, edit video, communicate with the entire world through broadband internet. What abilities have PCs taken on since? So much processing power filled up by doing the same tasks less efficiently for no reason.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Well CAD software has made leaps and bounds since then. Anyone who used CAD back in the day would know what an unstable clusterfuck it was and how much longer it took than now.
A lot of software has gotten much better, including “core” Foss like Linux and FFMPEG. There is just 10x as much software that is horrible, and windows has gotten so much worse to the point that it feels like computers have made no progress when you use it.
Also, CPUs nowadays use about the same power as they did 20 years ago but with an order of magnitude more processing power. The first Core 2 Duo had a 65W TDP, the same as modern Ryzen 5. GPUs are just out of hand with power consumption because of profit-driven game companies and AI.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I agree. Most people are spoiled little lazy ass brats now. Im so glad i wasn’t born any later so I can actually appreciate what we have.
At the same time, fuck these billionaire accelerstioniats for trying to destroy earth while taking what little enjoyment away we can have.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I would agree, if websites and webapps wouldn’t be so bloated as they are. if the rich wouldn’t make us to downgrade out of their gluttony. but also, old technology is not that easily available. production lines have been shut down long ago, and if everyone went to the used market, nothing would be available even there anymore.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
If there were demand, that could change.