ysjet
@ysjet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
For better or worse, yes. (Probably worse, but this is the world we have to deal with…)
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
Yeah, they’ve done that at the malls near me as well. Surprise surprise, 3 of them have closed down and the fourth is a ghost town.
Basically every store in the place is some kind of crystals-and-juju or retirement-scam place, along with somehow a ton of phone case booths?
When I was a kid (might be dating myself here) there was music shops, arcades, bookstores, food, all kinds of shit.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
A good point, but I’ll note that most socialization for kids these days doesn’t necessarily happen at a singular friend’s house- it’s typically in a private chat/channel/group/etc online.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
I am, admittedly, basing some of this off other posts the guy has made in this… err, thread? Post? Not sure what the lemmy vocab is here, but I can quote it:
And another part of it is I want them to have a clean break from the outside world, from friendship drama or clinginess, from school stuff, etc.
I dunno about you man, but kids probably don’t need protected from friendships, even if they might have the occasional drama… and ‘the outside world’ comment just concerns me.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
For getting to experience life instead of being locked in a house, only able to interact with family?
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
Parenting is about making the best choices you can for your children, not simply making choices for your children. And I never said to give them everything they want.
The fact is, the dude is intentionally trying to socially isolate their kids to ‘protect them’ which is textbook helicopter/overcontrolling parent and deeply fucks kids up for life. S/He literally outright says they want their kids to cleanly break from ‘friendship drama’ and the literal outside world. That’s… words cannot describe how concerning that sounds.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
What an odd, incorrect assumption. Kids need to be able to socialize. This isn’t the 1980s anymore, you can’t just go to a mall, there are very few physical third spaces anymore, literally none in some locations.
For a lot of kids, those third spaces are via phone/online. I can absolutely understand wanting to limit exposure to bad influences of phones, that IS good parenting, but you need to offer alternatives, or managed use, or something, or you’re socially isolating your kid. Worst case scenario, you’re getting them bullied- kids can be cruel (though from what I’ve seen, not as much as they used to be, thankfully).
The person literally said in another comment:
Yes, it’s part of set them up to succeed not fail. And another part of it is I want them to have a clean break from the outside world, from friendship drama or clinginess, from school stuff, etc.
Now, I’m assuming this is partially a situation of english not being the first language, from some of the grammar, but wanting to have their kids be ‘cleanly’ broken away from friendships, school stuff, and the very outside world (presumably when not at school) sounds… look, I’m going to be frank here, their literal goal seems to be socially stunting their kid.
Kids need to learn who they are. You’re not trying to raise someone to be a child, you’re trying to raise someone to be a healthy, functioning adult, and part of that means going through friendships, even friendship drama, exploring the outside world, etc etc.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
What a weird rule. You are intentionally destroying your kid’s social, developmental, and interpersonal opportunities because you’re unwilling to actually put in the time to parent.
The least you could do is give them a dumb phone, so they are ostracized less. Or better yet, actually teach and parent them how to use a phone, and then give them a phone with locked down permissions to block tiktok/etc.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
The article is a security company
trying to hype their companyruining their reputation in an incredibly ill-thought out attack that companies will ABSOLUTELY remember.Even worse, it just makes this security company look incompetent. Like a home security company that announces a huge vulnerability in Schlage locks- there’s a key that can unlock the lock included with every lock sold!!11!!!11!one!
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 3 weeks ago:
So instead of blatant racism based on a lie, you’re just going to dogwhistle racism based on a lie.
- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 1 month ago:
Nintendo doesn’t “personally” do anything. They are a corporation. lol. lmao, even.
Just off the top of my head they bought Monolith from Bandai-Namco and Bayonetta has been exclusive ever since the second one. Monolithsoft was three separate offices- Nintendo bought two of them, which were both already working exclusively as a Nintendo second party, and the third was dissolved during the Bandai-Namco merger due to the fact that Namco was treating them like shit after Nakamura retired and the merger was the last straw. Monolithsoft is one, if not the only, exception to Nintendo staying out of buying companies, and Iwata has even commented on it only happening because Sigiuira basically asked them to, and it not being something they want or like to do.
As for Bayonettas since 2, Nintendo’s publishing it for PlatinumGames, who used to be a Nintendo second party. They started working with Sega in 2008 iirc because Nintendo literally pointed Sega their way (This is the same time period when Nintendo was giving Sega work to try to dig them out of their hole, e.g. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games). My understanding is that internally Nintendo still considers PlatinumGames a second party dev, despite Sega publishing several games for them.
Microsoft has been way worse than sony. Probably, yeah.
I don’t mean to overly defend Sony Then don’t? Going to completely uninvolved third parties and snapping them up to hoard their IPs, or simply outright paying them to not publish elsewhere (coughepiccough) should always be indefensible. Xbox is worse, but Sony is still real bad about this shit, and Epic is worse than all of them.
- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 1 month ago:
The problem isn’t having exclusives, it’s buying exclusives to punish customers, which Sony (and Xbox) does.
- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 1 month ago:
… Nintendo literally personally develops their exclusives, let’s not pretend that’s an apples to apples comparison.
Xbox is absolutely terrible at buying exclusives though, yes. Worse than Sony, arguably.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
CCGs hasn’t had a massive, massive Epic Games-paid astroturfing campaign against valve/steam like ‘lootboxes’ has. That’s the difference.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
Ah yes, the most rigorous of scientific studies- claiming you did a paper in school! You got an A, and then everybody clapped!
My man, you’ve literally went from claiming you don’t know how fluoride works on teeth to claiming you did rigorous research on it in uni in under 2 hours.
At least keep your bullshit lies straight for four hours.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
We’ve refuted it, scientific testing has refuted it, you’re just plugging your ears and refusing to listen because you don’t like the answers.
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
So you don’t know, but all the data scientists and dentists, who DO know and are subject matter experts, who say it’s a good idea are to be ignored, because of your sheer ignorance?
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 4 months ago:
Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a family gathering with Mike Johnson smiling proudly over the family ‘kids table’?
Like, exact same vibes as a bunch of random kids all shuffled away to a single kid’s table, and then the one adult (and boy is that stretching the definition) watching over them, and all of them trying to smile for the picture some random auntie none of them have met before is taking.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 5 months ago:
He made $12000 off each fired employee.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 5 months ago:
What? FF14 is currently running laps around wow’s sub numbers, wow hasn’t been the most active MMO available since before bfa and the bootlicking cratered it.
- Comment on Don't fret, check your spam folder 5 months ago:
In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’
The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 5 months ago:
I keep seeing this all over the place and not once has it ever been sourced. Frankly this just screams of more epic games astroturfing to make people think valve bad