Depending on which study you're reading, women control between 70-85% of consumer spending in any household. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that a majority of women (as in >50%) or even the supermajority actually enjoy shopping.
Also worth considering: very nearly all stores in most malls are geared towards women as clients, and malls themselves report stats indicating the majority of shoppers are women. My local mall reports 79% female clientele for example.
What is weirder?
Use Windows 11 at work. Was using 10 at home. Seeing what my future looked like if I went to 10, I installed CachyOS instead. After 4 months of CachyOS, I'm not going back to Windows even if you pay me.
I don’t want a big loud box near a tv.
With mATX or ITX you can make a shockingly small and attractive computer; examples include this mATX case or this ITX case. People have even designed 3d printable cases, plans for laser cut/CNC acrylic and metal, etc.. If that's not small or classy enough, the miniPC market has really taken off and depending on how modest your needs are, you can get by with things like Zimaboards or go all the way to something like the MINISFORUM AI X1 Pro - a very capable machine that has an Oculink port that allows you to connect an external GPU if you need even more power.
Generally speaking you're never driving a media PC hard enough for the fans to ramp up, but if you somehow are, just buy quality fans and/or watercooling. I can speak for Noctua fans not just being a meme; they are actually very quiet.
How would you even control it ?
I have a small keyboard with a built in trackpad. It's a bit bigger than a TV remote but not obnoxiously so, but given you get the ability to actually write stuff in instead of using an onscreen keyboard with an IR remote it's a worthwhile trade.
This guy out here just discovered what "opportunity cost" is and thinks it was worth sharing a blog post about it. He doesn't understand how capitalism and the perversion of the market caused by extreme wealth concentration will cause things to valued differently than if we used a different system or had more equal distribution. He also doesn't seem to realize how much innovation is state-funded.
There is an entire book about how Mises economic information problem has already been solved, and the proof is Walmart and Amazon. It's called "The People's Republic or Walmart" and it's good. Considering his argument opened with that, that's where he should start.
This post is odd because you're talking about on-rails shooters but Call of Juarez is not one of them (it's an FPS).
voting with their wallet I'm onboard with your argument but I really don't think voting with your wallet works in cases like this. When there are so few players in a system and they're all colluding to make things worse, there is no vote.
I am deeply frustrated that people aren't getting more involved. I link them to groups, I show them the consumer rights wiki, I talk to people about getting involved politically at the local level... So few people care. Things are going to have to get much worse before they take action, best thing we can do is have the framework in place for when they finally wake up.
Can you describe an example of detailed mass surveillance that has not been used against us?
The fact that there is a snack that you warm on a cup of coffee but don't dip in it (so as not to change the texture of either) is one of the most Dutch things I've ever heard of lol.
I'm partial to biscotti myself but I'll admit a good stroopwafel is nice.
The first time I ever heard of this was in the game Dinkum. That was when I discovered Australians apparently say "hundreds and thousands" to refer to what we call sprinkles. I appreciate most of our little differences but that one puzzles me.
Lemmy users appear to be hostile to one particular flavour of authoritarians. Meanwhile the users here tend to support things like Canada's gun confiscation by a series of neoliberal governments that have spent decades helping Canada's oligopolies and billionaires worm their way into controlling our economic, legislative, and executive systems while intentionally sabotaging public services and selling public assets.
In other words, allowing fascists to take what belongs to us while dividing us.
lmao that would make a good April fools bit