Indeed, the whole "you're not buying a game, you are buying a license to the game" is a bad argument that is used to justify not allowing resale.
The only party it benefits are the companies, not the people.
It also kills the joy of discovering old games in the attic when you're moving and sitting down and playing a bit, or passing on games to your kids.
It's funny seeing this article pop up as I've been exploring getting back into the handhelds as well recently.
My 9-year old has his old Gameboy Advance SP (those flippy things) but finding games for the GBA is just terribly expensive if you want physical. We're trying to avoid emulating or getting those 500-in-1 types of cartridges for ADHD reasons, but he wants to play Pacman which costs as much as a secondhand PS5 around here.
The PSP sits nicely in the middle of timing, or at least it feels like that. Way more modern, easier to find games for, and way cheaper as well (more stock).
It feels like the PSP was one of the last handhelds that you could use offline, without having to mod or hack it.
Seeing things being broken but not being fixed is a real source of frustration.
The tricky thing in my experience has been figuring out which are issues that nobody bothered to fix and which are issues that seem simple but require huge changes to fix.
The day-to-day gets so much better when you can do a few of these fixes every so often, after a few months it really adds up when you compare to how things used to be.
Oh exactly, it's great to have a single cable / charger for many different items in the household.
The biggest downside I see with USB-C in this case is that the cables and chargers get quite expensive if you want to be able to just grab one and charge stuff, without having to worry about wattage etc.
All in all a big improvement, with some future improvements left to make.
Fingers crossed for a more sane USB-D in twenty years.
Banning corporate ownership of housing wouldn't solve all problems but it would be a good start.
Locals in general are not able to buy up as much of the housing, but it would still be something to look at.
If I were a dictator I'd say taxes increase by 100% for every house after the first (or second), aiming for a nice balance between allowing people to have another home and limiting the crazyness of owning multiple homes.
> On one hand, being able to temporarily live in an apartment greatly enhances the immersiveness when your travel - you get to feel like a local and experience life in another place.
Yes, if your local life is being inconsiderate and having parties till 3 because you're on holidays. Having an airbnb in your building is terrible as you don't know the people and they don't care about getting to know you.
> Hotels suck as they cut corners to the point where an article posted here complaining about the lack of bathroom doors in hotels.
The great thing about hotels is that they can be planned for and zoned correctly for. Even so, I've had a hotel go up 100m from my apartment and had to invest in blackout blinds since they chose for a modern design with glass all over (and the lights are bright at night).
The biggest problem here in Barcelona is that most airbnbs / short term rentals are companies buying housing as an investment and so are stealing the opportunity from actual people and families trying to live.
I'm quite curious to hear what the cause was once it's fixed but on the other hand this incident keeps adding to the feeling that more and more big services are failing more regularely.
That sounds like a great way to limit the procrastination for many things while at the same time include a bit of mindfulness (i.e. sitting still with your thoughts).
I was actually considering going for a ride on the motorcycle today if the outage lasted another day.
Beautiful weather, a tank full of gasoline, and no stress about work? Sign me up!
That was a fun 10 hours or so that we were without power in most of Barcelona. Some barrios had ~some~ power but most of us were without.
The one thing that surprised me is how quickly rumors started about power being out in Portugal (true), France (true to an extent), Belgium (false), and the UK (false). Walking back home from work you heard the names of Trump being mentioned as well.
It's a bit scary to personally experience how quickly people can start panicking. On the other hand the bars that had some power had a great afternoon with tons of beer being served before it got too warm :-)
I'd love to do something similar for myself, but having never worked with NFC I see there are tons of different options.
Would you mind mentioning what tags you got?
It also kills the joy of discovering old games in the attic when you're moving and sitting down and playing a bit, or passing on games to your kids.