Not true. For most of human existence we worked on average like 4h a day. More on harvest and sowing season, practically nothing during the rest of the year.

And before agriculture, we didn’t really work like that. You did stuff all day, mixed in with a lot of socializing and resting. But no one had a job and people didn’t need to spend x amount of time doing y.

So not sure what you mean by this. The idea that humans live to work is exclusively a product of the Industrial Revolution.

Yeah I just mean they’ve stepped out from making exclusively CRPGs way before being bought out by Microsoft. And they are still making weird more niche games from time to time. Like Grounded, Pentiment?

The developer being Obsidian…? Makers of Fallout New Vegas…?

So many…

Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life

Surf’s Up by the Beach Boys

The Glow pt 2 by the Microphones

The Velvet Underground by the Velvet Underground

Mignone by Taeko Onuki

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson

wallsocket by underscores

Townes Van Zandt by Townes Van Zandt

The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses

…

I could go on forever I think you get it

I’m pretty sure that’s Cameron’s goal. He saw the direction movies were going and wanted to guarantee a niche for artists will keep existing within it 🤷‍♂️

It’s way beyond a tech demo. Each Avatar movie invented dozens of new techniques. They actually film using cameras. They do a CGI movie with cameras, filming real actors acting. And they become huge blue aliens, while being filmed on a camera. It’s truly insane. I don’t like the movies themselves, but the BTS for them is crazy.

I’m not defending Apple, but they made a choice. Less repairable, but more durable. Needing repairs less vs. being easier to repair.

Have they succeeded in “needing repairs less”? Arguable. But for the iPhone, few phone last as long as long as you take even minimal care of it.

Also, the vast majority of laptops are not upgradeable, never have been.

Only the desktops have this issue. And for the more “normal” desktops, they are actually upgradeable. At least the last version of them was. Not sure if it will be still when the update it… wouldn’t count on it. Like I said it’s clear Apple made their choice.

As a historical side note, the idea that children grow up and are raised exclusively by their biological parents is extremely recent and basically a British/Germanic cultural export.

Most cultures raised their kids communally. Some people are responsible for raising the kids, and the kids spend all day with them. After some time the kids develop interests and start learning from other grownups that do that “work”. Sometimes it’s their biological family, sometimes it isn’t.

And that makes much more sense tbh. Most parents in modern nuclear families are terrible at raising kids. And they aren’t even doing JUST that. They have to juggle their own lives, their work, keeping a house clean (because due to the British/germanic nuclear family we all need to live in our own “tiny estates” isolated from other people), AND raising kids.

We should have the people who love kids the most and who teach them the best raise them, imo.