??? Highly unclear what exactly you are imagining.

TIL albums were sometimes released on floppy disks.

I currently use an external optical drive. If someone doesn’t own one, they could always buy one later…

OK, “won’t be injured” wasn’t exactly true; but they are still in a lot less danger than someone in the same situation on a plane. A train or bus can stop anywhere on its route if there is a dangerous situation, a plane cannot, so in my mind it makes a lot of sense that there are security checks before boarding a plane, but not when boarding a train or bus.

Not really because an explosion on a train or bus doesn’t cause the entire vehicle to crash into the ground, only to stop. An explosion on a train or bus is going to kill or injure people in its radius of impact, but people sitting far away from it (granted: not many of those on a bus, but very much so on a long train) won’t be injured. On a plane, if that plane stops operating mid-flight, even people on the other end of the plane from the explosion are unlikely to survive.

With relatively few exceptions, those don’t get a lot of attention, often aren’t even mentioned.

Why would there be security checks at train stations? I know those are a thing in some countries, but this never made any sense to me. They aren’t where I live; a train can’t be driven into buildings and if something does explode on them (exactly as possible as in any crowd), the train will simply stop, not fall from the sky.

OK, that’s an interesting analysis and certainly one possible way to think about historical developments; the parts that are unclear are (1) whether this is trying to argue that the transition from feudalism to capitalism might be a bad thing (not something I’ve seen argued a lot) and (2) what, then, is socialism/communism?

Whether capitalism without competition is still capitalism is a matter of decades of debate.

because the word “capitalism” just doesn’t have a coherent definition

Free trading of goods and services on markets has been a thing for pretty much the entire existence of human civilization; so have property rights. If those are the things that define “capitalism”, it’s extremely difficult to imagine a world without it; if they aren’t, then which are?

A disc as well as its packaging still cost money; also, a physical store needs to pay rent and salaries.

But for physical goods, the minimum price is what the store paid for acquiring or producing it in the first place. That isn’t a consideration for digital goods.

Compared to many other currency conversions in the world, it is very close. When I read prices in USD, I think of them as euro prices in my head.

That is not legal everywhere in the world. In many European countries for example, if you do that, your employer can successfully sue you for damages.

Last year it was even a worldwide competition, not just European.

https://tramwm.wienerlinien.at/

I was there (it happened in the city I live in), but would probably have seen more if I’d watched a livestream, it wasn’t easy to see very much due to the crowds.

Since digital copies cost nearly zero to make, prices of digital goods such as video games are completely arbitrary anyway; they are set to whatever people are willing to pay.

The conversion rate between EUR and USD is so ridiculously close to 1 that it makes sense to treat them as essentially equivalent. If you don’t, you’ll just spend unnecessary effort converting to and from numbers that aren’t round.

Not sure I understood your problem well and I don’t have Inkscape in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure Ctrl+scrollwheel does zoom?!

Text because I have a limited amount of time in my life and I can scan text quickly for the interesting bits, not so with videos. Watching videos is mostly a waste of my time.

Lemmy, specifically, is meant to be a mainly text based platform that people can scroll through during short downtimes, including in public. Videos are inconvenient for that.

maybe he was born in 1995?

big if true