Yeah, you're right, there is no real solution. Being on fb makes me feel like I've got a little more control I guess. Also, in theory, more leverage if I want to try to get facebook's administrative staff to remove impersonations - I've tried this with a friend who had the problem and facebook's moderators didn't do anything, but it wasn't a huge issue for him so we gave up, so even having an old account may not make the slightest difference.

And they said poetry is dead.
Fools.
Poetry is the most powerful force in the world, as long as its poetry about asking other people to give you money / complaining about immigrants.

In Springfield,
they’re eating the dogs,
the people that came in,
they’re eating the cats
They’re eating the pets
of the people that live there.

Have they forgotten that they have a lot of competition? Meta, Google, Anthropic being just a few names here - not to mention China and the ais they're working on, not to mention Grok, which i've always found a shitty ai but seems to be deeply loved by the kind of people who want nothing more than to lick elons butthole.

Are all these company's ais worth 1 trillion or does openai have something special? I've found lately that gemini is less annoying to talk to and have been using it more than chatgpt. Claude seems to be preferred by most people who use these things to code. Open ai doesn't let people make porn with it, so other people will scoop up that market, edgelord incels will always want to use grok. All Open ai has really got that seems to be better than other people is Sora which is very expensive for them to run compaired to everything else. Oh and the weirdos who are trying to marry gpt 4.

This is true, but its preferable to me to have all my "friends" already friended with me rather than the impersonator. I don't think my way is the only way, I'm not going to tell anyone not to stay off fb, your method may well be more effective. Of course all my close friends know if I'm not facebook or not - but not my aunts and cousins and old highschool friends and coworkers and past buisness collegues ex girlfriends, ex girlfriend's mothers, neighbors etc.

What the impersonators often seem to do is find a buisness directory where you may work/have worked, create an account with your twitter profile picture or linked in picture, then try to friend everyone in that buisness and all their friends.

But if you're someone who doesn't have a tight friend circle, like, as I mentioned, a city councel member or buisness owner or a pastor - who will probably have a large part of their congregation want to friend them, its not possible to have a tight circle of friends. They'll juse see that pastor Dave is on facebook and wants to friend them - great - time to tone down the horny-posting.

I have one because several people I know have had accounts that impersonate them appear on facebook, befriend people who they're connected to on other social networks and try to scam them. I didn't want this to happen to me so I created a fb account.

Basically facebook's criminally shitty moderation coerces people who have a large and vulnerable public presence on the internet, such as teachers, pastors, local officials, etc into doing this.

I suspect this kind of scam is likely to increase with the rise in AI to create posts and also facebook's ever accelerating decay into a dead site that even zuck doesn't care about anymore AND the aging and more vulnerable userbase. I suspct the percentage of scams that happen through facebook vs the rest of the entire internet is pretty shocking.

What's funny to me is that the market for used video games that are from the nostalgic era is very hot and you can sell certain games for way more than you bought them for, so the physical used game market is booming - in some sectors -

I don't get a boner for having old computer parts. I upgrade them when I feel I need to. I got my 16 gigs of ram to play PubG. I'll probably have to upgrade again because visual studio demands I should have 32 gigs.
A lot of games really don't use the CPU very much, but my 1-7 does a great job with factorio and satisfactory.
A lot of games were made so they can run on the playstation 5, which came out 5 years ago and was already behind in its hardware. Or the switch, which is an even less powerful machine.

Mine is an I-7. It runs everything fine so far. Perhaps if I tried to build a huge city on Cities Skylines 2 or a huge dwarf fortress with 400 dwarves that would be too much, but I haven't tried. But I do play RDR2, the new FFVII, Squad, Dark Souls 3 and Baldur's Gate 3, games that I've read are supposed to have high hardware standards. Elden Ring might be a challenge for it, but I suspect that's mostly a gpu intensive game.

Will any console allow you to buy and sell used games in the future? I think it should be a thing too but it seems like nobody really wants to have physical games anymore.

That's weird, my cpu is 13 years old and was mid at the time I bought it, my gpu is 5 and not a high end one, my 16 gigs of ram are ancient and I can still run most games. In fact I don't think I've encountered a game my computer can't run at mid specs yet. The only one that stutters a little bit is Mount and Blade Bannerlord in big battles.

But I haven't bought all games so I'm sure there are some out there which might be too much. The new Battlefield 6 has a minimum requirement of a 2060, but I don't really want to play it because battlefield games are kinda lame.

I hear that your morning piss can determine your mood throughout the day so I usually go with horsepiss, but I can see dog piss being useful in the right circumstances. Once I tried raccoon piss (expensive) and I ended up robbing a 7-11.

It will be like replacing your daily morning cup of horse piss with cat piss.

Its true, I haven't used actual word processor software for ages, just google docs.

I think there are lots of people who think word perfect was far superior to word. I never used it but its a nice idea that there was something better out there.

When I was in college they taught classes on how to use microsoft word.
Do they still do that?

OTOH as a windows user I would say an advanced windows user is way more capable of doing stuff on windows than a novice because windows hides the ability to do anything particularly useful and actively fights you when trying to do some other things. Windows 12 will probably make you read a pop-up and press OK whenever you want to use the filemanager (AI will just look up whatever you want bro, you don't need that dangerous, wicked tool anymore.) and the basic windows user will just decay into a deeper pit of helplessness.

Also like.. how many people are actually going to play these games for a long period of time? I'll bet 90% of these systems get played for less than 20 hours. People are buying them because they are cool and nostalgic and have always wanted one but there are way better games out there. Not bashing the people who buy it - I get it, I have one of those new "nintendos" and I like having it but I never play the damned thing.