You pay more in taxes than I earn in a year.

This is so exciting!

Then they can point how useless the government is and get back in power

Yup! There’s a few hurdles but it’ll get there!

In theory yes but it wouldn’t be a very reliable source of energy, it might be viable if there were batteries to charge that could then be released into the grid however

I’d rather be part of a smaller niche community than anything else to be fair

I’ve never had an issue with it personally but I’ve never asked it to do anything complex either

Yes they're phones now?

Yup let me just take my 50inch TV to the gym, on the train, to work for my lunch breaks etc…

I don't imagine a lot of people bar PC gamers do much more than watch media or consume social media on their devices, so a phone fits the bill.

More supply & lower demand = cheaper goods, plus technology that creates it gets more wide spread so competition arises, and many other factors contribute to the fall in prices such as an improved model coming out making older models cheaper.

And god I hope Facebook doesn’t ruin it.

How could it? I think FB is more of a threat to Mastodon than it will be to Lemmy, no?