MSBBritain

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This is awesome, definitely adding that stream to my bookmarks. Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, Sort of.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of NFTs and do think there's easier ways, but I would agree that taking market control away from the companies owning it would kind of be the point (but I do think you can probably still do this concept without any NFTs).

Sure, steam could allow game trading right now with no need for NFTs whatsoever, but the point would be that I can trade a game I bought through Xbox, to someone on Steam, and then go buy something on the Epic store with the money.

And all of it without some crazy fee from the involved platforms.

But that also would probably still require government intervention to force companies to accept this. Because, again, none of the companies would actually want this. NTF or not that doesn't change.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

NFTs could have been great, if they had been used FOR the consumer, and not to scam them.

Best thing I can think of is to verify licenses for digital products/games. Buy a game, verify you own it like you would with a CD using an NFT, and then you can sell it again when you're done.

Do this with serious stuff like AAA Games or Professional Software (think like borrowing a copy of Photoshop from an online library for a few days while you work on a project!) instead of monkey pictures and you could have the best of both worlds for buying physical vs buying online.

However, that might make corporations less money and completely upend modern licencing models, so no one was willing to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip on a service center! I'll make sure to look for one while finding thrift shops that might have sowing machines near me!

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Perfect, thanks a lot!

From this and the other responses it seem like old beats new is a good rule of thumb on this.

I'll check some thrift shops or similar places, and if I can't find anything I'll look into getting a Heavy Duty!

Thanks a lot for the help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't have anyone I know trying to get rid of one, but will take a look in some thrift shops! Thanks for the brand names and help!

 

Hi everyone!

Not sure if this is the right place but I've been looking to buy a sewing machine recently and haven't really been sure about what to get or what to look out for.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I've used some before, but never owned one. Don't know what a good budget might be but I'm happy to spend a couple hundred if need be? Some googling seems to show that to be reasonable, but I'm not sure if I'm getting ripped off (on either quality or price).

Thanks for any advice!