There's going to come a day where China releases some statement along the lines of "The United States continues to agitate against our development, but at what cost?" and it's going to be the happiest day of my life.

Is Longvinter still available?

Wildest plan I've ever seen respect to the instance operators

I haven't used it since the 1.16.5 days but it worked perfectly fine for vanilla back then and I'm sure it probably does now too.

If you have more questions after you read a bit more about it feel free to drop them here.

If you/the kids are playing vanilla look into Geyser as it allows Bedrock and Java players to play on the same server.

As someone who used to write extensive notes in the margins of books digital notetaking has forever replaced physical books for me.

E-ink all the way

A couple of options worth knowing about since I don't know/own the games:

1. A DRM free version looks like it's available at GOG. This is probably the simplest solution to not have to worry about any potential issues
2. People seem to be reporting that the Steam version can be launched directly from the executable bypassing the launcher. If there is a Steamworks DRM check you could always use Goldberg's steam emulator to get around that for fully offline play.

I say at the end that we'd probably immediately use those powers to revert back to better working conditions (WFH).

I can't see any scenario where this doesn't happen immediately and was mostly just riffing at the absurdity of thinking companies would implement these things (outside of maybe free lunches) in order to empower labor (to the company's shareholders' detriment) willingly.

Some things that would make me consider it:

• Free high quality lunches every day
• Transportation compensation in the form of both work time (if the office is poorly located) and monetary compensation for transportation expenses
• Management improvement plan with actions they're taking/implementing to reduce the time they're wasting of laborers on a day-to-day basis
• Alteration of the company structure to force a large percentage (simple majority) of ownership to workers to push back against reactionary and profit-driven anti-labor whims of shareholders
• Services/compensation that complete tasks that previously I could do during downtime at home
• Yearly inflation-pegged CoL raises that apply to every laborer in the company before salary raises are made
• Massive investment in in-office employee training programs in the form of role-based training that is chosen by laborers in that particular role/function

If every single one of these things were implemented I would then still probably leave the place for another WFH job if we didn't use our new ownership powers to revert back to WFH immediately.