Never tried it and don't really want to! Been thinking the same as you. Seems like a privacy nightmare too.
Would be cool to stream my entire pc in-home though so I could get rid of all fan sounds by putting it in a closet or something, but haven't been something I've prioritised to experiment with.
Only 2 hours of recreation a day seems like a terrible time to me, unless you have kids, in which case I get that's how it is when they're small.
I spend like 1 hour in the morning to get ready and travel to work, then about the same to get home and have dinner. Let's say 1 hour for chores every day (though even if I do both laundry and cleaning the same day it won't take that long, and I don't do those every day.) That leaves me with at least 5 hours a day for recreation.
But weekends are 14 hours of recreation per day, not 6.5 surely? 8 hours sleep + 2 hours for some extra time to cook good food etc. and we already did most chores during the week.
I sometimes spend a weekend gaming, but most of the time many of those hours are spent on a variety of things like visiting family, sports, crafts, going downtown etc. because I like a lot of different recreation. But yeah, we can certainly agree on fuck arbitrary restrictions, and everyone should be able to own their own things. Would just be very interested to know where you are coming from with those numbers.
I can only imagine you might be in the US and a lot of it is driving? That seems to suck, I would hate to drive for hours every day :(
No, not if you own your own card/gaming pc. This is about their cloud gaming service where the game is run on their servers and streamed to you.
While I definitely agree that most advertising these days is terrible, I do wonder how it should be done. How would you market a product you made? I genuinely want to know what you find acceptable.
Say that you invent a new type of ladder that is much more stable than normal ones, or maybe you start 3D printing a very cool figurine that you've designed. In either case, you realize you have a product that some people will probably want to buy, if only they knew about it.
You probably won't go to an ad network, I wouldn't. But do you make a post about it on Lemmy? That's advertising. Do you tell your friends about it? Most of them probably don't need a ladder, but maybe a couple would buy your figurine, though that is unlikely to be enough to kickstart your 3D design company.
And to add to this, yea Sam is the only one in the Fellowship who isn't a Maia, heir to the king/steward, heir in a noble family or just rich enough not to have to work, and actually has a normal job.
I don't have a spouse, no. But in this subthread we were discussing time available for recreation in general, and I personally definitely count spending time with family as recreation.
And yes, If I'm not visiting family I do have time to sit in front of a computer for 14 hours on a Saturday, or paint, or go for a full-day biking trip, or anything else I want to do :) Why wouldn't I?
What I think some people do is take on responsibilities that they they think they "should" have, but not really appreciate the rewards of. Like cleaning their house every other day, or getting a pet, or a pool they don't want to clean and barely use, or a too big garden they don't really enjoy caring for. All those things will be worth it for some, but a burden for many others..
But that's why I'm asking, I want to verify if this is true or what else other people do when they say they don't have time to have fun and relax.