So much fixation with the console price, but I’d rather have a more expensive console and games that actually get cheaper over time like Sony consoles where if you are patient enough can get up to 3-6 first party exclusives for the price of 1 full priced game. Game costs easily surpass the price of the console for avid gamers who like playing through multiple titles a year.

My classrooms banned phones so I played games on my graphing calculator or did the old fashioned drawing.

I wonder how prevalent adblocking is among the younger generations. Even among my peer group I’d see people browsing the web with no adblock and a bunch of ads on websites when I’d glance at a sea of laptops. It was eye opening that outside of the social media I use that many people are just not tech literate. Is ad acceptance trending upward as people get younger and younger?

Not having microSD isn’t a trend I like, since expandable storage with less reliance on cloud services and not being upcharged to move up a tier on internal storage is ideal. It is sad to see it is mostly dead over the years.

But, one good thing I do look forward to is the EU requiring user-replaceable batteries by 2027 that will hopefully make replacing batteries much easier than it is now. I miss the days when batteries could be popped out and swapped on the spot.

What I wrote might have been confusing, but I was trying say that places like lemmy may have view points that express preferences that aren’t representative of the mainstream. Like how there may be more positive Linux comments on average per user.

But, that it doesn’t necessarily mean the people expressing those views believe them to be representative of the mainstream. It is more just them expressing their thoughts.

However, people I found across social media can mistake what are simply individual opinions as general proclamations, and immediately jump to “Oh this person is claiming that their view point is one most people hold. What a bold claim.” When all they were saying was I like turtles as opposed to most people like turtles.

I think this more people mistaking people expressing their preferences for a system and extrapolating that to meaning market share predictions.

Reword the question to do you believe Steam Deck will overtake Nintendo market share and you’d get different answers. Same with if you ask someone why is Linux better than Windows versus do you believe Linux can overtake Windows market share?

I find people on the internet have a hard time differentiating between people who are expressing preferences and people predicting market share shifts. People just see oh this person doesn’t like Nintendo or Windows and must believe Steam Deck or Linux is going to be more popular.

I’d say its more people stating why they prefer the Steam Deck over the Switch than actually believing the Steam Deck would overtake the Switch. Challenge them to a bet and you’d see very few take it.

I think it is people mistaking people’s preferences for market share predictions.

I picked up a Nintendo Switch because of it being a handheld. I wouldn’t have picked one up otherwise, since I had skipped generations of Nintendo consoles preferring Sony due to Nintendo games being too high. But, with the Steam Deck where I don’t even need to repurchase “Deck versions” of games the handheld component isn’t a selling point of the Switch to me anymore.

Nintendo game prices seem too expensive not only to PC gamers, but Xbox and Sony gamers too. All the other platforms reward patient gamers with price drops even for first party titles, but for Nintendo sometimes they go up.

From the perspective of someone who’s had Sony consoles spanning generations that is terrible pricing. I only picked up a switch because it was a handheld, but it isn’t a selling point to me this time around due to the Steam Deck playing the same library of games I have on the PC.

Nintendo diehards will stick with it and it’ll sell great, but I’ll be going back to skipping Nintendo consoles for the foreseeable future.

Tuta doesn’t support external email clients, but if you don’t mind using it through the web or their app they have a free tier you can sign up for to see if you like it.

I would love to see a longer review from the perspective of a long time MacBook Pro user. So yes please!

And for Americans who decide to immigrate to another country it is great to have multiple options that align more with their values they can seek shelter in and feel safe. So win win.

Likely stronger in the sense of being less at the mercy of one single powerful country. Sort of like the fediverse and it being ideal for multiple instances over one main centralized instance who’s collapse or sudden policy changes can be incredibly disruptive. More distributed power over the long run will make alliances more resilient to unforeseen changes that occur.

If you’ve installed fresh Windows off a usb then process is the same for Linux, and you don’t really need to mess with terminal by just using the Microsoft Store equivalent on the Linux distro you choose. I didn’t find it too different from using Windows or MacOS. I was able to download all my usual programs like Steam and Firefox off the Linux appstore.

But if I had to install a program outside of the Linux store they usually came as a sh or deb file.

If it was deb I’d open terminal where the deb file was and type in sudo dpkg -i filename.deb

And if sh I’d open terminal where the sh file was and type in sh ./name_of_file.sh

That’s pretty much the only terminal commands I’ve needed to know to get started.

When it came to drivers I was lucky enough to have it be pretty much handle everything for me on my old laptop out the box. Main reason I had tried Linux was because Windows ran slow on it, and also an old scanner I had didn’t have drivers that supported it anymore. But, on Linux the scanner just worked.

Syncthing has been so helpful in making me move away from cloud based options. And to think only reason I found out about it and gave it a shot was because I was trying to figure out how to easily sync my non Steam game save files between my Desktop and my Steam Deck. It’s been invaluable since then.

The US becoming a questionable country and people realizing how almost every digital service and product is US based also ended up becoming a huge incentive to start seeking out alternatives instead putting all their eggs in one country. If it hadn’t been for that I wouldn’t have been making so many product shifts and seeking out foss alternatives or at the very least nonUS alternatives.

It’s been very cool seeing lot of people making attempts to try out stuff like Linux too even if they don’t stick with it.

Is it finally the year of foss? I love LibreOffice and started using it years back for personal use not wanting to bother with buying another Microsoft Office version once the one I had stopped getting security updates.

I don’t know if keemailme is better but that’s another option from them.

Looks like I made a good decision deciding to move from onenote to obsidian last month. I like that it is a fancy mark down editor so I can just move my text files some where else if I decide to not use Obsidian in the future. When it comes to onenote functionality of being able to draw or paste where ever I want the excalidraw plugin which is open source has met my needs.

Been nice to move to something that is multi platform.