the same reason hollywood keeps remaking and remaking and rebooting and remaking every movie from 1980 to 2000 and beyond. it doesn’t matter how fucking godawful the final product is, the nostalgia draw will guarantee funding
at least the video games are the actual video games from our childhood (i assume)
we’re about a generation and a half into people who were raised with the phone/tablet as their babysitter
it took me forever to work up the gumption to ditch the thing i’d been using for decades too-- as someone who knew zero about linux (and still don’t know much more than zero), seeing other people in similar situations make that switch definitely helped me to take the leap of faith. now windows is gone and i’m never looking back
you can pretty much just read the headlines:
https://www.npr.org/2006/10/12/6252448/hp-spying-scandal-offers-window-into-board-battles
https://www.pcmag.com/news/hp-accused-of-quietly-installing-spyware-on-windows-pcs
https://www.cio.com/article/260587/hp-spying-scandal-a-timeline.html
this is all ignoring their bricking of their own printers when you try to use 3rd party ink, though widespread enshittification is making that particular bullshit more common among different brands
i’m deeply skeptical of someone having done that much “research” and concluding that HP has to be the best option for any kind of hardware
i was just saying you can pay $X now, or $X+whoknowshowmuch later.
it is true that the price of tech has historically gone down as technology advances, however, right now AI demands all the supply, which providers are only too happy to provide for. supply down = demand up = price up
at the end of the day it makes absolute zero difference to me whether you buy anything or not. do you
the best time to buy anything tech was 12 months ago. the second best time is right now, before prices get even worse, which they 100% will
now i just need a 300TB hard drive…
gotta address the oligarch technofascist problem first. kind of hard to force companies to break up when the companies owns the people who make the laws
pretend that he is in sync
no need. M$ and pretty much every other big tech behemoth has been forcing unwanted bullshit on the customers for decades, and guess what–people still buy their shit
i think i’ve had at least 10 or 15 external hdds since the early 2000s and have only had one die on me before i retired it to upgrade to a larger capacity
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