I get what you are saying but your entire post dances around the actual problem. All of this is fine if there was actually good software. Ive yet to see any killer app or must have software. If there were really good games it would make the hardware short comings less important. Even apple with their typically polished experiences seems to have just dumped their headset on the market and hope for the best.

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

3000s were good and the 4000s were bad value for a long time. I went AMD this generation for the first time. Gott a 7900xtx for a lot less than a 3080/4080. Prices have come down a bit though.

I mean that is true but there is some nuance.

At one time it was a cheap way to protect your site from drive by scripts and make your users help pay for that protection.

They still work in that way on say the comment section of a tiny WordPress blog because the cost to solve them isn’t worth what a random boner pill ad is worth.

The issue now (made worse recently by LLMs) is that more bots then ever are scraping any and every thing so people are putting captchas on every bit of every web app content they have. This increases the work of your users while it only slows down the bots. The hope is that the cost to solve is slightly higher than the value of the data.

I enjoyed the first two. Missed the third one. Maybe I’ll pick it up for a rainy day.

That used to be the case but I wonder if it still is.

Modern software is loaded down with telemetry and crash reporting. So the software itself is likely doing the reporting at this point.

Linux definitely has more weird permutations with regards to software and hardware and would expect it to produce more issues just based on that.

The word cancelled has lost all meaning.

Funny you say that ah

For real though I use a down stream arch distro.

Installing arch manually is a good learning experience but I’ve got other things to do.

I understand it’s not for everyone but I jumped ship to Linux 10 years ago or so. The defining moment was me disabling Cortana only to have her reappear after an update.

At least with Linux when I’m fighting the OS it doesn’t feel like the OS developers are fighting back.

I go there to buy Nintendo games because I don’t trust Nintendo not to do weird crap with their digital goods.

That’s my uninformed assumption.

Except when it comes to SSDs.

Under some work loads they just get chewed to bits long before they are obsolete.

I was in to this one too but it made me car sick in the worst way. Eventually I just put it down and didn’t go back