If you count all the aggressive pop ups and prompts and notifications and other bullshit that you can’t turn off any time you try to just use your own fucking computer… 10 minutes from power button to game launch. Linux? Less than 2.

Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.

Who cares if a MSRP$199 motherboard now costs $239 instead of the $249 it did last month? RAM is still thousands of dollars. GPUs are still thousands of dollars.

There is no point trying to build a PC anymore. Run what you have until the industry collapses, and only spend any money on indie games. The industry has chosen to fuck you over completely. Never forget that.

And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.

The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.

My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.

They’ve learned that most people are apathetic enough to just take it as long as they roll it slowly enough.

All the more reason for them to protest.

Let me guess, starting at just $799.

That’s what Mint is for. It just gets out of my fucking way. Most of the time I’m not aware that I have an OS.

That site is cancer.

That submarine imploded under the unbearable weight of a billionaire’s hubris. The world got ever so slightly better that day.

Is there a way to convince more billionaires that 3rd-rate carbon fiber is a great building material for compression-loaded pressure vessels?