After he said “that’s what they should do” lmaooo what a clown show.

Well it was Black Friday when I went, so it was absolutely packed with people. I already bought a PS5 months earlier because I didn’t want to wait for a sale, otherwise I probably would have picked that up too lol

I agree with most of what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

Well yeah, it’s expensive and they didn’t put it on sale. This was obviously going to happen.

When I picked mine up (I knew I’d get one eventually and didn’t want to risk the prices going up like they did for other consoles), I saw 5 people walking out of BestBuy with a PS5 for every Switch 2 that sold, and the numbers seem to support that the PS5 outsold the Switch 2 over the holiday period.

Actually, I have bad news for you… prices are likely going to go up from the AI bubble plus the upcoming RAM shortage.

Meanwhile I bought an Xbox Series S and PS5 and a Switch 2 plus a bunch of SSDs all in November lol

Having a knee injury plus not much else to do plus a 75 inch TV I bought back in September will do that for you lol

Yep, it’s good for your health in moderation. As long as it’s not taking over your life to the point where it’s interfering with your normal life, it’s perfectly healthy and nothing to be ashamed about.

It’s really awful because unlike smoking or cocaine or anything else, you can’t just quit food. You need it to live, without it, you will die. Having too much of it permanently alters your hunger levels which makes you require more of it, it’s an endless feedback loop that scientists haven’t figured out yet.

It does seem like they might be making some progress on it with weight loss medicine, if it doesn’t outright cause cancer or other bad side effects. I guess we’ll see.

He already said criminals.

What about high end SWs who make $5000 a night, who do it because they want to make insane amounts of money, who often have other options and do it not because they have no other options, but because they want to?

It’s never going to go away because some people will still do it even if they don’t have to, but I agree that you can’t punish it away. It just ends up making it more dangerous for everyone involved which doesn’t really help anyone.

If it’s always going to happen regardless, would you rather it be underground and more dangerous, or regulated and safer?

Sure, I should have clarified not surprised by the power or the price.

It makes sense that as more and more power becomes available, the price doesn’t necessarily have to increase.

Computers (especially CPUs/GPUs/SOCs etc) are becoming more and more powerful all the time, and more and more efficient all the time. It doesn’t mean that the price of them has to rise.

The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful doesn’t mean it should be more expensive than the most expensive version of the Steam Deck. The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful should be entirely expected, given the fact that it’s newer with a larger form factor (meaning that it may not be as limited in terms of heat etc)

Hopefully this is a detailed enough comment to clearly explain my thoughts on this.

It’s newer hardware in a bigger form factor.

It should be 6x as powerful, that shouldn’t be a surprise.

True, but it’s also nowhere near $1000.

According to statcounter, Linux desktop was over 4% marketshare in April 2025, damn that’s impressive.

We really are getting there.

Well clearly you’re lying or you haven’t been looking, because this is NOT the most popular initiative on ECI.

Regardless, you can support more than one issue. It’s not a zero-sum game, you can fight for multiple things. It’s really not that hard to figure out.

So that’d be whatever Android your phone comes with, then, and not standard AOSP.

Now that I re-read it, OP called themselves a simpleton, so I think you’re right, there’s no chance OP is using standard AOSP.

Every single one of those games is excellent, but tbh I’d recommend starting with Underground 1 and then going onto Underground 2, they’re both fantastic IMO.

Yeah, Stock could mean whatever Android your phone comes with, or it could mean standard AOSP like even without GApps, OP should really clarify that.