No. I think Sony and Nintendo have enough money to continue to take a loss on consoles to make it up in software sales down the line as they always have, and PCs do not have such subsidization.

Just in time for high end PCs to cost as much as a used car.

This, and not even ironically.

Something broken on the laptop? It’s so locked down nobody can do a damn thing about it, and even if I could I can’t spend 15 minutes of class time troubleshooting while the others are waiting, so I guess you’re just not participating today, Billy.

You can use them fine. In fact, you’ll have to on your new Android phone which has no opt out.

Don’t threaten ME with a good time.

2026 begs to differ.

The real question is how that didn’t happen automatically when he was stripped of his title.

Call your representatives

Hire a lobbyist to donate millions of dollars to election campaigns for your representatives

Look, if he wants to waste his time on pointless, low level crap instead of breaking more stuff? I’m not going to complain.

They don’t see your refusal to stoop to their level as some kind of enlightened position - they see it as a weaker person kowtowing to their strength. The only reason these horrible people were under control for so long was because they believed progressive voices were unstoppably stronger and willing to use that strength. They won’t go away until they believe that again.

Real answer. Hoard now. Hope what you have lasts until the baking climate kills you.

I see you know your judo well.

Older PCs and consoles are only cheap now because people buy newer stuff.

When the newer stuff becomes prohibitively expensive, old hardware and consoles will SKYROCKET as demand goes up, because nobody is MAKING more.

Hoard tech now. We’re not that far away from 2012 laptops going for $500.

Well, the purchases they make now from western companies is an incestuous “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” on-paper only revenue scam.

Chinese companies would not play ball with that, because for better or worse, China has a MUCH stronger will to rip a company apart if it’s behaving irresponsibly, particularly if that irresponsibility is strengthening US companies’ hands. So buying from NVidia means market manipulation and ulterior motives for ledgers and stock prices. Buying from a Chinese company means buying the product at something more like a fair market price rather than sweetheart deals, and then also fighting a US government that is actively fighting Chinese chip production and willing to use tariffs and strongarming to enforce it.

I’m not saying this is exactly how this will shake out, but I am saying it’s the only potential place that computer technology has ANY chance of being made for consumers for the next decade or so, so it’s them or nothing.

You don’t need elegant code when the only device you can buy is no longer capable of multitasking.

ONE app at a time, with only spywa… I mean… priviliged apps… able to run in the background. Also it’s $2000.

We are living through the death of open computing. It’s being killed right in front of us.

Joke’s on you. You’re gonna have to live through the worst of what’s coming.

Chinese manufacturers would fall outside of the “circlejerk” economy between hardware manufacturers and AI companies, and as such I think AI companies would be less willing to buy from Chinese manufacturers, particularly with Trumpian anti-China policies.

Even if they didn’t, Chinese companies still seem to very much be old-school capitalism - they actually still concentrate on making and selling a product instead of just moving capital around with the customer being an obstacle and excuse.

I mean… it’s not wrong. That IS 8 minutes slower.

The only hope for consumers is that Chinese manufacturers pick up the slack, but guess which country western governments ABSOLUTELY don’t want you buying products from?