I have a theory that part of this game’s enormous success is due to it being to run on most computers without special requirements. People are tired of needing a more and more expensive gpu to play stuff that isn’t that great, and seeing your hardware become obsolete at record rates. Also, the game costing a lower price than average, for the same reasons.

Maybe they tried, but faced cultural resistance. Instead, they target other things to men, like wallets and watches.

I have to admit, it has style!

It’s a trick from the industry to force women to buy purses.

You’re not a dinosaur. Making people feel old and out of the trend is exactly one of the strategies used by big techs to shove their stuff into people.

This made me remember when my grandfather told me that the worst thing about getting old is seeing all your friends die :(

but… why?

Linux mint for my brother-in-law, and debian for my professor, because he said he has an aversion to stuff changing in his computer and wanted something that stayed almost the same in 10 or 20 or years from now and didn’t fail him. He seemed enthusiastic with the concept of a distro that focuses on stability and wanted it, even if I said that it’s a bit harder to use and recommended linux mint.

I think the reason is much simpler. Browsers on chromeos use a different user agent than when running on linux distros and then it gets counted as a separate category. I don’t know for the first source linked, but statcounter uses data from user agent strings.

Installed linux for my brother-in-law and for a professor last month. Both liked it and are probably going to use it insted of moving to win11. I’m doing my part.

That’s what I love about linux! Instead of bloat, we get awesome optimizations like this here and there.

Those are almost exactly my phone’s specs >.<

At least it was really cheap, which the pinephone wasn’t

I was going to say “hey, a rural nowhere is pretty nice”, but then I read the other part…

I hope things eventually improve for you

They’re just entering a market owned by a few big players. One simply can’t come out with a high end product out of nowhere. Maybe it’s not even the goal

In my case, it was due to overstimulation. Now I stop looking at screens about an hour before sleeping, and I turn off all light sources before sleeping, and I managed to regulate my sleep.

only respond to painful cookie request menus to reject cookies

You can do that just with ublock with the annoyance list, or using an extension like i don’t care about cookies. Simple and efficient, no need for an “ai agent” for that

The termites in your house: challenge accepted

But what about the photos part?

Works, but isn’t the same. Needs one more stuff to buy and carry around, and can’t be used while charging and connected to a device via usb

Almost all the smartphones being sold around the world*

If we consider the smartphones in use, I’m not sure this would be the case