Gave up because of hardware issues. Laptops had fan problems with it on, the grub wouldn’t install right, a lot of the good distros would show up as black before or after installation. My latest attempt with a decade old iMac made the screen die after less than half an hour upon each reboot. Most of these computers should work very well with Linux but they never did for me. Back then it was a matter of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

My definition for very soon is with-in 2-3 years. In my opinion, a lot the games that are coming out are mostly filler and Nintendo has a track record of doing so before going on to the next big console with the new big AAA titles.

The point is for people to have digital backups their roms to play legally and to play roms on native hardware that will guarantee smooth playing. The cost is also a factor since the switch is ending very soon; a used switch oled, a cart with 7 years worth of “free” games would <=$300. Pretty cheap if one wants to start gaming without breaking the bank.

Adding on to say, yes the Steam Deck is cheaper and better when getting one at the new discount prices. It all depends on preference for emulation or running on original software. And most here would agree that Steam deck with emulation is preferred.

Had the original floam as a kid. Smelled terrible and didn’t stretch at all like in the commercials. Definitely went into the trash and I can only imagine how much worse the kind you had was. Slime or playdoh would have been better or easy to make.

Haven’t had more than 2 ads per ad break yet but have seen the frequency go up on some videos. Some videos have only a beginning ad while some have 2 or 3+ ad breaks. The extremely popular youtubers usually get the 3+ ads from my experience.

The ad duration also went up to 20-30 seconds with 10 seconds sprinkled in. It doesn’t matter if I back out of videos anymore, it seems that the beginning ads are fixed to whatever duration they are. All of this happened when they rolled out the buggy circle timer.

I have no doubt that this will get even worse next year. It’s just on the tv I use the youtube app, so if push comes to shove I will go back to fully using newpipe.

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Got an Alphasmart Neo, it’s basically a keyboard with a big enough unlit screen with a printer port and computer port. The original Neo model was made around in 2004-2006 and was made by Apple employees with education and disability in mind.

For the longest time I wrote on laptops and tablets but the fragility, battery power and eye fatigue made them not as suitable for continuous writing. I had the money and saw others talk about the Alphasmart devices as being the best writing tool, so I got it.

It’s been 2 1/2 years and the batteries I put in are at 60-56%. The device takes 3 aa for power and a coin cell (like for weight scales) for the memory. I can spend the odd multi-hour writing sessions without ever worrying about the device dying from lack of power. And it takes a lot of writing to get the aa batteries to run down a few percentages.

Features:

• Nearly indestructible exterior
• Turning it on/off and navigating between menus and screens takes seconds
• 8 file (tabs) buttons to keep 8 projects open at a time
• Each file autosaves and can save the projects into named files to keep it in the memory
• All or individual files allow for password protection
• Just words on the screen
• Has find, replace, word count, file storage %, wpm, dictionary, thesaurus and calculator
• Uses basic keyboard commands for text (Mac or windows keystrokes)
• Detects sections in the file by how many blank lines are inbetween (1-9 blanks and is set up by the user for how many blanks count as a section break)
• Change font sizes and ‘mod’ for custom fonts and set screen contrast
• Stop accidentally turning the device on by setting on to Enter + On
• Allows other keyboard layouts (QWERTY, Dvorak, right/left hand for disabled users) and special characters
• slow and sticky keys
• Allows Spanish writing and dictionary somehow

Most of the features I dont use but they are nice to have. The biggest plus is that it is not tied down to proprietary software or cables. It uses a printer cable (I have a regular one and a c-cable one for my phone/tablet) and all I need to do is select a file button, plug it in, get a blank document ready and hit the send button so it types everything out as a keyboard emulation. It is faster to get files with software but it is not a requirement.

Best device I spent my money on.

Honestly can’t see people dumping their pcs due to ‘incompatibility.’ Windows 10 support ends officially in 2025 but it doesn’t make it unusable for as long as the computer and programs are working as they should. My parents have a laptop from around 2018 that came with windows 10 and its not windows 11 compatible. They are going to use that thing until it can run no more. It’s essentially a more functional iPad.

Most people who are replacing computers for windows 11 are either college students, people who work on large projects or people who are gaming from a very old set up. As long as everything works with an internet browser and can install proprietary software then most likely they will keep it until the equipment gets too old.

You can find most video lessons on any subject on YouTube for free if you look in the right places. If you are looking for education you can try Khan academy which all the lessons are for free once signed up with an email.

Used Linux Mint/Ubuntu after 20+ years of windows and it’s very easy. Most programs have similar equivalents that can run on both windows and Linux (Word/Powerpoint/etc. -> Open Office or Libreoffice, Email client -> thunderbird, etc.), linux distrobutions have their own ‘app store’ so its easy as searching and clicking install.

Gaming is somewhat new to Linux but you can install Steam; for gaming specifically there are some os’ that others know more about than me but Steam OS can be installed unofficially as Holoiso with amd pcs.

Overall you might want to try double booting (windows + linux on the same harddrive) first because of gaming. Linux does detect other os’ and allow the dual booting installation process to be easier.

Three things to make sure of:

• getting to the linx installation disk from boot is a pain on pre-made windows machines, search for things to change in bios with a youtube video or wiki so it goes to the usb first

• on the live usb/disk (your installation disk) enable wifi, open a web browser to test the internet is working plus sound and other insert thumb drives/cd disks (it should work on common distros). Some distributions don’t play nice or load on some pcs.

• create a backup windows disk and save important files before entering linux in case the installation goes wrong

Tablet with ReadEra. Easier to read with customization and no fuss with reading all file types.

Deviantart has already done this since the AI image hype train first started. Every picture by default is selected as material for AI training; pictures have to be manually deselected by the user to be excluded. And of course it’s a nightmare for those with tons of art submissions.

Facebook/Instagram may end up having to something like that in the future but I doubt it until someone higher up does something about it.

We still use cable TV because of the way wi-fi is packaged. So we have a decent selection of free movies/tv that I never watched and could watch through tv. It’s the incessant ads that make me pirate the most. It’s worse than watching the same movie on a live dvr recording. Funny, since some of the movies they say are free were also just dvr recordings with the TV station logo in the corner still in tact.

Also, Netflix went away too a year or so ago because the cheapest teir made the movies/shows look like they were in 480p every time. It was unwatchable.

It’s a problem with all types of comments being flagged as spam and other things while others are not. Wouldn’t doubt this is actual erasure on YouTube’s part. Could replace some letters with emoji letters. Another is to write, copy and paste from a website that transforms the words into “aesthetic” fonts, many spam bots do this to keep their comments up.