didnt the us gov already get like 5% of the company, laying the groundwork of they cant fail bullshit ?

my guy asking the real questions!

HOWEVER

your however is pointless. This is not a second hand market, you are comparing apples to cars. They are not the same. Your first points are somewhat ok.

No activism here, obviously you dont grasp how cheaper this gets long term even compared to second hand laptops. I have the 13. I will give you few examples now - talking in general here, not a specific laptop but a good majority.

My SSD dies I change it, yours is soldered (ESPECIALLY ON MAC) you BUY a new laptop.

My Ram dies or i want to upgrade it, I change it, yours is soldered (many have it now like asus, acer etc. for no reason, no LLM usability or speed chase) you BUY a new laptop at best sell off this one at a loss and buy a new one.

I break my display or display frame, I change the display EASILY or the display frame with a simple snap - YOU BUY A NEW LAPTOP your old is salvaged for few parts and is useless as 99.9% of people cant change their laptop monitor as its hard and in some cases deliberately made impossible to do.

My needs change, i need to change from HDMI to Display port or USB C port for display out etc. (real case for me) I simply buy 2 new ports for 40 usd, you buy a new laptop at best sell this one off at a huge loss.

I drop my laptop and my chassis break, I buy a new chassis, you buy a new laptop and trow this one in the bin with few salvaged parts.

this one is specific to linux users … i buy the laptop, EVERYTHING works out of the box, you thinker and there is a 50/50 chance few of the parts are not optimized or they outright dont have drivers for linux.

Now here is the kicker … I use my laptop for 5 years, I dont wnat to spend 2k on a laptop, I simply by a new mobo and upgrade only that, and you know what ? I can re-use my old mobo in a case as a PC, homelab, server, media station OR sell it on a big re-sale market and re-coup some of my money, thus the purchase of my new mobo gets cheaper.

Ow my old laptop is too old now and the camera quality is bad, the speakers are weak the fingerprint is slow, the touchapd is old ? good news … there are 3 generations of reversions, my hinges are weak ? again, new revisions your battery is old ? ha … good nows again, there are 3 types of batteries that you can buy NOT from china re-branded second had batteries for your laptop that under the hood are re-used old ones charging you as new ones, but a new one, bigger, better, faster you ? you buy 2x batteries from china, spend 400 usd because there are none sold officially anywhere because your manufacturer moved long time ago to newer models and then after you lost those money as you got scammed you buy a new laptop.

I can go on much more btw … but this got too long :) I think you get the picture :) There is no activism here my friend, its smart purchasing and investment in NOT spending shit ton of money and owning what i use. You do not own your computer. I bet your lenovo, if something breaks, try your luck with the lenovo warranty … see what happens (speaking from experience there).

bullshit, similar spec laptop AT WORST is ~100-150 USD more, if you are looking at 2x price, on similar spec, you are looking at a no name brad with the worst of the worst parts, that will 1000% fail in less than 6 months and will fall apart in less than a year.

we all know its coming, and this is the end game, its a matter of time.

stop … he is already dead!

soooooo that line for a ~1 year to buy a laptop from there … is what ? Ow and the fact that i need to wait close to half a year to get JUST the MOBO … yeah sure. Whatever.

different countries, different rules, different prices for different regions (but mostly the first part).

I say give them maps, give them gear, and access cards if possible. Let’s help out ahhahah

I cant say much. I have seen up to 4 people play different games on these platforms. Usually Anmbernic is the most popular choice, and I would personally, but look at aliexpress etc. even their official web page is more expensive than that. Again dont take my word for it, look up youtube, there are tons of videos on those. I personally like the vertical handhelds, but I know people preffer the horizontals, and they are more powerfull.

Another coice is Odin btw, that is I think one of the most powerfull handhelds, that can even run steam no problem *others can as well but with limited capabilities because of the hardware.

Yes, absolutely. But the game is still amazing, its very much lore friendly, and even expands on it massively :) Its a good game :)

Very well said, thus also very sad. There is going to be a cleansing sooner or later.

Anbernic, ayeneo, motion mini, lots of options, and to be honest much more there if you dig deeper :)

It works, does the job… I mean…

Yup. Company’s these days are different from what it used to be. In the past it was a group of people with a slot of passion and desire to create a specific game or to make games. Now its corporations for proffit with soulless developers.

Same here. I was a subscriber from Xbox to PC but then…

If they focus on ESO… Put some effort, no bs, you will profit, the game is great, but the direction is scattered all over the place. Put some advertisment too ffs.

Skyrim still makes shit ton of money, creation club mods and enhanced versions and all that. Keep doing that the game is still epic as is, I play it to this day and support it.

Simple money making. Fuck that new gen bs. Nobody will have money for the machines that they will need to run those beasts by the time they come out.

Follow the conversation idk.

There is a way you put your own games. Most of those handhrlds are simple emulators that you can put whatever you like up to ps3 in some cases even (hard).

There is multiplayer. Almost all modern handheld Chinese consoles have multiplayer for many games. Look it up, they are very mature.

I think it was the theme for all of human history, just the scale is different now.