I wasn’t sure about that article at the time, but it did inspire me to finally try out bazzite on a spare nvme and I found that a lot of my issues in games went away. Particularly fallout 4, the painfully slow loading screens between map changes are like 70% faster now. So I’m sticking with it for my gaming rig.

I never would have though running games through a translation layer could actually improve performance. Id heard a lot of people say so but I assumed it was just Linux devotees being fanboys. They were absolutely right.

You were very clear that you believe everyone is stupid except for you, yes.

No we’re not. I’ve already addressed this, please scroll up.

Yes, we are. If you believe people have to be tricked or manipulated into valuing different features than you do, you’re just using a lot of extra words to say “everyone is stupid except for me”.

they were swindled

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

It’s absolutely not. It’s not about what the consumer wants at all.

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

These companies didn’t remove them because customers wanted them removed.

Customers want thin, light, and good water resistance. Removing a port barely anyone uses was an easy way to achieve that and the vast majority of customers don’t miss it.

Are you beginning to understand how things you don’t buy still affect you yet?

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

2026 even has newspeak in the form of bullshit like “unalive”

No, lots of other people also understand that they’re swindlers.

And lots of other people like their stuff and might want to buy this. I’m not one of them, but I’m happy they can get something they like. Why isn’t that good enough?

It wasn’t about “the average consumer”

It’s absolutely about the average consumer. Do you honestly believe Samsung removed the 3.5 jack simply because apple did and they’re conditioned to follow apple? They follow money. The money is in thinner, lighter, and better water resistance. The money is there because that’s what the average consumer actually wants.

Did you not notice that they also released another product simultaneously that now makes enough money on its own to be a Fortune 500 company?

And how does that help the competing manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jack?

Jobs is dead, had been dead for 5 years when apple removed the 3.5 jack, and was never in charge of the myriad other phone manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jacks. I’m not sure he’s as relevant here as you’re implying.

Anyway, as an adult, “company made a product that isn’t catered to my specific preferences” is well below my threshold for outrage. I actually can’t imagine living like that. It must be horrible.

People get offended when customers are swindled. And Apple are expert swindlers.

So it’s a case of “everyone’s stupid except for me”?

No better example than the headphone jack.

Incredibly vocal minority on reddit/Lemmy aside, your average consumer doesn’t give a shit about having a 3.5 jack in their phone. The market prefers thinner, lighter, and better waterproofing. Know how I know? Because if there was a big market for a phone with a 3.5 jack, someone would be making it, and lots of people would be buying it. It’s not saving these companies a ton on manufacturing to not include one. They cost pennies each when purchased in bulk.

Then don’t buy one. Idk why people get so offended when a company releases a product they’re not personally interested in.

Wyse never went away. They’re owned by Dell and continue selling thin clients to this day. The only difference here is that dell isn’t using their branding on these machines for some reason.

Yawn. People complaining about this apparently don’t work in IT and don’t know that thin clients which connect to a variety of different VDI solutions are pretty common in lots of different businesses and government agencies.