• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    PCs ain’t comin’ back. Search “pc purchasing over time”, pick a graph, any graph. Sale volume peaked 2010-2012 and never really recovered, all while the population increased. Outside of business, seems few are using laptops either. Can’t understand why the hell people internet on their phones, but it do be like that.

    BTW, stupid cheap servers have been available for some time. Check out “savemyserver” on eBay. They’re great!

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      6 hours ago

      I agree on a cultural level; but this feels like a choice? An older PC isn’t that far away from phones on price. We’re not so far from folks moving to services at home, tech barriers have dropped considerably, prices are likely to do the same, and big tech just keeps giving people good reasons to do so.