@coolboymew I’m just annoyed at how little graphics are improving compared to the price of the hardware they expect you to have now. It’s like I’m only paying for better hardware because devs are getting worse at optimizing their games and not because it actually looks better.

@che5hire I'm just not talking about games either. For games, the Switch and Steam Deck were probably the "coolest" tech in a while

Otherwise, I'm talking about anything else. I'm looking at the shopping channel tech sales and it's lame AF.

Tablets are just bigger phones and they're pretty useless.

I don't need a laptop, I have a desktop.

Apple watch, it's ludicrously expensive

Fitbit, also expensive, use their shitty app, oops gotta login :))))))) and they'll probably sell your data

Lmao what is this scam, just put Linux in a USB stick bruh
https://www.tsc.ca/StartMeStick-3-Year-Unlimited-Computers/pages/productdetails?nav=R:729513

There's just like nothing fucking cool like you saw in the 90s/00s and in LGR videos, it's all streamlined garbage that will steal your data

@coolboymew @che5hire
>Lmao what is this scam, just put Linux in a USB stick bruh

Similar products have been around for years. There are flash-drives with custom Linux distros solely designed to be restrictive environments for children (whitelisted websites, child-friendly games, etc). Honestly, this product wouldn't exist if people realized that Linux is not the 1337 h4x0r operating system that they were lead to believe.

>There's just like nothing fucking cool like you saw in the 90s/00s and in LGR videos, it's all streamlined garbage that will steal your data

You could try looking into more niche/indie/open-source hardware manufacturers. I'm not sure if there are many products with the same type of gimmicks found back in the 90s/00s, but they tend to respect your privacy and right-to-repair.

Most of the gimmicky stuff can be found in DIY projects. You can check out what people make with Arduino, SBCs, and stuff like that. It seems like companies decided to let people come up with gimmicks themselves instead of having them experiment with such products.