🍹Early to RISA 🧉Mar 18

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Show threaddylanmorganMar 18
I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.
Show threadmycodesucks
That only works if you already own the hardware and/or the majority does NOT do that model. The moment most people jump on board, the cost of old hardware will skyrocket too.
Mar 18 at 5:25amWeb
Show threadMousePotatoDoesStuffMar 19

Except even if the majority DOES adopt this model:

  • that will make repairing old hardware more profitable, so supply will rise to meet demand at least a bit (and is also objectively a good thing)
  • a lot of old hardware isn’t compatible with Win11+ and unless Microsoft is visited by the Three Ghosts of Software or the long-anticipated Year Of The Linux Desktop arrives, so that’s one moat you can take advantage of (I assume you, a Lemmy user, are more likely to try Linux than an average person would, or are using it already)
  • if the price still goes up, manufacturers will step in to take advantage
  • at some point, the new slop business model won’t have enough customers to sustain itself