It’s already illegal in Canada, you can report them to the Competition Bureau. I don’t think its very well enforced though.

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/deceptive-marketing-practices/types-deceptive-marketing-practices/ordinary-selling-price

KDE has it, I believe it was added in either Plasma 6 or 6.1.

Well, that shows how well I was paying attention to the video

It was mentioned in the LTT coverage. Aside from native ARM games they have a translation layer(FEX) to play x86 games on ARM. They'll have a "Verified" tag like the Steam Deck for compatibility. I assume you'll still be able to force trying to run unverified games.

Analogue gauges still break. Even aircraft use digital displays these days, including on standby instruments. The issue is quality. If it's built like garbage, it's going to break more quickly and more frequently.

Displays on connected cars are just more susceptible as companies can push broken OTA updates that should never have passed QA, if QA even exists, but again that's a quality issue.

I'm Gen Z and I was still "forced" to fix tech if I wanted to use it. I mean sure, I didn't have to deal with IRQs, setting up autoexec.bat and config.sys, and so on, but if you're not at least a little bit inclined you wouldn't have the patience to fix things even when you're "forced". You'd just give up and move on. There's always something else to do. Things have gotten easier for sure, which is reducing the exposure to "falling in the rabbit hole" but one way or another interested people will get into it.

It's like how cars are getting simpler to use, but you still have car guys around. We don't say only old people know how to drive stick.

In any case, there's better things to use as a generational boundary; like how a single G5 piano note will trigger a very specific group of people.

Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.

Fortunately Valve publishes monthly hardware statistics so we can back claims with statistics. Linux comprises 2.89% of their surveyed share. Of that 28.31% are using Steam OS. Using the wayback machine we can check the statistics from last year. Checking the July 2024 results using the Wayback Machine shows Linux at 2.08% with Steam OS comprising 40.97% of that.

From that we can see that Linux is growing, while Steam OS is becoming less of a contributing factor to the Linux share.

For some reason it didn't click how oversized the box is. More likely they ran out of smaller ones then, or some shitty algorithm said this was the "most economical" box.

Sometimes it's due to the battery shipping label that's required for lithium batteries. They need a box big enough to fit it as it's a fixed size and needs to fit on one side of the box.