It doesn’t waste their time. They are getting paid by the hour. As long as you are friendly it doesn’t hurt anyone to give a wrong phone number to get a discount.

Ideally you’d want more versatility

Yes, that’s what I thought which is why I bought the Retroid. But I discovered Android introduces so much overhead that it ruins the purpose of a gaming handheld. I might as well use my much more powerful Pixel with those slide in controllers for thumbsticks and buttons.

A Retroid for the better screen/CPU with a streamlined gaming specific Linux OS would be the best of both worlds.

It could be a big deal if the developers of GarlicOS / OnionOS support it. I have a Retroid 3+, a Miyoo Mini (lost it) , and now an Anbernic GBA SP.

The Retroid seemed amazing at first but after using a Miyoo with OnionOS, I’m not going back to Android retro gaming.

The usability of being able to pick up a hand held and play immediately cannot be understated. Android doesn’t normally shutdown. It sleeps which means it only lasts a few days (not being used!) without being plugged in unless you explicitly pick power down from the menu. If you do power down, it takes over a minute to boot. The Android retro front ends also take hours and hours to setup.

OnionOS/GarlicOS completely power down so the battery always has charge and is ready to go. Because there is no Android, boot to being back in your game (it defaults to powering up right back where you left off in a game), takes seconds. The menu scraping works so there’s virtually no setup needed.

Bots don’t know what’s a real name or fake. They’ll get delirious_owl@gmail.com from a list and phish with it no different than if JohnSmith@gmail.com was on the list.

I have a Gmail for all important emails that’s my real name. I’m very careful to only use it for important things. I never use it for online orders of any sort.

No content moderation means it ISN’T reading the screen.

It’s screen shots saved to your hard drive just like when you hit the print screen key in Arch. It’s a stupid feature but saying MS is stealing everything because of this feature makes no sense.

You could have paid $25 for The Crew from Ubisoft on December 13th and then find out on December 14th that the game will stop working on March 31st (3 months later).

That’s crazy. Even more crazy is this is the first time I’ve heard of it. It’s a serious attack on consumer rights.

what motivation was behind

No need to be hostile. I bought a Toyota and discovered it tracks my location without consent.

I bought my Toyota from a dealer, not the manufacturer, yet they track everywhere I drive.

It should be a law that all cell antennas come with a physical switch.

i will never trust ford

Every car company does it now. You cannot buy a car that isn’t selling your data.

I’ve been running so long with “Activate Windows” in the lower right corner on one of my computers that I don’t even notice it anymore.

But for other PC’s, as a rule, I don’t pirate executables because of the virus risk.

The price on the MS website isn’t the price you can buy it in stores. For example MS lists Windows 11 as $139 when it’s $119 at Newegg.

I bought Sever Essentials from Lenovo for $285.

Windows Server Essentials is $300. It is a cut down version of server. It’s pretty much regular Windows that includes an extra Windows license for an extra VM. If for some reason you needed to run two copies of Windows legally, that brings the cost down to $150 per VM.

It was $300. It’s Server Essentials, not the full Server. Server Essentials doesn’t have network controller or unlimited Windows VM licenses.

I’d buy it IF THEY WOULD SELL IT TO ME!

The best legal version of Windows I have figured out that you can actually buy as a regular consumer is Windows Server Essentials 2022. (maybe they’re up to 2024 now?)

Server Essentials is regular Windows 10 GUI with absolutely no spyware, OneDrive, or pre installed ads hiding as shortcuts. It doesn’t even require a TPM. The only nonsense that comes pre installed is Edge.

Updates are for 10 years minimum and they only install when you tell them to.

That only applies to a large corporation with contracts.

and upgradable

If it’s not something that can go in a slot for Dell HP and Lenovo there is no upgrade. They aren’t going to swap an upgraded CPU because Dell doesn’t do official bios patches to upgrade old PC’s to cpus that come out later. Nor can you get a new motherboard dropped in an old Dell/HP/Lenovo chassis because of the power supply requirements/changes.

Edit: I couldn’t even put a modern GPU in my old Dell Xeon because the power supply didn’t put out the watts. I had to find a weird Dell to ATX converter cable off of eBay and Dremel the Dell case a little so the regular ATX would fit.

The name is Gamers Nexus, not Corporate IT Nexus.

He is very clear from the context that he means desktop PC.

"I was wondering, what PC, if any, is similar in this regard? Aside from building your own PC ofc. "

You don’t “build your own” laptop.

The OP asked about desktops, not laptops. Why are you bringing up laptops?

He wants a Desktop that’s durable and as easy to repair as a Thinkpad.

Lenovo desktops are filled proprietary parts just like Dell and HP. (Power supply, custom atx motherboard, non standard motherboard mounting)

I’ve used them but not personally owned one going back 30 years since before they were sold to Lenovo.

You didn’t say repairability. You were critical of the proprietary parts.

Dell and HP desktops are even easier to repair than home built because of the no-tool clips for parts and custom sized cables. (But in my opinion that ease of repair doesn’t offset the proprietary parts they use.)

I don’t have a recommendation but I can point you to Gamers Nexus YouTube channel / website and filter on prebuilts to see reviews.

Big names like Dell HP and Lenovo are bad for ability to repair/upgrade. Although I do love buying their old servers because there are so many cheap ones on eBay.

the opposite of the Thinkpad.

To be fair, everything about a Thinkpad is proprietary too. It’s accepted because it’s a laptop.

Pihole hasn’t blocked YouTube ads in years because the ads come from the same domain. And that’s not including the new crackdown that YouTube did on ad blocking.

Wife watches yt on Roku.