Not surprising when flagship devices have more than doubled in price in over the last decade.

That and the fact that many modern devices feel like compromised devices with purposeful downgrades despite the huge cost increase.

Honestly I hope WhatsApp (yeah I know Meta are date harvester extraordinares) pull out the second this passes.

WhatsApp is by far the largest messaging service used in the UK. Every company I’ve worked for in the last five years makes extensive use of group WhatsApps. Same with all my friends and family too.

The public outcry at that loss would potentially be enough to sway politicians away from such BS. Anything short of WhatsApp going and the British public won’t be technologically literate enough to give a fuck.

It does and that’s the real issue.

MS has the power, reach and financial means to completely steamroll the market by underpricing games pass to kill any competition. Then once they’ve done that they can set prices, control labour and production to reduce costs too and monopolise the market to their shareholders cold dead money grubbing hearts content.

To put the scale of the issue in perspective.

Microsoft has a market cap of 2.5 Trillion dollars. Or 2500 billion.

Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Valve, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft combined don’t even reach 700 billion. We take Tencent out of the equation and it’s only 300 billion.

So we’re talking 4x that of all their combined global competition. If we only look at “western” companies its basically 8.5x.

But getting rid of Bobby Kotick will make gaming better /s

As already said you just need to buy something explicitly listed as a monitor.

One thing you’ll find is that at 55" with decent specs you’ll be paying a significantly higher price than you could find a 4k TV. That’s because good monitors of that size are often super high end displays. E.g. Nvidia branded big format gaming displays.

The Galaxy S5 active is evidence that you’re just wrong. Classic removable battery but still IP67.

You’re vastly overestimating the knowledge, intelligence and fucks given by the vast majority of people.

The fediverse is frankly too complex and convoluted for the normies. Whichever instance manages to remove the complexity, solve the onboarding process and get the content right will win out and be the thing the normies speak of.

You’re just being obtuse if you think that there’s no confusion for the majority.

The absolute vast majority aren’t techies, they aren’t open to learning and they have been used to centralised simplicity.

Just trying to explain home instances, federation and defederation is more than enough to lose the interest and understanding of a vast majority.

Now the barriers do lend themselves to an entirely different feeling and community base. Whether that’s good or bad is down to personal taste. But Lemmy isn’t going to compete with reddit until the process is streamlined and the thinking required is mostly removed.

The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.