It's drying up because car prices increased by 60% in the past decade. When a used car is over $30k, it becomes very hard to justify a vehicle purchase.
They'll cite "supply chain" issues, but then conveniently leave out that they've intentionally lowered production, maintaining scarcity. It's been almost 6 years since the chip shortages and other issues that stemmed from the pandemic, yet it's still used as a lazy excuse.
Yes, there were some issues with supply years ago, and the prices increased, but there's little to no pressure on these companies to reduce them now that those issues have long been cleared up.
Unfortunately, that clown is going to be in office for a few more years, unless your people throw him out (unlikely), or he dies of a stroke/heart failure (more likely).
Just because we are going to get fucked, doesn't mean you want to provoke anything either - you don't want to get fucked repeatedly and from different angles if you can help it.
Nothing really seemed to fit for me, there were always compromises. But it turns out that I already owned the perfect device, and I carry it in my pocket everywhere.
I have a pretty good phone (S24+) and I paired it with an amazing controller (Gamesir G8 USB-C Edition)
It has hall effect thumbsticks and triggers, and connects directly to my phone via USB-C, so no latency.
I even setup Tasker to recognize when the controller is connected, so it locks in landscape mode, changes the keyboard to LeanKeyboard (controller friendly), and launches into my frontend, which was Daijisho but is now ES-DE. Then reverts to regular phone mode once the controller disconnects.
I loosely followed this guide from TechDweeb to setup ES-DE, if you're interested.
With this setup I can play everything up to and including Switch games, not to mention native Android games, as well as streaming games from Sunshine on my PC.
Seriously, with a little bit of configuration and this ~$100 controller, I have no desire to get a steamdeck or anything similar.
But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.
Tbf most people don't download offline copies, they just let all their email live on their provider's servers and never think twice.
Personally, I've used either Outlook or Gmail since 2000 and haven't ever had an issue getting access to my emails.
It's drying up because car prices increased by 60% in the past decade. When a used car is over $30k, it becomes very hard to justify a vehicle purchase.
They'll cite "supply chain" issues, but then conveniently leave out that they've intentionally lowered production, maintaining scarcity. It's been almost 6 years since the chip shortages and other issues that stemmed from the pandemic, yet it's still used as a lazy excuse.
Yes, there were some issues with supply years ago, and the prices increased, but there's little to no pressure on these companies to reduce them now that those issues have long been cleared up.
Once the price goes up, it never comes down.