walkercricket

Root can be useful for plenty of reasons: there are many apps which use root access to increase privacy, customize the system, restrict apps, manage battery charging, enforce firewall for apps and system, block trackers, backup the system, etc... I currently have 8 apps (if I don't count all the lsposed modules) using the root privileges to do all of that but I also use it for other things like automation.

The only kind of security I want to have is privacy from my own apps installed on my system, something root privilege allow me to have. For the rest, I just don't install any random program on my phone and I didn't have any problem for years.

(and no, I can't do any of that with shizuku or adb)

I don't like being categorized as a leftist because being a leftist now is just being radical and crazy and I certainly don't want to belong to this category. So leftists as we see them certainly don't listen to both sides, that's for sure (or those people aren't numerous enough to have a party we can look for, whatever the country you're talking about). So I would like to call myself a centrist, as it should mean that you listen to both sides, but centrist are apparently right wings who don't assume being right wings. That's why I generally don't answer anymore because all categories are fucked up and I don't seem to belong to any of them: none of them are able to have rational and nuanced opinions and solutions, whatever the subject.

Ok but I don't see any reason for you to consider it "easier" to play on a console when you already have a perfectly functional PC next to you, able to handle the game: there is no extra step or steps that require more time or energy once the PC is set up, compare to the console. So I really don't know what you're talking about when you mention the "ease of use" of console over an already set up and ready-to-go PC. Maybe the settings have to be configured but you already have the default settings and either way, the PC simply gives you more options, so you just interpret the choice given to you as something time consuming, which it's not, if you don't want to bother choosing.

People Do complain. Have you not read a single comment under this post? Claiming they don't is just your way to be able to dismiss the argument without addressing the issue. My point is you have no reason to complain when you have alternatives but you don't want to choose them because... because why exactly? I've never heard a single convincing argument to not have a PC when that same person already complains about the very nature of console, that is being a closed system which can force whatever it wants on you. If you have no problem with consoles, I also have no problem with you using one. But don't complain over it doing exactly what it was made for.

And you certainly don't need an internet connection to play a solo game on PC or to install the OS. You need one to download the game, at most.

I was about to say : "you can tell it's fake: she has pockets" haha

The people you're talking about only account for a pretty small minority of players. Those kind of players are the ones who usually don't spend a lot of time on video games, own very little games (or only from the same series) and mostly play with other players, in the same place, so they rightfully consider it doesn't worth their time. Most players own several games, solo and multiplayer, and spend enough time on them to not be bothered by having to spend some extra time to set up a gaming PC to then benefit from it. So it doesn't explain why those players are still on consoles and don't want to bother switching to a PC.

But even aside from that, I hate hearing people complain about how consoles scam people and always try to find ways to milk their customers, yet still buy and play on those same consoles. Like, if you don't like what they're doing and don't like having to use such restricted environments which very much allow such greed and control, don't reinforce those companies in their ideas by continuing to buy from them. And I don't want to hear that that there are no alternatives: we're not in the 1990 anymore where consoles were the only way and weren't very diverse.

I literally didn't update my fedora distro on my laptop for 2 months (because I didn't have much use of it those last months) and I have 500+ packages to update, and on my PC with an arch-based distro, after 5 days, I have already 100 packages to update

Yeah but I personally don't want my PC to run at night at a random hour, even one I scheduled, because it requires your OS to constantly half-sleep to be able to boot itself, something I don't want to be the case. When I shut down my PC, I want it to be actually shut down.

So literally the same things as any other Linux distro... To delete the bootloader, you don't just need to select a folder in your home directory with your mouse and click delete, it's a little bit more complicated than that, despite it not being hard for any person who knows how to run a command and know the basics.

(I know it's a late response but I only saw this post now and wanted to response to your particular comment) It was also the case for me because I usually didn't consume stuff from my age or from my native language but I still stopped using their services for the most part and deactivated any kind of telemetry from them for the remaining stuff I still use because despite all of that, I still don't want to support their business model or the companies themselves, as well as their constant push to consumerism through ads drowning. So privacy isn't the only reason to stop letting them listen to you I think.

You don't update Windows "when you feel like it", it does when it feels like it. Several times, after delaying the updates so many times because I knew it takes dozens of minutes to apply each time and I didn't want that to happen as I often had to restart my PC or had to let it run in the background, Windows eventually forced me to update the next time I shut down my PC.