And watching videos and browsing the web on a phone is actually terrible.
WTF would you use a tiny touchscreen instead of a proper desktop?
Sure on the road to check traffic or schedules, or prices at the mall, it's good to have a web browser on your phone, but it's not a replacement for a desktop computer.
This 100%. I barely do sh1t on my phone cuz doing anything on a phone f*cking sucks. When I'm in my house, I use a desktop PC. I only use a phone for something I could normally do on a PC when I have absolutely no choice, and don't even have a secondary PC like a laptop around. I can barely stand using laptops (especially their keyboards) as it is. Using a web browser or app on a phone is basically emergency/away-from-home backup.
I was also one of those people who felt that video game consoles were for playing games, not watching Netflix, using a web browser, or listening to music. That said, years ago when I was at a friend's house fixing his PC, and I didn't have a laptop, we used his PS3 with mouse and keyboard to browse the web and download drivers and utilities, research sh1t and get troubleshooting info. I had a friend that back in the early 2000s, a Dreamcast was his only way to browse the web. I have a friend now who barely uses his laptop, he mainly uses his XB1 (then XB1X then XBSX) for everything that people normally do on PCs or phones these days.
This is like having a shower in your car. Separately both are good things, but who would want to have a shower in their car?
If you got one of those mobile homes with a toilet and a shower (and a bed), that can be real dang handy when you're traveling. I don't speak from personal experience though. I'm not a big traveling guy. If it takes longer than 2-3 hours to get to, that's too far for me. 5 hours to go from one side of North America to the other in a plane? That sh1t is painful. SR-71 can do that in about an hour, when can we get commercial flights like that?
I have the phone as an option when I’m stuck with no other option, like in a doctors waiting room...
Yeah, exactly, this kind of stuff.
Or maybe the processing power and connectivity available to a USB 4.0 connected device makes having ONLY a mouse on the end of a port a waste of a port?
That did get me thinking. Even with USB 3.X that we got now, it
does seem
kinda like a waste of a port to only have a mouse or a keyboard connected to it, if I think about it.
I'm thinking: 1TB is a... modest collection of games. So, portable library?
Hhhmmm, interesting...
Also wondering what would stop someone from booting an OS off one of these? Windows would get all out of sorts used so promiscuously, but the future Arch-based SteamOS should handle it just fine I'd think.
Ah yes, not just for a portable games library, but also as an OS boot drive. Huh, the more this gets discussed, the more I'm like "well actually this might NOT be such a wacky idea."
Could be very expensive if you rage and throw that mouse across the room.
I once gave a friend a limited edition silver X360 controller (the one with the DPad you could rotate) for his berfday. One day he was playing a game on X360, and something happened that really pissed him off, and he spiked the controller into the floor, which then bounced up and smashed the panel in his HDTV. So he lost both the controller and his TV. I wasn't there when this happened, I arrived for the aftermath. Still trying to figure out how that happened.
Also once had a co-worker who would experience rage episodes where he would repeatedly slam the mouse into the table surface. Unsurprisingly, he lost a 3DS to his rage. A friend of ours who repairs consoles was like "what in the F*CK did you do to this thing?!"
Then don't do that
Behave like an adult!
Even as a child I couldn't understand people throwing controllers and sh1t. I was always real careful with all my electronic stuff.
