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I'm not going to give up, but I've really stagnated on upgrades over the past decade.
I used to get a new phone every year back when you could do that for $100 a year. Now I go five years between.
My last computer was built in 2012 and I used it until October 2024, and could have kept using it. It was fully upgraded and played all new games on high settings fine. That said, I'm extremely glad I did a new build in October 2024.
And then you have consoles. One has no exclusives and is dead, the other has two exclusives and is there, and the other is Nintendo and is expensive and has its own lineup issues, depending on who you ask.
Tech is stagnating hard and has been for a while. Buy the mid range or high end of what you can afford and acquire right now, and then sit on it for a decade.
Corporations have transformed a once enjoyable place into a dreary and unpleasant environment. I, for one, would prefer not to swim in the port-a-potty it’s become.
They're doing that everywhere because it's about how many dollars you can make in the short term. They don't expect to be around long enough for it to matter some reason.
Of course not, it’s always been about the quick buck. It’s like watching telemarketing scammers run a business, if the scammers were stupid enough to shit where they eat.