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I taught the elementary kids' computer lab at the local elementary school for about ten years. By about fourth grade, the kids vary widely in PC ability.
You'll have one kid porting Doom and one kid crying because CAPS LOCK is on and he can't log in. One kid trying to eat toner while another fixes the projector.
A lot of that is comfort - you can tell some kids use a PC at home a great deal while others have seemingly no exposure.
Does it matter? No idea! I understand limiting screen time and so on, but sometimes kids who genuinely have a knack for it are being held back by good intentions!
When I sold my company, we donated all the extra PCs and monitors to the school... a couple of dozen Dell Dimension 4200s and so on. Absolutely required for any mid-2000s computer lab!
There are three types of liquid damage in IT.
Type 1: water.
They tell you immediately.
We swap the machine.
Easy.
Type 2: coffee.
They lie, wait three days, and say the keyboard feels sticky.
I pop off the spacebar and it looks like a Starbucks drip tray.
Type 3 happened today.
User handed me a laptop smelling faintly of fermentation.
Said it just stopped turning on.
I opened the casing.
A thick, gelatinous crust covered the motherboard.
I asked what it was.
They swore they didn't know.
I pulled up their chat logs from yesterday where they said they dropped a full jar of artisanal kombucha on their Dell.
I closed the laptop.
Marked the ticket as biohazard.
Sent them a link to the employee handbook section on property destruction.
My SLA remains perfect. Their laptop remains dead.
The PS5 Era (2020-2026):
• PS5 launches at $399/$499 -now $599/$649
• PS5 Pro launched at $699 with no disc drive - now $899
• First to have games jump from $60 to $70
• PS Plus hit with ~35% price hike in 2023
• PS Plus prices raised again in 2025
• 8 first-party studios closed since launch
• 900 employees laid off in a single day (Feb 2024)
• Concord cost $200-400M, died in 14 days
• Firewalk Studios acquired in 2023, shut down in 2024
• Bluepoint Games shut down in 2026
• Dark Outlaw Games shut down before ever announcing a game
• Bungie acquired for $3.6B - two massive layoff waves, Marathon underperforming
• The Last of Us Online canceled after years of development
• 3 other live-service games canceled (Bend, Bluepoint GoW, others)
• PSVR2 launched at $550, virtually abandoned within a year
• Neon Koi acquired for mobile, shut down without shipping anything
• Japan Studio (Bloodborne, Shadow of the Colossus) dissolved
• London Studio closed permanently
• Insomniac hit with massive ransomware leak
•PS6 reportedly delayed due to RAM shortage
• More price hikes and studio closures than new first-party franchises this gen
If you had bough $1000 worth of Beyond Meat stock five years ago, it would be now worth $4
With AMC, you would have $26 left
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) 1 year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle