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by ssl-3 202 days ago
Home computers seem more scarce to me today than they did ~25 years ago.

Sure: People have smart TVs and tablets and stuff, which variously count as computing devices. And we've broadly reached saturation on pocket supercomputers adoption.

But while it was once common to walk into a store and find a wide array of computer-oriented furniture for sale, or visit a home and see a PC-like device semi-permanently set up in the den, it seems to be something that almost never happens anymore.

So, sure: Still-usable computers are cheap today. You've got computers wherever you want them, and so do I. But most people? They just use their phone these days.

(The point? Man, I don't have a point sometimes. Sometimes, it's just lamentations.)

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> But while it was once common to walk into a store and find a wide array of computer-oriented furniture for sale, or visit a home and see a PC-like device semi-permanently set up in the den, it seems to be something that almost never happens anymore.

My experience is the opposite: due to the increasing popularity in PC gaming, furniture stores now carry gaming-oriented desks and chairs that they didn't sell before.