Yeah, these days everything is labeled as addiction, especially if it's negative in the conservative tones. As long your habit doesn't impact your daily life... it's normal, the bar is really that low.
Now if it's more serious, I'm afraid a more professional intervention will be required. Looking at other causes or clues that lead you to keeping this habit and compulsion.
Feels underwhelming, especially since it's 2TB what you'll want to go with. However with handheld consoles signaling the new prices... I think the price of SM is the new reality of a budget gaming setup. Part of me feels, we're seeing murder of gaming and PC tinkering/DIY in broad daylight.
It does sometimes provide a procedure in troubleshooting. As internet gets clogged under bloat, and you haven't done anything like that before, it's not the worst idea to give you starting points to think about. It's best used with combination of other sources.
Deepseek was useful in explaining me in finding out where can I find information for car rims (CoC it was my first time looking for such thing) and how to get the correct nuts... it was honestly more useful than a human agent from one of the shops... who wanted all the documentation I had on the car before even hearing the question, which felt a tad excessive, considering their field of work.
I asked Rufus on amazon DE, if this hub requires a purchase of separate supply to work. It answered no, ofc it did.
With the push towards AI and no one seemingly willing to answer questions or even explaining real alternatives in person, I'm only left with a question what is a person supposed to do? Re-buy or relay on services that either overcharge or they send you to their competitor because they deemed the problem of too little value to solve?
This is the secret question as it often boils down to "I didn't think it'd do harm so I just did what you thought you wanted me to do"
Not as such, as you need to find what's the source of their information and if you do point out the error, they will usually answer with something like "I'm just a Database, I'm not responsible for what's been put in me, what do you want me to do about it". Maybe added continuation of "I can agree with the information being disputed, if you want me to do that".
Hostile to Life itself.
month on month, everything gets worse and more noise to filter out. Can't be the only one with this sentiment.
I learned to ignore it, it's there like a traffic noise.
it's worse than you imagined... yes, even worse.
"Parry this you filthy casual!"