I work with a bunch of non tech yokels. They 100% for sure do not understand that AI answers must be checked and verified.
I can’t wait till all this shit gets pay walled and 95% of people won’t be using it. I don’t really see Google being willing to just eat the losses on ai search queries forever.
There’s a big difference between what a corporation will pay for and cost absorb and some individual paying for an entertainment service is. A shrinking user base that largely relies on “my friends use it, so I have it too” can swing a big pendulum.
If they lost less than a third of the total, they’re making a lot of money for the short term.
In the long term, they’re fucking themselves into obscurity.
Because there’s currently only one place that should theoretically be able to create one that works at scale to become energy positive, thanks to a novel way of making the electromagnets used to contain the plasma under enough pressure. As per usual, a beneficial reactor tech is still “five years out”. We do keep inching closer though.
They dressed casual as fuck in an obviously high end dining establishment. Hurley shirt guy and his girl gonna be fine. They’re both loaded to the gills.
We’ve all gotten to see how fast legal limitations collapse. You have a million cameras and facial recognition. The law part is skin deep.
Like the cops wouldn’t abuse that.
Yeah. In Europe, the government is in charge of all the mass surveillance of millions. Europe and an overabundance of “big brother is watching” are synonymous of each other.
I doubt it. It would probably need to be in Spanish.
It’s a bad idea anyhow. We can’t afford the water and hazard of all the electricity use. Plus, it’s going to all loose money for another 10 years.
Fuck. They’re up to $1.70 already? I think I still have some left from when I paid like fifty cents.
Cook the books by claiming $500 million in profits? That’s a lot of tax money and a lot to risk over just keeping investors happy for a short amount of time.
That was part of my point and why I said that those prices were what I could buy them for.
Yeah. There are places where monkey meat is common. Some places eat the brains, too.
You’re not wrong, but I don’t think it went up $300 over what it was when they released the OLED model. The micron 2230 1 tb ssd is like $200 right now (micron was a major provider of 1 TB steam deck storage, but Valve used several) and that’s what I can get it for. They were like $140 when the OLED came out in 2023, they went below $100 like a nearly a year later. Ram has definitely shot way up, but I doubt even that has straight up 5x on the price, to constitute the rest of that $300 increase.
I’ll still say this will be a lot more about making the steam box have less sticker shock.
Rum ham!
At this stage, the price hike of the steam deck is probably more about making the price of the upcoming Steam Box and VR headset look like an easier pill to swallow, and not about actually needing to raise the price of the steam deck.
Walmart has been crazy about this over the years. Things like a big box of 45 ziplock bags cost $3.50, but 15 packs are $1.00.
People just assume that pricing will make sense and bulk purchasing is a better value, but sometimes Walmart is like “nah”.
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