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It gets somewhat retconned in the TV series though where he’s basically just this political genius who secretly runs everything.

The TV show is a lot better than it has any right to be, it’s a shame it only got one season.

This is nice to be confused with shit porn. Which is just not very good.

And I want none of this healthy diet and exercise BS from the nutritionists either. I want to peel or an injection not salad.

Well yeah of course it’s optional already. If you don’t want that then you just don’t buy those games.

It’s not a 4K capable graphics card though it’s a 1080p capable graphics card that they’re saying is 4K because of the existence of AI upscaling which I think is a cheat. So you’re already overestimating the cards capability.

Extract the eyes of murder victims and VLC will show their final moments.

I had it once play a video recorded on an old Motorola razr circa 2004. It was this super obscure file format, that basically only this one phone used, and was never used on any other phone.

VLC didn’t care, played it right out of the box without any problems.

It supports an obscure single use, 2004 video format. If aliens come to earth, VLC will be able to play their files too.

Surely the federal government doesn’t actually have the authority to mandate this. Business regulations are always a state matter.

For most robots in factories the safety system is don’t go near it. Because no one can guarantee that the robot will stop in time.

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It depends on how many Valve have already manufactured. If they were smart they’ll be quietly manufacturing these and only just now announced it. You don’t announce a product until you’ve got some units sitting in a warehouse somewhere, or else a competitor might see the opportunity to make things difficult for you.

An equivalent PC would have a full fat non-mobile graphics card. They keep trying to claim it’ll do 60 FPS at 4K with AI upscaling. Which is the same as saying it’ll do 60 FPS at 1080p.

This would be a compelling product as a console, the PC capable parts are a nice bonus but no one’s going to be buying this to be their primary computer unless they are going to replace a potato.

Regardless of what the market is doing if it’s anything more than $700 it’ll flop. Which would be an incredible shame but it is what it is. No one is going to pay $1,000 for a PC that cannot be upgraded.

I suspect it’s because of the uncertainty over tariffs. Ironically making manufacturing in the US less appetising for businesses.

I’d like it to cost $1.50 but it won’t. The minimum reasonable price this comes in at is around $500 you would have to be really unaware to expect it to be less than that

99% of people won’t care though they just want to be able to play stardew valley on their big TV.

$1,000 is not entry level.

If you go on any website and look at entry level PCs they’re all around $600 to $800.

No contest isn’t a dismissal. It’s just means that you are not pleading guilty, but are accepting the courts ruling.

I’ve never understood how it can even be legal for hospitals to have parking fees for patients. It’s not like you became ill simply to take advantage of the parking situation so why are they charging people?

I had to go to hospital because of a seven tendon. Which I thought would probably be a quick fix but they were complications so it took forever and I had to get my girlfriend who had known for about 2 weeks at this point to move the car too long to stay. I did not consider ever the possibility that the parking people would just be reasonable

I don’t know why people keep insisting that the current prices are relevant. These products have been manufactured for months now, so we need to be looking at old prices not current market value.

I didn’t use prices from last week I used prices from last year because that’s when Steam would have actually made their devices. Manufacturing of the steam machine and the steam frame is rumoured to have occurred around 2023-2024, should the Trump shenanigans shouldn’t have affected things too much.

That’s not to say that somehow much the devices will cost it’s just how much it would have cost to build. How much profit they’re going to try and make on them is an unknown. With the steam deck they aim for $100 profit margin, but who knows with this device. The steam frame is also an unknown because it’s a weird configuration.