… as long as the giant corpos paying through the nose for the data centers continue to vastly underprice their products in order to make us all dependent on them.

Just wait till everyone’s using it and the prices will skyrocket.

If you think people will pay for AI slop, you must be young or deeply cynical

The vast vast vast majority of artists create art with neither expectations of payment nor the ability to do it full time, yes.

The 4.1m was the budget for the front-end. The back-end changes were initially budgeted as 31m but tripled in cost as the project dragged on and contracts needed to be extended.

More likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.

All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That’s not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.

There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit, but yeah in general he disliked the nascent forms of capitalism and money people that he encountered.

Because Teslas have dogshit reliability and all have OTA updates, whereas other brands don’t suffer from these issues.

Close. RFK Jr.

Only 5.4 hours before you hit a UUID collision. That’s insane

Typically it means That Face When, like “MFW” means “My Face When”

This band fucking rips but their vocalist/leader abused his wife. Very public nastiness about it. The wife had a video. He had nothing but words. The band got dropped from their label over it.

I have the same preference, but companies keep giving me macbooks to use for work no matter how many times I ask for a cheaper (or better specced at the same price) Linux laptop.

If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

Bigger than ever in post industrial society, maybe. Pre-industrial times almost everyone shared almost everything. The ones who didn’t share were rich, and even they often would invite guests to stay for a whole season semi-regularly because of their ridiculously big houses and desire for entertainment.

Friggin love Summoning

Jellyfin, my one true platform

If it’s built as well as the deck, it should be great

FSR4 only runs on RDNA 4. The Steam Machine has RDNA 3, so FSR3 is the limit

1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

And that’s why it’s better to use 720p in the cases where you can’t do native 1440p.

There are currently 2 third party handhelds that are officially supported by SteamOS, so at least 2 manufacterers have taken them up on it so far.