end goal is everybody just has phones with locked bootloaders

Right?! Steam is great if you’re willing to wait. I basically don’t buy games anymore unless they’re 80% off or really cheap anyways.

I’d love to see that 30% go to 15 or 10, but this lawsuit is a stretch

steambox is rumored to be $650 us but that could be bullshit. we’ll see.

it probably wont pop in the way a lot of online commenters are predicting. big companies like google, microsoft, apple, amazon, etc will be fine. a bunch of startups and small-mid sized companies will go under. a few big ones will get bought by bigger ones.

even without ai they’re going to need more datacenters. there’s a lot you can do with a shitton of compute beyond generating questionable ai-slop.

NFTs didn’t directly need GPUs really. eth did, but that’s not really the same thing. NFTs didn’t increase demand, the price of eth did. Same in how the price of bitcoin increased demand.

Either way, prices never came down from that, and I suspect they’ll never come down from this.

plummeting

I just checked and at least the ones I have are all doing fine, mostly only a bit down from their aths

the strawman further polarizes me away from your perspective. if i didn’t know better I would say you’re trying to make things worse.

Even the 2 dimensional compass is a simplification, though orders of magnitude better than the binary “left or right” simplification, and also better than the 2 dimensional gradient as well.

Similar to me. My passport got wet when I was in the rain. The lady at the Canadian passport office literally yelled at me for damaging it. I was surprised, but they seem to take it very seriously.

You’re absolutely right, but you also need to accept that most people think ai means transformers (as in, LLMs and generative/image synthesis)

It sucks, but that’s how language works unfortunately. How most people use a word ends up defining it.

Recommendation systems, search and ranking algorithms, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, audio noise reduction, predictive analytics, forecasting models, fraud detection, anomaly detection, robotics control systems, self-driving path planning, robot navigation and mapping (SLAM), reinforcement-learning agents, game-playing AI, warehouse optimization, dynamic pricing models, object detection, face recognition, license-plate recognition, medical image analysis, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, spam detection, classic machine-translation models, personalization engines, matching algorithms, logistics route optimization, scheduling algorithms, resource allocation models, algorithmic trading bots, risk scoring, market-making AI, healthcare diagnostics, disease-risk prediction, protein-folding models, music analysis, beat detection, autonomous drone navigation, industrial monitoring, and smart-traffic systems.

It’s personal and private and children shouldn’t be exposed to it. It’s not wrong, and you can do it, but keep it away from me and mine.

Lots of indie games yes, but not so many of the AAAs

Money, I guess. GabeN needed a new yatch

Zero sympathy for anybody who owns investment properties. Zero sympathy for landlords.

Like the previous poster, I’m not defending steam. No good billionaires, fight for the proletariat, down with the elite, etc

Not all steam games use steam DRM. It’s opt in by the developer. Lots of steam games you can literally just copy out of steam onto a USB key and run it. No DRM at all.

Don’t get me wrong they are skeezy in other ways (charging I indie deva 30% and big publishers less) but if you’re going to criticize them, then at least criticize them for something real.

Also consider a lot of online comments are bots designed to make people angry. Even on this site, though I don’t think it’s as bad here as some other places.

some commentators here are hating on Albertans. Not all are. I understand it’s a sensitive issue, but try not to generalize large populations.

Some of the commenters here suck. Some are amazing. And there’s everything in between.

I am sorry you’ve had a bad experience, but I can tell you that I do not judge Albertans or reduce them to a single group. Hell, I have family in Alberta, and almost half of them are pretty OK.