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  2. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    Does a new grocery store chain preemptively buy every radish for the next several years, before having any way to store the radishes, both physically and with the infrastructure that can support...

    Does a new grocery store chain preemptively buy every radish for the next several years, before having any way to store the radishes, both physically and with the infrastructure that can support it, in the hopes that they'll generate enough demand for the radishes that they'll all be sold for profits that aren't actually mathematically possible?

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    To add, loss-lead to what? None of the other handheld PC makers seem to have any post-sale profit makers. Steam could sell the Deck at a loss because they know you are likely to buy games on Steam.

    I think the handheld PC market is small enough that loss-leading is essentially impossible.

    To add, loss-lead to what? None of the other handheld PC makers seem to have any post-sale profit makers. Steam could sell the Deck at a loss because they know you are likely to buy games on Steam.

    13 votes

  5. Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in ~games

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    The Decks have been out of stock for a few months now so it's with the restock that the new pricing was announced. Others will certainly follow suit once stock runs out or they'll simply decide...
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    The Decks have been out of stock for a few months now so it's with the restock that the new pricing was announced. Others will certainly follow suit once stock runs out or they'll simply decide that there isn't a market for the price increase and stop producing them. Glad I got my OLED 1TB Limited Edition (I really wanted the translucent case) back when it launched.

    Remember kids, the reason RAM/electronics are so much more expensive is because not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made to be installed in data centers that haven't been built that are powered by infrastructure that will never paid for by the companies that use it to satisfy a demand that isn't there in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.

    69 votes

  6. Comment on Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says in ~society

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    Delaware has been completely Democrat controlled since 2009.

    Delaware has been completely Democrat controlled since 2009.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Erin Brockovich launches a crowdsourced AI data center map in ~tech

  10. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    I'm one of the older people here and I recall the DeLorean when new and liked it then. It wasn't a great car, but interesting designs rarely are. When the Cybertruck was announced I wanted one...

    I'm one of the older people here and I recall the DeLorean when new and liked it then. It wasn't a great car, but interesting designs rarely are. When the Cybertruck was announced I wanted one specifically because it looked like DeLorean made a pickup. Then the price doubled/tripled before production, Muskrat came out publicly as a nazi, and it's only gotten worse from there with its utter shit quality.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    On the one hand, yes. On the other, not a great example as the SU7 looks like different headlights on a Tesla/standard EV car shape and is heavily part of China's can-I-copy-your-homework design...

    On the one hand, yes.
    On the other, not a great example as the SU7 looks like different headlights on a Tesla/standard EV car shape and is heavily part of China's can-I-copy-your-homework design language.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    It's not necessarily a bad looking car, but it is extremely bland (as one would expect from the designer of the iPod/Phone/Pad) and that is characteristically un-Ferrari. The steering wheels is...

    It's not necessarily a bad looking car, but it is extremely bland (as one would expect from the designer of the iPod/Phone/Pad) and that is characteristically un-Ferrari.
    The steering wheels is very retro, but none of the rest of the car is aside from a couple of switches. The middle screen looks like it could be from the Slate pickups with it just floating there like an iPad on a stand. The rest of the interior is nice, but it's not starting at $600k nice. That's high end Rolls Royce money, a company that will bespoke build you a car and interior for 2/3 the price of this slab of Apple knock-off. I'd expect this car as a $80k Hyundai or some Chinese knock-off of a western model, but it's got nothing to command over half a million dollars except the prancing horse on the nose.

    12 votes

  13. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    To be fair, Ferrari had to know what they'd be getting out of the deal from someone whose portfolio is iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Bland, featureless, slabs. He knows one thing and one thing only, a...

    Jony Ive ruined Ferrari. Amazing.

    To be fair, Ferrari had to know what they'd be getting out of the deal from someone whose portfolio is iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
    Bland, featureless, slabs. He knows one thing and one thing only, a curved corner.

    11 votes

  14. Comment on Flock wants to partner with dashcam company Nexar that takes ‘trillions of images’ a month in ~tech

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    Welp, that's on me for not noticing the age of the article when it popped up for me...

    Welp, that's on me for not noticing the age of the article when it popped up for me...

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Starpath | Official announcement trailer in ~games

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    Obviously just a lack of appropriate tags available for a niche game, but I do find it humorous that a game about being only in a spaceship being called "open world".

    Obviously just a lack of appropriate tags available for a niche game, but I do find it humorous that a game about being only in a spaceship being called "open world".

    7 votes