That post looks like it’s mostly people who already hated Nintendo (i.e most of Lemmy) taking the opportunity to meme about it and make jokes rather than genuine criticism from the perspective of people who actually wanted to buy a Switch 2.

And that’s kinda a big difference.

One genuine thing to remember though is Nintendo are making absolute bank on games, because every game on the system goes through them.

They can take a loss on the console and still make money later. That’s not necessarily the case with the steam box.

If huge tech corps are good at anything, it’s swerving around laws or simply deciding to ignore them.

They’ll argue that since you consented, it’s not spying.

And they’ll put something in the terms that it’s your responsibility to inform people around that your or their conversations will be recorded (lol, as if anyone would - but they’ll claim that as a defence).

And if they end up in court and get fined, even millions is just a slap on the wrist compared to how much they made from all that juicy data.

Laws will not stop them.

If we look at this on the basis of “how much does it cost to put a typical amount of RAM and storage in your computer?” then I bet we’d be going all the way back to the 90s.

Like seriously.

I don’t think I can even answer that question. Inside-our tech has really evolved since the old days and I couldn’t say hardware was intrinsically better or worse based on that like I could at the time.

I’ll be buying the Frame no matter what.

I also had the OG Rift but since I moved to Linux it’s been nothing more than a paperweight.

I could go to Meta, but I honestly don’t want to do that to myself. The way I see it, the Frame is the only way I get to keep a small amount of privacy and dignity in this world which increasingly has neither.

So I’m saving up my pennies.

It’s about time I started blocking posts with ‘slams’ in their title.

The key for me is, set notifications for DMs and @s only.

Don’t need to be getting pinged for channel messages.

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If it’s software, you could just reinstall it.

Exactly, right!

As a FOSS person you don’t buy a used PC from someone, find it still has an OS installed and just start using it.

No, you wipe that sucker clean and install your OS fresh.

An open-source car would be exactly the same.

It may have felt like that, but I will trust the numbers from the company whose function heavily involves monitoring this stuff.

Tinkering is fun when your actual goal is to tinker.

But when your goal is to get work done then the machine is just a tool, and there is nothing more frustrating than a broken tool.

Always true, in music and in everything else too.

What are they supposed to do? RAM and storage prices are hardly factors in Valve’s control

Revenue isn’t what defines a darling; it’s about being universally loved and a popular choice. The one who is always topping youtube review lists as a best-buy. And especially when they started small and are still growing.

Yes - that might in turn lead to becoming the dominant player with the most revenue, but the revenue is the result, not the cause.

With the original price as $250, a 100% increase would be adding the entire value to itself once (i.e doubling) taking us to $500.

A 200% increase is adding the $250 to the original two times for a total of $750.

So calling it a “200% increase” is correct.

It is true to say that “$750 is 300% of $250” or that “The price has tripled” - both correct, but the increase is only 200% because increase doesn’t include the original as part of the value.

500 series is absolutely the best looking, in my humble not-really-train-person opinion.

Yeah, they did do that one :)

It’s actually nothing to do with mixing mentos and coke but just funding the mission via corporate sponsorship

I just go full anti tech, which people find ironic since I’m in the tech industry, and they poke fun at that

It’s funny, because they’ve managed to draw completely the wrong conclusion. You aren’t anti-tech despite working in the tech industry, no - you’re anti-tech because of working in the tech industry.

So we can also say indirectly that Steam Deck wouldn’t have happened without the horniness of Yoko Taro who created that android ass in the first place.

What a chain of causality that is