Indeed.

Philosophies are good things to hold, but you can certainly take them to extremes and end up doing yourself/wider society a disservice.

Nope. Google didn’t get anywhere with ChromeOS and it’s unlikely they’ll get anywhere with this.

I’m surprised anybody thought it could be.

Guys, it is literally just a small form factor PC (with a couple of console QoL additions like waking from controller support and HDMI CEC). It’s an open platform.

If Valve sold it at a loss, offices and governments would buy them up and reimage them with Windows.

Sony and MS can only get away with making a loss because the closed platform guarantees they make money back on game sales.

Part of the reason the PS3 got more locked down after release is that governments, researchers, and companies openly talked about buying them and running custom software on it, because the hardware was so subsidised.

That said, this is a low end device for 2026, make no mistakes of that. If Valve want to, they can sell this for $500. Perhaps even lower if they’re fine with razor thin margins.

Remember that this thing’s price needs to be justifiable not only now, but also in 2 years or so when vastly more powerful consoles come out.

Because when humans see a robot with boobs, the comments turn into “hey this robot has tits”, and when they don’t, the comments turn into “humanity is going to be euthanised by the machines”.

Reading this seems… fair? And there’s evidence to back him up it seems?

I bought FH4 because I live very close to one of the castles there and have visited a handful of other places. It’s genuinely very cool to see those places.

But so many other aspects of the game are really overwhelming. I do a race then there’s crazy flashy animations, multiple progress bars going up in the background with strobe lights, my character doing some stupid Fortnite-like dance, then it makes me do multiple attempts at a slot machine mini game?

I look at the world map and there’s literally thousands of things there, with no option to filter out stuff that you’ve already completed.

Maybe I’m getting old, but it felt like one of those mobile games that goes over the top with praise and animations to keep people’s attention and keep them on a dopamine high.

I want that map, with a story where you start with a shit car, and work your way up to better cars by doing well in races. I don’t want any of the flashy nonsense or the 500 online features (that don’t exist anymore because MS shut down the servers - now it shows constant connection errors)

There’s more to cheating than moving quickly.

Indeed.

I have an Immich instance running on my home server that backs up my and my wife’s photos. It’s like an open source Google Photos.

One of its features is an local AI model that recognises faces and tags names on them, as well as doing stuff like recognising when a picture is of a landscape, food, etc.

Likewise, Firefox has a really good offline translation feature that runs locally and is open source.

AI doesn’t have to be bad. Big tech and venture capital is just choosing to make it so.

I don’t see that being the case, it’s relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

Seems to me like they’re targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

So do other Linux PCs on the market, but they can’t help Netflix’s shitty DRM.

Good. Honestly it’s staggering they’ve supported it for this long. It’s hard to envisage such an old system browsing the web using Firefox, the modern web is so bloated that any 32-bit system will seriously struggle.

It’s much better to have that developer/testing effort spent elsewhere. Mozilla doesn’t exactly have the infinite resources that Google has.

If you have a problem with it, tell us why.

The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent

Although it’s ambiguous how much of this is due to AI data centres and how much is the natural ramp-down of DDR4 production.

DDR3 also increased substantially in price a few years after DDR4 became available.

Nice addition!

Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.

Obviously they can’t check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.

I don’t think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.

No, but Amazon’s are very often the cheapest by far, easiest to find used (since more are sold in the first place). On Prime days they’re often very cheap.

I imagine most of the profit comes from buying/renting the books.

Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.

Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.

Translation: influencers who wont say a bad thing about the product

They didn’t even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone