That is also Florida

The facets about your father than you find bad are not about being “male”, even as I wager he asserts it to be.

To be fair, it says “bubba” and the Clinton link is speculative.

The republicans have started trying to blame Obama for this years hikes…

It’s quite a leap, but they are trying to say ACA blew it all up, but it just took almost 20 years for the pain to hit.

It’s a narrative that really only works for the ride or die republicans, but it’s all they have to try, since they have no actual answer they want to propose…

One this is all speak to convince investors to throw money, so they’ll cheer pick their interpretation.

In this case I think they refer to already having the real estate, buildings, power and cooling. So “all” they have to do is rip out their rigs and dump a bunch of nVidia gear in. All they need is just a few hundred million from some lucky investors and they will be off…

Same way a lot of the “ai” companies make money, investors that have no idea but want to get in on the ground floor of the next nVidia or openai.

So he’s going to get Epsteined before that can happen …

Which is a bonkers argument. You still have all that choice out there, a Windows user just chose an option that is less compatible with the other options. There are fair arguments as to why it is impractical for some, but choice is the least of the problems.

I think that one was also significantly a publicity thing, they made videos and announced it as a neat story about the air force doing something “neat” and connecting relatable gaming platform to supercomputing. I’m sure some work was actually done, but I think they wouldn’t have bothered if the same sort of device was not so “cool”

There were a handful of such efforts that pushed a few thousand units. Given PS3 volumes were over 80 million, I doubt Sony lost any sleep over those. I recall if anything Sony using those as marketing collateral to say how awesome their platform was. The losses from those efforts being well with the marketing collateral.

I continue to think at least his administration, maybe not him specifically, drove prices up in 2025 on purpose.

Imagine midterm campaign ads, bragging about how prices have decreased, and citing annual percentage decrease. Damn near impossible when you are always trying your best to manage affordability but perhaps actually doable if you blow things up the year prior.

If they did somehow cut a partial rebate check from the tariffs right smack in the middle of midterm campaigns, they brag about lower prices and people feel the weight of that bonus in their pocket, even if it was their own money in the first place. Lots of people act like tax refund is some sort of spring bonus instead of repayment of a 0% loan they have to the government.

In short, they are going to win midterms by botching the off year.

That’s just pointing out upgrades carry a large price, not that the base model is at a loss.

Which is a super common strategy in pre built, especially in systems that can’t in theory take third party upgrades. Commonly a mobile platform will charge a hundred dollar premium for like 20 dollars worth of UFS storage. At least at some points PC vendors have done DIMM SPD lockouts to force customers to first party so they can charge a significant multiple of market rate for their parts.

I doubt anything in Apple’s lineup is sold at a loss. They might tolerate slimmer margins on entry, but I just don’t think they go negative.

Will have to see more details. They may mean ability to run common Android applications on a virtual 2d surface. Apk is too vague, since my phone certainly is apk based but cannot run any quest applications.

Running something like waydroid is one thing, implementing all the quest apis may be a whole other thing.

I wouldn’t be sure the mini is a loss leader…

I think that was overstated. Sure there were some “fun” projects for fun or publicity.

However supercomputer clusters require higher performance interconnect than PS3 could do. At that time it would have been DDR infiniband (about 20 Gbps) or 10 g myrinet.

Sure gigabit was prevalent, but generally at places that would also have little tolerance for something as “weird” as the cell processor.

OtherOS was squashed out of fear of the larger jailbreak surface.

Probably true, but there is a chance they might convert some console gamers…

But not enough to bet on it with a loss leader probably.

I have been predicting that the tariffs will be dropped as we go into midterms. They are going to have so many campaign ads about bringing pruces so far down year over year…

So much easier to make a metric good if you screw it up first.

Well, there only so much in gaming that reasonably can be done server side.

Sure, the server could identify that a player shouldn’t be visible and not transit that location to a client, addressing seeing through walls, in theory.

But once a player is hypothetically visible, aimbot can happen. If you are crawling in a ghillie suit in the grass, but the other player has a client that skips rendering grass and replaces the ghillie suit model with a suit made of traffic cones…

Now intrusive anti cheat isn’t worth it, but it is an unavoidable reality that it is up to the client to preserve the integrity.

Closest you get would be streamed gameplay, where the rendering even is server side. Also not worth it. But even then I could see cheating machine vision and faked controls to get an edge unfairly.

I’m thinking this dog:

I get the sentiment, but the steam machine will have an x64 processor…

The VR headset won’t, but the PC will…

Most MS office application use can work through browser under linux now…

For my purposes, the only time I’ve had to dust off Windows native Office has been dealing with some of the more “weird” features of presentations that people ask me to work on that aren’t handled in the browser version, and my general feedback is that those features are a bad idea in general and should be avoided.

I wager there’s also some Excel things that might not work in the Web version, but I don’t go that hard with Excel anyway.