HobbitFoot

I look at the Steam Deck less as an end product and more of a means.

The Steam Deck is absolutely getting slaughtered by the Switch in terms of sales, but it gives Valve an alternative to the Windows ecosystem that is becoming more hostile as Microsoft tries to muscle in on gaming. I also think that Valve could have designed a Steam Deck variant to compete with the Switch 2, but hasn’t for various reasons

Already, Valve has the technology to create a console to compete with a PS5 and Xbox Series X, but doesn’t seem to want to.

I can’t imagine it would be that much harder to make a Chromebook equivalent, giving it access to the PC market without Windows.

Since Valve is using Linux, developing the tech stack is cheap. Also, Valve seems to be selling hardware for a profit, so it may be more comfortable with slimmer margins.

And progressives have shown they won’t show up to contest and defend elections outside of a few seats. They won’t invest in downballot races in case they lose the main race.

A problem with the constitution is that the framers didn’t expect items to be defined differently than today. No one really expected a mass deployment of troops that wouldn’t be called a war.

Also, the framers didn’t expect Congress to roll over as much as it has to the President.

Yep. There was a solid base pre-Covid that could be built off of as COVID was shown to be as bad as it was.

I also feel like a lot of vaccine rejection was built on having to justify that COVID wasn’t as bad as people were saying it was.

So they used the first two years to build a consumer user base in the way that RIM couldn’t and then was able to defend its market share.

The iMessage strategy couldn’t work if people didn’t buy in.

What about my butt?

What else justifies 60% market penetration?

The iPhone came out before Android, so Apple had first mover advantage it could solidify to a sticky user base.

Also, a “free” Android experience only occurs when you’ve got full control of everything. Android was a lot more willing to give up control to third parties, including carriers. With Apple, you’re only giving control to one company.

“I’ll buy that for a dollar!”

Yep.

One caveat to this, though, is that Trump’s advisors aren’t philosophicaly aligned to Trump, they just have a deal in order to get things done.

Trump doesn’t really seem to care what gets done as long as he can take all the credit and none of the blame. Also, Trump will let his staff do whatever they want as long as they don’t need a personal signoff from Trump. One of the problems with the war hawks trying to get Trump to go to war with Iran in the later half of Trump’s first term is that the military wouldn’t fire without a direct order and Trump refused to give it.

As long as their work can be done without Trump, he is for it as long as they stay loyal to him.

For Drfunctland, who doesn’t want to watch an over hour long video on the design of FastPass?

Only in high value places.

I read an Economist article about the expected impact of AI on worker productivity and it found a major bifurcation of impacts.

If AI output could be trusted as is, productivity gains mainly went to less productive workers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the hard parts of the job. This could reduce wages since you can lower job requirements by using AI.

If AI output needed human processing and review, productivity gains mainly went to high performers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the easy parts of the job. This could reduce employment as high performers can do more by using AI.

Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.

But that isn’t caring about your stack beyond that your stack isn’t shit.

Yeah. I want them to have the staff on hand to go after whales.

But it is.

Lemmy isn’t set up to create a set of fairly moderated communities with buy-in from users. It is set up so anyone can be a dictator on their own server.