I wish it were that cheap but given the price of ram alone now I'd be extremely surprised, but we'll see. It's probably also partly why valve haven't announced pricing yet.

I think they'll be cutting the margins pretty thin which is why I think trying to estimate the costs on existing hardware is still pretty speculative. I'm hoping it'll be around $600 at most, or not very far off that.

I imagine it'd be less powered than the steam machine, but then you still have the option of upgrading parts over time. A lot of the cost estimates people are coming up with for the steam machine are based on similarly specced PCs.

People are still just speculating at this point so until it releases I don't think anyone really knows where the pricing is going to land.

I thought about sticking with 10 but I'd been planning for a while to move to linux when 10 went end-of-life and I don't regret it. Thankfully there's very little I need windows for that I can't just do on Linux with extra software.

Not a lot of media makes me sit with its implications but Pluribus goes a great job of giving everything happening room to breath.

They're in such a rush to get this AI dogshit implemented that they're tripping over their own feet.

As for digital ID it's just another encroachment into the erasure of privacy and a means for governments to exert more control over people's lives.

The whole thing feels like some kind of terrible experiment and gamble and it seems beyond reckless considering nobody seems to be concerned about the possible ramifications. I really hope the AI bubble bursts sooner rather than later.

Also not to sound too paranoid about this but we have no idea how a lot of these AI models were trained. Have researchers found a way of putting backdoors into them that could one day be exploited? Generative AI is going to be a fucking disaster if things continue down this road of agentic AI.

Jailbreaking could prove to be disastrous for Windows in the near future if someone manages to find a way to sneak a prompt injection into the system and the agentic AI finds a way of breaking out of its sandbox. AI malware is going to be an actual nightmare.

Getting a generative AI to behave in a certain way is one thing but getting it *NOT* to behave a certain way is extremely difficult because if it's technically capable of it based on its training data then it's possible to get that result via particular inputs. That's what "jailbreaking" is.

If I were to play Devil's advocate then AI disclosures would extend to a full disclosure of where assets for games are sourced which is obviously unreasonable and nobody's even pushing for that level of transparency but at least that'd make sense. Tim just doesn't want AI disclosure impacting sales.

This has to be one of the weakest and stupidest reductio ad absurdums I've ever heard, and just demonstrations that Tim isn't coming from this from a place of pragmatism because he's clearly put zero thought into this.

Companies should disclose things consumers care about when making purchases.

The whole reason they do that is in the hopes it'll grow their platform with paying customers so it's completely fine, lol.

Yeah GOG is cool. Particularly for games preservation.

The general public are far too uneducated about what generative AI is or how it works and it's just been unleashed upon the world like a plague without any consideration of the consequences.

This shit is frying people's brains.