I still have a wallet in there to keep my IDs and important cards

This is 2015 all over again where IoT hit mainstream consumers and every project on Kickstarter was a simple thing that doesn’t need Bluetooth with added Bluetooth.

I have setup NetBird with Authentik. Netbird is on a VPS and authentik on my home server.

NetBird allows to expose a service through a subdomain. Or you can use the netbird client as a VPN and allow peer to peer connection.

My point is that even pre-built PCs are cheaper and better in every way other than size.

Size is a big factor here. Steam made a console sized PC.

There isn’t a lot of PC case that size. And the list of PC parts for SFF are limited and more expensive than their normal counterparts.

So yeah, if you want a full tower PC in your living room, don’t buy the Steam Machine. But I haven’t seen a PC build of that size cost less.

Tales as old as KPI.

Yes I do have experience, in fact it’s core to my job.

The cost to design is significant and wasting a few years of development is not a light decision. So Valve either had to scrap the design and waste the development cost, or price it according to the current PC parts prices

You are right that people can DIY, but it always was an option and people still buy ready-made computers, so that’s a moot point.

The price for comparable parts and same form factor isn’t far off from DIY.

My guilty pleasure was playing Fallout 76, but the seasons and predatory monetizing put me off.

Do you have any experience in product development? They went through a design process and unfortunately for them, when came time to choose a storage and RAM solution, they had to do it through the current price crisis.

So they either had to table the design and lose their development money or go through with it with the current storage and RAM cost.

I can’t help myself, sorry

It’s both RAM and storage price. A 2TB NVMe cost upward of 300$ CAD.

It does though because a higher marketshare means more money for them. And if they have almost all the marketshare, they can influence the market easily (see Google and Web Manifest V3).

If people don’t use Windows for example, chances are they won’t buy Office365 and/or OneDrive.

And that doesn’t even broach how Microsoft tried to deploy Recall, which was taking a screenshot of what people were doing every few seconds, a major breach of privacy.

So they might not influence people as much as Meta for example, but it does influence them.

Because almost every game has timegated content nowadays so that studios can try to milk their playerbase more.

So now, multiplayer games feel like a chore if you want to access the cool event.

They will sell it to another big studio that will milk it dry

Is it hipster to advocate for mega corpo to fuck off?

Not sure how you got this from my reply, but mega corpos influence our life for the worst. Trying to diminish their influence in our life isn’t hipsterism.

Microsoft and Apple are steering the computing space in a very anti-consumer space. So for many people, it is more than just an OS, but an ethical statement.

The less people use Windows and MacOS, the less sway they have in the computing space.

Because there is an ethical implication is using Linux vs Windows.

Windows is the De Facto choice since Windows 95 at least. And Microsoft is steering computers in a anti-consumers space. So for many people, using Linux isn’t simply using a different OS but it is also a ethical statement.

Especially after chasing down that display driver issue in the wee hours of the morning. Light that cigarette

Case in point : LLM.

Companies aren’t these ultra efficient machine that works with cutting edge tech.

The vast majority of companies hold themselves together with a few excel sheets with a terrible backup solution.

Companies will absolutely pay for garbage wrapped in gold paper and Google and other advertising companies are making bank on it.

You have a good employer if he can recognize that your work in IT has added value

The IT Paradox :

• “Why am I paying IT if everything works”
• “Why am I paying IT if nothing works”